CURRENT PROJECTS, TRENDS AND STRATEGIES OF DEVELOPERS
Almost simultaneously with ACROSS, Europe's largest shopping center celebrates a decade of operation. Westfield London reveals how shopping habits have transformed in the British capital over the last 10 years.
From the outbreak of the financial crisis until 2016, hardly any new shopping center openings occurred in Spain and Portugal, reports Francisco Cavaleiro de Ferreira, Managing Director of Multi in Iberia. Now, the markets have recovered.
The shopping hotspot in the United Arab Emirates is one of the world’s biggest shopping centers with its total sales area of 350,000 sq m.
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... innovative retail real estate projects and refurbishments are unveiled at Mapic in Cannes. These are just a few examples.
SPAIN: Inmobiliaria Espacio has appointed UK retail and leisure agency Lunson Mitchenall to drive forward the next phase of retail and leisure leasing at Caleido in Madrid. The Torre Sevilla shopping center opened its doors to the public. | SWEDEN: Mölndal Galleria opened in the Greater Gothenburg Area. | GERMANY: After three years of renovation, Helio, with its 38,000 sq m, opened its doors in Augsburg. Ernst-August-Galerie in Hanover will be modernized, redesigned, and expanded. Prelios Immobilien Management has presented a comprehensive concept for the redesign of the Galerie Neustädter Tor in Gießen, Hesse.
The rebranding does not change anything for tenants and customers, emphasizes Managing Director Gerard Groener.
TconcepT was founded in The Hague five years ago and is already active in 15 countries, as General Manager Frank van Dongen reports.
Mitsui Fudosan Co. announced the grand opening of Mitsui Outlet Park Taichung Port, central Taiwan’s largest outlet mall, on December 12, 2018. | Palladium in Umuarama (Brazil) will bring greater comfort, development, and leisure to a market that has the largest consumption potential in the region. | Simon Premium Outlets announced the opening of Denver Premium Outlets (USA).
The German Ruhr region is regarded as the largest catchment area in Europe – even ahead of the metropolitan areas of London and Paris. In that region – specifically in Mülheim – Rhein-Ruhr Zentrum, which opened in 1973, is now undergoing a 200-million-euro modernization.
Edinburgh St James is set to revolutionize retail within the Scottish capital.
Seventeen years have already passed: In 2001, a small outlet center was built in the Upper Franconian town of Selb in the former manufacturing halls of the long-established Heinrich porcelain factory. The new Outlet Center Selb is currently under construction there.
Boxpark revealed plans to revive Brighton’s iconic Madeira Terrace into an internationally renowned retail leisure and hotel destination. Colosseum Retail Park will construct Colosseum Mall and the expansion of the existing retail scheme in Northwest Bucharest...
The new locations of the retail park chain will be deliberately located outside the environment of existing competition, reports Gerald Grüll, Head of Asset Management Retail at Immofinanz.
Redevco aims to make urban centers more interesting places in which people like to live, work, and shop.
The Märkische Viertel in northern Berlin was regarded as a model development in the 1970s. At that time, large housing estates with high-rise apartment blocks were considered to be a positive urban development program.
IKEA Centres and Mutschler Outlet Holding AG have recently opened the first phase of Designer Outlet Croatia in Zagreb. In addition to its commercial shops and new theme, the outlet features a number of customer services, such as center information, strollers, free Wi-Fi, gift cards, mobile chargers, baby care facilities, an exchange office, chill out zones, terraces, and a future playground area.
IKEA Centres has opened its second outlet center, the Designer Outlet Croatia. Project Manager Branko Mihajlov explains what criteria were – and will continue to be – applied when choosing locations.
Franz A. Kollitsch, co-founder of Austrian real estate developer Invester United Benefits, speaks about the company's latest activities and why outlet centers are the ideal complement to online shopping.
Knight Frank recently published the “Retail Market Report Moscow H1 2018”. The most important event was the commissioning of “Kashirskaya Plaza”, which opened with a high occupancy rate – not only by area but also by number of stores.
