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Green Belt and brownfield are well-known terms. The time for proper consideration of the Gray Belt has arrived. Review of the Gray Belt would give us an opportunity to re-appraise how we use our precious land – and it would give retail park owners the financial imperative to become curators of experience.

After the opening of several Duty Frees at various airports worldwide, umdasch has expanded its reach to more cruise ports via Barcelona Cruise Port Terminals A & B. Work on the redesign has recently been completed.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s (URW) Westfield Mall of the Netherlands will be located in the Randstad area, the economic heart of the country, which includes four of the nation’s largest cities: Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, and Rotterdam +++ Ingka Centres has recently unveiled a major new park at its Mega Ekaterinburg mall in central Russia +++ Broxbourne Borough Council and Hertfordshire County Council have selected Sovereign Centros as their development partner for a £400 million mixed-use scheme at Brookfield Riverside in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.

In April 2018, the ownership structure of Westgate Shopping City in Zagreb changed. Focus Invest is now its sole owner and center management will be handled by F.O. / Group. ACROSS talked with Denis Cupic, Head of Asset Management at Westgate, about the new positioning of the once ailing mall.

Designed by Coach’s in-house team, the new 657 sq ft store features a new modern luxury interior concept which includes leather furniture and bespoke fittings. The boutique offers a full range of both men’s and women’s leather goods.

In Western Europe, where retail park development has reached maturity, new schemes have to be innovative and compelling. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the market is relatively undersupplied, providing scope for increased levels of development activity. These are the findings of a recent study conducted by Cushman & Wakefield.

“Recent research carried out by Leisure Development Partners, in cooperation with Mapic, has shown that introducing a leisure concept into a retail space increases its footfall by up to 4 percent and the retail spend by up to 16 percent.”

Union Investment currently counts 13 retail parks in its portfolio. Henrike Waldburg, Head of Investment Management Retail, and Roman Müller, Investment Manager Retail, explain how they manage their performance.

At the beginning of October, Union Investment and ACROSS invited leading industry experts to Hamburg to discuss the present as well as the future of retail parks. The following is a brief review.

A long time ago, Multi Iberia realized that its customers and partners, along with its dealings with them, had to be the company’s primary concern.

A Rome-based shopping center has become the first in Italy to install Amazon’s cloud-based voice service.