Furniture producer and retailer Elvila has opened a 3,000 sqm store inside the ERA Shopping Park project in Oradea. It is the fourth store opened by Elvila in the past 6 months.
The other three units are in Bacau, Braila and Focsani. The company has plans to extend by at least four stores in 2012 in large shopping centers in Pitesti, Craiova, Iasi and Sibiu. The Elvila network includes 49 stores, out of which 23 are owned by the company and the rest are franchises.
ERA Shopping Park will require an EUR 80 million investment and will cover 85,000 sqm by the time it will be completed. The first phase of the project was delivered in 2009 and it features a 15,000 sqm Carrefour hypermarket a 10,500 sqm Bricostore a 7,500 sqm commercial gallery.
The second phase is a shopping mall with 25,000 sqm of leasable area out of which the first 8,000 sqm have already been delivered and it includes retailers like Sprider Stores, Kangaroo Land, Chrome, Euphoria Style, Expo Fashion, Rendez Vous and Gentil.
The third phase should be ready in 2012 and it features an area of 5,000 sqm m with large retail boxes.
Simona Bazavan