Dining, enjoying, relaxing, and shopping. Center operators are completely revamping their menus.

For Sonae Sierra, localization is key: Each project must be unique and we mustn’t repeat ourselves.

This year’s Mapic will again feature the top players in industry as they provide a glimpse at their current retail projects. ACROSS makes a foray into interesting new developments and extensions to be presented in Cannes.

Despite constant digitalization, brick-and-mortar retailing remains the dominant purchasing model.

IKEA Centres’ global Expansion Director, Jan Kristensson, and global Leasing Director, Carsten Heidtmann, share the importance of the company’s journey from a traditional property-driven approach to creating places where people and the planet lead our interaction with customers, tenants and communities, where retail is one of many components.

Multi Netherlands has started work on the major city-center project, Bracknell’s regenerated town center has recently opened for business, Atrium Poland Real Estate Management is extending another of its Warsaw facilities, Pro Kapital Grupp is continuing its work on bringing the T1 Mall in Tallinn to fruition, The Dorotheen Quartier (DOQU) in Stuttgart, Germany opened its doors on May 30, Delta Real Estate has finalized its acquisition of a shopping mall in Varna, Bulgaria, City Center Amstetten (CCA) in Lower Austria recently celebrated its opening, and GTC’s Galeria Północna in Białołęka in Warsaw officially opened on September 14.

After being completely rebuilt from March 2016, Huma eleven opened its extension in Vienna-Simmering at the end of September.

STOP SHOPS for retail parks, VIVO! for shopping centers. With these two concepts, IMMOFINANZ ensures a high level of positive name recognition among clients and retailers, reported Gerald Grüll, Head of Asset Management Retail Europe.

The extension of Eurovea in Bratislava continues in smooth interconnection with the historical city center. It will expand its existing structure in line with its surroundings, thus supporting the development of the Slovak capital as a modern European city on the River Danube.

The retail trade is in a state of massive upheaval. The creative destruction unleashed by online commerce has brought in the next stage of evolution. What does this mean for commercial real estate?

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NEPI Rockcastle is opening the 150,000-sq-m Promenada Novi Sad at the end of 2018.

BEHF Architects were ahead of their time when they designed Oberwart’s hybrid mall EO eight years ago.

Marcus Wild, CEO of Austria’s SES Spar European Shopping Centers, tells ACROSS about the company’s 10-year anniversary and why malls have long needed to be more than mere shopping destinations.

Germany, Erlangen Arcaden | Bosnia Herzegovina, Delta Planet | Italy, ESP | Poland, Galeria Emka | Sweden, Kulan | Finland, Niity | Germany, Rhein-Galerie Ludwigshafen | United Kingdom, Rushden Lakes

Sur Yapı Marka in Turkey, Doha Festival City in Qatar, Midland Gate and 80 Collins in Australia

Eperia, Slovakia | Meadowhall, United Kingdom | Shopping Center on Kashirskoye Highway, Russia | Hoog Catharijne, Netherlands | Überseequartier, Germany | Tunsgate Quarter, United Kingdom | Kaufpark Eiche, Germany | Agora Budapest, Hungary

Lotte World Tower, Seoul, South Korea; Mall of Qatar, Qatar; Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN, USA; BHV Marais, United Arab Emirates.

Xuzhou Suning Plaza recently opened its doors. The new shopping center reflects the growth of international retail in second- and third-tier Chinese cities.

ReTuna Återbruksgalleria, a mall specializing in second-hand goods, recently opened in the Swedish town of Ekilstuna.

For Marcel Kokkeel, CEO of Citycon, the future lies in the “perfect match” between commerce and communities.

The CityLife Shopping District in Lombary’s metropolis will measure 32,000 sq m GLA. Sonae Sierra says it will be Italy’s largest urban mall.

The Freo Group is responsible for the Mall of Switzerland’s project development and marketing. In an interview with ACROSS, Nikolas Löhr, Director of Retail Marketing, explained what makes the shopping center special with respect to its leisure facilities.

A city center location is always more complicated, expensive, and time-consuming for new retail projects than an alternative on the periphery. Despite these hurdles, investors and developers have created projects across Europe that not only serve existing markets but are also catalysts for growing demand and transforming cities.