Warrawong Plaza opens ‘The Place’
Warrawong Plaza on New South Wales’ South Coast has delivered a new casual dining precinct ‘The Place’ – transforming the shopping centre into a new foodie destination for the Illawarra region,...
Sue McKindlay, 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 industry....
Woolworths opens Prestons Place
The new Woolworths-developed Prestons Place opened to massive crowds of local shoppers on Wednesday 5 December. The centre located 37 kilometres south west of the CBD was built to provide...
CS Square $45 million development hits key milestones
Lendlease today announced its stage three extension of Caroline Springs Square shopping centre, better known as CS Square, in the suburb of Caroline Springs in Melbourne’s west, is on track...
Forest Hill Chase unveils The Loft
On Friday 7 December, Forest Hill Chase unveiled a brand new food experience named The Loft, just in time to feed hungry Christmas shoppers. Owned by private investment firm and managed by...
Kiwi Property unveils new dining destination at Northlands
Kiwi Property, owner of Northlands Shopping Centre in Christchurch, has unveiled its new dining destination – Langdons Quarter, serving up a selection of great dining options in an exceptional new...
$87 million Stockland Birtinya opens
Hundreds of local residents joined Jarrod Bleijie MP State Member for Kawana, Cr Peter Cox Sunshine Coast Council and the Stockland team last Friday 7 December to celebrate the official...
Bayfair Shopping Centre opens first phase of $115 million development
Bayfair Shopping Centre has officially opened the first stage of the its NZ$115 million development today with an expanded footprint and new retail offering – just in time for the...
New dining and cinema offerings at Kawana Shoppingworld open
Kawana Shoppingworld was profiled in the current SCN issue and its multi-million dollar redevelopment, which commenced in January of last year has now come on stream. The very first shopping centre on...
Denise Leki, Adairs
Retailers play an important part in creating great shopping centres, so we at SCN profile retailers to our Shopping Centre News audience on a regular basis. Adairs is a specialty...
Retailers that innovate are winning
Sidone Thomas was the inaugural winner of the Frank Lowy Fellowship Award. Part of her prize was to attend the World Retail Congress in Madrid. She extended the trip and...
Victoria’s Secret opens first full-line Australian store at Chadstone
Victoria’s Secret has finally opened the doors on its first flagship location in Australia adding to it’s 1,600 stores worldwide. The American lingerie giant unveiled its store at Vicinity Centres’ Chadstone The...
Charter Hall – A new approach to a very different portfolio
Charter Hall has a very different approach, but then they’ve got a very different portfolio! It’s retail in all forms; from stand-alone supermarkets and hardware stores, to major shopping centres...
Looking inside retail
There was a time, not too long ago, when the major debate in our industry was all about the ‘boxes’ we’d created, with the entire action being on the inside...
Assignment of the lease can be Machiavellian
As usual, a very amusing article from Robert Speirs. This time he looks at the ‘Assignment of Lease’ clause, with special attention paid to the NSW Retail Leases Act. Again,...
Connecting locally is key
This article looks at the interesting research and analytics that goes into creating a truly ‘local centre’. Today’s shopping centres no longer subscribe to the outdated model of being a...
Insights from a project manager on successful tenancy coordination
Tenancy coordination can be a tricky business. There are a number of stakeholders involved, and if it is not planned and managed correctly from the beginning, it can often lead...
Building the illusion of business as usual
The current state of the retail construction market is categorised by a greater focus on refurbishments, extensions and interior re-purposing projects, as opposed to new greenfield developments. These types of...
Kidulting Around
Cinemas in shopping centres only occurred in the 1990s. Look at new usages – from mobile phones to sporting footwear – and what you see is a society in transition....
Better environments. Better experiences. Better economics.
Biophilic Design has entered the shopping centre world! It’s all about connecting with nature and when we do (in a shopping centre), it increases dwell-time and the retail spend, with...
Destination Station!
Now here’s an article to set some retail development managers running to the arena of Public Private Partnerships. The redevelopment of railway stations presents some massive opportunities. Great retail centres...
Vicinity Centres’ Job Fair program
We all strive for our centres to become the community focal point – to respond to community issues. Vicinity Centres has gone a lot further. The team has recognised a...
The details make the design
Kelvin Taylor takes us on a design tour of Hong Kong. We find new streets, a critique (well more of an appreciation) of the renowned Pacific Place and a pair...
Kawana Shoppingworld
Kawana Shoppingworld’s latest extensions are about to come on stream. The very first shopping centre on the Sunshine Coast, its major redevelopment in 2014 saw the Mirvac centre present itself...
Midland Gate opens second stage
The largest regional shopping centre in Perth’s east, Vicinity Centre’s Midland Gate, opened the second stage of its $100 million redevelopment on Wednesday 21 November  which attracted thousands of shoppers. ALDI, The Reject Shop,...
People-centric food and hospitality
It’s a changing world and the consumer is leading the way. The change in our industry is not just confined to the larger centres; smaller centres must adapt to respond...
Zen and the Art of Shopping: An inquiry into wellbeing
How often do we think of our shoppers’ ‘wellbeing’? And how do we provide for it? It’s all part of the ‘experience’ and it’s significantly influential on ‘repeat visits’… Bricks-and-mortar...
Urban Design Destinations
The creativity, speed and fabulousness of our retail and hospitality industry progresses and retailers, operators and landlords alike continue to innovate and create to impress today’s ever connected, always on,...
Tauranga Crossing set to open new dining and H&M in April 2019
Tauranga Crossing in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand have announced a list of exciting new restaurants and eateries scheduled to open as part of the expanded centre in April...
Noah Roh, 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 industry....
Marina Square opens at Wentworth Point
As the first integrated shopping centre in the region of Sydney Olympic Park and the newest of Sydney’s new class of super neighbourhood centres, Marina Square will service the current...
Lease smarter, not harder
Food and beverage has been the flavour of the decade! Our centres have expanded the component beyond what was considered possible only a few years back. But there are still...
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