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GErMANy
After four years of construction, the EVER.S shopping
centre opened its doors in July. The 14,300sq m floor area
in Munich-Allach was developed by MOEG GmbH. MEC
METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG took
over the property management from 1 October onwards.
The 32 tenants have moved into the 11,500sq m usable
area of the shopping centre. The anchor tenants of EVER.S
are the grocery store Edeka and the drugstore chain
Rossmann. Together with retailers such as Ernsting`s family,
Kern shoes, Apollo Optik, toys Krömer as well as catering
offers (Bakery Wünsche, Little Tokio, Lekkerwerk, etc.) and
services such as cleaning, pharmacy, hairdresser, shoe and
locksmiths they form a balanced mix of industries, In the
head building of the EVER.S are the rooms of the Munich
adult education centre and the old people and service
centre as well as the offices of the BKK.
ECE and Brookfield Properties Germany’s repositioning
and modernisation of the three-storey Potsdamer Platz
Shopping Arkaden in Berlin will be completed in 2021
and will create six different themed areas with a modern
architectural design. Beneath the centre’s glazed roof, retail
units will have two- and three-storey facades and there will
be a market hall with a range of dining options. The tenant
and retail mix will include new concepts and premium
retailers. The refurbishment begins this year. Potsdamer
Platz Arkaden is in the heart of the German capital and is
the destination of approximately ten million national and
international visitors per annum. The total space on-site will
be 40,000sq m, feature 90 stores, parking for 1,430 vehicles
and accommodate 32,000 visitors a day.
GrEECE
Hines, the international real estate firm, has entered into
a joint venture with the National Bank of Greece (NBG) to
redevelop Athens Heart Mall into a 22,000sq m premium
outlet mall. The scheme, which will be renamed Gazi Outlets,
will feature a new cinema and undergo a comprehensive
refurbishment to become a prime outlet destination
with a strong leisure and food & beverage offering. The
redevelopment will be completed by early 2021, with
anchor tenants already in place. Located in Athens’ dynamic
Gazi district, the mall is just 2km from the Acropolis and
a 10-minute drive from the city centre. The site is also
GAzI OuTLET positioned on the main thoroughfare between Athens’
Athens, Greece tourism centre and Europe’s largest passenger port, Piraeus,
developer: Hines
which handles 17 million passengers a year.

POTSdAMEr PLATz SHOPPING ArkAdEN
berlin, Germany
developers: ECE Projektmanagement and brookfield Properties

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