All Property articles – Page 328
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Analysis
Highcross: Leicester living the high life
Leicester’s Highcross centre may have arrived amid deepening economic woes, but the early signs are the city has embraced the scheme.
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News
Irish retail at saturation point
The Irish retail market could be completely saturated by 2015 if pipeline developments proceed as planned.
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News
BRC slams expected business rates rise
The British Retail Consortium has hit out at the Government for failing to protect retailers from extra costs being piled onto the industry following a report suggesting that business rates will increase by 16 per cent from April 2010.
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News
Liverpool’s Clayton Square set to grow
Land Securities has started work on the first phase of investment in Liverpool across two shopping centres in the city centre.
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News
Staines centre submits plans for extension
Elmsleigh Shopping Centre in Staines could benefit from a third phase of extension, following an application to Spelthorne Borough Council by Clerical Medical Investment Group.
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News
Orange begins expansion drive
Mobile phone giant Orange has kick-started its latest phase of store roll-outs in the UK with the opening of its second outlet in Southampton last week.
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Opinion
Will the West End win?
This morning the New West End Company hosted an interesting breakfast meeting discussing the future of retail and how it affects the West End.
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News
Retail acquisitions likely in Central Europe as credit crunch bites
The impact of the credit crunch and inflation is threatening to pitch emerging retailers in Central and Eastern Europe into difficulties, providing acquisition opportunities for Western groups.
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News
Asda to open five Asda Living stores this year
Asda will open a further five Asda Living stores across the UK this year, bringing its total to 21.
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Opinion
Act tough now and win later
As famed former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Richard Greenbury points out on page 23, retailers have had a good run. Such a good one, in fact, that many of today’s senior retailers won’t have worked through a recession. Not many of us here at Retail Week have either.
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News
Urban Outfitters set to bring Anthropologie to Regent Street
US fashion retailer Urban Outfitters is poised to bring its sister brand Anthropologie to London’s Regent Street, sending a clear signal that the UK remains an important European launch pad despite the slowdown in the economy.
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News
Christmas in the balance
Sector braced for toughest season since the 1980s, with December like-for-like drop expected.
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Analysis
Sweat your assets
The quarterly rents debate may still be raging, but there are other ways retailers can work with their landlords to make savings in these straitened times. Ben Cooper investigates.
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Opinion
What's the Verdict?
With prescient timing, Verdict has today predicted a revival in retail parks at the expense of city centre retail locations.
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News
Delayed Newbury centre finally given green light
Standard Life and Shearer Property Group have given the Parkway scheme in Newbury the go-ahead after a string of delays following questions over the project’s viability.
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News
Hob snaps up store at Leeds’ Clarence Dock
Culinary retailer Hob has taken its third UK store and its second outside London as part of a raft of signings to Clarence Dock in Leeds.
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News
Ireland’s Pavilions development unveils blueprint for extension
Irish developer Chartered Land has submitted an application for an extension to its Pavilions shopping centre at Swords, north of Dublin, which would significantly increase the scheme’s retail offer.
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News
Out-of-town retail parks to ‘lead retail renaissance’
Out-of-town retail is set to bounce back from the economic gloom and will be more successful than town centres in instigating a retail resurgence, a Verdict survey has claimed.
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News
Asda leads charge against tax on empty property
Asda has given its backing to a campaign by the British Property Federation (BPF) and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) against stealth tax on empty property.
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News
A demanding autumn line-up
Most years, next week’s opening of Leicester’s Highcross Quarter development would be the biggest shopping centre event of the year.