We are pleased to announce the appointment of ex-McArthurGlen property and retail operations expert David Norris, as Head of Asset Management and Operations.
David brings to Milligan years of experience in opening and managing assets across Europe and North America, ensuring business continuity, with a people-first and collaborative mentality, which is crucial for developments in a post-covid world.
Working with colleagues at McArthurGlen, David created an award-winning Environmental strategy, with all centres achieving ISO14001, earning McArthurGlen a listing in The Sunday Times 60 Best Green Companies. As well as developing McArthurGlen’s Retail Academy, he managed end to end project cycles, including scheduling, budgeting, tendering, high level and detailed design, for dozens of successful projects throughout Europe and North America.
Stuart Harris, COO welcomed David to the team by saying “David’s skills and experience add so much value to the work we’re doing repurposing assets and redeveloping mixed-use places across major towns and cities. Milligan has a core expertise in retail and leisure so as we deploy our skills and experience into fixing shopping-centres and distressed assets, David’s knowhow couldn’t come at a better time.
“The careful planning of operations and the developing of process and strategies to maintain trade, access and support for communities throughout different developments is critical to many of our projects.
“Equally, David’s knowledge and experience in structuring predominantly turnover based deals and leases at outlet-centres and working closely with brand partners is key to our schemes where a wide variety of exciting uses and varying degrees of flexibility are required.”
On joining Milligan, David said “McArthurGlen is such a diverse and all-inclusive business, the world’s leading exponent of designer-outlet retailing in my humble opinion. It was during my time at McArthurGlen that I first met John Milligan and I knew then that Milligan was another progressive company, with shared values and a unique and diverse team of industry specialists, with whom I am very much looking forward to working with.”
David joins us in early July alongside recently announced new recruits in Development and Sustainability. To read more on those appointments
