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Gold Coast’s largest ‘trick-art gallery’ ArtVo Illusions set to open at Robina Town Centre
Gold Coast’s largest ‘trick-art gallery’ ArtVo Illusions set to open at Robina Town Centre
ArtVo Illusions is coming to the Gold Coast and it set to land at QICGRE’s Robina Town Centre. It’s a phenomenon that has captured the imaginations of art buffs and instagrammers in Melbourne...
Burwood Brickworks awarded 6 Star Green Star Design
Burwood Brickworks awarded 6 Star Green Star Design
Frasers Property has just received a 6 Star Green Star Design and As-Built v1.1 (Design Review) rating for the project from the Green Building Council of Australia, representing World Leadership...
Big Guns 2019
Big Guns 2019
I know it gets repetitive but it’s another great year for Big Guns. First up mention has to be Chadstone. It was the first of our centres to record an MAT of $1 billion – this year's Big Guns report, Vicinity’s Chadstone has passed the $2 billion mark. What an...
Food trends: Ten-year challenge 2009 – 2019
Food trends: Ten-year challenge 2009 – 2019
Celebrating its 10th anniversary year, Suzee Brain, takes a look back at the trends predicted by B&P for the shopping centre industry in relation to food over the past decade....
Counter culture: fast-food slowing down
Counter culture: fast-food slowing down
Fast-food is getting slower! Even the signage such as the McDonald’s arches or the KFC logos are turning into architectural forms. Alternatively, they are disappearing – Sydney’s McDonald’s at Camperdown...
Caneland Central celebrates 40 years in Mackay
Caneland Central celebrates 40 years in Mackay
Lendlease’s Caneland Central will launch four weeks of celebrations to mark its 40th anniversary on Thursday 21 March with the biggest party Mackay has seen in years. Caneland Central is...
VICINITY CENTRES – Creating market-leading destinations
VICINITY CENTRES – Creating market-leading destinations
Vicinity Centres is no longer its past – its amalgamations, acquisitions, its morphing, even its previous names. Vicinity now stands as its own entity, fully bedded down, structured for its...
Hospitality is more than just a word…
Hospitality is more than just a word…
In this two-part article Francis Loughran shares what he’s learnt about the importance of thinking ‘big’ when it comes to the business of food. Hospitality, he says, is more than...
The evolution and resilience of Australian Retail
The evolution and resilience of Australian Retail
The retail team at Colliers International analyses the evolutionary led changes to the composition of Australian shopping centres and key factors underpinning the resilience of bricks-and-mortar retailing. There is no denying...
The Slow Movement creating meaningful connections in our centres
The Slow Movement creating meaningful connections in our centres
Slow down and smell the roses. That’s Tony Quinn’s advice if you want to achieve a well-designed centre. The new buzzword is ‘Biophillic Design’ – designing to increase humans’ innate...
An advertising network designed to deliver
An advertising network designed to deliver
Advertising screens are now standard in major shopping centres. One of the experts maintains that ‘strategic placement of screens’ is fundamental to consumer engagement. In the past year, the outdoor...
Retail Industry Sales Reporting Code of Practice finalised
Retail Industry Sales Reporting Code of Practice finalised
Since the early days of our industry, the issue of turnover figures supplied by retailers to landlords has always been contentious. Whenever the issue was tabled, there was always an...
Retail Legislation – The Stupidity Stakes
Retail Legislation – The Stupidity Stakes
Some in our office reckon Speirs’ papers on retail lease legislation are the best in the issue! The following would be a real laugh if it were fiction; problem is...
From the Publisher
From the Publisher
Big Guns issue; always an interesting time. Almost without exception, the CEOs, in the CEO Outlook remark on the resilience of our industry. In difficult times for retail, our centres continue...
The intersection of architecture, identity and branding
The intersection of architecture, identity and branding
Iconic buildings derived from transnational architecture can portray a city or place as progressive but sometimes at the cost of cultural and social experience. A balance needs to be achieved....
Auckland’s Commercial Bay attracts first to market fashion brands
Auckland’s Commercial Bay attracts first to market fashion brands
A standout collection of international and local fashion and beauty retailers are coming to what will be Auckland’s largest mixed-use lifestyle precinct – Commercial Bay. Precinct Properties have announced a...
LUMAS Gallery opens at Chadstone
LUMAS Gallery opens at Chadstone
In collaboration with Chadstone – The Fashion Capital, LUMAS Galleries have launched a boutique ‘Pop Up Gallery’ experience, featuring a very special residency from the talented illustrator and influencer, Mads Francis. LUMAS Gallery is...
Shipping containers create BITE Markets
Shipping containers create BITE Markets
Containers are at the heart of Queensland’s new food and social precinct – BITE Markets, a new street food and entertainment hub north of Brisbane made out of 66 modified shipping...
George Wragge, Colliers International
George Wragge, Colliers International
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....
Tauranga Crossing grand opening set for the 4 April
Tauranga Crossing grand opening set for the 4 April
Developers of New Zealand-owned retail development Tauranga Crossing have announced its grand opening of Stage Two of the enclosed mall is set for the 4 April. The 47,000m2 shopping complex will...
TASTE.SHOP.PLAY.  at Westfield Centres
TASTE.SHOP.PLAY. at Westfield Centres
Scentre Group’s Westfield portfolio if having a weekend where customers can immerse themselves in a world of imagination and creativity. The event runs from the 9-10 of March and will celebrate all things...
Paul La Greca, Banna Property Group
Paul La Greca, Banna 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....
Macarthur Square celebrates International Women’s Day
Macarthur Square celebrates International Women’s Day
On Monday 4 March, Macarthur Square’s Kellicar Lane was filled with the men and women of Macarthur Square, standing together as equals doing the ‘hands out pose’ for the International...
Tiffany & Co. Sydney flagship opens its doors 
Tiffany & Co. Sydney flagship opens its doors 
The wait for Sydney’s Tiffany & Co flagship is over as both Dexus and Tiffany & Co.marks a major milestone this week with the unveiling of the new Sydney flagship...
$100 million Belconnen Markets revitalisation
$100 million Belconnen Markets revitalisation
Elanor Investments Group has announced the Belconnen Market Syndicate has received approval from the ACT Government for the first stage of its planned $100 million revitalisation of Canberra’s Belconnen Markets...
Vicinity announces partnership with Australian Fashion Council 
Vicinity announces partnership with Australian Fashion Council 
Vicinity Centres today announced a new national partnership with the Australian Fashion Council (AFC) to help give some of Australia’s best emerging designers a retail platform to engage customers directly...
Monique Martin, Lendlease
Monique Martin, 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....
Mirvac centres glitter with Mardi Gras makeovers
Mirvac centres glitter with Mardi Gras makeovers
Leveraging their urban locations, Mirvac has treated its inner Sydney retail centres to colourful makeovers in celebration of the 41st Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Throughout the duration of the...
Mirvac commences work on Toombul’s $35 million dining precinct
Mirvac commences work on Toombul’s $35 million dining precinct
Mirvac Retail has announced it has begun construction works on a new 5,100m2 entertainment and dining precinct at Toombul.  Toombul Shopping Centre as profiled in SCN, has a rich, 50-year history in...
Australian retailer Mecca Maxima joins Botany Town Centre line-up
Australian retailer Mecca Maxima joins Botany Town Centre line-up
Botany Town Centre in east Auckland, New Zealand has made significant progress in the centre’s large-scale $78 million refurbishment. The Fashion Pavilions – the first stage of the development will...
Reading Cinemas to open at Burwood Brickworks
Reading Cinemas to open at Burwood Brickworks
Burwood Brickworks anticipated to be the world’s most sustainable shopping centre, is on track to open in late 2019 and will showcase a state-of-the-art six-screen Reading Cinemas complex. Reading International,...
Lachlan McKernan, The GPT Group
Lachlan McKernan, The GPT 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....

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