what do we know and what do traders think?
By 2024, major works should take place in the current shopping center in the Fontvieille district. Upcoming changes, evolution of the Carrefour and welcoming of traders, Monaco Tribune gives you an overview of this future project in the Principality.
” There should be 70 shops in the future mall, compared to 38 today “. The words of Philippe Clerissi, president of the Fontvieille shopping center shopping mall, illustrate the importance of the work to come. For the moment, the calendar is not fixed but if it is respected, everything should start with ” 300 new parking spaces in 2023 “, with a ” enlargement on the port “.
Make way for internal changes, with the reduction of the different floors of the shopping center for the creation of ” three new floors “.
The opportunity to completely change the aesthetics of the building as well: ” We will surely find a skylight in the center of the gallery, accompanied by a large glazed part “, illustrates the president of the gallery.
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“ The service stores should remain on the ground floor and the rest of the signs will be redistributed in the new center continues Philippe Clerissi. Laundry, tobacco, telephone repair, catering, pharmacy, all risked avoiding changes of premises. For the rest of the traders, the mystery remains almost complete.
To go up ? Descend ? Move the store?
If the information on the content of the work seems clear, the future of the various traders in the shopping center is less so. ” On the information drop by drop, I know that we should normally go up a floor in charge of the manager of an infant store on the ground floor. Are you waiting for this change? ” Yes and no, it’s going to be quite a mess, as soon as there are works we apprehend “.
In another sign, on the first floor, uncertainty is already being created: We were told the opposite, that people would come down we are surprised. About ten businesses later, it is confirmed that the various merchants are all aware of the work to come but that very few know what sorting will be reserved for them, nor the precise dates of the event.
What changes for the Carrefour?
The first concerned by this future work is the Carrefour supermarket. ” Within 2 to 3 years, Carrefour Monaco will expand and modernize. The additional 1,000 m2 we will have in the future Fontvieille Shopping Center will allow us to increase the sales area on the 1st floor and offer customers a single checkout thanks to direct access to the ground floor via an escalator. internal explains Rémi Feipeler, director of the supermarket, in an interview given to Monaco Business News at the beginning of the year.
A major development that will allow it to develop, in particular, some very buoyant niche markets, such as seasonal products […] the pet shop, which has great potential in Monaco, or products from around the world “Aims the young director, in office since 2019.
At the head of 300 employees, who roam the current 5,500m2 of store space, he welcomes these future changes with enthusiasm.