A new 148-room City Lodge Hotel has opened at Newtown Junction - Atterbury Property Developments’ ground-breaking R1.4 billion mixed-use development in the Joburg CBD. The three-star hotel is the latest addition to the award-winning 85,000m² Newtown Junction shopping, leisure and office development, which is jointly owned by Atterbury Property Holdings and JSE-listed Attacq Limited. Atterbury Property Developments led the project and secured JSE-listed City Lodge Hotel Group to operate the hotel. This is City

The mobile apps for Newtown Junction, The Grove Mall of Namibia, Lynnwood Bridge and Glenfair Boulevard will all be launched by March this year. The app includes pay by phone parking functionality and a loyalty programme. is a new technology company focusing on the retail market. It can tell you what you want to know about customer behaviour in a mall. This technology enables tenants to understand, influence and engage with their shoppers through

Atterbury’s Work Shop New Town project has changed the energy of downtown Jozi completely, bringing a creative, artisanal aspect to Newtown Junction. This exciting hub of fashion was curated by the accomplished husband-and-wife design team Trevyn and Julian McGowan, the brains behind the successful Watershed project at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. We had a sit-down with them two months after opening, to find out the lay of the land. What were your objectives when

It’s almost here… just four months to go until the mammoth Mall of Africa opens its automatic doors to a very excited Gauteng public. We spoke to Atterbury’s Johann Fourie and Evert Kleynhans about the final countdown. This must be a social media record: the mall isn’t even open yet and it has almost 43 000 likes on Facebook already! When is the marketing campaign kicking off? And how big are you going to

Atterbury’s exciting Work | Shop | New | Town development is getting even more exciting in February, when the Edwardian-era Gentlemen’s Washrooms makes a flamboyant re-entry onto the scene as The Gentlemen’s Arthouse cocktail bar. The CEO of the Life Group of Companies, Maira Koutsoudakis, shares some of the challenges of this unique restoration project Has there been particular challenges involved in restoring such an historic building? The challenge with heritage buildings is often

To tie in with the heavy emphasis on outdoor living and leading a healthy and active lifestyle at Waterfall, Virgin Active built one of its first outside training facilities at the Waterfall Lifestyle Centre gym. The greater Waterfall has several walking and cycling trails in the area for this purpose that are enjoyed by residents living in the various surrounding Waterfall Estates. Located on the corner of Woodmead and Maxwell Drive (across the road

WORK | SHOP | NEW | TOWN is officially open, bringing Johannesburg shoppers the best African fashion, design and lifestyle brands every day. The launch on 25 November was a huge success, with live music, celeb sightings and over 2,000 guests. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for the celebration!   WORK | SHOP | NEW | TOWN is an exciting retail concept that brings cutting-edge, locally-made products to Joburg in a beautifully designed

After months of being closed, and what seemed like an eternity to fans and friends alike, Beluga has re-opened at The Club. Both Beluga at The Club and Beluga Waterfall (Midrand) have been acquired by Mozart Hospitality Group and the new owners are keen on taking the already esteemed Beluga Restaurants to new heights. Beluga at The Club is a glamorous restaurant experience, providing quality food using the finest ingredients and our own unique

Lucille Louw, Managing Director of Atterbury Asset Managers South Africa’s inland shopping malls could be in for pleasing festive season sales as a result of the country’s struggling economy, according to Managing Director of Atterbury Asset Managers, Lucille Louw. This is because fewer families can afford to take holidays this year. Even so, Louw says malls in SA’s traditional coastal holiday destinations are still positioned to benefit most from the festive season

A birthday is always reason to celebrate, and Atterbury’s first retail development in George, the Garden Route Mall, has just turned 10! We sat down for cake with General Manager Rion Olivier How long have you been with the Garden Route Mall? Over six years, since May 2009. What has been the biggest change you’ve seen in shopping patterns in the six years that you’ve been involved? At the end of the day shoppers

Atterbury Property Developments has announced that Maxwell Office Park is on schedule for completion in November 2015 when it will welcome another group of top businesses into the park. The AAA-grade, 4-Star Green Star SA rated Maxwell Office Park is located within Waterfall City in Waterfall, on the corner of Maxwell Drive and Magwa Crescent West, and only a stone’s throw away from the iconic Mall of Africa development, set to open in April

In mid 2008 Louis Van der Watt (CEO of Atterbury) approached me to be a part of the prestigious Waterfall development, which he was busy securing with the Waterfall Islamic Institute. I knew Louis through my dealings with Atterbury whilst at RMB. I accepted Louis’s offer and in October 2008, joined Atterbury with my key responsibility being the management of the Waterfall Development, including the new CBD Waterfall City. As part of the Atterbury

Expanding into Europe has challenged thinking paradigms on various fronts and also provided many new exciting opportunities. Although the principles regarding corporate reporting, financing and deal structuring remain the same, variables such as international tax legislation, reporting requirements onto various stock exchanges and understanding country risk are all exciting new challenges. Given the early stages of our endeavour into the European market, simple questions like who we are as a company, and why Atterbury

Waterfall’s Distribution Campus has been chosen as the site for the future headquarters of leading African industrial group, Torre Industries’ Torre Lifting Solutions division. Its new premises will include 5,422m² of custom-built warehouses and 1,800m² of tailor-made offices as well as a 13,530m² hard stand for equipment holding and storage. JSE-listed real estate capital growth fund, Attacq Limited, holds the commercial development rights to the prestigious Waterfall. Atterbury Property Developments is responsible for the

Atterbury is very proud of its role in the relocation of British American Tobacco South Africa from its Stellenbosch head office of 25 years standing, to the prestigious V&A Waterfront. Atterbury’s Wouter de Vos and Gerrit van den Berg give insight into a landmark deal. What is Atterbury’s involvement with the BAT development? We partnered with the V&A Waterfront to negotiate and facilitate the transaction, which is a big move for BATSA after 25

Henk Deist, Chief Financial Officer for Atterbury Europe has been instrumental in sealing the recent deal in Cyprus. We talked travel with this “roaming CFO” How did you become part of the Atterbury team and when did you start in your new position as CFO on Atterbury Europe? It is actually quite interesting. I was starting to look for something else after 11 years heading RMB’s mining finance division. Louis and I know each

Atterbury Property’s latest shopping mall development to be complete in Ghana – the R800 million ($60 million) Achimota Retail Centre located in north-eastern Accra - opened its doors today to the delight of locals. Thousands of shoppers and curious locals descended on the brand new, 15,000m² retail destination, which provides top-quality shopping for the first time on this scale under one roof in this part of the Ghanaian capital. Roux Gerber, West Africa Head

Waterfall’s Commercial District will soon be home to a substantial 37,000m² custom-built office and warehouse for leading promotional product provider Amrod. Amrod’s new premises will not only create another new ultramodern business facility at Waterfall, but continues Waterfall’s impressive and growing track record of securing large-scale deals and delivering high-quality, purpose-built developments. JSE-listed real estate capital growth fund Attacq Limited holds the commercial development rights to the prestigious Waterfall. Atterbury Property Developments is responsible