Destination Retail
With high street stores coming under tremendous pressure from the internet, retailers and shopping centres alike are having to up their game in order to attract cash-strapped consumers. This section looks at attempts, both successful and less so, to push the outside of the retail envelope...as it were.
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Birth of a Titan
It's official; we're inside the 150 days until Westfield Stratford City opens. As the largest urban shopping centre in Europe, on the doorstep of the Olympics and featuring a state-of-the-art, 3D, 14-screen cinema and a 65,000 sq ft casino on top of hundreds of retail and dining brands there is a lot to live up to. We revisit the project ahead of its opening on September 13th.
11 May 2011East Meets Westfield
As Europe's largest urban shopping centre prepares to open to the public this autumn, we take a glance at one of the most anticipated retail projects in recent times - Westfield Stratford City.
01 March 2011Destination Retail - shopping centres
Despite all the worries about the fate of the economy and the retail industry as a whole, there's an awful lot of money being ploughed into creating, acquiring or updating major shopping centres around the UK. As Hammerson's recent trading figures indicated, as a format for generating footfall even in these austere times it would appear that destination retailing proves there is safety in numbers.
01 March 2011