The International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC) is gearing up to hold an event in Brussels next May that would bring together EU officials and the national shopping centre councils which fall under the European organisation, ICSC Europe’s new managing director Mike Morrissey, told PropertyEU.
The International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC) is gearing up to hold an event in Brussels next May that would bring together EU officials and the national shopping centre councils which fall under the European organisation, ICSC Europe’s new managing director Mike Morrissey, told PropertyEU.
‘ICSC is already quite active in the field of sustainability and we have already booked some remarkable achievements. We believe we can bring about new reforms in other areas. The EU agenda has moved on to economic growth and job creation and this is an area where ICSC can provide consultancy work in Brussels.’
EPRA, the European association for the public real estate industry, and INREV, its counterpart for the non-listed European property sector, have already stepped up their lobbying efforts in Brussels in the past 18 months and Morrissey believes there is a real need for the ICSC in this area as well.
Sustainability is also still very much on the agenda, ICSC Europe chair Alexander Otto noted. ‘It is important that legislation takes the heterogeneity of our branch into consideration. What may be good and correct for residential buildings may be counterproductive for commercial developments. Developers and operators need more leeway to achieve the set targets.’
The full interview appears in the November issue of PropertyEU. Click on the link below to subscribe.
