Shopping centres

- Property firm Land Securities Group has today predicted a bleak outlook for the UK high street, claiming that many locations “may never recover” from current struggles.Annual results released this morning by the largest commercial property company...

- Trading levels at property firm Westfield’s two major shopping centres in London have continued to grow during the first three months of 2012, according to a statement from the firm today.Westfield London, based in the Shepherd’s Bush area of the ...

- Property firm Capital Shopping Centres (CSC) saw footfall and occupancy decline across its retail sites during its last financial quarter, results released today reveal.Footfall across its 14 UK shopping centres fell two per cent year-on-year in t...

- Real estate firm British Land has appointed the former boss of Westfield London to take charge of its Plymouth shopping centre Drake Circus, it has been announced.Greg Lumley has become the new Centre Director for Drake Circus after more than 26 y...

- The Government recently confirmed plans to extend Sunday opening hours during the London Olympics. There are mixed opinions from retail businesses across the country about the change. As the Centre Director at shopping centre Festival Place, it wa...

- Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M has commenced construction of a new store in the UK today after appointing Britannia of Cheltenham to complete the build.The £1.5 million store in Aylesbury’s Friars Square shopping centre is on track to be comple...

- UK property firm Hammerson has beaten Westfield to be chosen as the preferred developer of the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, it was revealed today.Lease owners of the Whitgift Centre, Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) and IBRC Assurance Company (...

- Just 31,500 sq m (339,063 sq ft) of new shopping centre space is to be developed this year, the lowest annual figure in almost 50 years, according to new research published today.Commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield says that only one n...

- Last week saw the launch of Festival Place’s FPTV channel. The new channel received over 410 hits in just four days. It got the team at Festival Place talking about the importance of presenting a business across a multiple of platforms.Multichanne...