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Fortius to sell Artarmon Home HQ
Fortius to sell Artarmon Home HQ
Artarmon Home HQ, a large format retail (LFR) centre located in the heart of Sydney’s Lower North Shore has hit the market, with McVay Real Estate Australia exclusively appointed to...
MPG divests Melbourne Mall in first Victorian neighbourhood transaction of 2023
MPG divests Melbourne Mall in first Victorian neighbourhood transaction of 2023
Village Lakeside Shopping Centre in Melbourne’s Pakenham has sold in what is the first neighbourhood shopping centre to transact in Victoria in 2023. Located within the established suburb of Pakenham...
Frasers Property gets green light for its final stage of Eastern Creek Quarter
Frasers Property gets green light for its final stage of Eastern Creek Quarter
A large-scale, innovative ‘outlet retail’ concept has been approved for Eastern Creek Quarter (ECQ), with Frasers Property Australia receiving masterplan consent for the third and final stage of its award-winning...
Sydney’s newest CBD food and lifestyle precinct opens with 15 exciting venues
Sydney’s newest CBD food and lifestyle precinct opens with 15 exciting venues
15 exciting food and beverage operators have opened their doors at Sydney Place, the vibrant new precinct in one of Sydney’s most-loved waterfront destinations, Circular Quay. Five more will open...
Scentre Group lodges plans for Westfield Penrith expansion
Scentre Group lodges plans for Westfield Penrith expansion
Scentre Group have lodged a Development Application (DA) with Penrith City Council to create a new and activated front door at Westfield Penrith’s Riley Street to revitalise the existing shopping...
IP Generation completes its largest individual shopping centre acquisition to date
IP Generation completes its largest individual shopping centre acquisition to date
Lendlease’s Australian Prime Property Fund (APPF) Retail and co-owner Lendlease Group have exchanged contracts on the sale of Craigieburn Central to IP Generation for a gross price of $300 million...
Wing, DoorDash and Mirvac launch drone delivery in Ipswich QLD
Wing, DoorDash and Mirvac launch drone delivery in Ipswich QLD
Wing, Australia’s first on-demand drone delivery service, has partnered with DoorDash, the leading on-demand delivery platform, and Mirvac, one of Australia’s leading property groups, to launch the first drone delivery...
Chadstone welcomes Blanc Noir a spectacle of interactive performance, cabaret, and street theatre
Chadstone welcomes Blanc Noir a spectacle of interactive performance, cabaret, and street theatre
Chadstone – The Fashion Capital welcomes the arrival of its latest Entertainment Series, Blanc Noir – a spectacle of cabaret acts, street theatre and interactive performances inspired by the game of...
Elanor to acquire 100% of Challenger’s $3.4b Australian real estate funds management business
Elanor to acquire 100% of Challenger’s $3.4b Australian real estate funds management business
Elanor Investors Group and Challenger Limited have entered into agreements for Elanor to acquire 100% of Challenger’s $3.4 billion Australian real estate funds management business (“CRE”) for a maximum consideration...
Vicinity Centres reinvents the meaning of ‘Retail Therapy’
Vicinity Centres reinvents the meaning of ‘Retail Therapy’
New research*, commissioned by Vicinity Centres, reveals that over half (53%) of Australians expressed they preferred in-store retail therapy, as opposed to shopping online. Despite the boom in e-commerce, consumers...
Is Oporto the same as KFC?
Is Oporto the same as KFC?
How much control do you have, as a lessor, over the type and style of a proposed retail operation when it comes to a lease transfer? You’ve leased a shop...
QIC lodges DA for new retail, hotel, office and dining precinct at Castle Towers
QIC lodges DA for new retail, hotel, office and dining precinct at Castle Towers
Heralding the next development phase at Castle Towers in Sydney’s north-west, QIC has lodged a planning application for its newest project – The Village – a future-focused mixed-use lifestyle precinct that...
Fortius revitalises Central Park Mall with Sydney-first Fortress
Fortius revitalises Central Park Mall with Sydney-first Fortress
Fortius Funds Management, now a part of Growthpoint Properties Australia, is soon to open a major player in the multi-million-dollar transformation of Central Park Mall on Sydney’s CBD Fringe, creating...
Forest Hill Chase shopping centre sold for almost $260 million
Forest Hill Chase shopping centre sold for almost $260 million
Haben Property Fund and The JY Group have acquired a 100% stake in Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre as investors continue to seek retail assets in metropolitan locations with long-term...
An explosion of activity-based transformation is about to hit retail shopping centres
An explosion of activity-based transformation is about to hit retail shopping centres
Changing the character of a space is nothing new to the shopping centre industry. For years we’ve changed what’s in the centre court; we’ve changed outdoor spaces, converted former department...
Melbourne Central announces 14 new stores to open within the next three months
Melbourne Central announces 14 new stores to open within the next three months
GPT’s Melbourne Central continues its retail expansion with the opening of 14 new stores within the next three months, including nine brand new stores and five refurbishments. Renowned as a...
Hawaiian receives approval to redevelop Claremont Quarter Town Square and Laneway
Hawaiian receives approval to redevelop Claremont Quarter Town Square and Laneway
Hawaiian and QIC as joint venture partners have received conditional approval of its Development Application for the redevelopment of the Claremont Quarter Town Square and Laneway in Perth, WA. The Claremont Quarter...
QIC’s ‘Project Safe-Guard’
QIC’s ‘Project Safe-Guard’
As reported in SCN, Deb Palmer, National Programs Manager, QIC has been awarded the 2022 Frank Lowy Fellowship. We spoke to Deb about the award-winning program – an initiative to combat the...
SCN Big Guns Lunch 2023
SCN Big Guns Lunch 2023
The Big Guns Lunch, hosted by Shopping Centre News (SCN) on Friday 24th March at the Ivy Ballroom in Sydney was attended by CEOs and senior executives from across the...
Centre Profile: Rundle Place
Centre Profile: Rundle Place
Adelaide’s Rundle Mall is arguably the most iconic retail strip in Australia; it’s certainly the oldest. It’s a strip containing the best retailers in the country and the location of...
Retail Profile: JD Sports
Retail Profile: JD Sports
A recent report by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield predicts by 2025, more than 50% of retail square meterage will be devoted to ‘experiential retail’ as distinct from products or stock. Might seem difficult...
Scentre Group announces its seventh centre to achieve an MAT in excess of $1 billion
Scentre Group announces its seventh centre to achieve an MAT in excess of $1 billion
Westfield Doncaster has celebrated a major milestone, surpassing $1 billion in Moving Annual Turnover (MAT) in January this year, for the first time. Westfield Doncaster joins six other Westfield destinations...
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Scentre Group
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Scentre Group
This article by Elliott Rusanow, Chief Executive Officer, Scentre Group forms part of an annual CEO Outlook feature, published in SCN’s 2023 Big Guns edition. We have momentum as we...
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: QIC Real Estate
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: QIC Real Estate
This article by Michael O’Brien, Managing Director, QIC Real Estate, forms part of an annual CEO Outlook feature, published in SCN’s 2023 Big Guns edition. For the retail industry, the...
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Dexus
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Dexus
This article by Marco Ettorre, Executive General Manager Retail, Dexus, forms part of an annual CEO Outlook feature, published in SCN’s 2023 Big Guns edition. We see growth over the medium term will...
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Vicinity Centres
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Vicinity Centres
This article by Peter Huddle, Chief Executive Officer, Vicinity Centres,  forms part of an annual CEO Outlook feature, published in SCN’s 2023 Big Guns edition. The retail landscape continues to...
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Stockland
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Stockland
This article by Michelle Abbey, Executive General Manager, Town Centres, Stockland, forms part of an annual CEO Outlook feature, published in SCN’s 2023 Big Guns edition. And so begins another...
Westfield becomes Official Partner of Netball Australia
Westfield becomes Official Partner of Netball Australia
Netball Australia has announced Westfield as its newest Official Partner in a multi-tier sponsorship covering all levels of the game.   Westfield has joined as an Official Partner of Netball Australia,...
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Perron Group
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Perron Group
This article by Andrew Byars, General Manager – Property Investments, Perron Group, forms part of an annual CEO Outlook feature, published in SCN’s 2023 Big Guns edition. Looking to the...
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Lendlease
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: Lendlease
This article by Lachlan Dyson, Head of Property Management, Lendlease, forms part of an annual CEO Outlook feature, published in SCN’s 2023 Big Guns edition. The retail evolution continues with...
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: ISPT
CEO OUTLOOK 2023: ISPT
This article by Sam Curry, General Manager Retail Services, ISPT, forms part of an annual CEO Outlook feature, published in SCN’s 2023 Big Guns edition. My thoughts on 2023 centre...

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