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RetailRenee McKeownThu 13 May 21

Changing Trends Influencing Award-Winning Retail Projects

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It may have been a hard year for retail development but well-designed projects can shed light on what makes or breaks a precinct.

During a rollercoaster year, retail sales dropped in June, increased rapidly to December and gradually returned to pre-Covid levels, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

However this return-to-normal is yet to be seen in asset valuations, so what does it take to create an award-winning retail centre for the new world?

As online shopping increases there is a push to create destination stores while harnessing the internet to drive visitation.

Design, construction, market acceptance, financial performance, sustainability, collaboration and social outcomes are also key when it comes to adding value to new developments.

▲ Eastland Shopping Centre and Howard Smith Wharves show the changing trends in retail design before the pandemic.


The adaptive re-use of historic buildings to create a dining, entertainment and tourism precinct was one of the reasons Howard Smith Wharves in Brisbane won The Urban Developer Awards for Industry Excellence 2019 development of the year for retail.

The 2018 winner, QIC Global Real Estate’s Eastland Stage 5 Project, had a focus on urban renewal, linking transport and creating a new centre-point for Ringwood in east Melbourne.

Moving into the pandemic, the 2020 finalists found fresh air, sustainability and social outcomes future-proofed their developments.

Ultimately Frasers Property’s Burwood Brickworks Shopping Centre took home the trophy with its self-sufficient design in east Melbourne.

Living building challenge manager Stephen Choi said they had gone into the development quite open minded and, after its success, would adapt elements of this project into future retail design.


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▲ Burwood Brickworks with its fresh air, rooftop farm and innovative, sustainable design revealed the top trends in 2020 retail developments.


“It’s a building that generates renewable energy, cleans its own water, is made with non-toxic material, has incredible air quality, biophilic design and there’s more than 5000sq m of food-growing on site,” Choi said.

“There’s an amazing number of end-of-trip facilities for people to use and it’s just a beautiful internal environment for people to spend their time in.

“We want people to invest their time there.”

Choi said they created the shopping centre under the same performance parameters as Fraser’s other developments with a more sustainable outcome which will influence the future of retail.


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