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Second Brazilian<br />

outlet center<br />

is planned<br />

GENERAL SHOPPING Brasil<br />

S/A, a publicly-held company<br />

headquartered in Sao Paulo,<br />

Brazil, has filed plans <strong>to</strong> develop<br />

<strong>Outlet</strong> Premium Brasilia, a<br />

greenfield outlet project. The<br />

new project will follow the<br />

same format as the developer’s<br />

first outlet center, the 8,858-m2<br />

<strong>Outlet</strong> Premium Sao Paulo in<br />

Itupeva, which opened in June<br />

2009. Tenants in that center include<br />

Adidas, A/X <strong>Outlet</strong> S<strong>to</strong>re, Calvin Klein<br />

Jeans, Diesel, Ecko Unltd., Giorgio<br />

Armani General S<strong>to</strong>re, Home & Cook,<br />

Lacoste, Levi’s, New Balance, Nike, Ree-<br />

Sao Paulo<br />

High expectations held for Nailloux, opening in autumn<br />

NOW THAT GROUND has broken and<br />

construction is well under way, Nailloux<br />

Fashion Village has set its opening date<br />

at November 23, just in time for holiday<br />

shopping.<br />

The 331,000-sf center, set <strong>to</strong> become<br />

the first outlet project in the South of<br />

France, is 20 minutes from the Toulouse<br />

bypass at A61 and A66 in Chemin du<br />

Gril, Le Moulin, 30 km from Toulouse.<br />

The Midi-Pyrenees region draws more<br />

than 18 million visi<strong>to</strong>rs a year, including<br />

11 million <strong>to</strong> more than two dozen ski<br />

resorts. Toulouse has a population of<br />

more than 1.2 million, and 2.4 million<br />

live within a 90-minute drive of the site.<br />

Nailloux Fashion Village, now 75<br />

percent leased, will turn space over <strong>to</strong><br />

tenants in August.<br />

Franck Verschelle, managing direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />

of Advantail, which is developing<br />

and marketing Nailloux Fashion Village,<br />

expects 1.7 million visi<strong>to</strong>rs the first year,<br />

with the average yearly count quickly<br />

rising <strong>to</strong> 3 million, thanks <strong>to</strong> the <strong>to</strong>urist<br />

flow and location.<br />

“November, December and January<br />

are without any doubt the strongest period<br />

of the year,” Verschelle said. “We<br />

wish <strong>to</strong> start in full mode and benefit<br />

from the strong dynamics of this festive<br />

time of year when consumers are<br />

spending.”<br />

Footfall will be aided, he said, by the<br />

many partnerships the developer has<br />

formed with <strong>to</strong>urist opera<strong>to</strong>rs. “Not less<br />

bok, Rip Curl, Tommy Hilfiger, Trousseau,<br />

Van’s and Zegna <strong>Outlet</strong> S<strong>to</strong>re.<br />

The 16,480-m2 <strong>Outlet</strong> Premium<br />

Brasilia’s site is on the BR-060 expressway<br />

at km 21 in Alexania, Goias state,<br />

Nailloux Fashion Village<br />

than 700 coaches are already planned for<br />

2012,” he said.<br />

The center was designed <strong>to</strong> appeal <strong>to</strong><br />

those who come <strong>to</strong> the South of France,<br />

he said. “We <strong>to</strong>ok care <strong>to</strong> create an<br />

authentic Lauragais village with arcades, a<br />

central plaza and restaurants on terraces,”<br />

he said, adding that the center will also<br />

have all the amenities needed <strong>to</strong> make<br />

shopping easy and all the tenants needed<br />

<strong>to</strong> make shopping exciting.<br />

Cyril Zaprilla, direc<strong>to</strong>r of the investment<br />

company Corio, which owns 75<br />

which is a municipality that integrates the<br />

micro-region surrounding Brasilia and is<br />

part of the important Goiania-Anapolis-<br />

Brasilia axis. The center’s plans call for 80<br />

s<strong>to</strong>res and 2,000 parking spots. c<br />

percent of the project, says the designer<br />

tenants signed up for Nailloux<br />

Fashion Village will be revealed in the<br />

autumn, closer <strong>to</strong> opening. But Zaprilla<br />

is so enthralled with how the brands<br />

are lining up that he said, “we will<br />

be able <strong>to</strong> count on average annual a<br />

turnover of € 4,200 per m 2 … with an<br />

average basket of<br />

€ 162 per vehicle.”<br />

To accommodate all those big-spending<br />

shoppers, Nailloux will have 1,764<br />

parking spaces. c<br />

SummEr 2011 InternatIOnal <strong>Outlet</strong> JOurnal 25

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