Shopping centres were classed as 'unhealthy' if they contained fast food takeaway, a bookmaker, tanning salon or a payday loan business.
The annual survey, called Going Shopping 2019 The Definitive Guide to
Shopping Centres, ranks the top UK
shopping centres in terms of overall attractiveness alongside league tables of agents, tenants and investment managers.
It will also bring in completely new brands."A special feature of the
shopping centre is that it will hold fresh markets with produce supplied by small farmers each weekend from the spring until the autumn," said Kulikova, as cited by the SITA newswire.
Generations of families have used the
shopping centre, which was built in the 1960s and started life as 'Heron Way'.
Brent Cross
Shopping Centre regeneration: Everything you need know including completion date
From left, Phil Wingate (St Tydfil
Shopping Centre security manager), Julie Calderbank (St Tydfil
Shopping Centre operations manager), the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil Councillor Kevin Gibbs and Lee Simmonds (centre manager at St Tydfil
Shopping Centre) with the finalists' photographs
Improving at the fastest rate are Welsh
shopping centres, with a significantly reduced number of empty shops showing a change of 5.2% on 2013.
David Fischel, chief executive of Intu, said: "The opportunity to acquire Parque Principado, a top ten centre in Spain, on attractive and earnings accretive terms firmly establishes our presence on the ground in a country where we see considerable growth opportunities in the regional
shopping centre industry.
Shopping centre investment activity picked up considerably in the second half of 2012, with PS1.8 billion of
shopping centre assets transacted, compared with PS0.8bn in the previous six months.
The Middle East has several tourist destinations, and is home to some of the largest, most advanced and highly-competitive enclosed malls and
shopping centres in the world.
The Bahraini
shopping centre scene has always concentrated on one-stop shopping as it proved to be very popular in the kingdom and this trend has just seen an upgrade with one of the largest
shopping centres in the region taking Bahrain as its home with the opening of the Bahrain City Centre.
It is also important to highlight Mall of Arabia in Dubai, One of the world's largest malls when completed, it will offer more than 1,400 retail outlets, a rooftop hotel, waterfront alfresco dining and entertainment facilities, as well as a Restless Planet theme park, earth science museum and planetarium which will create the largest entertainment offerings in a
shopping centre in the region.
