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Hardly any other word has characterized the real estate industry lately as much as transformation. It describes many different aspects and involves all stakeholders. However, one area that is often neglected is community building. We are ignoring the most critical group: the users and consumers. David Fuller-Watts, CEO of Mallcomm, explains in this interview what community building should stand for today and what the real estate industry, including proptech, needs to do to serve their communities’ changing needs.

A good ten years after its opening, Skyline Plaza in Frankfurt am Main, which is jointly owned by Allianz and ECE, is receiving more than 35 million euros for an extensive modernization program. With new tenants and concepts, a revised design and numerous additional offers and services, it is being comprehensively prepared for the future.

Utopian Hours, taking place 18-20 October in Turin, Italy, is a three-day international event organized by urban knowledge agency Stratosferica, showcasing and discussing new concepts and inviting guests and audiences to suggest a new way of conceiving human evolution. Starting from the first edition in 2017, the festival aims to give for the eighth time a voice to the people behind these changes: City makers, activists, architects, and innovators share their experiences and stimulate new visions for the future and concepts of cities. ACROSS spoke to Daniele Vaccai, Project Developer at Stratosferica, about the festival, its program, and speakers.

ROS Retail Outlet Shopping has created its first AI-generated campaign that will be used across its entire portfolio in seven European countries this autumn, becoming a pioneer and the first operator in the retail real estate industry to apply this technology in a campaign.

Following the start of the brand´s insolvency proceedings in Germany earlier this week, according to a recent interview between Bluestar CEO Joseph Gabbay and the German “Textilwirtschaft”, the US investment company, which owns the Scotch & Soda brand rights, is planning to hold on to the market.

Plaace is a rapidly growing Norwegian tech startup aiming to create vibrant streets and cities with a platform fuelled by state-of-the-art analytics and newly available data sources to enable smarter decisions for every actor involved in the retail sector.

ROSSMANN has long been known and loved by Swiss customers who previously had to travel to Germany to do their shopping. Despite initial plans to open its first store next year, the drugstore company secured the opening for already this year, with more to follow.

The City Center Amstetten shopping center is planning a new food court area that will offer even greater culinary variety. umdasch The Store Makers, the Amstetten-based shopfitting and design expert, is responsible for the concept of the new food court.

Foot Locker plans to shut down stores and e-commerce operations in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. This will result in the closure or transfer of operations for approximately 30 stores of the company’s 629 stores in Europe, expected to be completed by mid-2025.

The General Store, an Australian consulting agency, presented the 50 coolest stores in the world at the World Retail Congress in Paris. According to the consulting agency, the so-called coolness factor is of great importance at the moment: in addition to design, service, and impressive experiences, creativity, cult status, and commercial viability were decisive factors in the evaluation.

Marks & Spencer is making preparations to launch a new format store in the shape of a standalone branch, offering a curated selection of its womenswear, menswear and beauty ranges.