Madrid, 16th December 2015. A New Edition of ReCon Latin America, the Conference and Trade Fairorganized by ICSC, will be held next april in Mexico. This is the only one for exclusively Latin American region that is held annually. LaSBA will be there again. In the following weeks and in May, LaSBA will also be present in Marcca, the Sector Conference Centers, organized by Acecolombia, the Colombian Association of Shopping Centers, that this year will be held in Pereira, the capital of the coffee region.

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Bogotá, 4th December 2015. Studies for the reform and extension of Manila mall in Fusagasuga have began. The town is far south 80km from Bogota. LaSBA has been commissioned by the center property, which includes a large hypermarket “Éxito”, to analyze and evaluate the different possibilities of extending both the commercial area and the provision of parking spaces. A new project promoted by Pedro Gomez could open in the city in 2017 but Manila aims to ensure with this operation the dominance that until now has exercised in the attraction area.

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Cannes, 24th November 2015. With renewed stand of attendees and an arguably more positive mood than in recent years, last week we celebrated Mapic 2015. LaSBA was again present at the booth of United Partners, where it shared image and space with Italian partners Larry Smith Italy, English Lunson Mitchenall, and French RCG. Both individual and joint business were really intense throughout the three days. For the first time, AECC organized in collaboration with Reed Midem a specifically conference focused on the situation of the Spanish market with a successfully number or assistants.

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Madrid, 23rd October 2015. In the wake of the death of Jos Galan this week, Arcadio Gil has evoked: “I metJos Galan in the first hours of Baricentro, still in the 70s, and since then, the many times that we have worked, agreed or found have increased day by day my personal admiration and professional respect for this maximum truly unique man. His friends lose today a person who knew endear as anyone, also the Spanish Shopping Center sector have lost today one of the brightest professionals and entrepreneurs who has ever had”  

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Barcelona, 21st October 2015. Jos Galan has died yesterday in Barcelona at the age of 70. He was Founder and President of L35 study, and the greater public importance architect that has had the Spanish world of shopping centers since its inception. He was a LaSBAgood friend, who collaborated on several projects in earlier stages with Arcadio Gil, who replaced him in 1996 as President of the Spanish Jury Prize. The funeral will take place in Madrid next Wednesday October 28th.  

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Leeds, 16th October 2015. In the own shopping centre, placed in the commercial heart of the city center of Leeds in the North of England, it was held yesterday a educative session about the centre, which, with his 85.000m2 GLA, it has been the winner this year of theICSC Viva Award, the highest world honor to the best shopping centre..In the ceremony, in which the award was given, Arcadio Gil took part with other members of the Jury, and was responsible for explaing the reasons that in the field of the design and the urban integration the Jury evaluated to award the prize.

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Madrid, August 2015. One more year, LaSBA will be present with its stand in the Mapic, which will be celebrated in Cannes from 17th to 20th of November 2015. . He will share with its partners of UP United Partners, , the European alliance of consultans of the real-estate that nowadays has offices in London, Paris, Milan, Moscow, Lisbon and Madrid.Two weeks before LaSBA will be also present in the II Forum of Shopping Centres organized by the AECC and that will be celebrated in thePalace of Linares in the Spanish capital. And at the beginning of OctoberArcadio Gil will be present in ExpoReal, the European trade fair for real estate that is celebrated every year in Munich.

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Madrid, 13 October 2015. The Italian Embassy in Madrid has invited Lello Caldarelli, CEO of Antony Morato to a presentation of the company in the lounges of the Embassy. At the act there were present representatives of proprietary companies and trading Spanish companies interested in knowing better the characteristics y strategies of the brand, which last year sold 120M € in 16 different countries, and has an interesting expansion plan in Spain, which management has been entrusted to TenantRep LaSBA

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Paris, 21st September 2015. Sr. Robert de Balkany, founder and owner of LSGI and the Company of Shopping Centres, SCC has died in France last Saturday, at the age of 84 years.Arcadio Gil, who was his collaborator during more than 10 years, sent hiscondolence to his family and to representatives of the company.In the last 80s and the first 90s Arcadio Gil, as General Manager of the SCCE, collaborated directly with Mr De Balkany in the management of his assets in La Vaguada of Madrid and in the launch of his first promotion in Spain after the centre of Madrid, the complex Palau de Mar in the Port of Barcelona.

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Bogotá, 14th September 2015. With the purchase of plots practically finished, there have begun the works of foundation of the buildings of the complex America World business Center that incorporates, close to two office towers of 30 and 22 floors and an transport interchanger , a shopping centre of 65.000 m2 GLA with four floors, in whoseconcept and preliminary design takes part LaSBA.The special foundations which execution has been entrusted to the Italian company Trevi, they manage to drill up to 110 meters of depth, of which the first 30 meters will allow to lodge a commercial floor and an underground parking of up to 2.500 parking lots in 6 levels. Placed in the confluence of the carrera 7 with the street 100, the centre is planning to inaugurate in 2019..  

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Faro, 7 September 2015. Last week there has been celebrated the official Act of laying of the foundation stone of the commercial complex that Interikea develops in Loulé, in the Portuguese Algarve, and that, with an investment near to 200 M €, it will include, together with a shop Ikea with 24.000m2 of GLA, which will be the fourth one in Portugal, a shopping centre of 85.000 m2 GLA.In the complex there will also establish a specialized outlet of 17.000m2 GLA, and whose management has been entrusted to the Austrian company ROS Retail Outlet Shopping. Thelocation of the complex, close to the exit 13, of the highway A22, was an object of different viability studies and location entrusted to LaSBA by Interikea in the previous times before the development of the project and request of licenses.

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