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...

Once upon a time, shopping at the airport meant grabbing a souvenir T-shirt for the kids and a mug for a friend back home, then you run back to the gate never admitting...

We’re often asked by retail landlords seeking security for their retail properties – what’s better: a bank guarantee, a director’s guarantee or a cash security deposit?

Some years ago, Frank Lowy, the co-founder of Westfield, was asked why the company had not yet entered the developing shopping centre industry in China...

On May 30, the Australian fashion industry’s most notable names descended on Circular Quay for AMP Capital’s and the Australian Fashion Chamber’s (AFC) annual party.

More than 200 retailers attended Stockland’s popular national retail events held in Melbourne and Sydney in May to hear how Stockland’s retail strategy is responding to...

The AMP Capital Shopping Centres' (AMPCSC) vision is to ‘create inspiring shopping experiences’. The importance of this was cemented by the findings of our 2017 Recommended Retail Practice Report...

Following a $400-million redevelopment, Pacific Werribee unveiled its fourth and final stage with the launch of its new Fresh Food Precinct.

A $355-million redevelopment was successfully completed with the opening of second-stage works which included a dining, entertainment and lifestyle precinct.