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Amancio Ortega Gaona – A Non-pretentious Fashion Entrepreneur.

Following the leases with fashion labels Costes and Seven Sisters for Forum Rotterdam, this inner city project has entered an important phase; it now has just one vacant retail unit left. A third fashion flagship store will soon be announced. The project marked another important moment with the sale of the listed section of Forum Rotterdam to Deka Immobilien.

The portfolio consists of two prime assets, the ‘Opernplatz 2’ at the entrance gate to Frankfurt’s ‘Goethestraße’ shopping street and the ‘Beursgallery’ department store on Hoogstraat, Rotterdam’s most frequented shopping mile.

Shopping centers have been opening up on their sides towards the outdoors for quite some time. Now they are opening up on their rooftops as well. Green and activity roofs are all the rage right now.

Multi Corporation announces the departure of Josip Kardun as CEO, effective November 1, 2019. Josip Kardun was appointed to the Management Board in 2017 and after two and a half years at Multi wishes to step down to pursue personal business interests.

GranRoma in Italy, StadtGalerie Velbert in Germany, Galeria Mlociny Poland, and Ada Mall in Serbia: Various retail properties across Europe opened within just a few days.

Colosseum Centre, located in the north-western part of Bucharest, district 1, has attracted new fashion, leisure and food court tenants, as part of the extension plan of the commercial centre. As the construction work progresses, many tenants are interested to join Colosseum Mall. This trend is sustained by the strong performance of the existing Colosseum Centre which has given brands a great opportunity to develop their businesses in district 1, Bucharest.

Recently Edinburgh St James has signed four brands from global retail group Inditex, including fashion powerhouse Zara, to form part of the retail offering at the 158,000 m sq m mixed-use development at the heart of the Scottish capital.

The paradigm shift in the retail and retail real estate industry were the key issues at this year’s ICSC European Conference in Barcelona. The industry’s big players adapt their business models to bind current and future customers even closer to stationary retail. Ingka Centres, formerly IKEA Centres, emphasizes new “meeting place” concepts in the hearts of cities as well as increased manpower.

Ken Hughes presented the industry meeting in the Catalan capital and captivated the auditorium with his keynote speech about Generation Z.