Sustainable Living Festival returns to Erina Fair
Following the success of ‘The Patch’ at Lendlease’s Erina Fair last year, the Central Coast shopping centre will be bringing the popular sustainable living festival back this Spring. From Saturday...
Alwin Bax, Perron 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....
Scentre Group commences upgrade at Westfield Doncaster
Scentre Group, along with joint venture partners ISPT and M&G Real Estate Asia Property Fund, today announced its $30 million redevelopment of Westfield Doncaster’s level two dining and entertainment precinct is now...
Chatswood Chase celebrates women in entertainment
Vicinity’s Chatswood Chase Sydney is highlighting women in entertainment with a series of intimate interviews with Australian stars of the stage and screen, and unveiling the new season’s trends as...
2019 eftpos ARA Australian Retail Awards winners announced!
The Australian Retailers’ Association have announced the winners of the 2019 eftpos ARA Australian Retail Awards. This year’s Awards were held at Myer Mural Hall, with retailers from across the...
Stockland launches ‘The Dad Edit’ written by Dads for Dads
Stockland has partnered with Men’s Health to connect dads across the country this Father’s Day, launching ‘The Dad Edit: Written By Dads For Dads’. Fathers from all walks of life are...
Vicinity’s Ellenbrook Central in Perth commences $63 million expansion
Construction on Vicinity Centres’ Ellenbrook Central in Perth’s north-east commences this month as the centre undergoes a $63 million expansion featuring a brand-new Kmart and an additional 20 retailers. Already...
Bayfair’s IZAKAI wins “Outstanding New Venue” award
IZAKAI has won “Outstanding New Venue” in the Bay of Plenty Hospitality Awards. IZAKAI blends traditional Japanese food with a New Zealand Māori influence, centred on the core values of...
AMP Capital repositions Real Estate business with two new Managing Director roles
AMP Capital’s Real Estate business has been realigned along specialist sectors, with new and expanded roles taken up by its leadership team. This includes the creation of two new Managing...
Ashley Bell, Lendlease
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....
Queensland’s Distillery Road Market setting new benchmarks
Distillery Road Market (DRM), a compelling destination designed to celebrate Australia’s love of fresh produce, dining and entertainment is expected to be open by late 2020. Situated halfway between the Gold...
Stockland Cairns to welcome unique Asian Dining Precinct
Stockland Cairns is welcoming a new dining precinct to the centre which will offer customers a unique and authentic Asian experience. Lantern Lane will be a vibrant and lively laneway that...
NT’s Yeperenye Shopping Centre delivers community mural
The conversations between Yeperenye Shopping Centre and Red Hot Arts Alice Springs to paint a mural on the shopping centre started over a year before it was painted. The initial...
LA’s newest mixed-use destination
QIC Global Real Estate (QICGRE) together with L Catterton Real Estate (LCRE), the real estate arm of L Catterton, the largest and most global consumer-focused private equity firm announced a...
Jeremy Prestoe, JLL
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...
Change of leadership for JLL’s National Retail Investments team
JLL has announced a new national Retail Investments team structure, with Senior Directors, Jacob Swan and Sam Hatcher being promoted to jointly head JLL’s National Retail Investments business. The national...
Introducing QVB After Dark
The Queen Victoria Building (QVB) breathes new life into the Sydney CBD as it kicks off QVB After Dark with a series of rich artistic installations, tours and events running...
Lendlease’s Darling Square welcomes 29 new retailers
The next wave of new food, drink and lifestyle retailers have opened their doors across Darling Square, a new neighbourhood connecting Darling Harbour with Chinatown, Haymarket and Ultimo in Sydney....
Marrickville Metro becomes first shopping centre to join swap-and-go coffee cup scheme
Ever since the ABC’s War on Waste raised awareness of the coffee cup dilemma – namely, that we throw away 50,000 unrecyclable takeaway coffee cups every half hour (or 1...
The New Glen opens its doors following two-year transformation
Crowds gathered at The Glen in Melbourne’s south-east this morning to celebrate the official opening of the final major stage of the centre’s $430 million redevelopment today. Unveiling a new indoor-outdoor...
Stockland Green Hills wins respected Development Excellence Award
Stockland Green Hills has been awarded the esteemed Urban Taskforce 2019 Development Excellence Award in the category of Retail Development. The Urban Taskforce awards acknowledge development projects that demonstrate best outcomes...
Artists invited to submit proposals for a major new artwork at Karrinyup Shopping Centre
AMP Capital and leading Western Australian non-profit arts and cultural organisation FORM are looking for artists and design teams to submit proposals for a major artwork as part of the...
Shuffles July 2019
AMP CAPITAL Donna Rogers rejoins the business in the role of Retailer Engagement Manager at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. Donna was previously with AMPCSC from 2001 – 2010 and since then...
HomeCo – The new player on the Australian shopping centre scene
Several of the major players in our industry had a look at the Masters portfolio. A collection of properties spanning the country; some 30 odd massive stores in high exposure,...
Mums sell the safety message
Getting a safety message out to retailers and contractors is a huge challenge for any shopping centre landlord. For Lendlease, it was as simple as repurposing its award-winning safety campaign...
David McNamara – Fund Manager, Australian Prime Property Fund Retail Lendlease
David McNamara is responsible for Lendlease’s APPF Retail portfolio, including implementation of the Fund Strategy and portfolio business plan, recommending investment opportunities and setting the strategic direction for each property...
Prepared food is driving traffic in malls, mixed use and… supermarkets
We all know F&B has and continues to undergo enormous change. It’s not just happening in food courts, in cafés and restaurants, but supermarkets are now also entering the field....
Connecting with communities through art and culture
We all know our centres are far more than just retail facilities and we know that, in order to survive, we need to make our centres experiential, create spaces for...
Reinvest to Reinvent
Chris Barnett is GPT’s new Head of Retail. In this article, he outlines GPT’s approach to reinventing the company’s retail centres. It’s all about being ‘customer focused’ – finding out...
Combustible Cladding: Red flags for Shopping Centre Owners
Combustible Cladding is a hot issue (forgive the pun) at the moment. It has very serious ramifications for all ‘public’ buildings. This article looks at the new reforms and focuses...
Physical stores leverage the last mile advantage
There have been many new initiatives and innovations in the world of retail since it began some thousands of years ago. In whatever form they have arrived, bricks-and-mortar retail (as...
How Generation Alpha will shape the shopping centre of the future
Forget the Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, even Gen Z – the next shapers of our shopping centres are the Alphas – those born between 2010 and 2025. Don’t think...
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