This issue deals with CBD retail and the DEXUS initiative in forming a specialised CBD retail team to regenerate shopping at the base of their commercial towers. On another front, Angus Nardi, Executive Director of the SCCA discusses...

On March 17, Scentre Group unveiled the highly anticipated redevelopment of Casey Central Shopping Centre.

Stockland Wetherill Park has achieved another retail coup, hosting the global launch of One Woman.

Over 150 retail industry leaders attended the third Talking Shop Retailer Engagement Series workshop titled, ‘Australian Fashion Innovators’.

In this article, Angus Nardi discusses the issue. It’s a reasoned, logical and pragmatic paper; but he leaves no room for a dissenting point of view, as quite frankly, there isn’t one!

In this article, Belinda Daly shows the professionalism involved in strategic relationships, partnerships and involvement with the fashion industry in its widest forms. It is compulsory reading for those aspiring to senior roles in shopping centre marketing.

If you think these are perfect forms of security, you are wrong! Here's the conundrum:

We’ve recently (2015) seen an Amendment Bill to the Queensland Retail Leases Act of 1994.

There is something magical about food markets. Spices, rustic breads, local delicacies, seasonal fruit and veg, cheese, fresh seafood and vintage wines...

In this article I will review some of the ICSC’S recent award-winning projects from overseas.

We live in a vastly different world from that of our forefathers; in no field of human interaction is this more illustrated than that of ‘communication’. How we communicate with...

Christmas is over, but that was last year – and it’s coming again this year! Belinda Daly tells us in this article how AMP Capital Shopping Centres approached Christmas in 2015. It’s more than just an article on Christmas promotions; it looks at changing consumer habits and how we need...

The notion that a place can have a quantifiable value as...

In the past, traditional hospital campuses have never been places where...

Last year, I queried in SCN whether the food court is dead.

Big Guns time again. The short story is that the Big Guns are doing well; we’ve seen some really solid increases across the board and, for those centres showing a...

Sometimes the retail legislation throws in a real curve ball, just to keep you guessing...

The concept of cooperation between parties is all about teamwork: working together in unity, collaboration, and ...

In the heyday of department stores, well-dressed, fashionable ladies draped in...

The notion that a place can have a quantifiable value as a consequence of its identity has...

What happens when a ‘starchitect’ gets to design a shopping centre?

“When the Gold Coast opens something, it does so in spectacular style...

Australian shopping centres are in huge demand at the moment, and have been for some time...

With food no longer being a functional offer, shopping centres and retail precincts alike...

We’re online! This opens up a whole new world for us. We at SCN love the print media; we’ll never give it up but we understand the world is changing,...

For those of us who have spent our careers in the marketing industry, it’s amazing to see the way the industry has changed, particularly over the last five to ten years. One of the most notable changes has been the huge shift in the way brands communicate with customers.

In another article in this issue, the SCCA calls for a review of lease legislation. Robert Speirs represents...

We don’t usually think of the legal profession in terms of being ‘poetic’, esoteric or emotional! But...

We all know about the development pipelines across the country but what’s fuelling them?

I have known Michael Lloyd since I was at university in the 1980s...

Commercially valuing place continues to be a complex task.