Vacancies at U.S. Shopping Centers Climb After Holding Steady for A Year

``The vacancy rate at neighborhood and community shopping centers rose to 11 percent from 10.9 percent, where it had stood since the second quarter of last year, the New York-based real estate research firm said today in a report. The rate for regional and superregional malls increased to 9.3 percent, the highest since Reis began collecting the data in 2000. ''