Primewest snares large format retail Centre for $66m
In a hotly contested process, a fund managed by Primewest has fought off a deep pool of cashed-up investors to purchase the Robina Home + Life large format retail centre...
Belmont Forum sets new 8,000kg SecondBite food donation goal
Together with its retailers, Belmont Forum is giving food a second life. According to recent figures, more than five million people in Australia have experienced food insecurity. The first shopping centre...
HomeCo Richlands officially opens
HomeCo Richlands, owned and managed by HomeCo Daily Needs REIT (ASX.HDN) celebrated its grand opening event on the weekend of the 27th and 28th March 2021. The centre opened its...
Scentre Group releases 2020 Responsible Business Report
Scentre Group has released its 2020 Responsible Business Report, highlighting progress against the four pillars of its Sustainable Business Framework – community, people, environment and economic performance. “We take a...
Newly opened Albury Convenience Centre hits the market
The Albury Convenience Centre is offered for sale exclusively by JLL Retail Investments on behalf of the owner, a syndicate managed by FINDEX, a financial advisory and accounting services firm. Anchored...
Melbourne’s Jam Factory set for $1.4b mixed-use precinct
The iconic Jam Factory is about to be reborn as Melbourne’s best mixed-use precinct across retail, office, hotel, entertainment and luxury apartment living under a landmark new agreement between Newmark...
Luxury retailer Bally signs up at 388 George Street
Redeveloped by Brookfield Properties and Oxford Investa Property Partners, 388 George Street is rapidly becoming known as the Sydney CBD’s latest luxury fashion destination with the recent signing of Swiss...
2021 Big Guns Lunch
SCN hosted a great event last Friday. Our ‘Big Guns Lunch’ was generally seen as the industry’s first major event since COVID entered our lives a year ago. People mingled,...
CBRE announces new proptech alliance
CBRE has joined forces with Sydney-based proptech startup Pathzz to bring a new and disruptive customer analytics product to market for commercial property. Pathzz delivers meaningful insights by applying advanced...
Riverdale Village officially welcomes retailers
A year on from becoming one of the only shopping centres in Australia to open amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Riverdale Village Shopping Centre has held a celebration day to officially...
Salesforce and ARA to drive innovation in Australia’s retail sector
Salesforce, the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), has joined the Australian Retailers Association’s (ARA) growing network of strategic partners to share knowledge, insights and to drive innovation in...
SCA Property Group announces $12m solar investment
SCA Property Group is excited to announce financial approval for an initial $12 million investment into on-site solar electrical generation. With an initial focus on Western Australia, the investment will...
Asian-inspired hawker lane to spice up $2.5b Rhodes Central precinct
The Billbergia Group is set to open Rhodes Central, the first stage of a new $2.5 billion mixed-use town centre precinct in July 2021. Billbergia representative Joseph Kinsella announced the...
The Square Mirrabooka celebrates Harmony Week
The suburbs surrounding The Square Mirrabooka make up one of the most multicultural areas in Australia. Harmony week is an opportunity to celebrate diversity in Australia and build a harmonious...
The Palms welcomes largest Chemist Warehouse in an NZ centre
Christchurch locals will have spotted the ‘coming soon’ hoarding announcing the impending arrival of Chemist Warehouse at AMP Capital’s The Palms Shopping Centre. The new store, expected to open in spring, will...
Harris Scarfe returns to Sydney at newly launched Rockdale store
One of Australia’s most-loved and longest trading retailers, Harris Scarfe, has officially returned to Sydney by opening its Rockdale store last week. Spotlight Group acquired Harris Scarfe in early 2020...
Woolworths to sell brand new centre in Melbourne metro growth corridor
Stonebridge Property Group has been appointed to sell a brand new Woolworths supermarket in the Melbourne Metropolitan growth suburb of Roxburgh Park, 25km north of the CBD and 15km from...
CEO OUTLOOK 2021: Peter Allen, Scentre Group
This CEO Outlook contribution was first published in SCN Vol. 39 No. 1, Big Guns 2021 We operate a business and brand that are important to our customers, essential to the...
Steven Marks, CEO, Guzman y Gomez
Retailers play a vital role in creating great shopping centres and community spaces. At Shopping Centre News we think it’s important to showcase and profile retailers to our audiences. This week, we speak...
Coles launches ‘Together to zero’ strategy to drive generational sustainability
As part of its ambition to be Australia’s most sustainable supermarket, Coles Group is launching a refreshed sustainability strategy built around the pillar of ‘Together to Zero’, commencing with targets...
Macquarie Centre welcomes new Kmart store
Macquarie Centre is excited to welcome one of Australia’s most iconic retailers into its fold this week. Retail giant Kmart will join Macquarie’s established line-up of impressive retail brands, presenting...
Chadstone car park expansion creates 300 local jobs
Work is underway at Chadstone to expand and improve car parking to add 850 new spaces, solar panel roofing and redesigned entrances to make it easier to get in and...
Crown’s Eastlakes emerging as Sydney’s latest urban growth area
Eastlakes in Sydney’s southern eastern suburbs is fast becoming the city’s new growth area as Stage One of Crown Group’s $1 billion residential and retail master-planned community, The Grand, nears...
Crown Group’s Eastlakes emerging as Sydney’s latest urban growth area
Eastlakes in Sydney’s southern eastern suburbs is fast becoming the city’s new growth area as Stage One of Crown Group’s $1 billion residential and retail master-planned community, The Grand, nears...
Burwood Brickworks officially unveils new Eat Street dining precinct
Melbourne’s Burwood Brickworks officially unveiled its dining precinct Eat Street today, welcoming guests to the neighbourhood food space with a colourful and diverse range of dining and dessert venues including...
Westfield launches its biggest ever promotion with $6m+ prize pool
Scentre Group has unveiled its biggest ever Westfield promotion, offering customers the chance to win $10,000 every day, as well as more than $5 million worth of ‘Spend & Get’...
Stonebridge expands into suburban strip retail
Australian owned commercial real estate group, Stonebridge Property Group (SPG), is growing again with former CBRE Director, Rorey James, together with senior staff Nic Hage and Kate Johnstone recently joining...
Dexus and DWPF enter into implementation agreement with AMP Capital
Dexus has announced that along with the Responsible Entity of Dexus Wholesale Property Fund (DWPF), it has entered into an Implementation Agreement (IA) with the Independent Board Committee of AMP...
Mirvac Retail partners with Australian National Maritime Museum
Mirvac Retail has announced a partnership with the Australian National Maritime Museum to showcase a number of exhibits in a series of free activations for visitors to its MetCentre, Harbourside...
Big Guns 2021
This year, we depart from the usual. The Big Guns issue is always ‘pounced upon’ as it’s published. Which centres took the honours in terms of MAT, MAT/m2 and Specialty MAT/m2, is always of paramount interest to our readers. The feature invariably provides the lead story in the business/property sections...
Forestway Shopping Centre sells for $100m
In the first major retail transaction of 2021, Invesco has sold Sydney’s Forestway Shopping Centre. The Shopping Centre was sold for $100 million to local Paramatta-based investor, Revelop. JLL’s Nick...
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