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BIG game changer has arrived in Andrychów and Lubin.
BIG Andrychow and BIG Lubin are the new names of Galeria Andrychów and Cuprum Park in Lubin and the first BIG retail parks in Poland. Both retail parks have been acquired by BIG Shopping Centers Ltd in 2022 and passed through the complete rebranding process during the last month.

Slovenia’s first Fashion Outlet Village is scheduled to open in 2024/2025. The HG Invest investor group around the Tyrolean company Huter Invest is developing it. Nikolaus Huter, Managing Director of Huter Invest, spoke to ACROSS about the development, the advantages of locations close to the border, and why more and more offline shopping locations should be converted to outlet centers.

An analysis by RegioData of major European cities in terms of shopping center density yields significantly different results than the evaluations at the country level. While the highest density levels are achieved in the Scandinavian countries, the capitals in Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CEE/SEE) are ahead in the evaluation by city.

Mixed-use is the order of the day for the entire placemaking industry. As a result, shopping centers have increasingly become home to coworking and flex office solutions. While the flex office market in the US shows a growth rate of 25 percent, more and more European shopping center operators are taking advantage of this fresh source of revenue.

Planning security for the Bethanien Center in Neubrandenburg: MEC, as the owner representative of its customer Union Investment, has brought about a resolution on the statutes of the city of Neubrandenburg’s development plan. This serves to secure the commercial location in terms of planning law and also secures the owner’s investment in the long term.

ECE Marketplaces expands its center management portfolio and takes over the management of two further shopping centers in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul: the “Palladium Atasehir” and the “V Metroway”. The local subsidiary ECE Türkiye will be responsible for the long-term management, leasing and concept planning for both centers.

The Rødovre Shopping Center in Copenhagen launched a campaign themed “WOW”, as in “BRING BACK THE WOW” and it was a great success. “WOW”, included 7 different Insta Boxes by MK Illumination placed throughout the shopping center. The design and content of the Insta Boxes are exactly matched to the surrounding of the boxes.

After the shopping center landscape generally had to endure a lot in the past years, a pretty clear résumé is according to RegioData Research finally on the table: Shopping centers are by no means a phased-out model and will continue to dominate the stationary retail sector in the medium term.

“Could this be the right time for the shopping center industry to pull itself together and adopt the successful concepts of its outlet colleagues? – This question was raised at the end of the first Retail Talk in 2023. On February 15, 2023, a top-class panel discussed “Outlets – A Winning Retail Format.”