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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.

It will be the largest and most modern store of eobuwie.pl in Poland. The most cutting-edge footwear retail chain in the country has decided to extend the space leased four times in Galeria Młociny from 580 sq m up to 2,300 sq m. All this to create the first two-level store, where we can find almost 200,000 pairs of shoes – as much as 70 traditional stores – and also offer an online order delivery service on the same day.

Hamburg’s HafenCity is one of the world’s most important urban development projects. Southern Überseequartier will form its vibrant core from 2022 on: a mixed-use district with creative and pioneering concepts for working, living, enjoyment, and shopping.

Champion, the authentic athletic apparel retailer, is to open its first UK outlet store and has chosen London Designer Outlet (LDO) in Wembley Park as the best place to be. London’s leading fashion and lifestyle outlet centre continues to attract new and diverse brands to its tenant mix, having also signed cosmetic retailer, Beauty Outlet.

Supernova Invest GmbH, a leading private real estate company with a buy-and-hold investment strategy focused on high quality retail properties in Central and Eastern European countries, has announced the opening of the extended and refurbished Supernova Koprivnica shopping park in Croatia in mid-April 2019. Further refurbishments are planned for other Supernova retail assets in Croatia and Slovenia.

Frenchgate Shopping Centre in Doncaster has received planning consent for a multiplex cinema and is currently in discussions with two well-known cinema brands. Work on the £8 million investment will begin later this year, ahead of a spring 2020 opening. The planning permission is part of an ongoing investment strategy by the centre’s owners, The Frenchgate Limited Partnership.

The cornerstone ceremony for Galeria Chełm, the first shopping centre in the town of Chełm, was held on Friday, 22 March 2019. Held near the intersection of Lubelska street and Rejowiecka street, the ceremony was attended by representatives of the local government, the project investors Acteeum Group and Equilis Europe SA, prospective tenants as well as other companies involved in the development.

A connected, future-ready, liveable urban core – that’s the vision for the city of Wolfsburg’s Nordkopf district. The development project is now picking up speed. The plans for the inner city areas to the south and the west of the Wolfsburg train station will be designed by the SIGNA Group, which has been signed as an investor and a project developer for the entire area. The Austrian SIGNA Group and Wolfsburg AG are concluding a project development agreement for this purpose. The next step for the project partners will be to develop an overall concept to be put to the Wolfsburg City Council and all other involved parties for approval.

The redesigning and upgrading of the shopping and experience center in Leipzig/Halle will be carried out at a cost of 40 million euros.

According to Frank van Dongen and Willem-Joost de Vries of Dutch design company TconcepT, such a transformation is necessary. An essential factor in understanding this kind of placemaking is the human scale.

The parameters for successful shopping center marketing are changing, reports Guido Beddig, Managing Partner at Kintyre Investments, in an interview with ACROSS. The marketing team must be familiar with the new media.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield Germany presents a new highlight within the lifestyle range of Germany’s biggest shopping destination: On 21 March 2019, the French beauty label Sephora opens the doors of its brandnew flagship store at Centro Oberhausen for the first time. On 350 sq m visitors find cosmetic products from the company’s trendy own brand as well as lotions, fragrances and makeup from international top brands. Furthermore, an interactive store concept with exclusive services promises exciting shopping experiences.

Independent bakery and baking school, Bread Ahead, is the latest retailer to join the line-up at Wembley Park, the £3bn urban development adjacent to the world-famous National Stadium.