Vicinity delivers on largest NABERS-rated retail portfolio in Australia
Vicinity Centres (Vicinity) continues to deliver on its sustainability strategy, achieving significant improvements in the 2021 NABERS Sustainable Portfolios Index (SPI), across Australia’s largest rated retail portfolio. The NABERS SPI...
Mildura region’s number one centre sells for $81.1m
A private investor has purchased one of Victoria’s most dominant retail centres, Mildura Central for $81.1 million. Lachlan MacGillivray of Colliers sold the 100% interest in the sub-regional shopping centre...
CEO Outlook 2021: Grant Kelley, Vicinity Centres
This CEO Outlook contribution was first published in SCN Vol. 39 No. 1, Big Guns 2021 Our communities and our industry faced extraordinary challenges during 2020 but we at Vicinity started...
Oakleigh Central’s new technology gives vision impaired greater independence
Vicinity Centres has announced the introduction of innovative new technology that will help customers with vision impairment navigate shopping at Oakleigh Central in Melbourne’s south east. The Australian-developed wayfinding system,...
Vicinity’s leadership in luxury retailing grows
Vicinity Centres (Vicinity) has cemented its number one position in Australian luxury retailing with GUCCI opening the doors of its new Brisbane flagship at QueensPlaza. The iconic Italian fashion house...
New waterfront dining and fresh food precinct headline Runaway Bay upgrades
The Gold Coast’s Runaway Bay Centre is set to undergo a modern makeover giving customers a new alfresco casual dining precinct and fresh food precinct, powered with the aid of...
Chadstone to add 850 new parking spaces with works starting in 2021
One of Chadstone’s most popular car parks is being upgraded to add 850 new parking spaces, to enhance customer convenience and make it easier for people to get in and...
Explore the colourful world of Misaki Kawai at Chadstone
Chadstone – The Fashion Capital continues its partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) as a Major Partner of its NGV Triennial exhibition from December 19 2020 until April...
Melbourne: extended hours and latest tech help customers beat the queues this long weekend
Last week, Vicinity announced a wide-range of COVID safety measures in place at each of its centres across Melbourne. This Melbourne Cup weekend all of Vicinity’s shopping centres across Melbourne...
Damon Barbaresco, Vicinity Centres
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Vicinity to welcome back customers with COVID-safe tech and innovation
Vicinity Centres (Vicinity), the owner of 20 shopping centres across Melbourne including Chadstone, Northland, The Glen and Bayside, is ready to welcome back Melburnians from Wednesday 28 October, with wide-ranging...
Priscilla – Queen of the Chase
Proving health and safety can be entertaining, Vicinity Centres’ Chatswood Chase has taken an inventive approach to ensuring the community feels safe at their local centre. The Centre conducted ongoing...
Vicinity Centres gets creative with a fun and novel message to encourage health and hygiene
As Sydney’s CBD continues to navigate the impacts of COVID-19, three of its most iconic shopping destinations, managed by Vicinity Centres – the QVB, Strand Arcade and The Galeries – are...
KENZO opens its first Sydney store
French fashion brand KENZO has arrived in Sydney, opening the doors of its first New South Wales store in the iconic Queen Victoria Building (QVB) managed by Vicinity Centres. Their...
QVB partners with local artist to create ‘The 2020 Tree’
Following a challenging and extraordinary year so far, Sydney’s iconic Queen Victoria Building (QVB) has collaborated with celebrated local artist, Gerwyn Davies, on a new large-scale art installation in the...
Customers pick-up parcels at Chadstone’s new click and collect service
Stage 4 lockdowns in Victoria has been challenging for both retail and customers. Chadstone – Victoria’s largest shopping centre managed by Vicinity Centres, is now delivering a solution to get...
Vicinity Centres reports $1.8b loss but remains positive about the future
Vicinity Centres (Vicinity, ASX:VCX) announced its results for the 12 months to 30 June 2020, with a statutory net loss after tax of $1.8 billion (FY19: $346.1 million statutory net...
Ian McDougal, Vicinity Centres
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Adam Weinstein, Vicinity Centres
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Burberry opens new store at Brisbane’s QueensPlaza
British fashion house Burberry has opened its new store in Vicinity’s QueensPlaza, Brisbane – the first store in Australia to encapsulate Chief Creative Officer Riccardo Tisci’s new creative vision for the...
Vicinity takes $1.79 billion hit, while supporting the long-term sustainability of the retail industry
Vicinity Centres today announced independent valuations of its 60 directly-owned retail properties, which have resulted in a net valuation decline for the overall portfolio of 11.3% or $1.79 billion for...
Kmart opens its doors at new look Ellenbrook Central
In Perth’s growing north east, the ribbon has been cut to celebrate the opening of the first stage of Ellenbrook Central’s $63 million expansion with a brand-new Kmart opening its...
Corrine Barchanowicz, Vicinity Centres
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Council approves Chadstone’s $685 million expansion
The City of Stonnington has voted to support six development applications outlining the future vision for Chadstone – Australia’s number 1 Big Gun centre. The proposals for the continued evolution of...
Jenny Pike, Vicinity Centres
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Vicinity and Challenger reveal 2050 Bankstown vision
Vicinity Centres and Challenger have unveiled their vision to transform 11.4 hectares in the centre of Bankstown in Sydney’s growing south west into a vibrant mixed-use urban neighbourhood to work,...
Chantelle Clark, Vicinity Centres
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Melbourne’s Box Hill to receive a 10-year transformation
Vicinity Centres has unveiled proposed plans to revitalise the heart of Box Hill’s CBD, to create a bustling new town square and mixed-use precinct with new residential, commercial and retail...
Vicinity manages costs with development deferrals
Vicinity Centres provided their March 2020 quarterly update in response to COVID-19, announcing a number of sensible measures to ensure the organisation gets through this challenging retail period. As one...
Coronavirus testing sites expands to Shopping Centres
Six new drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites across Melbourne will open today, bringing the total to 10 shopping centres, as part of the Victorian Government’s blitz to test up to 100,000 people...
Vicinity’s Emporium Melbourne reopens
Vicinity Centres have reopened Emporium Melbourne today, Monday 27 April, three weeks after the centre was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 situation. The centre had been impacted as Melbourne’s CBD...
Emporium Melbourne temporarily closed, except for essential services
Vicinity Centres’ Emporium Melbourne temporarily closed its doors at 5pm on Sunday 5 April until later this month due to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the centre. ...
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