PTC Celebrates Fall Bounty

While several shopping centers are dressed for Pink October, this Canadian mall is getting a jump on Halloween.

Pickering Town Centre’s (PTC) weekly Farmers’ Market is drawing to a close for the year, so the Canadian mall will celebrate another successful season tomorrow with its fifth annual Halloween Harvest Festival. Shoppers will find 26 different[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Wild West Club for Kids Opens at Bower Place

Community Room, Mall Clubs

Canadian center embraces its Red Deer, Alberta, roots with a new themed club for children ages seven through 14.

LEGO bricks did not exist in the Old West, but children don’t tend to get hung up on details like that. Late last month, they happily participated in a LEGO-themed launch for the new Wild West Club for Kids at Canada’s Bower Place. Over the [...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Aldo Co-hosts Walkathon for HIV/AIDS

Community Room, Fundraisers

The footwear and accessories brand creator and operator joins the Farha Foundation to rally the community in support of the cause.

Montrealers are always up for anything that mixes arts and culture with massive outdoor public gatherings. The Aldo Group (Aldo) and the Farha Foundation paired up to give them more of what they loved yesterday with the 23^rd edition of Ça March[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

BOMA BEST Platinum for Eglinton Square

Community Room, Sustainability

The Toronto center is the latest among Bentall Kennedy-managed properties to reach the highest Canadian industry standard for sustainability.

The Bentall Kennedy (Canada) LP team in charge of managing Eglinton Square is feeling particularly good about its work these days. After more than three years of focused efforts, the Toronto shopping center has received the Building Owners and M[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

SouthBay Pavilion Gets Kids and Teens Reading

Community Relations, Community Room

California shopping center marks World Literacy Day with a special event that built on last year’s inaugural book-focused gathering.

Long Beach, California, is a hotbed of tourism. It’s also one of the ten most illiterate cities in America. In nearby Carson, SouthBay Pavilion is doing what it can to help turn things around in the region. Earlier this month, the shopping cen[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

H&M Circles Back to Sustainability

Community Room, Sustainability

New lines and new competitions showcase the retailer’s dedication to closing the fashion loop.

Fast fashion retailers like H&M have developed a reputation for waste, and not without cause. According to the brand's own numbers, H&M sells over 600 million items each year, many of which end up adding to the millions of tons of textile waste [...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Green Is Beaugrenelle’s Idea of Parisian Chic

Community Room, Sustainability

The French center’s designs on delivering the department store of the 21^st Century means environmental and social sustainability are integral to everything its management team does.

A Parisian retail destination that’s steps from the Eiffel Tower with view to the Seine River is bound to have a certain cachet. Beaugrenelle certainly does with its up-market 15th arrondissement location, chic boutique roster and contemporary[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Melbourne’s GPO Celebrates Its City’s Finest

Community Relations, Community Room

The Australian center cherry picks local residents to profile in a way that connects shoppers to their own community.

Some property owners consider their commercial buildings as landmarks on the retail scene, and market them accordingly. ISPT sees Melbourne’s GPO more like an heirloom, a destination in the heart of the city’s central business district that [...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

UCM Bags Are on the Move

Charity Partnerships, Community Room

Shoppers could win a brand new tote, backpack or traveling bag in this Canadian mall’s back-to-school promotion.

There are three distinctive bags making their way through Ontario’s Upper Canada Mall (UCM) stores, and they’re being stashed with lots of goodies. A Danier men’s weekend bag, RUDSAK women’s tote, and Herschel backpack for tweens are par[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

MilestonePod Releases Upgraded App

Community Room, Mall Clubs

Supporting people’s running habits might teach you a thing or two about their shopping patterns, and help your mall gain their loyalty.

Runners are, generally speaking, creatures of habit. They stick to a certain type of shoes, athletic clothing, hydration pack, and electronic gadgets, not to mention a training schedule. That makes them ideal targets for retail marketers looking[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...