Catchwords

Greenovate Awards 2021: announcing the winners

University of Cape Town has once again triumphed to take both top spots in Greenovate Awards 2021 that encourage, enable and reward innovative solutions for a more sustainable built environment.

30 November 2021

Vaal Mall bags a prized pair of mall marketing awards

Vaal Mall, the shopping capital of the Vaal Triangle, situated in the heart of Vanderbijlpark, has been named a 2021 Footprint Marketing Awards winner, taking home two of the country’s leading awards for shopping centre marketing.

25 November 2021

A full house for Growthpoint’s Millroad Industrial Park

Growthpoint Properties’ 40,000sqm Millroad Industrial Park in Cape Town has achieved its full letting capacity.

15 November 2021

Emira gives biodiversity preservation the green thumbs up

Emira Property Fund (JSE: EMI) has made meaningful progress on its biodiversity policy in consultation with the Biodiversity Disclosure Project and the Endangered Wildlife Trust, building on its impacts at the forefront of environmental sustainability in South Africa’s l...

9 November 2021

Ballito Junction excels by adapting to meet the needs of its evolving community

Ballito Junction Regional Mall has seen strong sales and footfalls throughout the past 12 months, bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels – and higher.

8 November 2021

Growthpoint champions game-changing new GBCSA industrial property green rating tool

Growthpoint Properties is the proud sponsor of a new Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA) rating tool. The pilot Green Star Existing Building Performance (EBP) rating tool for existing industrial buildings is a first for the industry and the country, and has the p...

8 November 2021

Adapting mixed-use development to market forces: now is the time to get excited about commercial real estate

Derrick Pautz, Atterbury head of developments – Gauteng

2 November 2021

Emission-free with Tesla Model X and 144 Oxford - a Growthpoint and Rubicon collaboration

Tesla Model X and 144 Oxford have joined forces to drive home the concrete environmental advantages of renewable energy at green buildings. The high-impact initiative is a collaboration between green building leader Growthpoint Properties, which developed and owns the 14...

29 October 2021

Takealot chooses Richmond Park again - this time for a 24 000m2 distribution centre

Atterbury, the leading property investor and developer, is developing a new 24,000m² distribution centre (DC) for Takealot, South Africa’s largest online retailer, in Richmond Park, Milnerton, Cape Town. Takealot will begin operating from its Richmond Park DC from 1 Augu...

28 October 2021

EPP connects - almost 2,000 tenants already use the EPP Connect app

More than 20% increase in the efficiency of information flow, over 1,500 man-hours and 15,000 pieces of paper saved: this sums up the benefits for JSE-listed EPP, the biggest shopping centre owner in Poland, after the first six months of using EPP Connect – its innovativ...

26 October 2021