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Leading management and technology specialist for parking and visitor insight, GroupNexus, has identified that during the first week in July, motorway service station visits have now surpassed pre lockdown figures from the same period four months ago, showing an increase of 4.46%, whilst dwell time has decreased by 14% to 30mins, compared to pre-pandemic. [1]

Shopping centers have been grappling with dwindling visitor numbers due to their online competition since before the coronavirus crisis. Now, many malls are facing an almost yawning emptiness. To ensure their survival, these shopping hotspots have to strike out in a new direction even faster than originally anticipated.

Designer Outlets Wolfsburg has reopened, presenting interesting new openings with Sunglass Hut and Petrol Industries. Many other stores have also been refurbished and modernized.

However, according to Otto Ambagtsheer, CEO of VIA Outlets, the way in which customers shop will change, at least on a temporary basis. For example, in some of the company’s markets, they will not be able to let guests try on clothes before they buy them, and clothes that are returned will need to be quarantined for three days.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic AFI Europe, the largest shopping center project to be delivered this year in Romania will not be opened as planned.

“The outlet category has always matured during decades of upheaval, and we have routinely stated that ‘outlets are good in good times and great in terrible times.’ 2020 may well test that theory.”

Hines, the international real estate firm, announces the annual results of Outlet Village Belaya Dacha for 2019. The key performance indicators of the outlet suggest the steadily increasing interest of the audience in the format; over the past period, the shopping complex has shown an increase in sales and traffic.

VIA Outlets – Europe’s fastest growing owner-operator of premium outlet shopping destinations confirms another year of impressive growth in 2019. Reinforced by the company’s continued remodelling programme and the introduction of new brands, VIA Outlets delivered exceptional figures including an 8.4% increase in its brand sales and a 6.1% increase in footfall. These results demonstrate the increasing attractiveness of an ever improving VIA Outlets portfolio and the resilience of the outlet sector compared to the headwinds faced by wider, full-price high street and retail markets.

The third construction stage of designer outlets Wolfsburg was completed in October 2018. This shopping destination serves all those who work nearby, all visiting for the day, and everyone who just wants to enjoy a meal in a lively atmosphere with additional restaurant options like “Frittenwerk” or “Dean and David”.

Railpen has announced the launch of global sports retailers adidas and Reebok at its newly re-branded designer village, Caledonia Park, in Scotland.

A range of festive activities have begun at Elephant Park in south London where a four-week pop-up titled ‘Merry Elephant’ is transforming the recently opened Sayer Street and Deacon Street into a mini Winter Wonderland, at the £2.3 billion regeneration project led by Lendlease and Southwark Council.

Zadar Shopping Capitol, part of the Capitol Park family, welcomed its first customers with the opening of a 6,400 sqm centre in Ante Starčevića street.

The grand opening of the first outlet village in the Helsinki metropolitan area caused a true shoppers rush.

In Western Europe, where retail park development has reached maturity, new schemes have to be innovative and compelling. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the market is relatively undersupplied, providing scope for increased levels of development activity. These are the findings of a recent study conducted by Cushman & Wakefield.