Playing the Long Game is a series from CallisonRTKL’s You Are Here discussing the evolution of retail and the projects that are doing it all. Today, director in CRTKL’s London office Jorge Beroiz discusses the retail evolution of the Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia. This year, Chadstone won the ICSC’s 2019 VIVA Award for […]
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Up until very recently, almost every meeting I’ve had about a new project would find its way to a discussion about autonomous vehicles (AV) and how we can now reduce the parking requirement and create more leasable area or greater density. In fact, let’s ditch parking altogether, no one will need a below-grade garage or […]
Read More ›It is a truth universally acknowledged, even to those of us who make a living designing them, that the traditional enclosed shopping center has courted better prospects. The conventional dumb-bell mall is a development model that has cried out for re-invention for at least the last decade (some would claim longer), and the need for […]
Read More ›CallisonRTKL Vice President Lloyd Baker explores global retail trends and what “anchor-less” means for the quintessentially American shopping model The prevailing wisdom is that traditional enclosed malls in America are a dying building form. While that may be true in communities that are better served by big box retailers and ever-improving front door delivery, it […]
Read More ›CallisonRTKL Vice President Marc Fairbrother explains how struggling American malls can turn it all around When we talk about retail and shopping malls in 2019, the words “struggling,” and even “apocalypse” come to mind. The truth is that the American mall is not dead. In fact, the most successful malls are hotter than ever with […]
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