STRATEGIES AND EXPANSION PLANS OF RETAILERS

Retail

Half Price joins Westgate Shopping City with first store in Croatia

Half Price, off-price retailer from Poland, has launched its first store in Croatia at Westgate Shopping City.

Elephant Park joined by four east Asian brands

Lendlease has announced the signings of e-sports café Wanyoo, Taiwanese tea specialists YiFang, and restaurant & bar Oisoi, which have taken an inter-connected unit spanning over 557 sq m, and will be joined at Elephant Park by sushi and hot food outlet Kokoro.

Revcap sells six Metro stores to MiDEAL Real Estate Funds

Revcap has sold six Metro stores with a total leasable area of ca. 130,000 sq m to Israeli fund manager MiDEAL Real Estate Funds.

Stern Center Sindelfingen wins tegut... as new tenant

One of the first anchor tenants signs a lease for the Stern Center in Sindelfingen (Baden-Württemberg) which will be transformed to a hybrid center. tegut... is represented with around 290 supermarkets in six German states.

FOM leases 7,600 sq m to Edeka at shopping center in Hannover

FOM Invest has leased around 7,600 sq m of retail space in the Linden district in Hannover to the retail chain Edeka.

DI Group scores ten leases for Forum Köpenick in Berlin

Deutsche ImmobilienGruppe (DI Group) concluded ten new and follow-up leases for 7,200 sq m in its Berlin shopping center Forum Köpenick.

DI Group wins EDEKA for retail park in Dülmen

Deutsche Immobilien Group (DI Group) welcomes EDEKA as new tenant at its property in Dülmen (NRW). The food retailer, which has signed a long-term lease, will take over the 9,346 sq m space on November 30.

Fashion label Bershka picks Liverpool One for regional debut

Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (GBI) announces the selection of Liverpool ONE by Bershka for its regional debut. The 743 sq m flagship is set to open early next year.

Supermarket Income REIT buys two more supermarkets for £73m

Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Swansea, South Wales, and a Tesco supermarket in Maidstone, Kent, from Argo Real Estate Limited for a total purchase price of £73m.

Retail Parks–an attractive asset class in times of crisis and beyond

As retail parks become more and more enticing, RegioPlan looks at the market distribution of this asset class across Europe in the following study.

Size doesn´t matter @ Reformhaus Wallner Wien

At Wiedner Hauptstraße 66 in Vienna, a corner store offers a wonderful variety of products and experiences that are a joy to behold. The family business, which is now run in the 2nd generation by Martina Wallner-Morin and her husband David Morin, exemplifies what we lack in many places: Authenticity, a commitment to tradition, a focus on regionality paired with modern standards.

Retail Park Report 2021: One-Stop-Shopping instead of One-Shop-Stopping

MEC and its partners Real Estate, Savills Germany, Dr. Lademann & Partner and WISAG published the 9th edition of the Retail Park Report “About Tomorrow–Retail parks in the city of the future”. The key finding: Sustainable and cross-asset-class strategies are needed to develop cities and rural areas for the future as urban neighborhoods and surrounding areas gain in importance.

Trafford Center in Manchester is the new home for Kenji flagship store

Japanese-inspired lifestyle brand Kenji has chosen Manchester’s Trafford Center for its new 4,000 sq ft flagship store, open now. The store is the first to feature an on-site sushi-to-go bar, offering freshly made sushi every day.

Palace Grounds Retail Park in Hamilton announces two new tenants

German-owned discount supermarket Aldi will open a new branch at the retail park later this year with discount store Home Bargains set to arrive in early 2022.

Newly umdasch shopfitted Julius Meinl on Vienna’s Graben reopened

After several months of renovation work, the traditional Viennese gourmet food store Julius Meinl on the prestigious Graben in Vienna presents itself in new light in the middle of the exclusive pedestrian zone.

Shopping with All Five Senses

What does that really mean? Retail professionals have been engaged in this discussion for decades. The idea of creating physical, emotional shopping experiences has become an integral part of the retail discussion since physical, brick-and-mortar retail began to decline in popularity.

Pepco opens at six SES shopping locations all over Austria

Following the rapid market exit of shoe retailer CCC from Austria, space in SES shopping centers was quickly allocated to new partners. The Polish discount retailer acquires attractive retail space and will open six new Pepco stores this year.

A brave new retail world?

“Looking at the digital transition, ECSP members are certain that the future is omni-channel.”

Waste Your Time @H&M Mitte Garten

For some time now, Berlin Mitte has featured a center with a wow effect: the H&M “Mitte Garten” at Neue Schönhauser Straße 13.