Some 165 stores open this Thursday in EUR 180 mln ParkLake mall

Newsroom 31/08/2016 | 15:12

Some 165 stores out of a total of 220 will be ready for opening this Thursday in the ParkLake mall in Bucharest, the mall’s developers have announced. ParkLake officially opens to the public this Thursday.

ParkLake is located next to the Titan Park in Bucharest. The tenant mix include Zara, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Stradivarius, Pull&Bear, Zara Home and Oysho – all of them belonging to the Spanish fashion retailer Inditex Group, the LPP Group with all its five brands (Reserved, Mohito, Sinsay, House and Cropp), H&M, Debenhams, Koton, Hervis, World Class, Collective, Levi’s, Motivi, Tommy Hilfiger, Gant &, Lacoste, CCC, Springfield, Lee Cooper, KVL, TimeOut, Geox, Il Passo, Aldo, Desigual, Swarovski, Khulto, Fossil, Teilor, Douglas, Sephora, Mac, Yves Rocher, Kendra and a Carrefour hypermarket. It will also host the first local Forever 21 store to be opened by the American giant on the local market.

The project will also feature generous entertainment areas such as food courts and playgrounds and the owners have said that they plan to make the most of the proximity to the IOR Park by including various outdoor venues. The two developers behind the project, Portuguese Sonae Sierra and Irish Caelum have ambitious plans for the shopping center which they say “will offer a new perspective on shopping and leisure activities in Bucharest”. All in all, they are betting on over 10 million visitors in the first year, representatives have stated.

The EUR 180 million project is the largest mall to open this year in Romania and with its 70,000 sqm gross leasable area (GLA) it will also rank among the largest shopping centers in the capital. It opens some 9 years after it was first announced.

Simona Bazavan