AMP CAPITAL Nick Fanning has been promoted to Divisional Leasing Manager. Nick will continue to lead the leasing team at Indooroopilly and will assume responsibility for leading the leasing team...
Not often we feature a retailer in our cover story; we’ve done it before, but only when that retailer has a significant influence on our business. We all know Coles...
In an age of flying cars, food sold in restaurants grown on site, micro-chips implanted in our eyes so we can pay with retina scans, will shopping centres even exist?...
If you thought going to the movies was about sitting in an auditorium and watching a film, think again! That’s old hat; it’s what cinemas used to be. Now it’s...
We see countless examples of old buildings being given a new life as old industrial structures are transformed into modern venues. More often than not, ‘retail’ in new forms –...
Years ago, Coles was part of the massive Coles Myer Group, the largest retail conglomerate in Australia. It then became part of Wesfarmers, the largest conglomerate in Australia! In late...
Another case of poor legislation in South Australia where, (yes unbelievably) there’s a minimum 5-year term of lease. It was instigated to ‘protect tenants’ but as Robert Speirs reveals, it’s...
A fairly common response these days when booking a table at a successful restaurant is “We can take a 6.30pm booking but we’ll need the table back by 8.15pm”. This...
There’s Augmented Reality (AR); then we’ve got XR – a combination of augmented, mixed and virtual reality. Retailers and retail property people are some of the technology’s biggest users; worldwide...
Francis Loughran looks at F&B in Mini Gun centres. He finds that overall they could do better and so increase income, achieve a higher asset value and improve customer satisfaction....
Analysing a shopping centre’s temperature, air quality, ventilation and overall shopper and tenant comfort, is a difficult exercise if the equipment that controls such factors is not digitised. The comfort...
Electricity charges are a constant topic of conversation; talk-back radio is deluged with comments from homeowners and small business operators. And the larger users of power (like shopping centres) are...
There are massive programs underway in many Australian centres to minimise power usage and move towards sustainable structures. Passivhaus is a globally recognised building certification for producing buildings using minimum...
Stockland has a new marketing initiative called ‘Live + Learn’. Launched at Stockland Bull Creek, it’s become a local favourite. It’s a ‘community workshop’ focusing on encouraging and uplifting the...
Luxury stores have always understood the allure of great customer experiences. But now, driven by a new generation of consumer, retail centres are taking cues from luxury, entertainment and hospitality...
We started reporting on Mini Gun centres in 2006. It was a sector of our industry dominated by Centro Properties Group; at that time, we featured some 95 centres, 40 of which were managed/ owned by Centro. Stockland had 10 so between the pair, they had more than half the...
The South Australian Government began a review of the Retail and Commercial Leases Act in 2014. A Bill has just been tabled proposing some 28 amendments to the Act. The...
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