All Shopping centres articles – Page 65
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Slaters roll-out continues
Menswear retailer Slaters opened its 25th store in Swansea last week and said it believed customer service was key to riding out the downturn.
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OpinionNow we need real action on service charges
It’s not the most glamorous of subjects, but service charge is one of the areas where retailers have been paying through the nose for decades. Finally, it seems, landlords are willing to have a serious conversation about it.Retailers will delight in any plan to save them money in these tight ...
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NewsCardiff's St David's 2 shopping centre adds raft of new retailers
Land Securities and Capital Shopping Centres have added a major wave of retailers to the St David’s 2 shopping centre in Cardiff, taking the scheme to nearly 55 per cent let.
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NewsRetailers and landlords join forces to cut service charges
A consortium of some of the country’s top retailers and landlords has produced guidelines for landlords laying out ways they can cut retailers’ service charge bills by up to 20 per cent.
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Westfield falls short of Next’s expectations
Next chief executive Simon Wolfson said that its Westfield London shop has so far performed below expectations and that the scheme has had less of an impact on its West End shops than it anticipated.Wolfson said Next, which this week reported like-for-like sales down 6.5 per cent in the full ...
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AnalysisQuantity as well as quality
Bath has a strong high-end retail offer but always lacked the larger units demanded by the big high street chains. Ben Cooper finds out how a new centre will provide for the middle market
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Three more retailers on board at St David's 2
Three retailers have signed up for space at St David’s 2 in Cardiff.
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Shopping centre development ailing in most of UK
London and the East Midlands are the only two regions in the country not to have been affected by delays to the shopping centre development pipeline, according to researcher CACI.
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Next refuses to pay all of Westfield's service charges
Fashion retailer Next is refusing to pay part of its service charge at Westfield London after the property developer increased its fees within days of the shopping centre opening.
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Analysis
West London high streets' identity crisis
Kensington High Street and King’s Road are both potentially vulnerable to the Westfield effect, but the new centre isn’t the only thing changing the landscape out west. Ben Cooper reports
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Trinity Walk on hold as bank pulls financing
The Trinity Walk development in Wakefield has ground to a halt after the bank backing the scheme pulled its funding.
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Bury St Edmunds Arc centre opens
Retail-led mixed-use scheme Arc opened its doors at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk last week.
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Zara signs for store in Aberdeen's Union Square
Zara has signed for a store at Hammerson’s Union Square development in Aberdeen.
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St James plans in Edinburgh get green light
Plans to redevelop the St James shopping centre in Edinburgh have been given the go-ahead.
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Belfast development snaps up two tenants
Two retailers have signed for space at out-of-town retail park Holywood Exchange in Tillysburn, east Belfast.
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Westfield extension in Northern Ireland to go to inquiry
The dispute over the extension of an out-of-town scheme in Northern Ireland due to be anchored by John Lewis is to be settled by a public inquiry.
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Bluewater sales and footfall up
Sales at Bluewater in Kent were up by 2.6 per cent in January compared with the same period last year, figures released by owner Lend Lease have revealed.
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Redevelopment: Keeping up appearances
Retailers are always on the lookout for new space but funding for developments is scarce. As Ben Cooper reports, developers will have to revamp the centres they already own if they are to keep drawing in the tenants
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Stoke's East West Centre set for £250m makeover
A 250m redevelopment project in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, has been given the go-ahead.