QIC Global Real Estate
QIC Global Real Estate is constantly engaged in redeveloping its shopping centres. This is because the company has a long-term view and sees its centres, rather than as simply retail...
Women in Development
The development discipline in the property industry has traditionally been male dominated. However, we all know that the majority of customers in shopping centres are women. So, it makes sense...
Reinventing Space
Exceptions always prove the rule, but on a general basis, Australian centres perform better than any of their international counterparts. Melbourne Central is Australia’s best performing ‘Big Gun’ centre in...
How to increase rents from F&B renewals during a downturn
CBD food and beverage has exploded this decade as the millennials joined with Gen Y to dominate the workplace. With marriages and mortgages an impossible dream for these younger Aussies,...
Owned media assets are unlocking new revenue streams for shopping centres
First there were kiosks – someone thought about putting one in a mall and a new source of revenue was born. Then it was casual leasing followed by ‘pop-up’ shops....
Scentre Group’s approach as a responsible, sustainable business
How a company thinks about its contribution to the economy, its people as well as the environment and social fabric of the communities it serves is increasingly becoming an expectation...
Construction: cheaper, faster and with less risk
Mainbrace is one of Australia’s leading shopping centre construction companies with an in-depth knowledge of shopping centre and retail construction. In an age in which we need to cut costs,...
Biophilic Design and Place Making
‘Biophilic Design’ seems like a mouthful but it has real and significant influence on the way we behave. How we connect with nature influences our mood, well being and mindset;...
ACT tax reform: landmark inquiry report finds that reform doesn’t translate to fairness
A Parliamentary Inquiry Report was recently handed down in the ACT. In part, it deals with the unfairness of the ‘so-called’ ACT tax reforms of 2012/13 in relation to shopping...
Stepping on to the global stage at World Square
by SUZANNAH NICHOLSON, Senior Marketing Manager and JESS McANENEY, Marketing Manager World Square With a culturally rich and diverse offering, both by day and by night, World Square is the...
How Penrith Plaza changed the retail world and mine!
One of our main features in this issue is ‘women in development’. Helen Bakewell joined this industry some 25 years ago. From a ‘rookie’ she progressed through the industry to...
Re-entry for non-payment of rent
You’re a retailer and your lease says that if a tenant is in breach of the lease, your landlord can re-enter the premises provided he gives you notice. Your rent...
The business of food – Part 2
Sales is the key driver to success in any business. Therefore, if the cash register is ringing, sales are growing, rent is maximised, percentage rent is achievable, MAT is growing...
From Counterculture to Subculture: Festivals going mainstream
We reported recently on our e-newsletter that GPT’s Highpoint in Melbourne hosted a Coachella inspired ‘Kidchella’ festival. Savvy brands, as Susanne Pini tells us, are aligning with festivals to reach...
Industry Shuffles – May 2019
QICGRE Keith Gliddon re-joins QIC as a Leasing Executive (Contract). Keith recently worked with Lendlease on both the Barangaroo South and Sunshine Plaza projects, together with their Melbourne and regional...
The Materials Shift, choose life in the Timber Age
“We often refer to human civilisations by the principal materials they employ, such as the Bronze Age, Iron Age etc. In this vein, the 20th century can be very much...
Community and togetherness
It’s remarkable how the focus has changed. Twenty years or so ago, if you talked about ‘Community’ in our business, you might have been seen by some as a bit...
Strengths and opportunities in the constantly evolving Melbourne CBD retail market
It’s CBD Guns issue and a research piece on the Melbourne CBD follows. It’s exhaustive, comprehensive, specialised and professional. A textbook case of an expert research overview. Melbourne’s CBD arguably...
Main street fever
Increasingly, design of our shopping centres moves away from the ‘box’ and replicates the shopping strips of the past. ‘Main Street architecture’ has much to teach us about vibrancy, human scale...
Women in Development, Joanna Russell, Frasers Property Australia
Joanna Russell is the General Manager – Retail Development at Frasers Property Australia, leading a team in acquiring land for both stand-alone and mixed-use retail developments, managing projects from conception...
Women in Development, Jane Macpherson, Scentre Group
Jane Macpherson is a Development Executive at Scentre Group, managing four of its Queensland living centres: Westfield North Lakes, Westfield Carindale, Westfield Chermside and Westfield Garden City. Jane drives the...
Women in Development, Fiona Jones, Lendlease
Fiona Jones is Lendlease’s General Manager for Urban Regeneration – Retail, accountable for developing and overseeing the execution of the Urban Regeneration Retail strategy and projects for Lendlease. Fiona currently...
Women in Development: Virginia Lloyd, Charter Hall
Virginia Lloyd is a highly experienced leader in the retail property industry with more than 15 years’ experience leading large scale retail development projects. Virginia is currently the National Development...
Women in Development, Christina Nelson
Christina Nelson is a Senior Development Manager at Mirvac Retail, overseeing a team of two Development Managers and the National Manager of Placemaking & Design. Christina has worked on several of Mirvac’s urban...
Women in Development, Romina Edwards, The GPT Group
Romina Edwards is a Senior Development Manager in Retail Mixed Use (RMU), responsible for the $250 million redevelopment of GPT’s Melbourne Central rooftop. Her experience in property began with Colliers...
Women in Development, Prue Cunningham, Stockland
Prue Cunningham is a Development Manager for Stockland’s Western Australian Commercial Property business. With 14 years’ experience in property, Prue is passionate about retail placemaking and environmentally and economically sustainable...
Women in Development, Pam McGhee, AMP Capital
Pam McGhee is a Development Manager currently working on the extension of Marrickville Metro Shopping Centre and the new retail and dining precinct – Smidmore Street. Her role focuses on...
From the publisher
I always like the CBD Guns issue because the contributions from our writers are always so engaging. Check out Louise Burke’s article on the Melbourne CBD and Melissa Prpic’s on...
CBD GUNS 2019
An expanding segment; a few years ago (2014 to be precise) we started the CBD Guns feature with 15 centres; this year it’s 24. Lendlease’s Barangaroo joins the rankings as does the MLC Centre in Sydney, along with St. Collins Lane and Galleria in Melbourne. The field this year, is...
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