Issue 2019 October 29th

    Book now – iGEN: Time for Retail’s Roaring Twenties

    Sponsored by Nuveen Real Estate | London, 28 November 2019 If you want to understand the implications of digital technology on the retail real industry then this is simply the most content-rich, best value-for-money day on omni-channel retail and property investment you can attend. Our iGeneration conference is back bigger and better than ever with [...]

    Hotel to be added in mixed use city strategy for UK REIT

    UK REIT Hammerson, which owns and manages Victoria Leeds, has submitted plans for a new 205-bed hotel adjacent to its iconic retail and leisure destination, Victoria Gate. The plans will see the site, which is currently a temporary surface car park, redeveloped to provide a new flagship hotel further enhancing the offer at Hammerson’s retail [...]

    Premium cinema completes German mall repositioning

    With last week’s opening of the Astor Film Lounge, ECE and DWS have completed the modernisation of MyZeil shopping centre in Frankfurt. The opening of this premium cinema is the last step in the transformation of the shopping centre’s fourth floor into the FOODTOPIA food and entertainment floor With an extensive refurbishment and an investment [...]

    Grosvenor Europe aims to bridge digital and physical commerce with launch of EWAY

    Grosvenor Europe, part of Grosvenor Group, the privately-owned international property group, has launched a ’bricks-meets-clicks’ concept, EWAY, across its Swedish retail portfolio. EWAY has been conceived a high-quality e-commerce packaging and service provider which combines e- and physical commerce in one offering. In the specially designed EWAY unit, visitors can collect packages, try on clothes [...]

    Fund buys into Prague with shopping centre purchase

    The open real estate fund Investika has purchased the Galerie Butovice shopping centre located in the popular office area Nove Butovice in Prague. The asset is the sixth largest shopping centre in Prague with more than eighty tenants and an almost hundred-per-cent occupancy rate. The centre has been reconstructed in 2016 and 2017. The property offers over 50,000m² spread over two [...]