New inner-city shopping gallery with glazed town-hall rotunda opens on Wednesday
120 stores, cafés and restaurants
950 jobs +++ 200 million euros investment
A glass rotunda visible from great distances is the architectural flagship of the new Rathaus-Galerie in Leverkusen, Germany, which opens on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 after a construction period of two years. In the new inner-city shopping gallery, around 120 stores, cafés, restaurants and service providers present a retail concept tailor-made for Leverkusen. Distributed on three levels, the center has a total sales area of approx. 22,600sqm. All shop areas have already been leased out completely for months. Above the shopping center is a two-storey town-hall rotunda located with approx. 5,000sqm for the city’s administration. This €200 million project was realized by the investor CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT Immobilien Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH and ECE, which will manage the center in the long run. Around 950 people will work in the Rathaus-Galerie. ECE anticipates approx. 30,000 visitors a day. In the catchment area of the center, which also provides 500 parking spaces, live approx. 420,000 inhabitants.
