Construction commences at CastleTown Shoppingworld
Queensland’s CastleTown remains open for business as construction commences on the centre’s $34 million redevelopment that will deliver a new Coles supermarket and specialty retailers, new entry statement, upgraded car...
Waverley Gardens to launch ultimate fresh food precinct: Super Fresh
Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre is set to undergo renovations in April 2021, with the introduction of its brand new Super Fresh precinct. Located in the east-wing of the centre, Super...
Stockland steps up the fun these school holidays with AR experiences
Stockland has partnered with creative agency VANDAL to bring a new Augmented Reality (AR) experience to eight of its retail centres across NSW and Queensland for the school holidays. Customers...
Top ten retail trends for 2021
Ten trends have emerged from the pandemic that will reshape the way we shop in the future: from localism to personalisation, from ethical shopping to touch-free shopping… and everything in...
South Eveleigh, Sydney’s newest dining and drinking destination
Sydney’s hottest drinking and dining destination – and new home of Kylie Kwong and Matt Whiley – is now welcoming food and drink lovers to Redfern. A stone’s throw from...
Yamanto Central opens today ahead of schedule
Today the brand-new Yamanto Central opens its doors with Coles, Kmart and a host of specialty shops ready to serve the Ipswich community. Retail specialist Mainbrace Constructions has delivered the...
Works continue apace at Circular Quay’s $1.9b precinct
Works are progressing apace at what will be Circular Quay’s newest vibrant precinct, including Sydney’s tallest commercial tower – rising one floor every four days – as significant construction milestones...
Christian Polglase, 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...
Ed.Square Town Centre all set to launch next stage
The next stage of Frasers Property Australia’s much anticipated Ed.Square Town Centre will open to the public on Thursday 29th April, 2021 and will include Eat Street and more than...
HomeCo Richlands officially opens
HomeCo Richlands, owned and managed by HomeCo Daily Needs REIT (ASX.HDN) celebrated its grand opening event on the weekend of the 27th and 28th March 2021. The centre opened its...
Melbourne’s Jam Factory set for $1.4b mixed-use precinct
The iconic Jam Factory is about to be reborn as Melbourne’s best mixed-use precinct across retail, office, hotel, entertainment and luxury apartment living under a landmark new agreement between Newmark...
Casuarina Square spearheads all-gender design
For parents, getting out and about with little kids can be a challenging experience, writes Rebecca Antos. From feeding ever-hungry newborns to dealing with toddler meltdowns and the sudden need...
2021 Big Guns Lunch
SCN hosted a great event last Friday. Our ‘Big Guns Lunch’ was generally seen as the industry’s first major event since COVID entered our lives a year ago. People mingled,...
Riverdale Village officially welcomes retailers
A year on from becoming one of the only shopping centres in Australia to open amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Riverdale Village Shopping Centre has held a celebration day to officially...
Asian-inspired hawker lane to spice up $2.5b Rhodes Central precinct
The Billbergia Group is set to open Rhodes Central, the first stage of a new $2.5 billion mixed-use town centre precinct in July 2021. Billbergia representative Joseph Kinsella announced the...
The Square Mirrabooka celebrates Harmony Week
The suburbs surrounding The Square Mirrabooka make up one of the most multicultural areas in Australia. Harmony week is an opportunity to celebrate diversity in Australia and build a harmonious...
How to give customers an unforgettable experience
Even before COVID-19 entered our lives, pop-ups and temporary activations had found their way into the toolkit of brands looking to connect with their customers. Brands use these to test...
Steven Marks, CEO, Guzman y Gomez
Retailers play a vital role in creating great shopping centres and community spaces. At Shopping Centre News we think it’s important to showcase and profile retailers to our audiences. This week, we speak...
Chadstone car park expansion creates 300 local jobs
Work is underway at Chadstone to expand and improve car parking to add 850 new spaces, solar panel roofing and redesigned entrances to make it easier to get in and...
Keeping it local – part 1
‘Shopping Local’ has been accelerated by COVID. Retailers are constantly monitoring their operations to suit local conditions; ‘one size fits all’ is no longer an option. This article written by...
Different Data Interpretations
A ‘must read’ for Development and Project Managers. Data interpretation can save a tonne of money in shopping centre construction. Early Contractor Involvement (ECI), is key – the figures are...
What’s in store with new Green Star Buildings?
This article co-authored by Claire Bowles Sustainability Lead, i2C Architects & Chris Buntine, Sustainability Manager, Northrop Consulting Engineers was first published in SCN Vol. 39 No. 1, 2021 In October last year, the...
COVID-19: observations and lessons
Our industry as a whole, represented by the Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA), has performed in an exemplary manner during the COVID-19 period. Shopping centres are the most visited,...
Burwood Brickworks officially unveils new Eat Street dining precinct
Melbourne’s Burwood Brickworks officially unveiled its dining precinct Eat Street today, welcoming guests to the neighbourhood food space with a colourful and diverse range of dining and dessert venues including...
Westfield launches its biggest ever promotion with $6m+ prize pool
Scentre Group has unveiled its biggest ever Westfield promotion, offering customers the chance to win $10,000 every day, as well as more than $5 million worth of ‘Spend & Get’...
Stonebridge expands into suburban strip retail
Australian owned commercial real estate group, Stonebridge Property Group (SPG), is growing again with former CBRE Director, Rorey James, together with senior staff Nic Hage and Kate Johnstone recently joining...
Mirvac Retail partners with Australian National Maritime Museum
Mirvac Retail has announced a partnership with the Australian National Maritime Museum to showcase a number of exhibits in a series of free activations for visitors to its MetCentre, Harbourside...
Big Guns 2021
This year, we depart from the usual. The Big Guns issue is always ‘pounced upon’ as it’s published. Which centres took the honours in terms of MAT, MAT/m2 and Specialty MAT/m2, is always of paramount interest to our readers. The feature invariably provides the lead story in the business/property sections...
From the Publisher – March 2021
What a difference! A Big Guns issue without any rankings. Just over one year ago, that was, quite simply, inconceivable. This year, SCN made a decision not to publish any MAT...
Westfield iQ research confirms importance of social experiences and shopping local
The latest Westfield iQ research has confirmed how important Westfield Living Centres are to its customers and their optimism for the year ahead with two-thirds saying that in 2020, Westfield...
Melbourne’s Sunshine Plaza unveils redevelopment plans
Emerging as a beacon of prosperity in Melbourne’s west, Sunshine is becoming a new commercial hotspot, with Sunshine Plaza revealing the redevelopment plans for its current site. Approved by Brimbank...
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