The Palms showcases local artists on International Day of People with a Disability
AMP Capital’s Palms Shopping Centre is a place of inclusiveness, and in honour of International Day of People with Disability on Tuesday 3 December, the east Christchurch shopping centre expanded...
ISPT moves ahead with $160 million Karingal Hub redevelopment
ISPT is forging ahead with the exciting transformation of Karingal Hub Shopping Centre in Frankston, which will see it expanded and refurbished over the coming 18 months. After several years...
Christmas – the most important time of the year to ring retail sales in
When it comes to Christmas it’s always a careful decision by managers and marketers on how much funds to allocate to the busiest season of the year. Many see it...
Construction commences for stage one of Merrifield City
QIC GRE Director – Investment Management Australia, Daryl Stubbings, today turned the first sod to officially commence work on Merrifield City, a retail-led town centre for Victoria’s largest mixed-use master...
Burwood Brickworks official opening
Frasers Property Australia’s Burwood Brickworks shopping centre in Burwood East, Victoria opened on Friday 6 December. To mark the occasion an official ribbon cutting ceremony was held, with proceedings hosted by...
Stockland Burleigh Heads first retail centre in Queensland to launch app for vision-impaired
Australian startup BindiMaps is revolutionising the way people who are blind or vision-impaired experience large indoor spaces with an app that facilitates simple navigation in indoor locations, like shopping centres. Stockland...
Charlestown’s newest dining and entertainment hub officially opens
The Corner, a dynamic new dining and entertainment precinct in Charlestown officially opened to the public on 5 December, bringing together independent Newcastle food producers and boutique brands along with artists...
AMP Capital introduces Scentre Group as JV partner to Garden City Shopping Centre
AMP Capital has introduced Scentre Group as a joint venture partner in Garden City Shopping Centre, by selling a 50% interest for $575 million on behalf of investors in the...
Nick Willis joins JLL as Director, National Retail Investments
Global property services firm, JLL has appointed Nick Willis to the role of Director, National Retail Investments based in Sydney. Willis joins JLL from CBRE where he has spent the past...
QICGRE delivers stage one of the Castle Towers redevelopment
Delivering greater accessibility and convenience to next-gen concept stores, Castle Towers unveiled the first stage of its master-planned retail and lifestyle destination today. The first chapter in a multi-year transformation...
Port Adelaide Plaza commences stage two with Reject Shop announcement
The $45 million redevelopment of Port Adelaide Plaza is progressing with opening of stage one of the redevelopment unveiling a new dining precinct, which has been popular with locals and has delivered a...
Goobne brings K-Food concept to Australia with flagship Sydney store
Riding on the tails of Australia’s newfound love of all things Korean, a K-food trend has kicked off in Australia with the arrival of Korean chicken pros, Goobne opening its...
Charter Hall Retail supports domestic violence survivors this Christmas
Charter Hall Retail and Two Good Co have continued their partnership to ‘empower, nourish and heal’ women, with an ‘In Good Hands’ gift with purchase campaign this holiday season. Commencing...
Antony Keenan joins AMP Capital
AMP Capital recently announced changes to its senior leadership team and is now welcoming Antony Keenan to the shopping centre retail team as General Manager, Property Management, Retail. Keenan will...
Lakeside Joondalup puts a spotlight on International Day of People with Disability
Lendlease’s Lakeside Joondalup has put a spotlight on International Day of People with Disability by launching two display cabinets, styled in collaboration with the Ability Centre and twin sisters Emily J and...
Stockland Shellharbour launches ‘Luminary’ light installation
Last Friday, Stockland Shellharbour unveiled its new installation, ‘Luminary’ – a mesmerising art and light activation, to the Illawarra area region. The installations were previously exhibited at Vivid Sydney and now...
Standalone Coles sells with tightest yield of 2019
A prized standalone Coles supermarket at Mentone has sold on the tightest Victorian yield of 2019 in one of the year’s most anticipated retail auctions with numerous bids from an...
Lendlease launches coffee cup recycling across retail portfolio
Lendlease is the first shopping centre landlord to implement coffee cup recycling in all its centres. To help combat the growing number of takeaway coffee cups ending up in landfill,...
Vicinity reveals $685 million redevelopment of Chadstone
Vicinity Centres (Vicinity) has today revealed plans for the future Chadstone enhancing the centre in five key areas, totalling $685 million, to continue the evolution of Chadstone, with the community...
Shuffles September 2019
AMP CAPITAL Ryan Cooper has joined the team as Investment Manager for Indooroopilly. Ryan was previously with GPT where he worked on both Sydney Olympic Park and Charlestown Square Shopping...
2019 Frank Lowy Fellowship awarded to Dennis Michael, QICGRE
QIC Global Real Estate’s (QICGRE) Head of Commercial – Brand iQ and New Business, Dennis Michael has been announced as the third Fellow of The Shopping Centre Council of Australia’s...
Little Guns 2019
Another great year for Little Guns. We feature 94 centres this year in comparison to 96 last year. Six centres, including the top MAT performer for the past several years running – Westfield Helensvale – are not ranked due to development activity. With a massive increase in MAT of 12.5%,...
Mirvac’s Toombul – unlocking the value by going UPSTAIRS
UPSTAIRS is the final segment of Stage 1 of the redevelopment of Mirvac’s Toombul Shopping Centre. At the time of purchase in 2016, Toombul was anachronistic, responding to a time and...
HomeCo opens Hawthorn East and Keysborough
HomeCo opened its doors to two new centres in Hawthorn East and Keysborough Victoria on Wednesday 27 November, following eight months of redevelopment. The two high profile Melbourne metropolitan locations,...
Coles opens its most innovative, tailor made supermarket in Melbourne
Coles is unveiling its most innovative supermarket yet, inspiring customers with a brand-new concept as part of a bespoke offer aimed squarely at the needs of the local community. Opening...
Gowings sells Moonee Market Shopping Centre for $30.5 million
Primewest Diversified Income Trust No 4 has purchased Moonee Market Shopping Centre for $30.5 million from Gowing Bros. Limited (Gowings). Located on the Pacific Highway north of the Coffs Harbour CBD,...
Two in three Australians will shop on Black Friday
The National Retailers Association (NRA) is forecasting another record spend this Christmas, with breakthrough sales across both bricks-and-mortar and online retail. Shoppers are set to splurge an average of $54,347 per...
Cathy Sullivan, Vicinity Centres
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Noosa Civic driving change with bamboo toothbrushes
Climate change awareness has been in the forefront of the community this year and Noosa Civic Shopping Centre is once again getting behind the cause this Christmas, encouraging shoppers to...
CBRE’s Mark Wizel takes Agent of the Year award
CBRE Director Investments, Mark Wizel, has won REA’s Agent of the Year award at the Group’s 2019 AREA Excellence Awards. The award recognised Wizel’s success across several criteria including innovation in...
Sovereign Place Town Centre opens
Sovereign Place Town Centre retailers have celebrated the official opening of their unique new businesses in the heart of the Lewis Land Group’s Sovereign Hills master planned community – Port Macquarie’s...
Record result as global luxury brands flock to Sydney CBD auction
The who’s who of Sydney’s property market, alongside a number of international retail heavy hitters were out in force for yesterday’s auction of 106 King Street, Sydney, a sign that...
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