As pressure continues to grow for out‐of‐town shopping a widening range of retail types is seeking such locations. Furniture and furnishings operations, requiring substantial amounts of low‐cost warehouse and display space are well to the forefront. In this study a report is given of some...

The retail furniture sector is showing rapid growth in France. New influences pinpointed by Alan Hallsworth include the growth of flat‐pack, self‐assembly, and a number of foreign groups moving into the market. The author expects these trends to continue.

The general trend of shopping centre location over the last few years has been to move back into town centres. The writer of this article, who has recently returned from a five week tour in the United States and Canada, here discusses whether major retail developments can stand alongside office...

The choice of a disused airport at Portsmouth for the siting of a Safeway superstore, opened in March of this year, may seem odd as there were only 700 houses scheduled to be built on the site and there were no others within at least a mile. Furthermore, the Safeway unit became the tenth...

West Edmonton Mall, in Alberta, Canada, is frequently thought of as the world's most widely‐known shopping development. By late 1985 it had become the world's largest shopping centre, with 5 million sq ft; and had the largest parking space — 20,000 cars. Alan Hallsworth, who recently visited...

The downtown areas of many Canadian cities are very different from those in the United States — or if comes to that, from many in this country. They are, for the most part, pleasant to shop in; they have retained their employment base and are usually well integrated with public transport. Some...

This paper examines the nature of property advice in fragmented local property investment markets using, as an exemplar, the retail sector in The Potteries conurbation. The views of major actors within the process, obtained from in‐depth interviews, are discussed and placed in context...