All Property Week articles in Leisure and retail supplement 2004
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Search on for spitalfields tenants
Hammerson and joint venture partner the Corporation of London have started the hunt for occupiers for their redevelopment of part of the former Spitalfields market.
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InsightPolished performer
Famed for his exemplary appearance and manners, Sir Rocco Forte is back with his chain of luxury hotels. But, as Ellen Bennett found out, it’s taken more than a snappy dress sense to rebuild his empire
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InsightMarching orders
Antisocial behaviour is plaguing Britain’s shopping centres but new tactics are helping managers fight back.
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InsightLights out
The leisure industry is preparing for the worst: a ban on smoking in public places. Ellen Bennett finds out what the likely effect will be on pubs and restaurants
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Leisure operators must wake up to the experience economy
For the past three years I’ve had the pleasure of lecturing at the London Business School on the ‘experience economy’ and benefited from the extended research that LBS, thanks to Professor Chris Voss, has undertaken into the leisure market
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InsightThe cost of leasing
London’s Oxford Street is the world’s fourth most expensive shopping street behind Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, the Champs Elysées in Paris and New York’s Fifth Avenue.
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InsightLondon’s department store copycats
Independent retailers are setting a new trend by mimicking London’s department stores on a smaller scale.
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InsightStrap club
Large-bra retailer Bravissimo has joined the growing number of businesses – which include Fat Face and Subway – that have found success in niche markets
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InsightA change of direction
Thornfield is continuing to move from out-of-town projects to redeveloping town centres with a £150m scheme for Bury town centre
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InsightFitness chain to peddle crash course weight loss programmes
Health and fitness chain LA Fitness is to open a chain of standalone weight loss centres where slimmers can buy six-to-12-week courses.
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InsightCambridge leisure park up for sale
Turnstone has announced that it is selling the Cambridge leisure park, a 10 acre (4 ha) development which opened in May this year
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InsightCrest nicholson fills leisure void in camberley
Crest Nicholson has applied for planning permission for a £100m leisure scheme in Camberley, Surrey
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InsightBrighton marina gets the x-factor
X-Leisure has bought Brighton Marina from Parkridge Developments for £65m.
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InsightMetrocentre reclaims biggest euro centre title
Capital Shopping Centre’s MetroCentre in Gateshead is Europe’s biggest shopping centre again after the £85m Red Mall opened last month
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Retail sector’s regeneration role is finally being recognised
In some ways retail property is a study of opposites
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InsightDepartment store is next up at arndale centre
The latest images of Prudential ’s £150m redevelopment of Manchester’s Arndale Centre show how the Next department store will look. Main contractor Bovis Lend Lease is on schedule to hand over the store for retail fitout next month. Next is scheduled to open its largest store to date in ...
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Court appeal
One of London’s best-known exhibition venues has been bought by a trio of leisure agents
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Morrisons surrenders Safeway lease in Leeds
Morrisons is to surrender the lease on a Safeway store in Leeds after the landlord’s opposition to a renewal of the existing lease made the sale of the store as a going concern ‘commercially impractical’.
