One bridge to connect it all…
As the new city of Waterfall grows, and with the pending opening of the massive Mall of Africa, efficient road access is crucial. The brand-new Bridal Veil Bridge over the N1 Freeway has been over a year in the making and will open early in April. Derrick Pautz explains the challenges Atterbury faced in spanning the busiest road in South Africa Can you share the Bridal Veil bridge’s vital statistics? The Bridal Veil Road
TeamSA Rise!
With just around five months and exactly six months to go before Rio Olympics and Paralympics swing into action respectively, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) launched an exciting campaign named ‘TeamSA Rise’ in Johannesburg on Monday, 7 March 2016. The #teamSArise viral campaign is aimed at supporting South Africa’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes as they make their final preparations to represent the nation at the biggest international sporting events. The campaign
Timeless partners
The relationship The Foschini Group (TFG) has with Atterbury Property has been a long and valued one. The most recent engagements have been around the iconic Mall of Africa being developed by Atterbury, which opens on 28 April. TFG is taking over 8 500m² of the centre’s GLA across 14 brands including a 2 000m² @Home Living Space store, a 2 200m² Foschini store and a 197m² store for Soda Bloc, its newly launched tween
How to survive business travel
With international expansion comes new and different challenges for a team, and long-haul business travel is one of these. Atterbury Asset Manager Heloise van Niekerk, who has been working closely with Atterbury’s Cypriot management teams, shares her tips on arriving fresh on the other side. What is your role in the AAM team and what are your duties? As Asset Manager I am responsible to ensure we maximise the value of a property to
Mall of Africa: counting the days
The countdown to Mall of Africa’s opening has begun in earnest, with under two months left to go. And while the tenants are fitting their stores and the developing teams are completing the final touches, the marketing campaign is also being planned with painstaking attention to detail. Vanessa Fourie from the brand communications company Purple Plumm shared some intel… What is planned for the opening? Retailers are doing a lot of advertising, and we
Serbia, we have lift off!
After starting its European expansion last year with an investment in Cyprus, Atterbury Europe took the next step by partnering with one of Serbia’s leading property developers in December. We spoke to Atterbury Europe CFO Henk Deist about what 2016 holds in store With the Cyprus deal Atterbury owns the entire asset, but now in Serbia you have a local partner on the ground. What are the biggest operational differences? Having a competent partner
Thousands come together to help farmers
The Manna vir die Boere Konsert at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria was a resounding success that raised almost R2.5 million in emergency relief for South Africa’s drought-stricken farmers on Saturday 20 February. And, as if nature wanted to bless the project, the rain came pouring down when Laurika Rauch launched into the chorus of “Stuur Groete aan Mannetjie Roux”, the last song of the concert. The lyric “O stuur ons net ’n bietjie
First bursaries allocated for Richmond Park students
Uplifting the community has been central to the thinking around Atterbury’s massive Richmond Park development in the Western Cape and early this year the new independent trust, the Richmond Park Treasury Trust, kicked off its work. Zahn Hulme gives some insight into what is planned for 2016. Atterbury already has Atterbury Trust; and a separate trust has been formed to look after the Richmond Park community. Why is that? In terms of the Richmond
Atterbury’s shopping mall development in Walvis Bay, Namibia goes ahead
Atterbury announced today the development of a new R650 million mall in the key Namibian port city of Walvis Bay. Atterbury is the joint developer and co-owner of the newly named Dunes Mall, previously called the Erongo Mall development. Bulk earthworks on the mall began in November 2015 and its doors are set to open to the public late next year. Louis van der Watt, CEO of Atterbury, comments: “We are delighted to launch
Atterbury announces R850 million new development in Gosforth Park, Germiston
Atterbury will develop a R850 million industrial and business park on the prime site it has acquired in Gosforth Park, Germiston, in Ekurhuleni. A leading property investor and developer in South Africa and beyond, Atterbury has designed the ready-to-develop park to provide 103,000sqm of modern business space for blue-chip light industrial users requiring big box logistics warehouses as well as showrooms and offices. Superbly located at the intersection of the N3 highway and Rand
Newtown City Lodge opens, marking another landmark hotel development for Atterbury
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
Manna for the Farmers Concert
A music concert to raise funds for drought relief Information Date: Saturday, February 20, 2016, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Location: Monument, Amphitheatre Gates open: 1:00 p.m. Free parking and bus transport Tickets: Computicket Cost: Adults R 200. Schoolchildren R 100. Pre-School Children: Free Refreshments (food and drink) available for own account Own picnic baskets welcome. No own alcohol is permitted Artists such as Laurika Rauch, Steve Hofmeyr, Juanita du Plessis, Dr Victor, Kurt
Right person. Right time. Right place.
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
Work Shop New Town – bringing creativity to the inner city
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
Mall of Africa: countdown to April
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
Calling all gentlemen…
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
Meet the team
A chairman with heart It may be a coincidence that the Chairperson of Atterbury Property Holdings and Attacq Limited is also a champion of educational transformation, since education, alongside culture is a cornerstone of our very own Atterbury Trust. But at Atterbury we believe that likeminded people and organisations find each other… We find out more about Pierre Tredoux’s remarkable educational project As part of your business Barnstone Education you have invested in schools
Active partnership
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
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
A new start for Newtown
The Newtown Junction development, which has breathed new life into Jozi’s inner city, is arguably the edgiest development Atterbury has ever embarked on, with the restoration and reimagining of heritage buildings happening alongside the modern retail and office development. And who better to entrust with the reinvigoration of the historic Edwardian-era buildings than lifestyle architects extraordinaire Maira and John Koutsoudakis of the Life Group of Companies? We sat down with CEO Maira to get
Atterbury Europe announces €259-million joint venture in Serbian shopping centres with MPC Properties
Atterbury Europe - a joint venture company formed by Atterbury Group and foreign investors - has launched its inaugural investment in the Serbian retail property market by joining forces with one of Serbia’s largest real estate development companies, MPC Properties. Atterbury Europe jointly with Attacq Limited, has acquired a one-third stake in a €259-million gross asset value portfolio of seven Serbian shopping centres with MPC Properties – including the country’s largest mall, Ušće Shopping
What’s new in our malls: The Return of Beluga at The Club
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
Meet the team
Pierre Tredoux, Chairperson of Atterbury Property Holdings and Attacq Limited, is a businessman and entrepreneur with a passion for educational transformation. We spent a morning learning more about this inspirational member of the Atterbury family How did you come to be involved with Atterbury, and how long have you been chairman of the board? In 2004 Louis van der Watt approached me to help him with the governance of Atterbury. We’d worked together at
Atterbury takes gold
Atterbury Property Holdings participated for the second consecutive year in the Deloitte Best Company to Work for Survey. The survey aims to identify and celebrate the best companies to work for, based on employee’s experiences. Employees complete the survey anonymously giving honest and reliable feedback. This year Deloitte presented standards of excellence to all participants. Companies achieved gold, silver and bronze awards depending on their scores. We are proud to announce that Atterbury has
Getting the festive season right in shopping malls helps drive retailer performance
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
