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Birkenhead Point Brand Outlet launches Gold Shopping Package
Birkenhead Point Brand Outlet launches Gold Shopping Package
Mirvac Retail’s Birkenhead Point Brand Outlet has introduced a premium new package designed to attract shoppers for a tailored experience with their new Gold Shopping Package. Shoppers can purchase a...
New large format retail experience coming to Western Sydney
New large format retail experience coming to Western Sydney
Frasers Property Australia is on the lookout for homewares retailers, adventure goods stores, automotive specialists, whitegoods brands, pet supply stores and other showroom retailers to be part of Western Sydney’s...
Chadstone partners with UnionPay for Golden Week
Chadstone partners with UnionPay for Golden Week
Chadstone – The Fashion Capital in partnership with UnionPay International will celebrate Golden Week with exclusive offers and activations from Tuesday 1 October to Monday 7 October.  The Fashion Capital...
Stockland Merrylands offers exclusive retro Arcade Alley experience
Stockland Merrylands offers exclusive retro Arcade Alley experience
Classic arcade games meets the sophisticated gameplay of today at Stockland Merrylands in Sydney’s west during the school holidays, providing customers of all ages with an exclusive opportunity to experience...
UNIQLO confirmed to open at Castle Towers in December
UNIQLO confirmed to open at Castle Towers in December
Castle Towers Centre Manager, Eddie Paynter, has confirmed that global apparel retailer, UNIQLO, will open at Castle Towers this December as part of the first chapter in the centre’s multi-staged...
Shuffles September 2019
Shuffles September 2019
AMP CAPITAL  Nick Fanning has been promoted to Divisional Leasing Manager. Nick will continue to lead the leasing team at Indooroopilly and will assume responsibility for leading the leasing team...
Precision Group’s $45 million redevelopment of Port Adelaide Plaza
Precision Group’s $45 million redevelopment of Port Adelaide Plaza
Precision Group, owner and manager of $1.2 billion of retail and commercial property in Australia and New Zealand, have entered into an agreement with Autonomous Energy to install an 824kW...
From the Publisher
From the Publisher
Not often we feature a retailer in our cover story; we’ve done it before, but only when that retailer has a significant influence on our business. We all know Coles...
Flying cars and sustainable design – the shopping centre of 2100
Flying cars and sustainable design – the shopping centre of 2100
In an age of flying cars, food sold in restaurants grown on site, micro-chips implanted in our eyes so we can pay with retina scans, will shopping centres even exist?...
Cinemas beyond the screen
Cinemas beyond the screen
If you thought going to the movies was about sitting in an auditorium and watching a film, think again! That’s old hat; it’s what cinemas used to be. Now it’s...
Recycle, reuse, revisit
Recycle, reuse, revisit
We see countless examples of old buildings being given a new life as old industrial structures are transformed into modern venues. More often than not, ‘retail’ in new forms –...
Coles – a new relationship with landlords – from transactional to partnership
Coles – a new relationship with landlords – from transactional to partnership
Years ago, Coles was part of the massive Coles Myer Group, the largest retail conglomerate in Australia. It then became part of Wesfarmers, the largest conglomerate in Australia! In late...
Minimum 5 year term bites another tenant
Minimum 5 year term bites another tenant
Another case of poor legislation in South Australia where, (yes unbelievably) there’s a minimum 5-year term of lease. It was instigated to ‘protect tenants’ but as Robert Speirs reveals, it’s...
Is tableage the new corkage?
Is tableage the new corkage?
A fairly common response these days when booking a table at a successful restaurant is “We can take a 6.30pm booking but we’ll need the table back by 8.15pm”. This...
User-centred design and contextual awareness
User-centred design and contextual awareness
There’s Augmented Reality (AR); then we’ve got XR – a combination of augmented, mixed and virtual reality. Retailers and retail property people are some of the technology’s biggest users; worldwide...
Maximising food and hospitality – is your centre revenue ready?
Maximising food and hospitality – is your centre revenue ready?
Francis Loughran looks at F&B in Mini Gun centres. He finds that overall they could do better and so increase income, achieve a higher asset value and improve customer satisfaction....
Four simple steps to improve sustainability and  tenant comfort
Four simple steps to improve sustainability and tenant comfort
Analysing a shopping centre’s temperature, air quality, ventilation and overall shopper and tenant comfort, is a difficult exercise if the equipment that controls such factors is not digitised. The comfort...
Electricity procurement 101: A guide for shopping centres
Electricity procurement 101: A guide for shopping centres
Electricity charges are a constant topic of conversation; talk-back radio is deluged with comments from homeowners and small business operators. And the larger users of power (like shopping centres) are...
Making sense of Passivhaus for retail
Making sense of Passivhaus for retail
There are massive programs underway in many Australian centres to minimise power usage and move towards sustainable structures. Passivhaus is a globally recognised building certification for producing buildings using minimum...
Bringing centres to life in a meaningful way for customers
Bringing centres to life in a meaningful way for customers
Stockland has a new marketing initiative called ‘Live + Learn’. Launched at Stockland Bull Creek, it’s become a local favourite. It’s a ‘community workshop’ focusing on encouraging and uplifting the...
Retail landlords are changing the game
Retail landlords are changing the game
Luxury stores have always understood the allure of great customer experiences. But now, driven by a new generation of consumer, retail centres are taking cues from luxury, entertainment and hospitality...
Mini Guns 2019
Mini Guns 2019
We started reporting on Mini Gun centres in 2006. It was a sector of our industry dominated by Centro Properties Group; at that time, we featured some 95 centres, 40 of which were managed/ owned by Centro. Stockland had 10 so between the pair, they had more than half the...
South Australian Retail Leases Amendment Bill tabled in Parliament
South Australian Retail Leases Amendment Bill tabled in Parliament
The South Australian Government began a review of the Retail and Commercial Leases Act in 2014. A Bill has just been tabled proposing some 28 amendments to the Act. The...
Vicinity’s Roselands unveils a vibrant new fresh food destination
Vicinity’s Roselands unveils a vibrant new fresh food destination
The $90 million transformation of Roselands in Sydney’s south-west has unveiled a vibrant new fresh food destination, The Markets, a true one-stop destination for customers to eat, drink, shop and socialise. ...
Westfield Newmarket to open Auckland’s first rooftop dining precinct
Westfield Newmarket to open Auckland’s first rooftop dining precinct
The unveiling of Westfield Newmarket’s $790 million transformation continues as Scentre Group announces 20 new stores and Auckland’s first rooftop dining precinct set to open throughout the month of October. ...
Sneak peek of Chadstone’s new luxury hotel
Sneak peek of Chadstone’s new luxury hotel
Hotel Chadstone Melbourne has given visitors a sneak peek ahead of guests checking in on Friday 1 November when the new luxury five-star hotel will open its doors at Chadstone...
Ben Walker, Shopper Media Group
Ben Walker, Shopper Media 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...
The Square Mirrabooka opens fresh food precinct
The Square Mirrabooka opens fresh food precinct
The Square Mirrabooka has officially launched its new $3.2 million Fresh Food Precinct. The significant renovation is anchored by Woolworths, and with all existing speciality fresh food retailers enjoying a new...
Robina Town Centre opens LEGO® Certified Store this week
Robina Town Centre opens LEGO® Certified Store this week
The Gold Coast’s first LEGO® Certified Store will be unveiled at QIC’s Robina Town Centre this week with doors opening to shoppers on Saturday 28 September. The 188m2 store will...
Charge up at Hawaiian Shopping Centres
Charge up at Hawaiian Shopping Centres
Property group Hawaiian have partnered with Aircharge Australia to provide free Qi wireless charging services at their centres as they continue to meet the needs of the community.  Shoppers can now forget...
Lendlease centres seek customer vloggers
Lendlease centres seek customer vloggers
On average globally, there are one billion mobile video views per day* and Lendlease has jumped on this growing trend. During the month of September at select Lendlease centres across the...
Lendlease’s Macarthur Square celebrates its 40th birthday
Lendlease’s Macarthur Square celebrates its 40th birthday
Macarthur Square is celebrating its 40th birthday with a jam-packed schedule of food events, fashion and fun from 21 to 29 September. The birthday celebrations kick off with a weekend of sensory...

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