I know it gets repetitive but it’s another great year for Big Guns. First up mention has to be Chadstone. It was the first of our centres to record an MAT of $1 billion – this year's Big Guns report, Vicinity’s Chadstone has passed the $2 billion mark. What an...

Celebrating its 10th anniversary year, Suzee Brain, takes a look back at the trends predicted by B&P for the shopping centre industry in relation to food over the past decade....

Fast-food is getting slower! Even the signage such as the McDonald’s arches or the KFC logos are turning into architectural forms. Alternatively, they are disappearing – Sydney’s McDonald’s at Camperdown...

You have to love retail. I think most of us that work in our industry do. I’ve been writing an outlook for almost half a decade now and one theme...

The pace of change within the retail sector is continuing to accelerate, with many predicting the change we will experience in the next five years will be more than in...

This year, Australians and international tourists will make 500 million visits to one of our sixty-plus Vicinity Centres’ destinations. They will spend $17 billion across every state of Australia. They...

The market keeps growing Back in 1998, total Australian retail expenditure was about $121 billion with online spending capturing just $1 billion. In 2018, the Australian retail expenditure has risen...

I’m excited once again to welcome another year as our industry continues to evolve at a frenetic pace and we are all challenged to forecast and act upon what the...

As owners of retail real estate look to navigate their way through a challenging period, are we working through a ‘normal’ property cycle or are we seeing a structural shift...

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. As we navigate our way through the continually evolving retail landscape, I cannot help but think about where...

Resilience in a challenging environment Despite all the noise of the impending “retail apocalypse” in 2017 and headlines of negative sentiment towards retail that continued throughout 2018, the retail industry...

For those of us who have spent enough time within the retail industry, it’s a common source of bewilderment when public commentators and economic analysts suggest that the industry’s Armageddon...

Fourth industrial revolution We are now experiencing the fourth industrial revolution with great advancements in technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence and biotechnology. The world is changing faster than we...

Continuing the evolution of retail Retail is an ever evolving industry. Change is a constant for us. For decades, listening, learning, and adapting to the needs of our customers has...

Spotlighting the resilience of convenience retail in Australia In December 2018, as part of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce prop tech trade mission, I found myself in Tel Aviv, looking...

Putting on a great show every day The Scentre Group team is tackling 2019 with our trademark energy and drive as we continue to deliver on our purpose of creating...

Vicinity Centres is no longer its past – its amalgamations, acquisitions, its morphing, even its previous names. Vicinity now stands as its own entity, fully bedded down, structured for its...

In this two-part article Francis Loughran shares what he’s learnt about the importance of thinking ‘big’ when it comes to the business of food. Hospitality, he says, is more than...

The retail team at Colliers International analyses the evolutionary led changes to the composition of Australian shopping centres and key factors underpinning the resilience of bricks-and-mortar retailing. There is no denying...

Department Stores have been on the way out for some ten years. But why? Tony Dimasi explains; he tells us where they succeed and more importantly, what the future holds…...

Slow down and smell the roses. That’s Tony Quinn’s advice if you want to achieve a well-designed centre. The new buzzword is ‘Biophillic Design’ – designing to increase humans’ innate...

Advertising screens are now standard in major shopping centres. One of the experts maintains that ‘strategic placement of screens’ is fundamental to consumer engagement. In the past year, the outdoor...

Since the early days of our industry, the issue of turnover figures supplied by retailers to landlords has always been contentious. Whenever the issue was tabled, there was always an...

Some in our office reckon Speirs’ papers on retail lease legislation are the best in the issue! The following would be a real laugh if it were fiction; problem is...

Big Guns issue; always an interesting time. Almost without exception, the CEOs, in the CEO Outlook remark on the resilience of our industry. In difficult times for retail, our centres continue...

COLLIERS Scott O’Donoghue, former Director and Senior Centre Manager at JLL, joins the Colliers International Real Estate Management team in Brisbane as Retail Portfolio Manager. DEXUS Stewart Hutcheon takes on...