Ever evolving retail environment   The retail environment is constantly changing. For centuries humans have gathered in villages and marketplaces to trade, barter and later purchase their fresh food: meats,...

92 Centres are featured this year, of those, 11 were under redevelopment or have only traded fully for part of the year – therefore we have statistics on 81 Big Guns. It’s a few less than previous years. This year, 151 Properties’ Forest Hill Chase, Greensborough, Top Ryde and Warrawong declined...

Amid strong ongoing demand for core CBD retail investment opportunities, a 100% interest in Melbourne’s flagship St Collins Lane CBD shopping centre is being brought to market by Fund manager JPMorgan...

QICGRE’s Watergardens – the heart and social hub of the vibrant local community at Taylors Lakes, has announced the introduction of eight authentic street style dining concepts due to open...

Castle Towers Centre Manager, Eddie Paynter, has announced the Centre was preparing to imminently commence work on further Centre enhancement projects, as part of its continued evolution. Following the successful launch...

Mirvac Retail centres in Sydney and Brisbane are set to become members of community-based organisation ‘Welcome Here’ to focus staff and retailers on inclusion and diversity as they break out...

CBRE’s Head of Retail Capital Markets – Pacific, Simon Rooney and Colliers International’s Head of Retail Investment Services – Australia, Lachlan MacGillivray have been appointed to sell a 50% stake in...

It is the natural Australian spirit to help each other in times of crisis. The recent and ongoing unprecedented bushfires has changed the nation in so many ways – but...

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...

The days are long gone when shopping centre marketing was about bed-making competitions, car giveaways and TV stars on stage in the centre court! It’s now scientific, logical, research-based, customer...

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...

Last night, the Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA) hosted one of the most popular industry events on the annual calendar with a spectacular night at The Ivy Ballroom in...

Years ago, Coles was part of the massive Coles Myer Group, the largest retail conglomerate in Australia. It then became part of Wesfarmers, the largest conglomerate in Australia! In late...

We started reporting on Mini Gun centres in 2006. It was a sector of our industry dominated by Centro Properties Group; at that time, we featured some 95 centres, 40 of which were managed/ owned by Centro. Stockland had 10 so between the pair, they had more than half the...

There are 22 major projects underway or in the pipeline in the world of retail development in this neck of the woods. It’s indicative of the strength of our industry and the...

The development discipline in the property industry has traditionally been male dominated. However, we all know that the majority of customers in shopping centres are women. So, it makes sense...

I always like the CBD Guns issue because the contributions from our writers are always so engaging. Check out Louise Burke’s article on the Melbourne CBD and Melissa Prpic’s on...

Hundreds gathered at the Ivy Ballroom, Sydney on the 19 March for the annual 2019 Big Guns lunch – the industry networking event of the year – to celebrate the performance...

Vicinity Centres is no longer its past – its amalgamations, acquisitions, its morphing, even its previous names. Vicinity now stands as its own entity, fully bedded down, structured for its...

  Two new faces join the CEO line up. Louise Mason who now heads up Stockland and Grant Kelly, CEO Vicinity Centres; we welcome them! One wouldn’t describe the CEO...

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...

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...

The creativity, speed and fabulousness of our retail and hospitality industry progresses and retailers, operators and landlords alike continue to innovate and create to impress today’s ever connected, always on,...

Tauranga is New Zealand’s fastest growing city. At the heart of its prime residential strip sits the AMP Capital managed Bayfair Shopping Centre, the Number 1 performing centre in the...

Some great results from the CBD Guns! The Strand Arcade continues to power ahead with a healthy rise in MAT this year and specialties are trading at well over the $25,000/m2 mark. The emerging battle between Pitt and George Streets for retail supremacy put The Strand Arcade in a great...

Stockland Green Hills has transformed itself from the most powerful Little Gun in the country, into a super-prime regional and one of the major Big Gun centres in Australia. It...

A bold new neighbourhood emerges in the heart of Sydney’s CBD Set to transform Sydney’s northern CBD, Quay Quarter Sydney, incorporating Quay Quarter Tower, 33 Alfred Street and the Young...

It’s unique – for a start, what other centre has a river flowing through it? Lendlease’s Sunshine Plaza dominates the Sunshine Coast – the ninth most populous region in Australia....

Links below to the individual CEO speeches: Gary Horwitz, Lendlease Greg Miles, Scentre Group Mark Kirkland, AMPCSC Ralph Kemmler, Woolworths Sam Curry, ISPT Sid Sharma, SCA Property Group Stewart Hutcheon,...

Few people will disagree with the statement that ‘no one has contributed more to the shopping centre industry in Australia than Sir Frank Lowy.’ In fact, many would go further,...

If the MAT is OK but the MAT/m2 is low, usually it’s a no-brainer. Cut down the size of the shop, create another one. The retailer wins because they have...