Food and drink could save retail

Westfield Stratford shopping centre officially opens on September 13 in what is just as tough an environment as when its sister site Westfield London opened its doors in 2008. We’re almost there with another shopping mecca. But what Westfield has sussed-out better than most landlords is the benefit of leisure tenants. That’s why it has one of the…

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Shopping centres thrive while high streets dive

“Sometimes I wonder if the world’s so small, that we can never get away from the sprawl. Living in the sprawl, the dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains and there’s no end in sight.” In the same week that Mary Portas was tasked by the government to save the ailing high street, it was announced…

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