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When the new Mall of Switzerland opens in the Swiss municipality of Ebikon in Lucerne on November 8, 2017, visitors will have much to look forward to: not only highly appealing shopping facilities and great leisure attractions in around 65,000 sq m of total rental space, but also a wide choice of places to eat.

Online retail is increasingly shaking up tenant mixes in Europe’s cities. The bricks-and-mortar trade is desperately seeking innovative concepts.

Hardware, software, analysis—the holistic “smart tracking” solutions developed by the Digital Retail experts at Umdasch Shopfitting provide extensive information about customer behavior in shopping malls and stores.

Around 50 retail real estate industry experts met in Frankfurt for the second “innovation incubator.” The theme of the workshop hosted by the German facility services expert Wisag was “Digital prospects for shopping centers and retail properties.”

According to Marcin Materny, member of the management board and managing director of the retail department at Echo Investment, there is no potential for traditional shopping centers in Poland. The reason is that the time has come for focusing on spectacular projects like the company’s “Towarowa 22.”

What customers have long demanded of malls is now being demanded of designer outlets. They must offer customers more than shopping, says Henrik Madsen, Managing Director Northern Europe at McArthurGlen, in an interview with ACROSS.

On April 11, McArthurGlen, Europe’s leading owner, developer and manager of designer outlets, and TH Real Estate, one of the largest real estate investment managers in the world, officially opened Phase V of Designer Outlet Parndorf, taking its gross lettable area (GLA) to 36,500 sq m.

With more than 17 million visitors per year and 17 years after opening, Val d’Europe is once again at the forefront of retail innovation with an expansion bringing (opening April 12) its total sales area to more than 105,000 sq.m. The extension features 30 new brands and an even more tailor-made customer path.

For the last five years, we have seen that retailers and brands have slowed their expansion plans significantly as they review their portfolios in an attempt to understand their customers and their rapidly changing habits. Profitability has been hit—hard in many cases.

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Construction work recently began on the Salaris shopping center in Salaryevo in southwestern Moscow. The Russian capital is thus receiving one more enormous temple of consumption.