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...

There really is no arguing Christmas does start earlier year after year. From decoration installations to shelves packed with the perfect decorative pieces, the Christmas roll out is well and truly...

For decades shopping centres have been key community hubs, interacting with the local community and enticing people to shop locally. Online retailing is changing people’s...

Charles Abercrombie’s ancestors came from the south-eastern part of Scotland. In the 11th century they had joined forces with the King of Scotland travelling north to fight Macbeth...

Luxury giants Bally and Harrolds opened their only Australian outlet stores at Birkenhead Point in August, alongside designers Coach and...

Harbour Town and Waterfront City were the former names for the retail, entertainment and leisure component of Melbourne’s Docklands development. Docklands was one of the largest property developments ever undertaken...

The fact that retail sales across Australia were ‘flat’ is a statistic. As a statistic, it’s undoubtedly true, but the reality is that retail sales were anything but flat...

Narellan Town Centre unveiled its $200-million expansion on Friday 4 August. The centre’s expansion included the opening of Target, H&M and more than 60 new specialty stores including...

Vicinity Centres and ISPT have unveiled the first major retail stage of Mandurah Forum’s $350-million transformation in WA’s growing Peel region...

The new-look Willows Shopping Centre owned by DWPF opened on 24 August with over 80,000 people movements across the opening four days...

Back in 2003, I had the good fortune to work on the David Jones Food Chain rollout. Unfortunately, it was before its time and the board saw fit to shut it down...

There’s a lot about food and hospitality in this issue; it’s forefront in our minds. Francis Loughran in this second of a two-part article looks at the global scene...

Once a guerrilla marketing tactic, pop-up stores are now deeply integrated in today’s retail landscape, becoming a core strategy for many brands...

If the super neighbourhood centre of the future is to fulfil its potential and serve as the local community’s natural heart, to become a piece of social infrastructure in which the...

New research has highlighted that Australian millennial dads (aged 18-34) are a particularly different breed of dad compared to their older counterparts...

On 24 August Pacific Fair celebrated its 40th birthday with a doughnut giveaway for customers and a prize draw for 40 lucky finalists in a competition. In the lead-up to...

On 24 August, Erina Fair kicked off a three-day festival to celebrate 30 years as the biggest shopping centre on the Central Coast. The birthday milestone was an opportunity to...

Cairns Central celebrated 20 years on August 26, hosting a family fun day with free kids’ entertainment, prizes, giveaways and of course birthday cake to celebrate its 20th birthday. NAIDOC...

The minimum 5-year term was one of the pillars of the New South Wales Retail Leases Act when it was enacted in 1994. It has now been repealed. New South Wales is now aligned with Queensland in the belief that the term of a retail shop lease does not need...

Eatertainment, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary, is “an experience which combines eating with entertainment; specifically the sector of the restaurant industry...

Globally, the field of food and hospitality continues to grow in GLA and MAT terms, and we predict there is no finishing line in sight.

This, in the true sense of the word, is an ‘extraordinary’ story. It begins a long time ago, but for our purposes we need to go back less than a couple of decades, to the late 1990s.

We know that department stores are being hit hard these days. This has played out particularly in the US with long-term retailers such as JCPenney announcing plans to...

Late American designer Massimo Vignelli (1931-2014) said, "Design is totally integrated into our daily lives.

It’s coming at us faster than a speeding Bugatti Veyron – the era of the autonomous car. In the US, in Europe and even here at home, research and development is reaching mammoth...

So Amazon is coming like a tsunami and scaring the pants off some, while others flick it away with a sweep of the hand indicating little concern...