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Outlet centers have proved to be one of the most successful businesses in the retail market.

Almost simultaneously with ACROSS, Europe’s largest shopping center celebrates a decade of operation. Westfield London reveals how shopping habits have transformed in the British capital over the last 10 years.

From the outbreak of the financial crisis until 2016, hardly any new shopping center openings occurred in Spain and Portugal, reports Francisco Cavaleiro de Ferreira, Managing Director of Multi in Iberia. Now, the markets have recovered.

The retail real estate industry has faced many challenges in the decade since the crash. Most fundamental among them was a textbook case of falling demand facing rising supply.

When we presented the first print issue of ACROSS exactly 10 years ago, an epochal event shook the world economy. The US-investment bank Lehman Brothers went bankrupt with a deafening bang and caused the biggest economic crisis in recent years. The real estate industry was hit particularly hard.

A new food and entertainment complex has recently opened at Parndorf in Burgenland, one of the most successful outlet locations in Europe. Centerprise Group, based in Austria, was jointly responsible for the conceptual design and letting of the complex.

… innovative retail real estate projects and refurbishments are unveiled at Mapic in Cannes. These are just a few examples.

Not every development is successful in the booming outlet center market. This is particularly true if the projects were not developed by one of the Big 3 in the outlet center industry. The necessary outlet-specific expertise is underestimated by many developers who are attracted by and wish to benefit from the theoretically high leasing levels in the outlet asset class.

SPAIN: Inmobiliaria Espacio has appointed UK retail and leisure agency Lunson Mitchenall to drive forward the next phase of retail and leisure leasing at Caleido in Madrid. The Torre Sevilla shopping center opened its doors to the public. | SWEDEN: Mölndal Galleria opened in the Greater Gothenburg Area. | GERMANY: After three years of renovation, Helio, with its 38,000 sq m, opened its doors in Augsburg. Ernst-August-Galerie in Hanover will be modernized, redesigned, and expanded. Prelios Immobilien Management has presented a comprehensive concept for the redesign of the Galerie Neustädter Tor in Gießen, Hesse.

Mitsui Fudosan Co. announced the grand opening of Mitsui Outlet Park Taichung Port, central Taiwan’s largest outlet mall, on December 12, 2018. | Palladium in Umuarama (Brazil) will bring greater comfort, development, and leisure to a market that has the largest consumption potential in the region. | Simon Premium Outlets announced the opening of Denver Premium Outlets (USA).

The German Ruhr region is regarded as the largest catchment area in Europe – even ahead of the metropolitan areas of London and Paris. In that region – specifically in Mülheim – Rhein-Ruhr Zentrum, which opened in 1973, is now undergoing a 200-million-euro modernization.

Given the current skepticism prevailing among the international real estate investment community, particularly regarding the retail real estate segment, it is important to try to identify its underlying reasons, separating the thoughtful ones from the more provocative ones.

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