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2022

One year ago, the long-standing chairman of the Austrian Council of Shopping Places (ACSP), Stephan Mayer-Heinisch, announced his retirement after 21 successful years. His long-standing deputy, Christoph Andexlinger took over the function of the chairman, for which he had already been elected last year, as planned during the General Assembly.

For almost 45 years, the shopping center southwest of Cologne with around 150 stores has enjoyed sustained popularity. On behalf of Deka Immobilien Investment GmbH, kplus konzept developed a new design concept for the center’s public areas.

The retail destination centre:mk Milton Keynes in the UK has been recognized for its sustainability achievements over the last 24 months with a Green World Award. The Green Apple Awards enable companies and organizations to win environmental recognition not only for themselves, but also for their countries.

Newsec launches a new initiative, Newsec Digital Accelerator, to further enhance the position within digitalization and sustainability. Christoffer Börjesson is appointed to head up and continue developing this strategy.

Grosvenor has welcomed Timothy Oulton, the British furniture company noted for its traditional handcraftsmanship, to Liverpool ONE. The 297 sq m gallery, located on Peter’s Lane, has opened its first standalone space in the north of England.

The fashion company Pull&Bear, a brand of the Spanish Inditex Group, opened a flagship store in the leisure and shopping center on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. It is the second store of the fashion brand in Berlin and the first store in a Berlin shopping center.

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.

In times of unpredictability, marketing spending is usually the first candidate for budget cuts. Marketing management in the commercial real estate sector must be highly focussed on the issues that are fundamental to the business of property owners which directly contributes to increasing their value.

JLL’s new management board is made up of a team of leaders featured with cross-sectional competences, and experience spanning both the real estate market and other sectors.

After a successful first quarter of 2022 with steadily growing visitor numbers, the FLAIR urban experience center is celebrating the completion of its food hall and the opening of the only consumer electronics store in Fürth.