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| Icade and Klépierre inaugurate the Le Millénaire shopping center  Icade and Klépierre announce the inauguration of the Le Millénaire shopping center, which will open its doors to the public on April 27, 2011. Ideally situated just outside the Paris ring road, at Porte d'Aubervilliers, Le Millénaire features 140 retail stores and restaurants spread over 56 000 sq.m in a remarkable setting. This project represents a total investment of around 400 million euros, co-financed in equal measure by the two partners, Icade and Klépierre.The lease-up rate on opening date (96%) attests to high retailer confidence in this novel and ambitious project, the largest retail development project in France in ten years. Located at the confluence of the Saint-Denis canal and the basin of the old Magasins Généraux de Paris, Le Millénaire offers Aubervilliers a unique shopping experience on the waterfront, in a natural setting that is bordered by 12 000 sq.m of green space. Le Millénaire features the most dynamic retailers of the moment, especially in the areas of fashion and household goods: a tailor-made retail mix made up of local, national and global retailers. Several major players in European retail are making their first foray into France or into the Greater Paris Area. Designed by Antoine Grumbach, the architecture of Le Millénaire, which is both a retail neighborhood and a place to gather, expresses diversity and plays with the dual perception, interior and exterior, with its 10 000 sq.m of glass roof. Along the waterfront, the shopping center has been landscaped as a promenade, featuring docks made of red brick, façades of terra cotta, and glass and steel profiles, blending into one atypical architectural whole that is visible from the ring road. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |