All Property articles – Page 333
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AnalysisBattle on the western front
Westfield London is banking on drawing shoppers from the capital’s other retail hubs when it opens in October, but how severe could the outflow be? Ben Cooper investigates the effect it could have
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News
M&S to anchor southeast Irish scheme
Marks & Spencer is to open its first store in the southeast of Ireland at the Showgrounds Shopping Centre in Clonmel Town.
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Opinion
Where the value lies
Land Securities’ £100 million planning application to redevelop Liverpool’s St John’s Centre, featured in last week’s Retail Week, isn’t the type of development story you see too often these days.
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Tesco under fire for planning application
Tesco is under fire after it was revealed that it used a local retailer to front a planning application for a development in Barnstaple, Devon.
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Analysis
The brave look east
The shoppers of the former Eastern Bloc have huge pent-up spending power and a development boom is creating opportunities for Western retailers. Ben Cooper reports
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Tom Tailor signs first UK company-owned store
German fashion retailer Tom Tailor has taken its first company-owned store in the UK and Ireland at the Junction One International Outlet shopping centre in Antrim.
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Asda plans mixed-use Barnet development
Supermarket retailer Asda is preparing to submit plans for a 100 million regeneration of the former Transco site at New Barnet in Hertfordshire.
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Land Securities gets the nod for Liverpool redevelopment
Land Securities has been granted planning permission for a 100 million redevelopment of the St John’s centre in Liverpool.
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Opinion
Out of town, out of fashion
Out-of-town retailing, whether through mega malls or retail parks, has been the focus of retailers’ expansion for the past two decades. But the balance is starting to shift.
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News
Liverpool One notches up 1m visits
Since opening just over two weeks ago, Grosvenor’s Liverpool One shopping centre has chalked up over a million visits, according to the developer.
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Retail rents sink to lowest since 1990s
Retail rents have fallen to their lowest level since the mid-1990s and can be expected to decline for a further three years, according to a report published by property consultancy Colliers CRE.
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Analysis
Route to market
Market towns may not be blessed with the same level of footfall as the high street, but, in these cash-strapped times, they can provide some precious stability. Ben Cooper assesses their worth
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News
High petrol cost hitting out-of-town, says Rose
The rising cost of fuel is benefiting the high street at the expense of out-of-town retail parks, said Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose.
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More delays hit Geographic’s debut in London
National Geographic’s plans to open its first European store have been hit by further delays because of spiralling costs.
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Tailor Turnbull & Asser heads for City of London scheme
Hammerson has signed West End tailor Turnbull & Asser to its development at 125 Old Broad Street in the City of London.
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Italy’s Geox embarks on UK growth assault
Italian footwear giant Geox has kick-started ambitious UK expansion plans.
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Opinion
The hidden shops of St Pancras
The past few years have been a golden age for travel retailing. The growth of low-cost travel and the increasingly commercial outlook of airport, station and roadside landlords have created huge opportunities for retailers to take advantage of captive shoppers with time to kill.
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Wal-Mart sells property firm Gazeley
Wal-Mart is to sell Gazeley, the property development subsidiary of Asda, to Dubai World company Economic Zones World.
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Analysis
One step forward
Grosvenor is intent on transforming Liverpool into a magnet for shoppers with its hotly trailed Liverpool One scheme. After phase one’s opening last week, Ben Cooper says it has every chance