ECE has taken over management of a shopping centre project in the Turkish City of Afyonkarahisar (Afyon) in the Western Anatolia region.
ECE has taken over management of a shopping centre project in the Turkish City of Afyonkarahisar (Afyon) in the Western Anatolia region.
The European shopping centre specialist will be responsible for the concept design, leasing and management of the €90 mln scheme, which is scheduled to open in the centre of Afyon during 2015. The investor is local project company Afyon Giriºim.
The shopping centre will comprise a leasable area of 42,000 m2 on four levels. It will include approximately 160 specialist shops, a hypermarket, restaurants, cafés, a 2,000-seat food court, entertainment facilities, and a movie theatre with 10 screens. There will also be 1,150 parking spaces.
Andreas Hohlmann, managing director of ECE Türkiye: 'Afyon is located at an important railway and freeway hub between the cities of Izmir, Konya, Ankara and Istanbul. With the quality and the branch mix of many popular international brands and with synergies which we will establish jointly with the investor, our project will become a shopping magnet in the region.'
