Yardi® announced the acquisition of We Are Forge Ltd (Forge), a Bristol, UK based software company, that specialises in visitor management and smart access control for a wide range of real estate asset classes including, office, retail, industrial, flexible workspace and the education sector.

McArthurGlen is pleased to announce the official opening of “Play Land”, a brand new 6,000 square metre leisure concept at Designer Outlet Serravalle that is dedicated to family entertainment. The 7 million euro attraction introduces a new state-of-the-art experiential element to the centre that further enhances the shopping experience for guests of all ages.

Preparations for Expo Real 2021—to be held from October 11 to 13 at the trade fair center in Munich—run at full speed, opening a long-awaited perspective for the international real estate industry.

International real estate leaders will be attending MIPIM September Edition for an event that will mark the return to in-person meetings and networking opportunities on the Croisette in Cannes.

Melanie will initially join as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect, succeeding Jonathon Bond in the role of Chair from September this year. As previously announced, Jonathon Bond takes up the newly created role of Chief Investment Officer (CIO), Grosvenor Estate.

New addition to ECE’s center management portfolio: Starting in July 2021, ECE will be taking over the long-term management and leasing of the “Romaest” shopping center in Italy. ECE will be responsible for the entire asset and property management for the center.

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna at EUROPARK.

The 25-million project “Linzerie” was recently opened in Linz’s city center after two years of reconstruction, commissioned by Sparkasse OÖ and in cooperation with Plötzl Plötzl Arch+Ing, Nopp Innenarchitektur GmbH, and the Berlin-based dan pearlman Group and their creative agency “spring”.

The German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) has developed a new certification system for sustainable building sites and awarded the Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier with the DGNB pre-certificate for sustainable building sites as the first major project during the Tag der Bauindustrie (Construction Industry Day) on June 10, 2021.

HMSHost International, global market leader in the food and hospitality industry for people on the move, welcomes the fast-growing food service format BackWerk as franchiser to their concept portfolio.

VIA Outlets is investing €17.5m in Sevilla Fashion Outlet, its premium outlet destination in Seville, Spain. The outlet will enjoy an extension of 2,680 sq. m. which will create space for 17 major brands to be added to the existing roster of more than 70 stores. With this latest investment, VIA Outlets has invested a total €30m in the centre since acquiring it in 2016.

The certification is part of the “Shop Safe, Stay Safe” programme to minimise the risk of Covid-19 transmission and guarantee a safe shopping in its European portfolio.

New center concept and leasing assigned to Colliers Austria.

German asset manager will align growing operations with a single connected solution.

Global Mutual lines up three new brands for Scottish outlet centre with NEXT bringing fashion and homewares this summer.

The Global Leisure Group – with brands like SPI Global Play and Sidijk – acquired two-third of former ELI Play. A total of four European organizations, including: Playlife Germany, Playlife Slovakia, HPS Play Company (Austria) and Theme Works (Slovakia), have joined world’s largest supplier of leisure concepts. With this acquisition, the Global Leisure Group further expands its coverage in Central Europe and strengthens its position as worldwide market leader in full leisure and play concepts.

The former department store of the V&D in the center of Dordrecht will be redeveloped. The redevelopment plan of TconcepT and Re.shape was presented recently.

Kaari Shopping Center is, with its ~50,000 sqm, the sixth largest shopping center in Helsinki Metropolitan Area. With a combined area of ~5,000 sqm, the new tenants are retail company Tokmanni and JYSK as well as Gigantti (Elgiganten), the leading Nordic chain offering home electronics and appliances. The center also hosts Prisma Kaari, the largest hypermarket and grocery store in Finland, currently doing a concept renewal to further improve its offering and customer experience.

Pangea Property Partners is proud to have acted as financial adviser, debt adviser, and Joint Manager/Bookrunner in the creation of Aurora Eiendom and the acquisition of five Norwegian shopping centres valued at NOK 4.8bn (EUR 473m) in total.

The aim is to create a vibrant urban quarter with universal appeal and high quality urban spaces.

At the end of May, the global technology provider Huawei opened its first store in a German shopping center at Centro in Oberhausen. Nationwide it is Huawei‘s second store with direct sales besides the one in Berlin.

Redevco Germany is developing the C&A building in Hanover from a single-tenant to a multi-tenant property.

ALEJA Ljubljana named a Finalist for International Shopping Center Award.

Successful premiere of the ACROSS Company Live Session in cooperation with Sonae Sierra.