LabTech, owner of Camden Market, has announced its eco-led sister development Buck Street Market will officially reopen for business on July 15.

centre:mk has announced that Dune London, the footwear and accessories brand, launched its latest store and first to open post-lockdown, at 31 Silbury Arcade. As one of the UK’s top 10 shopping centres, centre:mk welcomes the footwear retailer alongside over 120 stores that have now reopened since 15 June, including John Lewis.

Planning permission has been granted for the £250m replacement of Crompton Place shopping centre with a mixed-use, masterplan-led redevelopment of this strategically important town centre site, which lies at the heart of Bolton Council’s £1.5bn plans for the town centre.

Global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has been named the Best CEE/SEE
Retail Real Estate Agency at the HOF Awards & Forum.

DIC Asset AG, one of Germany’s leading listed property companies, announced that an agreement with its tenant Galeria Kaufhof GmbH had been reached regarding the prolongation of existing tenancies of its Chemnitz and Leverkusen assets on July 3, 2020.

These companies will be exhibiting at Propel by MIPIM: Métropole du Grand Paris, Paris & Co, E.ON, Saint Gobain, Schneider Electric, ArcelorMittal and numerous startups.

The Management Spokesman of Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss (ZIA), the central association of the real estate industry, will start working for project developer ECE in Hamburg on September 1, 2020.

The largest independent toy retailer in the UK, The Entertainer, officially re-opened its doors on June 15th to its brand-new regional flagship store in Bullring.

Since March, IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) has supported over 600,000 people in 30 countries, whose lives have been impacted by the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic.

One ticket for three leisure destinations: Enjoy your summer at Autostadt, phaeno, and designer outlets Wolfsburg. On July 6, 2020, the erlebnisreif-partners Michael Ernst (Center Manager of designer outlets Wolfsburg), Claudius Colsman (Member of the Management Team of Autostadt Wolfsburg), and Michel Junge (Managing Director of Science Centers phaeton) launched two special trains in Hanover.

“Is he unteachable? Or is Dr. Will actually stuck in a repeating time loop with his tenant survey SCPR 2020, just like the misanthropic weatherman Phil Connors in the popular comedy ‘Groundhog Day’?”

Commercial life begins anew at a tradition-steeped location: The former Brandt rusk bakery site is now the “Brandt Quartier”, the most modern retail park in the city of Hagen, which now will be operated by Deutsche Immobilien-Gruppe (the DI Group) for a fund run by Nuveen Real Estate.

Marks and Spencer will relocate to a flagship 20,000 sq ft store at Two Rivers compromising a new foodhall over 50% larger than the old store in the town. Lidl have also chosen Two Rivers as its preferred location in the town satisfying a long held requirement. Lidl opened a 15,700 sq ft store at the end of June.

Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ingka Group (owner and operator of 381 IKEA stores) announces that a purchase agreement to acquire prime real estate in the heart of Paris has been signed. The space will be used by IKEA Retail France and the total investment is 130 million euros.

Jim Tucker, David Pike and Mike Pink from KPMG’s Restructuring practice have been appointed joint administrators to intu properties plc.

Ingka Centres launches new online community and marketplace – LIVAT online.

Investment in online capabilities and delivery apps across the retail sector is expected to increase further, according to the latest research from global real estate advisor, CBRE. Online sales have helped many retailers offset some of the lost revenue from store closures during the lockdown period.

The Frankfurt-based asset and property manager GPEP GmbH appointed real estate economist Mischa Koch as Head of Key Account Management and Business Development in early June.

Hines, the international real estate firm, has signed a long-term lease with food wholesaler Kaufland for the Mira shopping center in northern Munich, Bavaria.

Capital & Regional and The Mall Maidstone team are excited to welcome Gavin Cockayne as the new General Manager at the Mall Maidstone, while wishing a fond farewell to Andy Davy, who is retiring from the role after an incredible eleven-year career at the company.

MAPIC will be held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes from 17 to 19 November, 2020. Its theme of Embracing Collaborative Retail, along with the entire programme, has been designed to support and give an extra boost to the international retail property industry, which has been hit hard by the current health crisis.

Since reopening last Monday 15th June 2020, average transactional spend has increased by 11% across the three quarters of stores which have reopened.

The Supervisory Board of Commerz Real has appointed Gabriele Volz as Chief Executive Officer of Commerz Real. She will take up the position on 1 January 2021.