Armidale Plaza up for grabs
Armidale Plaza Shopping Centre located in northern NSW, 130km inland from the coastline and approximately halfway between Sydney and Brisbane is for sale. The Shopping Centre boasts more than 17,000m2...
Lendlease hosts digital Aboriginal art exhibition
Lendlease shopping centres nationally have temporarily transformed into art galleries with the launch of a new digital exhibition of artworks by Indigenous artist, Barbara Mundraby. The exhibition is open until 31...
Westfield Coomera opens to spectacular Gold Coast crowds
Thousands of locals gathered today as Westfield Coomera on the Gold Coast opened the doors to its $470 million development for the first time. In a rare Greenfield development, Scentre Group...
Hurstville’s Retail Transit Centre has sold for $119.5 million
The Hurstville Central Shopping Centre has sold for $119.5 million to a US based firm in their first retail acquisition in Australia. The centre has one of Sydney’s busiest train stations integrated in...
Westfield Kotara’s new youth and urban precinct opens this month
Westfield Kotara has today confirmed the wait for its $160 million transformation is almost over with the centre’s new youth and urban precinct and 30 new and relocated specialty stores set to open...
What do you do with an old Toys ‘R’ Us space? throw in a Catch concept store!
Today one of Australia’s largest independent online retailers, Catch.com.au, opens its doors to its first ever pop-up concept store in the former Toys ‘R’ Us store at Vicinity’s Chadstone – The Fashion Capital. It’s proof that bricks-and-mortar...
Westfield Tea Tree Plaza’s dining and entertainment precinct opens this month
Westfield Tea Tree Plaza will open the doors to its $50 million dining and entertainment precinct, a new family friendly offer in the North East of Adelaide, on 25 October....
Perth CBD welcomes stage one of Raine Square
Thousands of Western Australians celebrated the launch of Charter Hall’s Raine Square’s redevelopment late last month as the precinct opened its doors on the first stage of its $200 million transformation....
First phase of enclosed shopping mall opens at Tauranga Crossing
On Thursday 4 October, doors opened to the first 15 stores of the new enclosed shopping mall at Tauranga Crossing located on the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, which...
Harris Farm Markets creates new flagship
Local foodies rejoiced as Harris Farm Markets opened its doors to the much-anticipated Leichhardt store in GPT’s Norton Plaza in Sydney’s Inner West, making it the largest Harris Farm store in the...
DFO Perth officially opens
Australia’s leading premium outlet destination has been unveiled as the new DFO Perth officially opened its doors for the first time. The new $150 million joint venture between Vicinity Centres and...
Vicinity sells 11 centres for $631 million
Vicinity Centres (Vicinity, ASX:VCX) today announced a progress update on its non-core asset divestment program, with the sale of a portfolio of ten sub-regional and neighbourhood shopping centres to SCA...
43rd Australian TK Maxx store opens in Coomera
TK Maxx has opened its 43rd Australian store on Thursday September 27th at the brand new HomeCo Centre opening in Upper Coomera, Gold Coast. This will be the fourth TK Maxx store...
Gold Coast’s Pimpama City opens
Shopping Centre News reported on the Pimpana City development a few weeks ago and as construction sped through the final stages, Gold Coast residents got their first glimpse of their...
Forest Hill Chase creates new dining precinct
Forest Hill Chase, a long standing shopping centre in east Melbourne is set to get a new multi-million dollar dining precinct. Leading national retail construction specialist Mainbrace has been awarded the...
Westfield Chermside crowned QLD Retail Property of the Year
Queensland Property Council of Australia’s Retail Property of the Year Awards recognise and publicly reward exceptional retail properties and precincts in Queensland, based on the response to Design, Marketing, Presentation...
New dining precinct at Westfield Woden
Scentre Group and joint venture partner Perron Group have announced a $21 million redevelopment at Westfield Woden. Due to open in early 2019, the central focus will be the introduction...
Stockland launches Stockland Accelerator
Stockland has today launched the Stockland Accelerator – a program to identify and develop ‘PropTech’ (property technology) start-up solutions to create better connected communities. Powered by Australia’s largest tech start-up...
Simon Johnson, Home Consortium
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. Shopping...
Amplifying CX: customer experience and retail trends
Shopping Centre News attended Swinburne University of Technology’s Amplifying CX: What you need to do today and know about tomorrow. Customer experience is the new battleground for consumer-facing organisations (yes –...
Three Birds Renovation heads to The Hills
The Hills Super Centre hosted the Three Birds Renovation team – aka Bonnie Hindmarsh, Erin Cayless and Lana Taylor who shared their easy to follow interior decorating and renovation tips in an...
Stars of WA Property Industry celebrated
The shining stars of the Western Australian property industry were on show at the Property Council’s 2018 WA Property Awards held at Pan Pacific Perth on Thursday, 20 September 2018....
Broadway launches Sydney’s first rooftop roller skating rink
Capitalising on one of Sydney’s best-kept secret city views, Mirvac’s Broadway Sydney launched an exclusive open-air rooftop roller skating rink for the month of September. The activation takes place in partnership with Sydney Fringe Festival,...
Wilsonton Shopping Centre commences refurbishment
Consolidated Properties Group and CVS Lane Capital Partners have commenced a major refurbishment and leasing program for the Wilsonton Shopping Centre, which was acquired in July 2018. The centre is...
Mirvac partners with China’s online travel agency Ctrip
The International Visitor Survey last year revealed Australia has welcomed more than 1.3 million Chinese visitors over the past year – second only by a narrow margin, to New Zealand...
Erina Fair’s The Patch
How can a sustainable garden improve your health and wellbeing? What are beneficial bugs and how can you attract them? How can you grow your own organic edible garden? How...
GPT’s Highpoint Homemaker Centre for sale
GPT’s Highpoint Homemaker Centre has been listed for sale in a move tipped to generate strong interest from local and offshore investors. The Maribyrnong centre has been trading for nearly 30...
The Palms Shopping Centre raises awareness of spinal cord injury
Last week, the local community gathered at The Palms Shopping Centre in Christchurch New Zealand to show their support and raise awareness for NZ Spinal Trust and Spinal Cord Injury...
Mark Wizel, CBRE
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....
Top Australian retail franchises
In the midst of the current senate enquiry in to franchising there was the positive announcement of the winners of the topfranchise.com.au franchise awards, as voted by franchisees. They were...
Westfield Coomera to open in October
Gold Coast residents get another exciting shopping experience with the opening of the $470 million redevelopment of Westfield Coomera announcing their opening date of Thursday 11 October – just in time for...
Kawana Shoppingworld shares the fruits of its recycling initiative
Customers at Mirvac’s Kawana Shoppingworld, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, can now enjoy the fruits of the centre’s award-winning closed loop recycling initiative. On offer in the centre’s kitchen are tasting...
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