Shoppers Bid on Photo Shoots for Charity

People’s love of holiday photos make winter and school a little easier for homeless and low-income children.

Every October, people flock to child photographer Kim Lowe’s Two Birds Web page to bid on a professional holiday card photo shoot for their kids. What draws them to the site is that they not only have the services of a stylist and a hair/ make[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

21 Million People’s Junk Becomes their Treasure

Community Room, Sustainability

Mercado de Trueque could prove become one of the City of Mexico’s best tactics to prevent 12 million tonnes of trash from ending up in the landfill each year, allowing people to swap their junk for fresh local produce

You don’t need to actually make it onto the Hoarders reality show to be guilty of junk piling. Just ask the 21 million residents of Mexico City. They produce 12 million tonnes of solid trash annually and only recycle 12 percent of it. But the [...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Picking Up the Pace

Community Room, Fundraisers

Sport Chek’s community run for charity is accommodating a growing number of participants every year, thanks to Chinook Centre’s ongoing support.

Chinook Centre is about to turn itself into racing headquarters for the third year in a row when it hosts the Sport Chek Mother’s Day Run & Walk on May 12. If previous editions are any indication, the event should bring more than 15,000 runner[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

The Odd Couple No More

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K11 Eco Home is among the projects that developers are using to explore the integration of architecture and nature.

If you’re a retail real estate building professional looking for a roommate, a naturist might not be your first choice. But New World Developments (NWD) will do its best to change your mind with its K11 Mall concept, which it created as an eng[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Sit Back and Relax

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An eco-friendly playground is at the core of Malibu Country Mart’s Green Initiative Program as it works towards LEED certification.

You won’t find too many stressed-out moms and dads on Malibu Country Mart’s playground. Parents there are pretty laid back and let their kids roll around in the grass and touch whatever equipment they want, and possibly even eat the grass. T[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

In the Land of the Rising Sun

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Starting in Osaka and heading for Tokyo, ICSC study tour found Japan’s malls aggressively ramping up eco-initiatives.

Last December’s ICSC study tour of Japan’s leading malls covered a lot of ground. On the outlets front, the group visited MOP Iruma and MOP Jazz Dream Nagashima, two of 10 centers in Mistui Outlet Park’s (MOP) extensive Japanese outlet net[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

On Its Way

Community Room, Sustainability

Australian center sets aggressive recycling targets for its 350 retailers and 12.4 million annual visitors.

By this time next year, Knox Shopping Centre (Knox) should be close to reaching its goal of a 50-percent recycling rate. It’s an ambitious one given that just this past March, that rate was 16 percent. But Knox, Australia’s third largest cen[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

DDR Gets Off the Grid

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DDR pulls the plug on electrical directories at The Shops at Midtown Miami, and opts for solar-powered ones instead.

The mall concept might have been created to suit the needs of car-dependent suburban dwellers, but if you’re in Midtown Miami, Florida, you’ll be chasing shoppers on foot. As the regional GM for DDR, Lenor Ryan knows that pattern well and th[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Great Reads, Good Deeds

Charity Partnerships, Community Room

Better World Books manages more than 350 drop boxes in shopping centers across America, thanks to partnerships with commercial landlords.

If you can spare a couple of stalls in your mall’s parking lot, then you can generate incremental income and do good for the community, too. It’s the business model that Better World Books (BWB) proposes. The social enterprise, which coll[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Charity Begins Online

Charity Partnerships, Community Room

Social enterprise takes advantage of Millennials’ conscious consumerism bent and donates a share of profits to charities that customers choose.

Eyal Lichtmann believes in both the power of consumerism and the spirit of benevolence, and he’s found a way to join the two with an online retailing site that targets Millennials, consumers ages 18 to 30. The founder and CEO of CampusAuction [...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...