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Revitalization is absolutely essential when it comes to aligning retail locations with the “new normal”, emphasizes Christine Hager, Managing Director / Head of Shopping Center Asset Management at redos, in an interview with ACROSS.

designer outlets Wolfsburg now welcomes its guests via live stream, in collaboration with model and presenter Louisa Mazzurana as well as various special guests. The center will broadcast every Thursday from a different shop. The next edition on Thursday (November 19) will take place at the WMF Store with star cook Sven Elverfeld.

The recently created business segment ECE Marketplaces, part of the newly organized ECE Group, will be headed by Joanna Fisher, in her role as CEO, effective January 2021. The CEO-designate of ECE’s shopping center business discusses current challenges and future strategies in an interview with ACROSS.

The share of Internet sales has returned to near pre-pandemic levels. At the same time, Polish customers are more willing than before to turn to convenience shopping in smaller retail formats.

Recruitments, promotions and appointments…

Olena has been working for the company since 2015, her responsibilities include the formation and development of the company’s business reputation, support of corporate B2B and CSR projects, cooperation with media outlets and establishing Media Relations, positioning of malls and implementation of B2C programs.

Around two and a half months after the shutdown, the Covid-19 crisis still keeps the retail real estate and placemaking industry well and truly on its toes. Even though stores and marketplaces in many European countries have mostly reopened, dramatic declines in frequencies and revenues remain more of a rule instead of an exception.

Corona is rapidly changing the world of retail. Shopping centers also experience these changes. Operators and tenants are facing far-reaching changes. Especially the severely affected fashion industry will accelerate these changes.

Covid-19 will sustainably change the European retail, retail real estate, and placemaking industry. The crisis’ dramatic impact will be felt for months, if not years. But what are the solutions we have available in this phase or reorientation? Which measures must be taken to find the way back to long-term success? It seems quite clear that, ultimately, the only chance for all stakeholders is reinforced, open, and transparent collaboration.

“Let’s create and open a virtual Madrid, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Milan or Venice for our avatars, virus-free, with the recovered turquoise lagoon, a crowded Piazza San Marco, hundreds of flying doves, etc.”

What we are experiencing these days is unprecedented. Unprecedented in terms of the changes that will come. Unprecedented in regard to the question “how do we go on from here”, and also unprecedented when it comes to the constant as well as instant switches between optimism and sheer pessimism.

Yurdaer Kahraman, CEO and Board Member of FİBA Commercial Properties and Member of the ACROSS Advisory Board, receives three to four purchase offers each month. He meticulously evaluates each offers.

Atrium European Real Estate’s strategy is to reposition its portfolio towards large, high quality dominant retail centers in prime urban locations and capital cities.

How can the various issues and problems that exist in retail and the real estate industry be solved in this day and age?