Stockland Green Hills Shopping Centre is celebrating its eagerly awaited Grand Opening today, Thursday 22 March. SCN was in attendance as David Jones and Mecca Maxima officially opened their doors...

It’s unique – for a start, what other centre has a river flowing through it? Lendlease’s Sunshine Plaza dominates the Sunshine Coast – the ninth most populous region in Australia....

Colliers International is far more than just a Real Estate Agent and Valuer. The Retail Division of the organisation has emerged over the last decade or so as one of...

Links below to the individual CEO speeches: Gary Horwitz, Lendlease Greg Miles, Scentre Group Mark Kirkland, AMPCSC Ralph Kemmler, Woolworths Sam Curry, ISPT Sid Sharma, SCA Property Group Stewart Hutcheon,...

Few people will disagree with the statement that ‘no one has contributed more to the shopping centre industry in Australia than Sir Frank Lowy.’ In fact, many would go further,...

The retail legislation in Victoria is much the same as the retail legislation in the other Australian jurisdictions. One of the main differences is that, in NSW for instance, “retail...

If the MAT is OK but the MAT/m2 is low, usually it’s a no-brainer. Cut down the size of the shop, create another one. The retailer wins because they have...

Suppose the ‘retail experience’ was separated from the actual ‘purchase’. It happens now when you catch an Uber. You experience the service, but the purchase doesn’t take place at the...

If you were asked what LVMH, Prada, Dolce and Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Roberto Cavalli, Tiffany’s and Prada all do to make a crust, how would you answer? Suppose...

What will our centres look like in the future (and that’s only a few weeks away!)? What will a shop look like, and how will it relate to the online...

We love this article by Kelvin Taylor and Rebecca Townsend! Our centres are ‘Community Focal Points’. One of the features that link us all, as humans, is ‘art’. There’s something...

We recently spent a day at the tennis as a guest of MasterCard and saw the young Korean, Chung, beat Sandgren. It was a great day, coupled with quite a...

The District Docklands held a spectacular open weekend for Melburnians to ‘imagine different’ and experience the new-look shopping centre, with live entertainment, activities and free entry into some of Melbourne’s...

On the 30 November 2017, Stockland unveiled the third stage of its $414-million redevelopment of Stockland Green Hills in the Lower Hunter, opening nearly 16,000m2 of new retail including a...

Developing a shopping centre is a team effort. The architect doesn’t know what to design without a market research input. The retail plan can’t be finalised without the leasing input....

Christmas has moved from the horizon and is now in full sight. We usually make predictions, and most of the time we get it right! Although the retail outlook is not bullish at the moment...

Westfield Whitford City’s $80-million redevelopment launched with the opening of a highly anticipated dining and entertainment hub...

Vicinity Centres and co-owners Perron Group have opened the first stage of The Glen’s $460-million redevelopment in Melbourne’s south east...

Wollongong Central welcomes the opening of a new-look David Jones and new retail precinct in its refurbished Gateway Building...

As we go to press, the cover story from SCN's last issue has come to exciting fruition, with Harbour Town Melbourne officially...

SCA Property Group has officially opened the final stage of the redevelopment and expansion of Kwinana Marketplace...

With the rise of home-viewing opportunities and the entertainment content available anywhere, anytime, the bricks-and-mortar cinemas are working harder than ever to reinvent themselves and...

Once again, I have scoured the globe to find the latest and greatest (in my humble opinion) of recent developments that contain the 'wow factor'...

During the mid 20th century, Australian shopping centres were developed within a retail hierarchy that was based on modern suburban family life...

Australia has mass-produced cars for decades, but that has all ended this year with the closure of Toyota’s Altona manufacturing facility on October 4, and the closure of Holden’s Adelaide plant on...

Looking back at the year that was, there are many factors that have shaped, and will continue to shape, the future direction of food and hospitality (F&H) in our shopping centres, large and not so large retail centres, mixed-use developments, airports and other user-centred precincts...

With food catering sales up by 6.8% YTD according to ABS Retail Trade data for August 2017, many owners of sub-regional-sized centres are keen to add additional GLA in the car parks...

The ongoing relatively strong performance of food-based and non-discretionary retailing has been highlighted in JLL’s latest national retail survey. The Retail Centre Managers’ Survey, undertaken in August...

I have recently acted for a tenant in a retail lease dispute which demonstrates the ability of the legislation to deliver an uppercut when you least expect it...

The 2017 Shopping Centre Marketing Awards, run by the Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA), took place this year at the stunning Doltone House venue on Sydney’s Jones Bay Wharf...

The annual SCCA Marketing Awards recognise the ‘best of the best’ in shopping centre marketing from across Australia, with 17 awards being presented across five categories...