40 PEOPLE / MOVES This month’s moves . . .


HARLAN POLLITT has joined LAND SECURITIES’ portfolio


management team at the company’s Leeds office. He joins from Evans Property Group, where he was property and development manager for four years with responsibility for a portfolio valued in excess of £250m. Pollitt will be involved in the management of the flagship White Rose shopping centre.


SAVILLS has appointed MARCUS LEMLI as head of investment


for its European operation. He will be based at Savills’ Grosvenor Hill office in London. Marcus Lemli, who originally worked for Savills Spain, joins after six years at Jones Lang LaSalle in Germany where he was head of the capital markets and leasing business.


METRIC PROPERTY INVESTMENTS has announced the appointment


of SIMON MEACOCK as asset manager to add further strength and resource to the company’s value enhancing capabilities. Simon joins from British Land and will support Mark Stirling and Marion Dillon, with responsibility for executing Metric’s asset management programme


across its growing portfolio as well as sourcing new retailer development opportunities.


AMY RHYS- DAVIES is the new centre manager at LION YARD


shopping centre in Cambridge. With 10 years of property management experience, Amy has joined from Arc shopping centre in Bury St Edmund.


DAVID ROBINSON has been appointed as the new centre manager


at RIVERSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE in Hemel Hempstead. David has 20 years’ experience in property management, and joins from Savills where he’s been for the last four years.


TOUCHWOOD in Solihull has strengthened its management team with the


appointment of a new general manager, ANDREW COLE. Andrew joins the team from Solihull’s Ramada Hotel, where he has been general manager for the past three years, and brings with him over twenty years of management experience. Andrew will also focus on working with local groups to maintain the shopping centre’s position at the heart of the Solihull community.


Bottomless lift spooks shoppers at Southside


Shoppers were given a fright as they stepped into a lift at Southside shopping centre in Wandsworth, London. When the doors opened, they were only inches away from plummeting down a bottomless lift shaft. Or at least that is what it seemed… The experiment was set up to


test the fear-factor of the British public in preparation for the launch of Alton Towers Resort’s new


attraction – Nemesis Sub-Terra, opening on 24 March. Unsuspecting shoppers were


fooled by a 3D illusion on the floor of the lift. One shopper said: “A deep, dark lift shaft is not what you expect to see on your average trip to the shops. It gave me a bit of a fright, but I quickly realised the joke was on me! I then had a laugh watching other people’s reactions a they walked past.”


SHOPPING CENTRE March 2012 www.shopping-centre.co.uk


Star treatment at Croatian mall


Angelina Jolie sprinkled some A List glamour around the Arena Centar in the Croatian capital of Zagreb earlier this month, when she attended the Croatian premiere of her directorial and screenwriting debut ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ at the shopping centre’s CineStar Arena IMAX cinema.


Whilst thousands of


screaming fans packed the centre, relishing the screen idol’s hour-long appearance on the red carpet, retailers, centre


management and the shopping centre’s owners were jumping for joy as they experienced one of the centre’s most successful trading days.


Centre director, Gary Burrows put the success of the event down to the power of combining retail and leisure. “Angelina Jolie may be happy, but with the centre packed and spread across the headlines, rest assured the Arena Centar management team and owners are beside themselves,” he said.


Get ready for the races


In preparation for the race season, McArthurGlen hired a model to show off collections from Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet at Chester Racecourse, which it is sponsoring this year. The racing season accounts for 25 per cent of total annual spring


fashion sales at McArthurGlen’s Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet, which is expecting 1.5 million fashion-conscious shoppers over the next eight weeks, ahead of the first race in early May. Centre manager Mark Schofield said: “This is the first year we’re sponsoring Chester Races, with the racing season one of the biggest occasion fashion buying periods of the year. Shoppers visit us from Manchester, Liverpool and Chester to find leading brands for up to 60 per cent less. Many buy a new outfit each year whereas others re-invent an existing outfit with accessories, spending anything between £200 and £1,000.”


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