Capital Shopping Centres news and archive

Capital Shopping Centres is rebranding

Capital Shopping Centres, the owner of Lakeside and the Trafford Centre, has announced that it is changing its name to Intu Properties as it looks to create a nationwide consumer-facing shopping centre brand. The company, which welcomes more than 320 million customers visits a year to its shopping centres, is investing 25 million pounds, of...

Design

Drop in footfall for Capital Shopping Centres

Capital Shopping Centres, which owns 10 of the top 25 shopping centres in the UK including Manchester’s Trafford Centre, Lakeside and Cribbs Causeway, has reported a 2 per cent drop in footfall at its shopping centres in the year to date. This figure though is still better than the national average, when compared to a decrease in UK footfall of...

Design

Lakeside shopping centre gets upgrade

Capital Shopping Centres has announced plans for a £180million upgrade of Lakeside Shopping centre in Essex. Plans include 30-40 additional shops and new flagship stores, whilst the investment will result in the creation of 2,500 extra jobs, once the development is complete. Paul Lancaster, general manager of Lakeside, said: “Lakeside has served...

Fashion

Capital Shopping Centres reports good footfall

Capital shopping Centres, the leading retail property group, has today reported steady occupancy and rising footfall for the first half period. Overall occupancy across its 14 centres and some 2,400 retail units fell slightly to 96.8 per cent as of May 17th 2011, compared to 97.7 per cent in December, whilst footfall across its schemes grew...