Located in the city of Singen in South Germany, the shopping center offers a sales area of around 16,000sq m, spread across three floors with about 85 stores.
The center is almost fully leased as of its opening date, offering a diverse mix of popular national and international brands as well as concepts from the local region. ECE has invested roughly €165M in the center’s development and will also operate the center over the long term. On opening, the center will enter the ownership of ECE European Prime Shopping Center Fund II.
By opening Cano, ECE has realized a contemporary and sophisticated concept with a balanced retail mix at an attractive location. The anchor tenants include grocery stores Edeka and Norma, drugstore dm-Drogeriemarkt, a small department store by drugstore chain Müller, and sports specialist Decathlon’s first store in the region. Joining them are well-known brands such as G-Star, Tommy Hilfiger, Gant, Marc O’Polo, Levi’s, Guess, Brax, Snipes, and Olymp as well as numerous service businesses from the local region, including the Auer car dealership chain’s first BMW concept store in Germany, leather goods specialist Alexander Heitz from Konstanz, Singen-based sneaker concept Comix, the Lake Constance region’s well-known Gradmann perfumery, and toy maker Ravensburger.
Cano offers many of the latest customer services, from lounge areas to phone charging stations as well as a digital signage system, all ensuring customer convenience and a pleasant atmosphere. It will be connected to ECE’s “Digital Mall”, which customers can use to browse online through the available products of participating local stores.
“We are very pleased to be opening Cano today, even if it is of course an opening in very special conditions and in a very challenging environment for retailers,” said Joanna Fisher, ECE Managing Director for Center Management, “That is precisely why I am very happy and also quite proud that we have successfully brought the project to its opening, together with our tenants and with great dedication of everyone involved. This is a strong signal of our shared faith in the future of bricks-and-mortar retail, especially at times like these.”
