Bogotá, 18th December 2019. The America 7/100 mixed-use Real Estate project, which includes a shopping center and two office towers, and which is being developed by Aldea Proyectos SAS on floors of Carrera Septima with Calle 100 in Bogotá, and in which LaSBA has participated in the concept and preliminary design of the 65,000 m2 GLA shopping center, continues to move forward despite difficulties. The first office tower of the project, developed on the 85,500 m² destined for the two office towers, with a height of 31 floors, and which will have a viewpoint on the deck accessible from the shopping center, has been completed. The rest of the project is currently conditioned by decisions of the District (City Council) on the design of the Transmilenio de la Séptima and its connection to the Interchange that is part of the project.

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Madrid, 4th December 2019. Cuadernos de Diseño magazine, in its issue number 12 corresponding to the month of December 2019 publishes a collaboration of Arcadio Gil on the design of urban public spaces. It describes the formal evolution of the traditional center of the city, the configuration of the public-private space of shopping centers and the different elements or components of these new urban public spaces. To conclude that today, shopping malls are more and more shopping streets and vice versa, shopping malls are more and more shopping malls.  

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Algeciras, 18th September 2019. These days are completed the first 50 days of LaSBA in Plaza de Andalucía shopping center. With the order of Integral Management, for Haya Real Estate, as owner of the operation of the Shopping Center and currently owned by Sareb. Centrally located in the city of Algeciras, the center, consisting of a GLA of 6,032 m² distributed over 3 floors with 40 stores, and has a Dia supermarket as Flagship. It was initially inaugurated in 1986, and after a deep remodeling process, it was reopened on December 14, 2006, providing a meeting point combining, food, leisure, home, restoration and professional services.

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Madrid, 5th August 2019. Last July 2, 2019, during a Real Estate Breakfast organized by the Colegio Ingenieros Caminos Canales y Puertos, Arcadio Gil had the opportunity to present LaSBA's vision of the challenge presented by the Last Mile in electronic commerce. One of the solutions will go through an adjustment in the supply chain and delivery of merchandise that will mean, on the one hand, the appearance of a distributed network of urban warehouses that will configure a proximity logistics sector, and, on the other, the active role of the physical network of stores and shopping centers that will reinforce its role of delivering merchandise purchased through e-commerce.

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Madrid, 24th July 2019. The first phase of the refurbishment of the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium has already begun, under the responsibility of the FCC construction company, which will be extended over the next three years. The first phase involves the demolition of the former La Esquina del Bernabeu shopping center, which will provide the city with a new public square of 6,000m². The comprehensive reform project has had the participation of LaSBA as a consultant for the optimization of commercial and leisure uses.

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Sevilla, 9th July 2019. The Lar España Reit, specialized in the promotion and operation of shopping centers, has announced the opening of Lagoh for next Thursday, September 26. The shopping center, located in the Palmas Altas estate, is destined, with its 100,000 m² SBA, to become the reference shopping center in Seville and its metropolitan area. It is being developed by the Reit, once it assumed its promotion at the end of a long process piloted by the Sevillian promoter Viapol, and in which LaSBA was present as a consulting firm of Segece-Klepierre in the initial stages of its configuration.

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Antwerp, 17th junio 2019. On June 13, the Annual Assembly of The International Retail Consultancy Alliance (TIRCA), the association of consultants to which, representing Spain and Portugal, belongs to LaSBA, was held in Antwerp. At the meeting, organized by the local partner, Ceusters, absolute leader in the Belgian market, the most specific events of the previous year were reviewed, the 2019 activity was planned, included the presence at the Mapic fair, and a review was made of the current market situation in each and every one of the countries in which it is present. Prime, the new partner of the alliance in Germany, was welcomed.

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Madrid, 9th May 2019. Yesterday, and in the course of the last MasterClass of the current promotion of graduates studying the Master of Real Estate Development (MDI) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Arcadio Gil had the opportunity to offer his vision of the latest Trends in International development of shopping centers. The event, open to the entire real estate sector, was held in the Auditorium of the Colegio de Caminos, and had more than 150 face-to-face assistants. It was broadcasted in streaming, and can now be viewed later, along with the rest of the presentations, on YouTube.

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Barcelona, 15th April 2019. In the last European Conference of Shopping Centers held in Barcelona on April 9-11, Arcadio Gil, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the European Shopping Center Trust (ESCT) had the opportunity to present to the ICSC and the different National Councils Europe's new strategic line of sponsorships and granting of aid to members of NextGen groups, made up of young professionals from the sector. The ESCT is an independent body that manages European funds provided by companies and individuals aimed at improving training and knowledge in the sector.

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Madrid, 22nd March 2019. Located in a strategic situation in the ring road of Pereira (Risaralda), destined to become the closure of the highway from Manizales (Caldas) to Armenia (Quindío), the Aymara shopping center will be placed in the nerve center of the coffee axis. In the extensive land of its property, in the municipality of Dosquebradas, the developer Realidad Colombia proposes an important real estate development, with residential and hotel areas, and that also includes an outdoor recreational park of reference. The shopping center that could reach 36,000 m² GLA on its two floors includes shopping, hostelry and entertainment areas. Involved in this project since its inception, LaSBA has completed the stage of the Preliminary Configuration Study, which will allow the corresponding administrative processing.

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Bogota, 6th Feubrary 2019. Siendo todavía hoy la referencia de éxito indiscutible en el mundo de los centros comerciales colombianos, la marca Unicentro avanza en una nueva etapa que potenciará su presencia en el mercado y avanzará en los servicios de comercio electrónico de una forma coordinada. Su promotor, Pedro Gómez, está terminando, con el apoyo de LaSBA, la definición de los acuerdos de franquicia a proponer a los diferentes centros ya implantados en todo el territorio colombiano. Han arrancado ya las negociaciones con, entre otros, Medellín, Villavicencio, y Armenia.

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Madrid, 28th January 2019. The ice cream chain of Majorcan Ice Wave drives its expansion with the opening last Sunday of a new kiosk at the Islazul Shopping Center. The implementation, located in the area of maximum influx on the ground floor of the center with operators such as Aki and Kiabi, has been achieved by LaSBA. Besides the show cooking, the main novelty of Ice Wave is the mixing of ingredients just a few seconds before eating them with a personalized base made mainly of skim milk. With this new opening, which includes the most recent brand concept, the company has a total of 27 stores.

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