Retail news: mall and brand expansion

Westfield’s Stratford City Shopping Center received advice for £750m commercial mortgage-secured refinancing package.

European real estate investment firm Catalyst Capital has bought the Erfy Karree Kerpen retail park in Cologne for a sum amounting to €55 million ($62 million).

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The AFI Palác shopping center in Pardubice has changed hands in a deal worth €83 million ($103 million). The purchasing party is Atrium European Real Estate Limited.

The retail complex is located in the northwest of the Slovak capital and has been delivered by Penta Investments.

Redevelopment work in the Grand Central shopping center in Toowoomba will see it almost double in size in the next few years.

Plans for new stores have been put on the backburner by Sainsbury’s, a change in their plans that they say have had an effect on the supermarket chain’s balance sheet.

Resolution Property has commenced work on an 8000sqm extension of the Rosada Fashion Outlet, located in Roosendaal, Netherlands.

The vibrant Dublin Docklands area is one of the great success stories of urban regeneration in recent years.

Construction work has now started on Sydney’s The Marketplace Auburn shopping center.

Paris-based property company Unibail-Rodamco SE has announced plans to sell Nicetoile shopping center in the French city of Nice.

Earlier this year, one of the most remarkable corporate separations occurred as Westfield, the world's most well-known shopping mall owner split into two separate companies.