All Retail parks & out-of-town articles – Page 19
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Opinion
A step in the right direction
Magnanimity isn't a characteristic regularly associated with major retailers, but the deal which New Look's Phil Wrigley and Sir Philip Green brokered with landlords to help small retailers will be a huge boon to beleaguered independents.
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Analysis
Out of the way?
The rise in petrol prices might have got some in the out-of-town game worried, but there are plenty of others who believe that transport links are not an issue. Mark Faithfull investigates.
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Analysis
It's goodbye from them...
The out-of-town market has had a turbulent year, with several big players falling by the wayside. But there is a new breed eager to fill the voids they have left, reports Ben Cooper
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Analysis
Supermarket non-food formats: home is where the heart is
There is not much good news on the retail park scene at the moment. But with the advent of the supermarket non-food formats, new life is being breathed into developments across the UK.Asda opened the first of its non-food-only Asda Living stores in Walsall in October 2004 and now has ...
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Analysis
Design with an edge
Way back when, retail parks were shiny, happy places to be. You could access them with ease and when you got there, by car, you could park for free more or less directly outside whichever shop you fancied. They also offered choice, albeit from within large sheds that boasted outsize ...
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Analysis
Planning: Appetite for development
The Government’s latest report on out-of-town planning has raised more questions than it has answered, but if anything is certain it is that the sector must up its game, says Ben Cooper
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Analysis
It's not all doom and gloom
Everyone in the retail warehouse market will be glad to see the back of 2008. Retailers and landlords alike have endured a miserable year, all stemming from the collapse in the market for furniture and home improvement.Weaker players like ScS, Floors To Go and New Heights have gone into administration, ...
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Analysis
In the pipeline
2008 has been a one-off year for shopping centre development, but the coming decade will have plenty of interest, despite tough timesAnother year of shopping centre openings like 2008 is unlikely to be seen again in the next decade. The changes in our projected list of 2018’s top towns reflect ...
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Analysis
Location, location, location
Fact: Retail has been hit hard by global economic conditions. Fact: Retail footfall is down across the board, with out-of-town retail schemes feeling the greatest pain. Fact: A growing number of retailers have entered administration or have issued severe profit warnings.Given the above, it is no surprise that retailers are ...
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AnalysisGainsborough’s Marshall’s Yard: Birth of a renaissance
Gainsborough’s Marshall’s Yard feels more like a market square than a retail park. John Ryan visits a scheme that shows how retail development can revive a tired market town
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AnalysisRetail parks innovate as DIY stores slow expansion
As the UK’s DIY big-boxers slow expansion plans, downsize and even consider closing stores, landlords need to take innovative action to revive their parks, says Mark Faithfull
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AnalysisBatten down the hatches
The lettings market for retail parks has faltered as bulky goods retailers start to feel the pinch from the downturn in consumer spending, so is this affecting the red-hot investment market? Jessica Price Brown consults the experts
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AnalysisGrowing pains
Retail parks have evolved in a way that few could have envisaged five years ago. But is the rise of powerful fashion offers and comfortable coffee houses enough to gloss over deeper issues for some schemes? Mark Faithfull reports
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News
£320m Fosse Park sale hits the buffers
The UK’s biggest-ever retail park investment deal has fallen through, Pillar Property has announced.
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News
Aylesbury park bags three new tenants as work begins on site
Aylesbury park The Junction has started on site at its redevelopment of the Cambridge Close Retail Park at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. The site will be developed in three phases. Existing tenants, including Wickes in 47,000 sq ft (4,365 sq m), Comet in 20,000 sq ft (1,860 sq m) and Argos ...
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News
Junction takes Herculian stake in Glasgow park
The Junction limited partnership, the specialist out-of-town fund run by Capital Regional, has paid its rival Hercules Property Unit Trust£53 million for the Great Western Retail Park at Drumchapel, Glasgow. The Great Western Retail Park is situated seven miles northwest of Glasgow city centre. It provides 178,500 sq ...
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News
Hercules grabs Prospect Place
The Hercules Unit Trust has bought Phase 1 of the Prospect Place retail park in Dartford, Kent from Pillar Property for£36 million, and entered into a commitment to forward purchase Phase 2. The 134,000 sq ft (12,450 sq m) Phase 1 is fully-let to B Q, Carpetright , Allied Carpets ...
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News
Tesco, Next and Arcadia anchor opening of Gallions Reach park
One of the UK’s last major open A1 fashion parks opened last week at Gallions Reach in Beckton, east London.
