GPT : Melbourne Central named Australia’s best performing shopping centre
March 19, 2019 at 06:50 pm EDT
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The GPT Group's Melbourne Central has taken the mantle as Australia's most productive retail centre, after topping the prestigious Shopping Centre News Big Guns list for turnover per square metre.
At this week's annual SCN Big Guns event, which ranks 98 Australian shopping centres by annual turnover and sales per square metre, Melbourne Central was ranked number one in terms of moving annual turnover (MAT) by square metre at $14,763.
The number one ranking for Melbourne Central comes as GPT expects to commence a 7,000 square metre retail and entertainment expansion in the centre in late 2019. The expansion will showcased the best of Melbourne's laneway and high street culture and include dining, education, wellness offerings and retail markets.
In SCN's Big Guns list for the Top 20 centres by sales per square metre, GPT had three centres. And in five centres the top 20 centres for specialty sales per square metre, which included Melbourne Central, Charlestown Square and Highpoint.
Meanwhile, GPT's Highpoint Shopping Centre was ranked Australia's sixth ranked centre with $1.02 billion of moving average turnover.
SCN publisher Michael Lloyd said the centres on the Big Guns list had performed remarkably well despite the fall in consumer confidence and challenging retail environment.
'It's testimony to the professionalism and expertise of the shopping centre industry in the country. It's undoubtedly the best in the world, a fact well recognised in shopping centre circles in Australia but seldom voiced in Australia,' he said.
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The GPT Group is an Australia-based vertically integrated diversified property company that owns and actively manages a portfolio of Australian retail, office and logistics assets, with assets under management of approximately $32.2 billion. The Company utilizes its real estate management platform to enhance returns through property development and funds management. Its office portfolio includes 32 Smith, 4 Murray Rose Avenue, 580 George Street, 2 Park Street, Darling Park 1 & 2 And Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Park 3, Eclipse Tower, Liberty Place, 150 Collins Street, and others. Its logistics portfolio includes 128 Andrews Road, 1 Huntingwood Drive, 10 Interchange Drive, 104 Vanessa Street, 16-34 Templar Road, 18-24 Abbott Road, 1B Huntingwood Drive and others. Its retail portfolio includes Charlestown Square, Macarthur Square, Rouse Hill Town Centre, Westfield Penrith, and Chirnside Park, among others. Its Funds Management platform is focused on the Australian retail and office sectors.