Originally Posted by
megan
From Wiki,Great business model, not.
The reason why DFO and others set up at airports is that they get access to broad acre land that permits retail sales (so equivalent to state zones B1 - Business) for less than what GPT, Lend Lease, Stockland, Westfield/SCentre and Gandal are willing to charge.
This large scale land is simply not available elsewhere as these other businesses have it locked up and work ferociously hard against any large scale rezoneing of other land as it would prove competition to them - a bit like federally leased airports where developments are outline in Airport Master Plans.