The team at Colliers International analyses several of the country’s capital cities, and looks at what is driving retail and what this means for the future...
Some great results from the CBD Guns! The Strand Arcade continues to power ahead with a healthy rise in MAT this year and specialties are trading at well over...
Stockland Green Hills has transformed itself from the most powerful Little Gun in the country, into a super-prime regional and one of the major Big Gun centres...
Unlocking Value is the cornerstone of Mirvac Retail’s strategy. It’s a well-defined strategy, enunciated clearly a few years back when the company rationalised...
A local destination with an international audience As Sydney continues to grow into its well-deserved reputation as an important global city straddling East...
The completion of Sydney’s new George Street Boulevard is sparking a major shift in the city’s retail landscape, with the once renowned grid-locked strip fast...
A bold new neighbourhood emerges in the heart of Sydney’s CBD Set to transform Sydney’s northern CBD, Quay Quarter Sydney, incorporating Quay Quarter Tower, 33...
It’s unique – for a start, what other centre has a river flowing through it? Lendlease’s Sunshine Plaza dominates the Sunshine Coast – the ninth most populous...
Links below to the individual CEO speeches: Gary Horwitz, Lendlease Greg Miles, Scentre Group Mark Kirkland, AMPCSC Ralph Kemmler, Woolworths Sam Curry, ISPT...
In March 2008, at the inaugural Big Guns Lunch in Sydney, we presented the first SCN Award for a centre that had reached an MAT of $1 billion! It was a huge...
Few people will disagree with the statement that ‘no one has contributed more to the shopping centre industry in Australia than Sir Frank Lowy.’ In fact, many...
The retail legislation in Victoria is much the same as the retail legislation in the other Australian jurisdictions. One of the main differences is that, in...
If the MAT is OK but the MAT/m2 is low, usually it’s a no-brainer. Cut down the size of the shop, create another one. The retailer wins because they have...
Suppose the ‘retail experience’ was separated from the actual ‘purchase’. It happens now when you catch an Uber. You experience the service, but the purchase...
If you were asked what LVMH, Prada, Dolce and Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Roberto Cavalli, Tiffany’s and Prada all do to make a crust, how would you...
What will our centres look like in the future (and that’s only a few weeks away!)? What will a shop look like, and how will it relate to the online business...
We love this article by Kelvin Taylor and Rebecca Townsend! Our centres are ‘Community Focal Points’. One of the features that link us all, as humans, is ‘art’...
We recently spent a day at the tennis as a guest of MasterCard and saw the young Korean, Chung, beat Sandgren. It was a great day, coupled with quite a...
The District Docklands held a spectacular open weekend for Melburnians to ‘imagine different’ and experience the new-look shopping centre, with live...
On the 30 November 2017, Stockland unveiled the third stage of its $414-million redevelopment of Stockland Green Hills in the Lower Hunter, opening nearly...
Developing a shopping centre is a team effort. The architect doesn’t know what to design without a market research input. The retail plan can’t be finalised...
Designing and masterplanning a centre is a complex exercise. A shopping centre is, fundamentally, an integral piece of community infrastructure, just like a...
If the super neighbourhood centre of the future is to fulfil its potential and serve as the local community’s natural heart, to become a piece of social...
Sales volumes for the Australian retail sector totalled $6.63 billion in FYE2017, marking a decline of 13.1% on FYE2016’s $7.63 billion.
We are all aware of the evolution of food offerings within shopping centres and their importance within the broader retail market. But what about the
In this issue we interview two Centre Managers and two Marketing Managers from four top performing CBD Gun centres: World Square, The Strand Arcade, The...
“When the Gold Coast opens something, it does so in spectacular style...
