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The departing Mayor of Helsinki, Jan Vapaavuori, will join NREP to further strengthen the company’s urban development efforts. Jan Vapaavuori will join the company in a part-time role as Senior Advisor for Urban Development after his term as Mayor ends in August. He will work across all NREP’s geographies to facilitate new solutions to the most pressing urban challenges, including infrastructure challenges and climate crisis.

Alberto Valls, managing partner of real estate at Deloitte Spain & EMEA, will prioritise promoting the collective and multidisciplinary understanding of the ULI Madrid community.

With the much-anticipated reopening of non-essential shops finally here, businesses will be welcoming locals back into their stores. For one street in Poole, the 2021 easing of lockdown is particularly exciting: Poole’s Kingland Crescent has been completely revamped as part of LGIM Real Assets strategy to re-invent and re-position their retail places.

Europe’s food retailers are being put to the test by the eco- nomic consequences of the natural disaster Covid-19. This is a very special kind of weather situation. While non-food retailers and the food service industry are in sheer despair in the face of the calm caused by government-imposed lockdowns, the “system-relevant” food retail sector has been confronted with a veritable storm tide since the sec- ond quarter of 2020.

The primary focus remains on preventing further vacancies, reports Christine Hager, Managing Director of the redos Group. For the most part, the goal is being met by means of interim leases, for example, for pop-up stores, service concepts, and coronavirus quick-test centers.

ECE Marketplaces wants to use the new luca app, which enables secure tracking of contacts via smartphone, at approximately 10,000 stores in its shopping centers across Germany. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Germany is also in favor of introducing the app. As do many large retailers such as Breuninger, Deichmann, KiK, and Thalia.

“For us, a human-centric vision is one of the main values shaping our vision of the future for any shopping center we manage or will manage.”

Union Investment and Sierra Germany launched their latest edition of First Store by Alexa–a campaign by Berlin’s well-known shopping center Alexa. Ralf Schaffuss, Head of Retail Asset Management of owner Union Investment Real Estate, and Jens Horeis, General Manager of Center Management company Sierra Germany, talk about their latest innovation of the competition.

Most experts in the European placemaking industry have adopted a consciously positive stance with regard to the recently commenced business year.

Multi recently published its Pan European Customer Monitor + Covid-19 Survey. For Head of Research Mariam Hussain, the most positively surprising result was that 70% of visitors surveyed indicated that shopping centers are valuable places to spend time in and will continue to be especially once the pandemic is over.

Although empty shop windows have always been part of running a shopping center, there are more around than most center managers might like. The good news is that they are opportunities to create bite-sized experiences that support the trend towards “shoppertainment”.

The last 12 months has seen the most catastrophic impact on the F&B sector across the globe. First into lockdown and almost certainly one of the last sectors to re-emerge from the crisis, there’s not a lot more that can be said on the devastation to businesses, employees, and guests that hasn’t already been published. But what of the future? What will the post-pandemic foodservice landscape look like?

HB Reavis has created an oasis for leisure and retail in the heart of a lively district in the Slovakian capital. The 12,000-square-meter green roof serves as a highlight.