In order to provide the retail and leisure industry with guidance and insight to navigate the opportunity posed by F&B, the ICSC commissioned JLL to carry out a global study. It should provide a holistic, 360-degree view of the current landscape, challenges, risks, opportunities, and future outlook for foodservice within the shopping center space.

Effective retail places use leisure, technology, and planning to lure shoppers, who now want shopping to be both functional and social.

The distribution of online potential for product groups such as food, clothing, consumer electronics and DIY items differs substantially from region to region. Recently GfK published its findings in the first-ever study on regional online potential for 17 product groups in Germany.

How the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union will affect the British shopping center industry.

Colliers recently published a “Retail Market Overview” of the first half of 2016 in Bulgaria. It indicates that the market will undergo sustainable development, with decreasing levels of supply and stable demand until the end of the year.

According to a recent report by Cushman & Wakefield, the sales area of European retail parks will increase by 50% more in 2016 than in the previous year. This growth is due mainly to developments in France, Italy, and the UK.

In an interview with ACROSS, Frank McAveety, Leader of Glasgow City Council, explains how the City Center Strategy protects and progresses the retail offer.

The EHI Retail Institute recently presented the German “Shopping Center Report 2016.” It reports that only four new projects will be completed this year. Revitalizations and neighborhoods centers currently prevail.

The annual volume of new Moscow shopping centers will decrease to 460,000 sq m in 2016. Almost 90% of 2016 completions will come from postponed projects.

GfK study on key retail indicators: 2015 review and 2016 forecast

According to Redevco, these are the top three most attractive European retail destinations. It is notable that soft factors continue to drive city performance.

ECE has published new study on development of food & beverages at shopping centers. Restaurants and food courts have been an important trend at the centers for a while.

The current largest shopping center development project in Switzerland is the Mall of Switzerland in Ebikon, near Lucerne. ACROSS wanted to ask Marcel Stoffel, Managing Director of the Swiss Council of Shopping Centers (SCSC), how he views the project and what he sees as the future prospects for the Swiss shopping center industry.

Transactions in the retail sector were dominant last year, accounting for around 55% of the total volume.

There are currently 189 shopping centers in Switzerland with sales area greater than 5,000 sq m. This includes five largest railway stations and airport shopping in Zurich/Kloten. Last year, there were just 182 centers.

Luxury labels pay “connoisseur’s price” of more than €400 per sq m per month for prime addresses in the center of Vienna.

No grand openings were celebrated in the Benelux country last year. This year and the following years will be different.

TriGrant has spotted a wave of activity in the Eastern European Country.

In the “Real Estate Market Report 2015 – Baltic States,” experts at Ober-Haus examine the Latvian retail real estate market, among other places.

In March 2010 Eurovea opened in the Slovak capital. Olga Hammer, PR & Marketing Manager of the mixed-use-property, explains how they built awareness for their brand.

Stable returns and consistently good economic forecasts currently make the Slovakian capital particularly attractive. Developers remain reticent when it comes to creating new space, however.

Conversion of shopping centers into communities, new blended rental models, and other topics the top players in the European shopping center industry have placed on their agendas for 2016.

This is made possible by leveraging the porousness of The Star Vista’s design, which encourages air movement and created a naturally cool environment in the common areas.

Multi has developed Forum Lviv in the eponymous western Ukrainian city under exceptionally difficult circumstances. It is 95% let.