In this ‘new world’ where things are changing by the hour, omnidata intelligence company Skyfii, has partnered with leading customer insights firm Brickfields Consulting to help the retail property industry...

Throughout the centuries, the basic principles of food and hospitality have remained the same. However, as we have all experienced over the past few weeks, the way these principles are...

Starting on Monday 6 April, Darling Quarter will be hosting kids yoga sessions to provide some entertainment during self-isolation. The popular program normally runs at Darling Quarter and has attracted...

Tainan Spring recently opened to excited visitors on March 7, in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. What stood before was a lush lagoon and park in the preserved ruin of...

Media headlines declaring war, relating to battles, and referring to the need to fight are inflaming emotions. As Barry Urquhart of Marketing Focus explains, these are not the best means...

The federal government announced a number of weeks ago that construction is an essential industry, but as we all know this issue is moving at a rapid rate, and things...

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...

Riverdale Village Town Centre has defied the challenging environment in becoming one of the only Shopping Centres in Australia to open amid the COVID-19 outbreak, bringing much-needed facilities to one...



Frasers Property Australia has announced that the planned opening of Easter Creek Quarter (ECQ), a brand new 10,000m2 (GLA) retail centre in Western Sydney, will not proceed as planned, while Woolworths...

AMP CAPITAL Andrew Jeffs has been appointed as Deputy Fund Manager, ADPF. Andrew has spent the past ten years at Lendlease with roles including Head of Operations and Investment Management,...

Victoria has just introduced a Bill that could establish a ‘commencement date’ in a retail lease, in a centre that hasn’t yet been built! Sounds a bit looney doesn’t it?...

Food Halls are changing as fast as mobile phones do! They used to be just a simple area with various fresh food outlets; now they are a mix of fresh...

Food and Hospitality is capable of creating a real and sustainable point of difference (POD) for a centre. In this article, Francis Loughran shares with you how larger malls nationally...

Several new apartment buildings, a new fashion mall, new F&B precincts; a Big Gun already but now about to almost double its size; you get a lot when you spend...

How have shopping centre yields compressed during the past eight years or so? How many stores have closed through major retailer collapses over the same period? Do you know the...

At Charter Hall Retail – the more things change, the more they stay the same. I was recently asked which aspects of Charter Hall’s retail business I am most proud...

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...

As the retail sector continues to evolve, so does the thinking around how best to reach existing and potential customers, and how to use the retail environment itself in novel...

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...

Build-and-hold retail developer, Sandhurst Retail has submitted plans to Council for a $40-million, 9,000m2 neighbourhood centre in Wollert, 26km north of Melbourne’s CBD, which will cater to one of Victoria’s fastest-growing...

Is the time of the ‘architectural brief’ at an end? Will it be replaced by a Pinterest board? According to Susanne Pini, the Pinterest trend is producing ‘sameness’, and creativity...

What’s a ‘Net Zero Carbon’ building? It may generate its own power, emit no carbon, but it might be constructed of materials full of carbon. On the other hand, it...

The quality of journalism in this country (with few exceptions that prove the rule), continues to plummet. When it comes to shopping centre issues, it would seem there is a...

Retail is being challenged on a number of fronts – the latest two being bushfires and the coronavirus. The NRA has released its proposals… Australian retail is currently confronting an...

Pauline Pham (Mirvac), was the recipient of the Sabina Rust Memorial Prize for Campaign of the Year, at the SCCA Marketing Awards last year. Her prize of $15,000 for personal development,...

As we become more socially responsible and more caring about our environment, the practice of knocking down buildings in order to re-develop, lessens. Increasingly, unused buildings are being adapted for...

Australian retail property assets remain well sought after with $6.84 billion trading in 2019, underpinned by domestic and offshore groups who continue to see value in the sector.  Retail investment...

Technology continues to shape our built environment, but a balance needs to be achieved between hi-tech demands and simple human interaction. Social interaction cannot be replaced with technology or virtual...

It’s Big Guns time again – how the time flies! Last year was a tough one for retail. It’s not just the e-commerce competition, high levels of debt and low...

Ian Thomas the founder and chairman of Thomas Consultants, one of the leading (if not ‘the’) Retail Property Development consultancies in the world. An Aussie, he’s lived in Canada for...

Cbus Property and Scentre Group have embarked on a joint venture partnership to deliver a bold new icon for the Sydney CBD and skyline that will usher in a transformative...