This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at S&K Menswear, 85c Bakery Café and Nike/Finish Line; new retail developments in VA, MS, LA, WA and IN; acquisition, merger, loan or sale activity at Centro Properties Group, Circuit City and Blockbuster, Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse, Schostak and BVT, Valero Gas, and Kinderhook/bd's Mongolian Grill; closings, cutbacks or bankruptcies at Build-A-Bear and Tropicana Entertainment; personnel announcements at Sperry Van Ness, Baskin Robbins, Opus South, Feldman Mall Properties, Transwestern; and more. This week's CoStar Advisor national retail story will focus on those "hot" retailers that are a MUST to visit at ICSC ReCon 2008 in Las Vegas next week. Send me your two cents - what retailers do you think are "hot" and why? Email me at spardy@CoStar.com.