Capital Shopping Centres have revealed which tenants have signed up to MetrOasis, the 15,000 sq ft catering development at Metrocentre in Gateshead, as construction starts this week.  

British Land and USS press start button on the £64m redevelopment of Whitley outlet village into a full-price mall

Construction is underway on a £15million expansion to the Bridges in Sunderland city centre

European prime shopping centre rents stable as development pipeline slows

Land Securities has appointed Balfour Beatty as the design and build contractor for its Buchanan Street retail and residential project in Glasgow city centre.

According to Cushman & Wakefield development activity is unlikely to pick up before 2015

Joint developers Rokeby Developments and Peveril Securities have announced the completion of construction of their 112,000 sq ft mixed-use leisure and retail scheme The Pipeworks in Swadlincote – the largest retail park to be built this year.

Woking Council presses the start button on centre refurbishment and extension

The rate of shopping centre construction activity has fallen to similar levels seen during the early 1990s recession, limiting opportunities for retailers to expand, according to the latest research from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).

Bloomfield Shopping Centre and Retail Park in Bangor, Co Down, has unveiled plans for a £10m extension

The Events Venue at Bluewater together with construction company BAM, held a ‘Topping Out’ ceremony on Monday to celebrate the final phase of construction of the £60m development.

Westfield Stratford City - the 1.9m sq ft, retail, leisure and business destination and gateway to the Olympic Park – has completed the construction phase on budget and on schedule.

Spenhill, the regeneration subsidiary of Tesco, has begun construction work on phase I of a £105m mixed use development in Higham’s Park, London, that will include 10 new shops and cafes and will be anchored by a 37,000 sq ft Tesco store.

Phase Two of Dransfield’s Sanderson Arcade in Morpeth has opened fully let

Network Rail has started work on a 20,000-sq ft retail scheme at London's Waterloo Station

Harcourt Developments will open phase one of the extension to Laois shopping centre on Tuesday April 26

Shopping centre development in the UK saw its slowest year since the mid-1990s in 2010, according to Cushman & Wakefield

New shopping centre development in Europe fell sharply in 2010, with the largest decline since 1983, according to Cushman & Wakefield

The existing Tesco store at Yate Shopping Centre in South Gloucestershire is due to be demolished and replaced by a 110,000 sq ft Tesco Extra, in one of the most significant changes to the centre in its 40 year history.

Outlet manager REALM has announced a £2m package of remodeling and improvements at its Freeport Talke Outlet Centre, near Stoke On Trent, including the launch of a Nike Outlet

Land Securities is poised to start a new retail development in Glasgow's Buchanan Street

36,000-sq ft food store to anchor north-west of town centre

Capital Shopping Centre’s Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock, has become home to Primark’s fourth largest UK store, after it opened its new extension on Friday.

Scottish Widows has appointed Centenary Ashcroft as asset and development manager on its mixed-use, retail-led Moor Sheffield scheme

The UK shopping centre development pipeline has slowed to a trickle, but there are signs of renewed confidence among developers.

The number of new shopping centres being completed in the UK this year is likely to fall by around 40 per cent below the 10-year annual average, according to new research from Cushman & Wakefield.

The number of shopping centre openings has dropped by almost 50 per cent year on year and is likely to decline further in 2011, according to new research by Cushman & Wakefield.

Pharmacy giant Boots is to triple the size of its Gyle shopping center branch in Edinburgh in a £10m expansion.

The Malls in Basingstoke, which is owned by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, is having a facelift as part of a £5.9m scheme, due for completion in summer 2011.

Westfield has revealed that the £1.45bn Stratford City shopping centre in east London will open in September next year.

Land Securities has decided to start construction on the milion-sq ft Trinity Leeds development in Leeds city centre

The Mall Blackburn is coming to the end of a £60m refurbishment and extension.

The Rock, a 620,000 sq ft retail and leisure scheme in Bury, near Manchester, opened on schedule today despite turmoil when the original developers Thornfield Ventures went into administration in January.

Conamar has completed construction of a new 10,500-sq ft retail warehouse development in Windsor, Berkshire, on behalf of private developer AA Clark, and two of the three units are already let.

Award-winning Grimshaw Architects, designers of the Eden Project in Cornwall and the International Terminal at London Waterloo station, have been appointed to lead the design for the new bus station at the East West Centre in Stoke-on-Trent city centre.

Next door to the Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, Europe’s largest urban shopping centre is rapidly taking shape at the 2 million-sq ft Westfield Stratford City

A new agreement between Lend Lease and landowner London & Continental Railways has cleared the way for a substantial mixed-use scheme alongside the Olympic site in Stratford, east London, which could include as much as 400,000 sq ft of new retail.

The rate of development of new shopping centre space in Europe is unlikely to pick up before 2012 at the earliest, according to Cushman & Wakefield

Princess Anne marked the latest step in the regeneration of Carmarthen town centre last Friday with the opening of the town’s new indoor market, part of the new St Catherine’s Walk shopping centre.

Land Securities' retail-led development at One New Change, opposite St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, has won a major architectural prize before it even opens. The scheme was selected as the overall winner of the Architectural Review/Mipim Future Projects Awards.

UK Commercial Property Trust and Shearer Property Group have started work on the redevelopment of the former Bhs store in Bridge Street, Swindon. The 80,000 sq ft project has already secured pre-lettings to Bhs, Top Shop and River Island.