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MAPIC PROJECTS REVIEW

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Standing Out the composition of Val Saint Lambert and as carbon footprint with a modern architectural design. Beneath the centre’s ON PAGE 48
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and energy costs are now a major issue for developments the
glazed roof, retail units will have two- and three-storey facades
and there will be a market hall with a range of dining options.
project, in which commercial uses are combined with 450 new
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The tenant and retail mix will include new concepts and
houses and apartments, will have an energy plant that serves
From The Crowd the whole site. The project, presented at MAPIC by Immobilière premium retailers. Potsdamer Platz Arkaden is in the heart of
the German capital and is the destination of approximately ten
du Saint Lambert, Val Saint Lambert Invest is expected to open
in 2022 with a projection of five million visitors a year.
million national and international visitors per annum. The total
Due to open in 2023, the Bordeaux Saint-Jean project in
space on-site will be 40,000sq m, feature 90 stores, parking for
France aims to create a new urban space in the strategically
important district of Saint-Jean. Bordeaux Saint-Jean is an 1,430 vehicles and accommodate 32,000 visitors a day.
Located at the heart of Ireland’s largest sustainable urban
88,000sq m project that was initiated by Apsys in collaboration centre development, Cherrywood Town Centre will be
The 25th anniversary of the MAPIC event in Cannes drew attendees from all across the with public development agency Bordeaux Euratlantique developed as a retail-led streets-and-squares precinct that
(EPABE). Designed by Maison Edouard François, the project balances a mix of uses, convenience, place, community and
globe. Over the next few pages, RLI will highlight just a small selection of the standout will provide 110 retail units with a total GLA of 55,000sq m social connections, day and night. Cherrywood, the urban
and feature 40 food and beverage brands within architecture development that surrounds the retail scheme, will eventually
projects that were on show at the world-renowned event. rooted in urban haute couture. The project links the train comprise more than 9,500 new homes with a future population
station and the Garonne river creating a line either side of of over 25,000 people, four light rail stations, six new schools
which is a new urban ecosystem composed of several blocks and three new parks equivalent to the size of 91 football
nticing over 8,200 attendees from all sectors of Key Projects which are small in scale, sustainable and integrated with the pitches, an active public realm, and abundant next-generation
the retail real estate industry, the 2019 edition of Being built in Belgium; Val Saint Lambert Free Time Park city. Bordeaux Saint-Jean brings together living, working, sharing, workspace. The retail project lies at the centre of Ireland’s most
MAPIC drew in the best of the best for three in Seraing is a mixed-use project with a shopping centre that shopping and anticipates new urban uses, mobile working, affluent catchment area, which is well connected by road, rail
E days of meetings, networking and conference mixes 8,000sq m of pop-up stores, 3,500sq m of designer hyper-connectivity and the search for shared life experiences. and other public transport. Cherrywood Town Centre will be
sessions all centred around retail real estate at a time when outlets and 3,000sq m of F&B amongst a total of 42,000sq m of It will be a place where people meet, share and intermingle. developed by Hines to meet the evolving preferences of retail
the industry is going through major changes. retail comprising 145 stores and 19,000sq m of indoor leisure Meanwhile in Germany, ECE and Brookfield Properties customers and the broader community, which will be reflected
Over the coming pages, RLI will highlight a selection of global space. There will also be an indoor and outdoor leisure park, a Germany’s repositioning and modernisation of the three- in the retail mix, amenities and services and its emphasis on
projects which showcase these current and continuing changes hotel, as well as event and seminar spaces, public squares, and storey Potsdamer Platz Shopping Arkaden in Berlin will be customers, experience, and social connections. The project is
to the previously ‘retail’ led shopping centre developments. an amusement park. Each function is of equal importance in completed in 2021 and will create six different themed areas due to complete in 2022.

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