All Shopping centres articles – Page 62

  • saints sinners Liverpool
    News

    Saints & Sinners opens in Liverpool One

    2009-05-18T10:42:00Z

    Just opened in Liverpool One, Saints & Sinners is a men’s fashion shop that is dubbed a lifestyle store and which is intended to combine elements of Tokyo retail design with the look and feel of a boutique hotel.Designed by Manchester-based consultancy Rawfish, the 4,500 ...

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    Analysis

    St David’s in Cardiff: right scheme, wrong time

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Launching a shopping centre extension in the present climate is a tough task, but as Ben Cooper reports, St David’s in Cardiff should stand up to the challenge and raise the city’s retail profile

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    News

    Empty shops soar at Land Securities’ centres

    2009-05-13T09:43:00Z

    One of Britain’s biggest shopping centre and retail park owners today admitted that void levels are higher than during the downturn in the 1990s.

  • RW Westfield London
    News

    Westfield service charge dispute progressing slower than hoped

    2009-05-12T11:28:00Z

    A dispute between Westfield and a group of retailers including Debenhams, Marks & Spencer and Boots over service charge levels is ongoing despite indications from the Australian developer that a reduction was imminent.

  • RW WestfieldLondon
    News

    Westfield London backs down over service charges

    2009-05-01T09:28:00Z

    Westfield has backed down over a dispute with tenants over service charges after months of wrangling with retailers at its London shopping centre.The Australian landlord had been battling with retailers including House of Fraser and Debenhams over charges at the centre. Westfield London had charged £14 per sq ft, about ...

  • Wii - at home with the Redknapps
    Analysis

    Social Trends: How Britain behaves

    2009-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Modern Britain is changing, and if retailers are to survive the downturn understanding these evolving social trends could make all the difference.

  • Cambridge Grand Arcade
    News

    Three retailers set to open in Cambridge’s Grand Arcade

    2009-04-21T12:24:00Z

    Calvin Klein, Kurt Geiger and Jack & Jones are set to open stores in Cambridge for the first time.All three have taken stores at the Grand Arcade shopping centre, which is owned by Grand Arcade Partnership, a joint venture between Grosvenor and Universities Superannuation Scheme.They join brands already trading in ...

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    Opinion

    Shopping centre security is a balancing act retailers must get right

    2009-04-21T11:58:00Z

    The news that the averted Easter bomb plot was targeting shopping centres will have come as a sobering reminder to retailers and landlords about how vulnerable a position they are in.

  • News

    Shopping centre plans for Europe slow down

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    More than 75 million sq ft of planned shopping centre development space in Europe has been axed or put on hold as a result of the global downturn.According to a report from property agency Cushman & Wakefield, about 107.6 million sq ft of new shopping centre space will open across ...

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    Analysis

    Service charges: Lip service to retailers or a plan of action?

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    The 10-point plan to reduce service charges announced last week promised action on an issue that has long infuriated retailers. Ben Cooper investigates how it is going to work in practice

  • News

    Slaters roll-out continues

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Menswear retailer Slaters opened its 25th store in Swansea last week and said it believed customer service was key to riding out the downturn.

  • cooper ben cutout
    Opinion

    Now we need real action on service charges

    2009-04-07T13:44:00Z

    It’s not the most glamorous of subjects, but service charge is one of the areas where retailers have been paying through the nose for decades. Finally, it seems, landlords are willing to have a serious conversation about it.Retailers will delight in any plan to save them money in these tight ...

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    News

    Cardiff's St David's 2 shopping centre adds raft of new retailers

    2009-04-07T11:32:00Z

    Land Securities and Capital Shopping Centres have added a major wave of retailers to the St David’s 2 shopping centre in Cardiff, taking the scheme to nearly 55 per cent let.

  • SouthgateBathCGI
    Analysis

    Quantity as well as quality

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    Bath has a strong high-end retail offer but always lacked the larger units demanded by the big high street chains. Ben Cooper finds out how a new centre will provide for the middle market

  • News

    Westfield falls short of Next’s expectations

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    Next chief executive Simon Wolfson said that its Westfield London shop has so far performed below expectations and that the scheme has had less of an impact on its West End shops than it anticipated.Wolfson said Next, which this week reported like-for-like sales down 6.5 per cent in the full ...

  • Westfield, London
    News

    Retailers and landlords join forces to cut service charges

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    A consortium of some of the country’s top retailers and landlords has produced guidelines for landlords laying out ways they can cut retailers’ service charge bills by up to 20 per cent.

  • News

    Three more retailers on board at St David's 2

    2009-03-27T08:08:00Z

    Three retailers have signed up for space at St David’s 2 in Cardiff.

  • News

    Westfield Derby adds four retailers

    2009-03-17T12:21:54Z

    Four retailers have signed for space at Westfield Derby.

  • News

    Shopping centre development ailing in most of UK

    2009-03-17T10:21:55Z

    London and the East Midlands are the only two regions in the country not to have been affected by delays to the shopping centre development pipeline, according to researcher CACI.

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    Next refuses to pay all of Westfield's service charges

    2009-03-13T09:41:17Z

    Fashion retailer Next is refusing to pay part of its service charge at Westfield London after the property developer increased its fees within days of the shopping centre opening.