Denise Leki, Adairs
Retailers play an important part in creating great shopping centres, so we at SCN profile retailers to our Shopping Centre News audience on a regular basis. Adairs is a specialty...
King Street Wharf sells for $125.5 million
Sydney-based real estate investor Markham has acquired a 100% interest in King Street Wharf, Sydney’s premier waterfront precinct, occupying a landmark site with unparalleled frontage to Sydney Harbour for $125.5...
Vicinity announces new executive team
Vicinity Centres announced this week a new Executive Committee structure to accelerate its strategy to create a core portfolio of market-leading destinations, realise mixed-use opportunities and expand its wholesale funds...
Victoria’s Secret opens first full-line Australian store at Chadstone
Victoria’s Secret has finally opened the doors on its first flagship location in Australia adding to it’s 1,600 stores worldwide. The American lingerie giant unveiled its store at Vicinity Centres’ Chadstone The...
Charter Hall – A new approach to a very different portfolio
Charter Hall has a very different approach, but then they’ve got a very different portfolio! It’s retail in all forms; from stand-alone supermarkets and hardware stores, to major shopping centres...
Little Guns 2018
Another great year for Little Gun centres! We rank 96 centres this year; all centres with a GLA of more than 20,000m2 but less than 50,000m2. In a year of low inflation, almost zero wage growth across the nation, and analysts forecasting gloom and doom in the retail sector, the...
Kawana Shoppingworld
Kawana Shoppingworld’s latest extensions are about to come on stream. The very first shopping centre on the Sunshine Coast, its major redevelopment in 2014 saw the Mirvac centre present itself...
Midland Gate opens second stage
The largest regional shopping centre in Perth’s east, Vicinity Centre’s Midland Gate, opened the second stage of its $100 million redevelopment on Wednesday 21 November which attracted thousands of shoppers. ALDI, The Reject Shop,...
Lendlease trials new transparent screen technology
Lendlease has announced that it has started trialling new technology, a transparent LED mesh screen, at its shopping centre located in south west Sydney, Macarthur Square. The trial is in partnership with Techfront...
Tauranga Crossing set to open new dining and H&M in April 2019
Tauranga Crossing in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand have announced a list of exciting new restaurants and eateries scheduled to open as part of the expanded centre in April...
Noah Roh, 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 industry....
New Code allows for better sales performance disclosure
In a move for greater disclosure on performance, a new Retail Industry Code of Practice on the Reporting of Sales and Occupancy Costs will come in to effect on the 1 January 2019 which has been...
Blackstone sells Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre for $178 million
Waverley Gardens is a well-established 39,554m2 sub-regional shopping centre located in a strong population growth corridor of the Melbourne metropolitan area, 25 kilometres south-east of its CBD. The centre is...
Vale Stan Perron, Perron Group
We have lost a much respected industry member, founder and Chairman, Mr Stan Perron AM of the Perron Group. From humble beginnings Stan founded the Perron Group which is now...
Industry Shuffles – November 2018
AMPCSC Sandra Livingstone has been promoted to General Manager, Asset Management across the AMP Shopping Centres teams in Australia and New Zealand. Natalie Douglas has been appointed as Centre Manager...
Marina Square opens at Wentworth Point
As the first integrated shopping centre in the region of Sydney Olympic Park and the newest of Sydney’s new class of super neighbourhood centres, Marina Square will service the current...
Cranebrook Village bought by private investor
Cranebrook Village located in the western Sydney suburb of Cranebrook has sold for $48.1 million, representing a 5.29% yield to a Sydney based private investor. The area is undergoing significant development and...
Stockland divests $113 million of centres to release capital
Stockland today confirmed it has exchanged contracts to divest Stockland Bathurst Shopping Centre and Stockland South in Caloundra* for combined proceeds of $113.1 million, reflecting a 5.3% discount to the...
Iconic Myer sign returns to Coorparoo Square
The neon lights of the iconic Myer sign that once overlooked the site of Coorparoo Square will shine bright once again on Friday November 30, when Frasers Property Australia and...
Retail sales to exceed $50 billion this Christmas
The National Retail Association (NRA) has predicted Australian shoppers to splurge $50 billion on retail sales this Christmas with personalisation named as one of the highlighted trends for gifts. It will...
Bayfair Shopping Centre to open 30 stores in December
Bayfair Shopping Centre’s $115 million redevelopment as featured on the cover of SCN this year will have more than 30 new stores to open in early December in time for Christmas...
Sunshine Plaza – Stage 1 opening
Thousands gathered at Sunshine Plaza on 14 November to see the first unveil of Stage 1 of Lendlease’s Sunshine Plaza’s $420 million redevelopment. Lots of entertainment was on offer with Santa’s arrival...
Stockland celebrates largest single rooftop solar system in Australia
Stockland, one of Australia’s largest diversified real estate groups and the most sustainable property company in the world*, celebrated the success of its latest solar installation at Stockland Green Hills...
PAYCE and Mirvac unveil South Village, Kirrawee
Sutherland Shire locals now have a smorgasbord of new dining, shopping and lifestyle options as PAYCE and Mirvac Retail unveiled the new shopping precinct of South Village in Kirrawee yesterday....
Double Bay Plaza site up for sale
A prime Double Bay site currently home to Double Bay Plaza has been listed listed for sale with price expectations of circa $90 million. The site is with plans for a...
Marina Square to open on 21 November
Sydney gets a brand new shopping centre as Billbergia’s Marina Square shopping centre as the centre sets to open on Wednesday 21 November 2018. Residents of Wentworth Point, Rhodes, Newington and the Sydney...
Kerri Jones, Retail First
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 industry....
Free Library movement comes to Brisbane’s Post Office Square
‘If you don’t like to read you haven’t found the right book’… J.K Rowling. Growing on the trend of the shared economy and the movement to detox from technology, Post Office Square...
$800 million Karrinyup development starts
Another significant development in Perth will start as AMP Capital announces today the commencement of the $800 million development of Karrinyup Shopping Centre, with main works to begin next week and...
Real People, not Models at Belmont Forum
Belmont Forum in Perth, Western Australia has launched its Spring Summer 2018 (SS18) looks with a unique campaign – Celebrate Your Look – featuring real people, not models. Like J.Crew, one of...
Mandy Poynton, Lendlease
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 industry....
Greenfield Park Shopping Village turns 35 with revamp
Greenfield Park Shopping Village, a local shopping centre in the Fairfield council area in western Sydney, recently undertook a $3 million transformation program over 12 weeks to rejuvenate the centre....
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