Vigorous sales spur more outlet growth - Value Retail News
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“The key factor here is that this is a<br />
new retail concept for the area,” says<br />
Brendon O’Reilly, director of GVA<br />
Outlets, “so it is important that everyone<br />
understand the concept and how<br />
it works. It is also important that the<br />
benefits are explained and misguided<br />
fears are laid to rest, as there is always<br />
confusion between out-of-town retail<br />
parks and <strong>outlet</strong> centers, which operate<br />
in a very different way.<br />
“The community now understands<br />
and is delighted that we are coming.<br />
Considering how difficult planning permission<br />
can be for <strong>outlet</strong>s in Germany,<br />
this support is a real achievement.”<br />
Ferrara FOC plans<br />
November opening<br />
A NOVEMbER opening is planned for<br />
Costruzioni Generali Italia’s Occhiobello<br />
Outlet Village. The 12,800-m 2 center<br />
will be home to 74 tenants, predominately<br />
Italian and French brands.<br />
OOV is in the town of Occhiobello,<br />
between Veneto and Emilia Romagna.<br />
The site will serve two of the provinces<br />
with the highest per capita disposable<br />
income in Italy, 20 minutes from<br />
Rovigo and five minutes from Ferrara.<br />
The catchment includes some 3 million<br />
people residing in Padua, Bologna and<br />
Venice. The site, on A13 Padua-Bologna<br />
Highway, has full planning approvals.<br />
In Cannes in November, Francesco<br />
Bordignon, of consultant Kboard, said<br />
the scheme was 45 percent leased.<br />
“The demographics of the area are<br />
<strong>more</strong> like Northern Europe,” he told<br />
IOJ. “It’s not like Southern Italy.”<br />
ING to expand<br />
Dalton Park<br />
ChIlDRENSWEAR retailer Designer<br />
Kidz opened earlier this year at ING<br />
Real Estate’s Dalton Park in Murton,<br />
England.<br />
But the big news at the 160,000-sf<br />
center is that planning has begun for a<br />
€27 million expansion. Last year ING<br />
dropped efforts to sell the project,<br />
which had brought interest but no<br />
proper offers, and instead decided to<br />
go ahead with a major expansion. The<br />
second phase, expected to create up to<br />
Work is progressing on the 25,000-m 2 first phase of Sicilia Outlet Village,<br />
as seen from this photo taken on Feb. 4. Located in the middle of Sicily, one<br />
hour from Taormina and 90 minutes from Palermo, the scheme will open in the<br />
autumn. Premium <strong>Retail</strong> and Gruppo Percassi are developing the center.<br />
500 jobs, will include a cinema, supermarket,<br />
hotel and petrol station.<br />
Dalton Park, which opened in 2003,<br />
has weathered the recession and is now<br />
in good shape with footfall up 6 percent<br />
and <strong>sales</strong> up 10 percent (see page 4).<br />
ING hopes to gain approval for the<br />
expansion this year and begin working<br />
on it by the end of 2011. The center,<br />
just off the A19 on the site of Murton<br />
Colliery, was originally granted outline<br />
planning permission in 2001.<br />
FOCs in Japan,<br />
Korea expand<br />
ChElSEA JAPAN opened the<br />
176,000-sf phase 2 of Kobe-Sanda<br />
Premium Outlets in December, adding<br />
90 new tenants. The center now totals<br />
180 stores and 371,000 sf. New tenants<br />
include Armani, Helmut Lang, A Bathing<br />
Ape and Dsquared2, as well as a full<br />
range of men’s brands, including Edifice<br />
and Paul Smith.<br />
Chelsea Japan also broke ground on<br />
phase 3 of Toki Premium Outlets on<br />
Oct. 29, 2009. This expansion will add<br />
another 30 stores, bringing the total<br />
to 140. The 231,000-sf center, which<br />
opened in 2005, is located in the Toki<br />
Plasma Research Park.<br />
Shinsegae Chelsea opened a small<br />
expansion of Yeoju Premium Outlets<br />
(Korea) on Dec. 18, 2009. The 15 new<br />
stores include Bally, Michael Kors, Moschino,<br />
Loro Piana, Leonard, Nina Ricci,<br />
Tumi and Issey Miyake. The center is 36<br />
miles southeast of Seoul.<br />
Moulin de Nailloux<br />
gets new owner<br />
before it opens<br />
IN FEbRuARY, the European property<br />
investment company Corio acquired<br />
75 percent of the planned Moulin de<br />
Nailloux in Toulouse, France, from developer<br />
COGEP. The acquisition price<br />
was €44 million.<br />
The <strong>outlet</strong> center’s 22,100-m 2 first<br />
phase is set to open in June 2011. The<br />
new-construction <strong>outlet</strong> village, in<br />
Chemin du Gril, Le Moulin, 30 km<br />
south of Toulouse, was 50 percent<br />
leased as of March 1. An 8,800-m 2<br />
phase 2 will open in 2014.<br />
COGEP retains 25 percent ownership,<br />
and its subsidiary Advantil will<br />
continue leasing, marketing and managing<br />
the center, including the planned<br />
second phase. Corio has first rights to<br />
acquire the remaining 25 percent of the<br />
property in 2016.<br />
As of Dec. 31, 2009, Corio’s €5.7 billion<br />
portfolio included 1.5 million m 2 in<br />
105 projects, of which 91 are shopping<br />
centers. The company’s pipeline portfolio<br />
includes approximately 18 phase 1<br />
projects and 14 expansions. c<br />
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