Madrid, 5th June 2020. Trade is preparing to sell the "new normal" after completion of the state of alarm and home confinement, shopping centers have adapted to the current situation in order to facilitate the return of customers, readying measures prevention and hygiene, both for customers and for the workers themselves. Initiatives such as the implementation of differentiated access and exit routes, limited capacity, forced ventilations, or constant disinfection, join the mandatory acts of the use of masks, gel dispensers and social distancing.

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Madrid, 30th April 2020. Within the Plan for the asymmetric de-escalation that the Government has presented, phase 1, supposes the restart of activity for small businesses and terraces under security measures. To the exclusion that arises for large Shopping Centers, the Spanish Association of Malls and Shopping Centers (AECC) has demanded that the Government include them in phase 1 of the de-escalation. Additionally, it has prepared a document that contains some basic recommendations to consider when preparing the facilities and work equipment.

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Madrid, 14th April 2020. After a two-week break due to the hardening of the measures taken in the state of alarm, the remodelling works have returned to the Concha Espina stadium. The start of work is progressing at a good pace and, due to the fact that the league stoppage favors progress, there are forecasts that the completion date for the new Santiago Bernabeu Stadium will be shortened by one year with no more open-door matches played during the 2020. The reform project has the participation of LaSBA as a consultant for the optimization of commercial and leisure uses.

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Madrid, 25th March 2020. The Madrid City Council has approved the urban and Real Estate project known as Madrid Nuevo Norte. The urban operation will act on more than 3 million square meters of land, regenerating the land and infrastructure to put them at the service of the city and will entail the creation of a large, state-of-the-art business center around the Chamartín station. In addition, the construction of around 10,500 homes is planned, of which 20% will be of public protection. LaSBA participated in a first preliminary analysis of the basic characteristics that the zones should have.

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Madrid, 13th February 2020. The Spanish company Ocine will be the operator of the complex of cinemas in Torre Caleido, the mixed Project occupying the well-known Quinta Torre de la Castellana in Madrid. Its six luxury rooms with capacity for 440 people and that will occupy about 1,300 m2, will be the first case in Spain of a complex of cinemas consisting exclusively of "luxury" rooms, such as those that different operators have recently incorporated into their complexes more successful. The new Caleido Tower, already in a very advanced state of construction, will also have a complex of up to 80 stores, the concept of which was studied and proposed by LaSBA in its initial stages of conception.

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Madrid, 30th January 2020. Within the Cycle "Real Estate at the University", promoted by the MDI of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Arcadio Gil has taught a Master Class within the framework "Trends in the international development of Shopping Centers", where he has explained, from the experience of LaSBA , his viewpoint on the progressive rapprochement between two very different formats: those of the shopping streets of the city center and the shopping centers. He presented the evolution followed by the two models in the last 25 years, highlighting the formal and morphological approach between the two models, and mentioned the interesting current exchange of experiences and good practices between them.

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Vigo, 12th January 2020. The Vialia Vigo Shopping Center, which will open its doors in spring 2021, has already confirmed the presence of 30 renowned firms. LaSBA has participated throughout the development of the project, carrying out the initial commercial analysis and diagnosis, as well as a study of distribution of pedestrian flows based on an innovative own analysis system. The commercial offer will include brands such as Primark, which will be the first opening in the city, Adidas, Decimas or Merkal. Occupying more than 5,500 m² will be Alcampo, part of the Ceetrus conglomerate that is behind the construction of the center. In the leisure section, visitors can enjoy the cinemas operated by Yelmo and the gastronomic offer is worth highlighting the presence of McDonald's, KFC, Fosters or Muerde la Pasta among others.

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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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Vigo, 27th November 2019. The LaSBA team is collaborating with the British promoter Milligan to apply for the contest called by the Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Vigo to cede management and relaunch the A Laxe shopping center. The 13,200 m² GLA center, located next to the Port cruise terminal, was opened more than eleven years ago and the lease is granted for a period of twenty years, extendable to ten more. Milligan has successfully undertaken many projects to remodel and relaunch shopping centers in the United Kingdom and in Spain, highlighting among them the Maremagnum reform in Barcelona in the 2000s.  

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Cannes, 12th November 2019. On the occasion of MAPIC 2019 in Cannes, the European partners of The International Retail Consulting Alliance (TIRCA) met in Cannes and during a meeting, attended by representatives of LaSBA, the new alliance website. TIRCA currently brings together thirteen independent commercial real estate consultants that represent in countries such as Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and the Nordic countries, in addition to Spain and Portugal whose representation is held by LaSBA.

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Madrid, 23th October 2019. The new edition of the LaSBA Observatory is dedicated to the analysis of the Spanish Shopping Centers market. This biannual publication, published regularly by LaSBA since 2008, will soon be 12 years old. And in previous years, it has issued reports on the Portuguese, Brazilian and Colombian markets. In this new edition, which corresponds to number 65, the most significant developments in the Spanish Shopping Centers market during the last six months are mentioned in the most quantitative and reliable way possible, including basic economic data, center openings, news of its operation, news from operators and brands, and the situation of the investment market.

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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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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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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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Cannes, 19th November 2018. LaSBA was present at the MAPIC 2018 fair held last week in Cannes, with an influx this year of 8,600 affected participants from 80 countries. At stand P1.J13, located next to the central hall on the ground floor, LaSBA shared space with its English partners Time Retail Partners, with Reno Italians and with Strombergs Germans. The commercial and tenant rep activity was especially intense during the three days. In parallel conferences, the convergence of the physical and the digital centered many of the discussions with promoters and investors.

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Madrid, 11th October 2018. Madrid City Council definitively approves the economic reparcelization of Valdebebas, that allows to regularize the 145,898 square meters commercial, frozen by successive judicial resolutions. The process to adapt the surface of the commercial block, which was affected by the cancellation of the Special Plan, was advised by LaSBA, who, in the field of the three plots of commercial use and tertiary use, analyzed the maximum area that should be have the commercial tablet, as well as its location within the set and its proper integration into the urban design of the rest of the field. 95

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Madrid, 24th September 2018. The Assembly of Real Madrid has approved the launch of the new Santiago Bernabeu, avant-garde project whose design was awarded at the time to the GMP, L-35 and Ribas & Ribas studios, and which has a budget of 525 million euros. The new stadium will feature a series of commercial and leisure and catering areas that open to a public street and plaza. LaSBA has given support and assistance to the technical teams of the Club in the conception of the space and in the analysis of the process of integral remodelling of the Stadium, with the objective of optimizing the uses and functionality in the new spaces defined by the project.

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