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Multi Corporation celebrates its 40th anniversary with an additional €1.3 billion worth of new assets under management in the last twelve months. The bulk of the additional management contracts relate to retail assets, whilst the new assignments also comprise of other asset classes such as offices and hotels. Multi now has over €5 billion of AUM.

Operational excellence is achieved when management is able to successfully strike a balance between innovative approaches and traditional corporate values. ACROSS spoke with HBB about tailor-made approaches to center management, why the consistent pursuit of the idea of community and close cooperation with cities is the most significant success factor, especially in turbulent times, and why pop-up stores amount to so much more than a means of concealing vacancies.

Northern Ireland-based Lynas Food Outlet will open its doors in late Autumn, with works due to start middle of May 2022 to restructure part of the mall to facilitate the large 790 sq m store.

Hines has secured Nike at ‘The Trinity Quarter’ in Copenhagen, marking the brand’s first new store opening in Denmark since the global pandemic.

Altera Vastgoed has acquired off-market local shopping center Het Stroink in Enschede (NL) from WP Retail Invest CV (“WPRI”). The center has recently been renovated by WPRI to create a retail complex with a pharmacy, a medical center, three primary schools, a nursery and a petrol station.

The lifestyle center in the city of the Olympiads takes shape between outdoor sports fields, experimental formats, fresh goods markets and latest-generation cinema. 60% of the surfaces have already been signed by leasing department of Nhood Services Italy.

The pandemic has confirmed the resilience of Immofinanz’s low-cost retail formats and has resulted in the introduction of new concepts. Immofinanz Board Member Dietmar Reindl spoke with the publisher of ACROSS Magazine, Reinhard Winiwarter, about the resilience of retail relationships, the need for more service, and the company’s expansion plans.

Around 30 years ago, a trendsetting Kaufland store opened in Erfurt-Herrenberg (Erfurt, Germany). Now it has been honored by the “Stadtimpulse” initiative as Best Practice 2022 in three categories: Innovation in Retail, Urban Design and Real Estate, and Experience and Living Space.

Nhood Services Italy became a service provider for the urban transformation project of Waterfront di Levante, located in Genoa. Due to the special architectural solutions made by Renzo Piano, Waterfront can be described as a low environmental impact project for the city.

Property developer and asset manager, Sovereign Centros, has submitted a planning application outlining its masterplan proposals for the reimagination of St. Enoch Center in Glasgow. The mixed-use development puts focus on retail, leisure, entertainment, hotel, offices, and city center living.

Potsdamer Platz in Berlin will become an arcade game haven this summer. Gamestate will launch an entertainment center inside the Arkaden mall, which will open as a high-street venue after a two-year period of restructuring and modernizing.

Today, the expanded part of the Supernova Ljubljana Rudnik shopping center was opened. The investment in the extension amounted to €70 million. The center now covers 50,000 sq m and includes 109 stores, 50 of which are new, 7 cinemas, 19 restaurants and bars on two floors with terraces, 2 indoor amusement parks, outdoor playgrounds, a fitness center, and 2,552 parking spaces, including 1,800 in the parking garage.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) brings Culturespaces on board as the key partner for the mixed-use quarter’s art, culture, and edutainment segment. With Port des Lumières, Culturespaces will open a branch of its digital art center in Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier, which will cover an area of around 3,100 sq m.

Immofinanz is presenting its new residential brand “On Top Living” at the real estate trade fair, MIPIM in Cannes. Under this brand, tenants will be offered up to 12,000 smart and sustainable apartments at affordable prices in the medium term.