Zara, Massimo Dutti, Mango, Zara Home, Pull & Bear and Pingo Doce are some of the brands that will have stores in the shopping center of the complex that the IKEA Group is building in Loulé.
The works for the construction of this large-scale development, which will be located in the Esteval area, near the Estádio Algarve, started in August 2015 and are now advancing at a great pace, but some of the attractions of the future space have already been announced, on the Design Outlet Algarve website, one of the elements of the Swedish group's Algarve Commercial Complex.
IKEA will debut an unprecedented concept in Portugal at its store in Loulé, that the company plans to open in 2016.
«The project we are going to have here in Loulé is an evolution of what we have in Matosinhos [with the same store/shopping center concept]. There, our store is only integrated on the ground floor of the shopping centre, not on the first floor, where we have our restaurant and showroom. Here it will be innovative. We will have the connection of the IKEA store on both floors», revealed António Machado, expansion director of IKEA Portugal, on the day the foundation stone of the complex was laid.
“This way, the customer can enter our store, can leave the shopping center and re-enter, something that is not possible in other stores. We will have a very different but innovative layout, which is a test for the IKEA Group», he added.
This shopping center will have 110 stores, from the most varied areas, as well as a food court, in a building that will have more than 41 thousand square meters (not counting the IKEA store itself).
In addition to these two elements, the complex will have an Outlet village with 110 stores, where, according to the project's promoters, particular emphasis will be given to fashion (49% of the stores), but also to sports and outdoor products (20%) and shoes and leather products (11%).
The Swedish group plans to open the doors of its shopping center in the Algarve "in the first months of 2017", after an estimated investment of 200 million euros, with the prospect of creating 3 direct and indirect jobs, 250 of which in the store IKEA.
However, the progress of the works on the ground is already evident. For the time being, buildings have not yet started to be built, but the earthworks and preparation of the land for the infrastructures that will constitute the IKEA Commercial Complex in the Algarve have already been completed.
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(Photos: Nuno Costa/Sul Informação)
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