All Retail, leisure & hotels articles – Page 18
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St Enoch secures Gloria Jean's Coffees for UK debut
Australian coffee house Gloria Jean’s Coffees has signed for its debut UK site at the St. Enoch Centre as one of two new retailers for the Blackstone-owned Glasgow shopping centre.
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Aprirose toasts pub sector growth with £15m Marston acquisition
Investor Aprirose has completed on the acquisition of a portfolio of 22 Marston-branded pubs from NewRiver REIT for £15m.
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2019 forecast: Mark Anderson (Whitbread)
”I don’t expect 2019 to be easy - uncertainty in the economy also has an impact on demand for hotel rooms”
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2019 forecast: Mark Allan (St Modwen)
After nearly three years of self-inflicted political turmoil, I hope we enter a period of greater stability, affording businesses the degree of certainty they need to make long-term investment decisions, boost productivity, create jobs and drive economic growth.
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2019 forecast: Chris Geaves (Sovereign Centros)
”I expect to see a return to some normality in terms of investor decision-making”
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Slow recovery to follow after market bottoms out in 2019
If you thought 2018 was a bad year for the UK property market, hold on to your hats.
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2019 forecast: Liz Peace CBE
”I think retail will have an even tougher year and neither central nor local government, nor property owners or retailers, seem to be able to work out how to do anything about it”
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Time Out to launch London market at LCR's Waterloo development
LCR has secured a 32,500 sq ft pre-let for a new Time Out Market to anchor its £200m London Waterloo development.
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Bargain Hunter: Praxis' Gary Roberts interview
Praxis is building a shopping centre portfolio at a time when most investors are giving the sector a wide berth. Managing director Gary Roberts tells Richard Williams why
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Blending multiple uses under one roof is key to longevity
The retail unit is dead. As is the corporate office. And the hotel.
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£270m Swindon leisure scheme receives full planning consent
SevenCapital’s £270m Swindon leisure development, North Star Village, has received full planning consent from Swindon Borough Council.
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Edinburgh feels ‘St James effect’ as scheme starts to take shape
Major new retail scheme is ushering in a wave of regeneration projects across the Scottish capital.
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H2O secures £14m forward funding deal for sheds and beds development
H2O Urban will bring forward the development of a Premier Inn hotel and a branch of builder’s merchant Travis Perkins in Batchworth Lock, Hertfordshire, after securing £14.1m of forward funding.
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Ringing the value of retail at the Bullring
We recently held the last in our series of True Value of Retail events to present research on the socio-economic contribution of our destinations. The venue this time was Birmingham looking at the significant positive impact Bullring Grand Central have on Birmingham, following similar events in Westminster, Holyrood, ...
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Realm of possibility: Colin Brooks interview
Colin Brooks, head of outlet centre manager Realm, believes his sector’s business model could help rescue ailing shopping centres.
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Woolworths stores empty a decade on
Around 5% of the former variety chain’s 807 units are still vacant almost 10 years after its collapse.
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Flying Dakota: Ken McCulloch interview
Malmaison founder Ken McCulloch talks to Simon Creasey about his ambitions for boutique hotel chain Dakota and its Deluxe spin-off.
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Shopping centres: centre of the storm
As the retail casualties pile up, shopping centres have inevitably started to struggle too. David Parsley asks what they can do to survive the retail storm.
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UK hotel rental growth slows as supply of rooms increases
Rental growth in the UK hotel sector has slowed this year as a result of an increase in the supply of new hotel rooms, research from GVA and STR reveals.
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NewRiver sells off pubs and fills out Whitefriars Shopping Centre
NewRiver REIT has sold off 22 of the pubs it acquired as part of Marston’s £90m Trent portfolio.