With service charges under intense pressure centre managers are looking for more efficient ways to procure essential services.

The retail leasing market is showing signs of life despite Ireland’s economic woes.

Having celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, Cheltenham town centre’s 180,000-sq ft Regent Arcade is looking to the future. And a major redevelopment is on the cards.

In June 2011 ROI Team polled more than 100 shoppers in The Square, Birmingham about their attitudes towards anti-social behaviour in shopping centres.

The next two years will see the lowest level of shopping centre completions in 50 years, according to Colliers’ Midsummer Retail Report.

Centres are learning how to turn outdoor areas into profit centres with well-planned summer events.

The architecture of the UK’s retail destinations has undergone a fundamental change the last 20 years according to those who have been at the design coalface, writes Sean Kelly.

Edinburgh waterfront’s Ocean Terminal opened in October 2001.

Lend Lease’s 650,000 sq ft Touchwood retail and leisure scheme opened in Solihull on September 5 2001 – and according to Shopping Centre (complete with headline ‘Touchwood touches down’) it received a warm welcome from visitors and retailer. 

Air sterilisers are increasingly used to create a welcoming environment.

Rentokil was recently appointed by the White Rose Centre in Rhyl, Denbighshire, to help it manage a rapidly escalating seagull problem in its
car park.