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Bringing centres to life in a meaningful way for customers
Bringing centres to life in a meaningful way for customers
It’s the industry’s highest Marketing Award of the year in Australia and as Australia is the world leader in the shopping centre industry, then it’s obviously leading edge on a...
Curated for the curious: Bricks-and-mortar brings  digital brands to life
Curated for the curious: Bricks-and-mortar brings digital brands to life
The future of bricks-and-mortar retail? Brave soul who would forecast it. That doesn’t mean it’s under threat; it’s not. But it needs to and it will change – dramatically. Susanne...
The future of food, hospitality &  entertainment in malls –  2020 and beyond
The future of food, hospitality & entertainment in malls – 2020 and beyond
As 2019 draws to an end, Francis Loughran and Ashley Cooke share the newest trends and sustainable concepts in food, hospitality and entertainment in malls and retail centres globally –...
Regenerating retail
Regenerating retail
It’s all about how you look at a centre; how you perceive it. Is a centre an isolated component of the world in which we live; or is it a...
Global benchmarking
Global benchmarking
What’s new in retail design? Who is leading the pack and where? Tony Quinn looks at some new and innovative designs, scanning the globe from Leiden in the Netherlands to...
Exploring the backfill solutions for downsizing department stores and discount department stores
Exploring the backfill solutions for downsizing department stores and discount department stores
As Department Stores and DDSs shrink in size, the ‘freed up space’ needs to be dealt with. The positive is that it’s usually the cheapest (rental wise) space in the centre...
The rise of conscious consumerism
The rise of conscious consumerism
The link between sustainability, the environment and what and how we buy, is strengthening. It will affect our tenancy mix, the retailers we choose to have in our centres, and...
Embracing the future of retail
Embracing the future of retail
Marguerite Bell attended Tech Festival in London in October; leading global retailers and technology experts talked about the future of retailing. In this article, written exclusively for SCN, she shares...
2019 Frank Lowy Fellowship awarded to Dennis Michael, QICGRE
2019 Frank Lowy Fellowship awarded to Dennis Michael, QICGRE
QIC Global Real Estate’s (QICGRE) Head of Commercial – Brand iQ and New Business, Dennis Michael has been announced as the third Fellow of The Shopping Centre Council of Australia’s...
Little Guns 2019
Little Guns 2019
Another great year for Little Guns. We feature 94 centres this year in comparison to 96 last year. Six centres, including the top MAT performer for the past several years running – Westfield Helensvale – are not ranked due to development activity. With a massive increase in MAT of 12.5%,...
Mirvac’s Toombul – unlocking the value by going UPSTAIRS
Mirvac’s Toombul – unlocking the value by going UPSTAIRS
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...
HomeCo opens Hawthorn East and Keysborough
HomeCo opens Hawthorn East and Keysborough
HomeCo opened its doors to two new centres in Hawthorn East and Keysborough Victoria on Wednesday 27 November, following eight months of redevelopment. The two high profile Melbourne metropolitan locations,...
Two in three Australians will shop on Black Friday
Two in three Australians will shop on Black Friday
The National Retailers Association (NRA) is forecasting another record spend this Christmas, with breakthrough sales across both bricks-and-mortar and online retail. Shoppers are set to splurge an average of $54,347 per...
Cathy Sullivan, Vicinity Centres
Cathy Sullivan, Vicinity Centres
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...
CBRE’s Mark Wizel takes Agent of the Year award
CBRE’s Mark Wizel takes Agent of the Year award
CBRE Director Investments, Mark Wizel, has won REA’s Agent of the Year award at the Group’s 2019 AREA Excellence Awards. The award recognised Wizel’s success across several criteria including innovation in...
Sovereign Place Town Centre opens 
Sovereign Place Town Centre opens 
Sovereign Place Town Centre retailers have celebrated the official opening of their unique new businesses in the heart of the Lewis Land Group’s Sovereign Hills master planned community – Port Macquarie’s...
Scentre Group completes construction of its $790 million Westfield Newmarket redevelopment
Scentre Group completes construction of its $790 million Westfield Newmarket redevelopment
Thousands of customers gathered at Westfield Newmarket today as Scentre Group unveiled the final stage of its $790 million flagship Living Centre redevelopment, delivering a world-class destination for locals and...
AMP Capital celebrates first development milestone for Karrinyup Shopping Centre
AMP Capital celebrates first development milestone for Karrinyup Shopping Centre
Today, AMP Capital officially opens the first section of the new-look Fashion Loop at Karrinyup Shopping Centre as part of its $800 million development. The major development, which AMP Capital is...
Lutwyche City unveils new Woolworths as part of its $55 million transformation 
Lutwyche City unveils new Woolworths as part of its $55 million transformation 
Lutwyche City Shopping Centre welcomes another milestone in the $55 million investment in Brisbane’s inner north with the official unveiling of a 3,200m2 full line Woolworths supermarket on Thursday 21 November....
Burwood Brickworks set to become the world’s most sustainable shopping centre
Burwood Brickworks set to become the world’s most sustainable shopping centre
Frasers Property Australia’s Burwood Brickworks shopping centre, is set to open Friday 6 December 2019. To mark the occasion, an official ribbon cutting ceremony will launch three days of family fun,...
South Village turns one with new parklands
South Village turns one with new parklands
Mirvac’s South Village shopping centre in Sydney’s south shared its first birthday celebrations with the local community with the highlight being the opening of the new Sutherland Shire community park adjacent to the...
Stockland’s Christmas campaign returns forgotten Aussie reindeer
Stockland’s Christmas campaign returns forgotten Aussie reindeer
Stockland has once again challenged conventional Christmas marketing with its newest creative campaign for the festive season, launching the heartwarming animated film ‘The Story of Dunder’. The campaign focuses on the...
Mirvac’s Moonee Ponds Central set to open new dining destination next month
Mirvac’s Moonee Ponds Central set to open new dining destination next month
Moonee Ponds Central has unveiled plans to create a new, vibrant dining destination – Hall Street Dining precinct. Taking inspiration from Melbourne’s love of lane-ways, the new precinct is on...
Jen Tiet, Scentre Group
Jen Tiet, Scentre Group
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....
Mirvac’s Broadway Sydney pioneers ‘Cook and Costi’ fresh food concept
Mirvac’s Broadway Sydney pioneers ‘Cook and Costi’ fresh food concept
Mirvac Retail has his week unveiled a brand-new market leading concept to deliver customers at Broadway Sydney a compelling new fresh food and dining collaboration from two of the country’s...
Castle Towers to deliver new fresh food marketplace before Christmas
Castle Towers to deliver new fresh food marketplace before Christmas
Sydney’s leading providores and local favourites will join global restaurant chains and best-in-class street food operators when Castle Towers launches the first stage of its new $180 million retail precinct...
Yamanto Central commences construction
Yamanto Central commences construction
Yamanto Central has officially commenced construction, announcing stage one of the 25 hectare Yamanto Town Centre will begin servicing residents in early 2021. Designed by internationally-renowned architects Buchan, Yamanto Central will...
Melbourne’s Docklands’ Market Lane officially opens
Melbourne’s Docklands’ Market Lane officially opens
Melbourne’s newest fresh food precinct, Market Lane, officially launched today, Thursday 14th November with a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by Lee Chan (My Kitchen Rules, Lee Chan’s World Food Tour). Deputy...
Mirvac’s Toombul opens UPSTAIRS dining precinct
Mirvac’s Toombul opens UPSTAIRS dining precinct
Mirvac Retail has opened its new dining and entertainment precinct at Brisbane’s Toombul with a fanfare and party to celebrate UPSTAIRS, a first-of-its-kind urban playground on the rooftop of the...
MLC Centre announces Flagship Valentino store as part of its $170 million transformation
MLC Centre announces Flagship Valentino store as part of its $170 million transformation
International luxury fashion house Valentino will unveil a new Australian flagship store as part of the mixed-use precinct at the MLC Centre. Taking Sydney’s most prestigious luxury retail address, Valentino will...
Michael Haddrick, Comac Retail Property Group
Michael Haddrick, Comac Retail Property Group
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....
Enjoy an ‘Infinite’ Christmas at Market City 
Enjoy an ‘Infinite’ Christmas at Market City 
Shoppers are in for an extra treat this festive season with the launch of ‘Christmas Infinity Rooms at Market City’ – a one of a kind, immersive in-centre installation where...

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