Retail news
Retail gloom leaves ISG facing £100m shortfall
Firm blames disappointing Christmas retail market for shortfall in projected revenue
Commercial development falls sharply in November
Savills data says confidence now at lowest ebb for more than two years
Developer LXB Properties granted planning on £34m Gloucester scheme
Mixed-use site covers 18 acres, and work is scheduled to start in the spring
BDP wins multimillion-pound Leeds shopping centre scheme
7,500m2 redevelopment will commence early in 2012
Willmott Dixon and retailer Morrisons win £65m scheme
Joint venture will build a 1.5 ha mixed-use scheme in Walthamstow
Boris: “Help me make Croydon great again”
London mayor calls for investors as City Hall injects £23m cash into the riot-hit area
Westfield eyes third London mega mall
Developer enters exclusive talks to redevelop Croydon shopping centre
Patton Construction wins £45m Salford Tesco superstore
Environmental store will be built opposite Salford City Shopping Centre
Waitrose reveals ambitious £1bn growth plans in the North
The construction of a £35m regional distribution centre in Lancashire is first phase of a 100-store expansion plan
Styles + Wood posts £0.9m loss
Property consultant hit by ailing retail sector
Russia gets a new shopping centre
Mott McDonald has been appointed as design engineer for a 127,000m² shopping centre in St. Petersburg, Russia
Vinci wins £80m Tesco Streatham contract
South London mixed-use scheme features 250 apartments, swimming pool and ice rink
Spenhill's Highams Park development
The Tesco subsidiary has begun work on the £105m project in London
£40m Sainsburys store given go ahead
Carlisle council has approved a £40m Sainsburys superstore for the city
British Land outlines £1.9bn development programme
Developer set to start major London re-furb job and Glasgow retail centre
ISG wins £5.4m Bond Street fit-out job
Specialist contractor will deliver high specification retail and commercial space
£700m Tithebarn scheme suffers legal challenge
Lend Lease and Grosvenor’s Preston joint venture disputed by Blackburn
Tesco completes first church conversion
Church in Bournemouth is first place of worship to be turned into a Tesco Express
Waitrose to open five convenience stores
Food retailer says the first store will open in central Manchester this November
Ocado planning huge Tamworth warehouse
Shopping retailer is reported to have submitted planning for a 35,000m2 warehouse in the Midlands
McLaren parks showroom in One Hyde Park
Supercars will be sold on the ground floor of the Rogers Stirk Harbour development
Tony Jacob calls on contractors to 'think like a retailer'
John Lewis’ head of constructon urges industry to reduce variable costs and bring projects in on budget
Tony Jacob to speak at Building Supermarkets conference
Join John Lewis’ head of construction in July to hear him talk about the future of retail property
Sainsbury's backs 100 construction training places
Supermarket giant teams up with 60 suppliers to provide 12-month contracts for trainees
Tesco ramps up store development by 40%
Supermarket looks to bring in new contractors for £1.6bn expansion as projects are restarted
Tesco sends design and QS work to India
Fears raised over future of UK supply chain as supermarket giant outsources early project work
ChandlerKBS completes work on £108m Swiss retail village
Alpenrhein Outlet Village sits at the foot of the Alps near the famous St Moritz ski resort
RMJM to masterplan Vladivostok's new gambling zone
Architect wins contract for massive new leisure zone including casino, marina, ski centre and hotels at Russian city
Goggle-box: Ron Arad's shopping centre in Belgium
Ron Arad Associates’ Médiacité shopping and entertainment centre in Liège, Belgium, has opened to the public
Eight-storey commercial tower opens in Victoria
The Peak will add 12,200m² of office and retails space to central London
Hammerson gets green light for Foster's revised Bishops Place scheme
Hackney council approves amended proposals for 1.5m sq ft project on central London site
Kitewood gets green light for mixed development
Developer receives planning permission for 460 homes plus retail and leisure facilities in north-west London
Sainsbury’s extends £1.6bn spree
Sainsbury’s is to extend its £1.6bn store expansion plan for at least another two years, according to its head of property
Brompton Crystal by Make: A flat above the shop
Make Architects has received planning permission for the “Brompton Crystal”, a luxury apartment scheme in Kensington & Chelsea
Video: Liverpool One - Building's Project of the Year
Grosvenor’s regeneration of Liverpool City Centre has created a vibrant new quarter featuring architecture of the highest order
Portas calls for curbs on out-of-town developments
Retail guru suggests secretary of state for communities should get sign-off powers
Morgan Sindall wins £145m Stockport regeneration scheme
Appointment raises prospect of long-awaited Grand Central Station revamp
CSC submits plans for £180m Lakeside expansion
Development will increase the centre’s size by almost a third and create 1,000 construction jobs
BDP unveils shopping and leisure project in Turkey's third largest city
175,000m2 scheme will also feature a fun park
Vinci bags £46m Tesco contract in West Bromwich
Work includes demolition of existing buildings and 43 retail and leisure units including a cinema
Balfour Beatty scoops £70m Land Secs Glasgow scheme
Firm wins lead contractor role on Buchanan Street retail and residential scheme
GlaxoSmithKline to build first new factory for 30 years
Four sites are being considered, with decision expected next March
Skanska wins £50m City development
Fletcher Priest-designed building scheduled to complete in autumn 2013 with work to begin immediately
M&S fined £1m for asbestos failings
Willmott Dixon and Styles and Wood also fined after public ‘put at risk’
Terrace Hill Group win superstore planning recommendation
Minded to grant recommendation received for two stores in Sunderland and East Cleveland.
Shopping centre construction falls to early 90s levels
Westfield Stratford acounts for more than half of construction as activity slows
Land Securities plans retail developments worth £275m
Several retail projects in pipeline for London area
Tesco wins approval for £50m Wisbech scheme
Retail Park at former Wisbech greyhound stadium will feature an eight-screen cinema and restaurant complex
Westfield wins planning to triple size of retail centre
Broadmarsh shopping centre in Nottingham will undergo £500m expansion
ISG boss says London fit-out will not recover till 2012/13
?Warning comes despite contractor’s profit rising 73% on £150m sales increase
Tesco unveils huge Midland’s hospital redevelopment
Retail giant proposes 139,800 sq ft mixed-use scheme for Wolverhampton’s Royal Hospital
Land Secs to start on Glasgow shopping centre
Strong pre-lettings at Trinity Leeds shopping centre prompts Land Secs to start on Glasgow scheme
Travis Perkins posts strong turnover
Evidence of buying ahead of VAT increase as performance at retail arm Wickes also improves
CSC plots £78m of retail development
Shopping centre developer reports strong demand for retail space
Councils approve Tescos despite planners recommending refusal
Planning officers’ recommendations are ignored by councillors in Hull and Consett
£77m B&Q centre gets go-ahead
A huge new B&Q distribution centre has been told ’you can do it’ by planning officers at Swindon council.
Land Secs to start work on £350m Trinity Leeds shopping centre
The real estate group announces that it has secured enough pre-let agreements to start work on the Leeds project
Tesco plans £150m Gateshead scheme
Supermarket giant’s regeneration arm submits application for a new town square designed by 3DReid
Brent Cross ticked
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has given the go-ahead to a £4.5bn regeneration of Brent Cross in north London, masterplanned by Allies and Morrison
Olympic Tesco gets green light
Bromley-by-Bow scheme to replace current store with one double its size has gained planning permission, despite having been blasted by Cabe
Tesco ramps up store development by 40%
Supermarket looks to bring in new contractors for £1.6bn expansion as projects are restarted
Mall mania: Majid Al Futtaim Group’s building boom
You don’t have to be British to work for the Majid Al Futtaim Group but it certainly helps. Having built 10 malls in the Middle East, MAF now has plans for another 10 and, it wants you in on the shopping spree
Wakefield’s trinity: £390m regeneration
Development plans for Wakefield have been showcased at Mipim
Benoy's Hong Kong iSQUARE takes retail to a new level
Vertical shopping centre designed jointly with Rocco Design is 31 storeys high
ChandlerKBS completes work on £108m Swiss retail village
Alpenrhein Outlet Village sits at the foot of the Alps near the famous St Moritz ski resort
Pilgrims’ rest: Darb-Al-Khalil in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
This is the corner block of a 5.8ha development known as the Darb-Al-Khalil, that has just started on site just south of the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Sheffield's tallest tower will take six months to clad
£40m scheme designed by architects Conran & Partners will use around 6,000m2 of Wicona unitised curtain walling
Cabe takes on supermarkets
Design quango Cabe is in talks over setting up a dedicated review panel for supermarkets, it emerged in the wake of outgoing chair Sir John Sorrell’s savaging of the retail giants on Monday
Post modern: Rotterdam shopping centre
Delta Development Group and SNS Property Finance have announced plans to turn Rotterdam’s main post office into a shopping centre
Coventry street
Developer Friargate Coventry has submitted an outline planning application to Coventry council for a £1.5bn mixed-use redevelopment of a 15ha site opposite the city’s train station
Speirs & Major light up Devonshire Square
Lighting helps Fletcher Priest's transformation of grade II listed business estate near Liverpool Street
Now even newer: Harlow town centre
Plans for a 1.3 million ft2 addition to Harlow town centre in Essex have been unveiled by Harlow council and developers, Stockland
French Polish: Galleria Pomorska, Bydgoszcz
London-based Colman Architects has released its proposed design for the upgrade of the Galleria Pomorska in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz
Hopkins Architects' Greenwich market scheme in for planning
Redeveloped 179-year-old market in south-east London will include retail units, hotel and new covered market
