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NEWS April 2024
MEC manages
a further eight locations
MEC is significantly expanding
the portfolio of retail locations
it operates. The Düsseldorf-based
company has
now concluded an agreement
with the investment consultancy
SCP Group for the management
of eight German
retail locations with a total
rental space of around 130,000
square meters.
With the expansion of its portfolio,
MEC now operates almost
80 retail locations across Germany
with a rental area of over
1.7 million square meters. The
mandate includes retail properties
in Bochum, Duisburg, Edingen-Neckarhausen,
Haßloch,
Hildesheim, Kaiserslautern,
Cologne and Schwerin. This includes
large-scale individual locations
as well as the operation
of established retail parks. These
include the Duisburg Mercator
Center, the Sieben Seen Center
in Schwerin and the Pfalz Center
in Kaiserslautern.
MEC will not only take over the
management of the properties
for SCP, but will also contribute
its own leasing expertise with its
broad network of retail tenants
to the operation of the locations.
In addition, MEC will further
optimize some of the properties
together with SCP.
GLOBUS Markthallen is massively
expanding its e-charging parks
GLOBUS Markthallen is
systematically expanding its
charging infrastructure and
thus helping to drive forward
the mobility transition in Germany.
To this end, the company
is the first and so far only
retailer to work in parallel
with two charging network
operators.
Together with EnBW and Tesla,
GLOBUS is building charging
parks at around 50 market hall
locations by the end of 2024.
This will create a total of at least
800 new fast charging points for
electric vehicles and the largest
charging parks in the German
food retail sector.
Contribution to
CO2 reduction
The first location with charging
stations from both providers has
now opened at the GLOBUS
market hall in Limburg, Hesse.
Customers will have 16 EnBW
fast-charging stations and ten
Tesla charging points at their
disposal from the start.
Düsseldorf-based MEC now manages eight retail locations for the
investment consultancy SCP, including the Sieben Seen Center in
Schwerin.
Photo: MEC
The first location with charging stations from both providers has
opened at the GLOBUS market hall in Limburg. Photo: GLOBUS
„We see the improvement of
the charging infrastructure at
our market halls not only as
our contribution to the mobility
transition and part of our commitment
to sustainability,“ says
Thomas Hewer, CEO of GLO-
BUS Markthallen.
„Our customers in particular
benefit from a safe, convenient
and, above all, affordable charging
service at all times.“ „Fast
charging at retail outlets makes
e-mobility easy for everyone,“
says Jürgen Stein, Chief Innovation
& New Business Officer
at EnBW and responsible for e-
mobility. „While customers are
shopping, they can charge their
car with enough range for the
next few days. GLOBUS is therefore
a key partner in the further
expansion of what is already
Germany‘s largest fast-charging
network and for the convenient
charging of e-cars in everyday
life. Together with GLOBUS,
we are driving forward more
sustainable mobility and helping
to reduce CO2 emissions in
transportation.“
Opening of
Überseequartier
postponed to the
end of August
The Westfield Hamburg-
Überseequartier was originally
due to open its doors at
the end of the month, but due
to water damage, the opening
has had to be postponed at
short notice.
The real estate company Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
has
announced that the opening,
originally scheduled for April
25, will be postponed to the
end of August. In the basement
of the shopping center,
which is still under construction,
there has been a local
ingress of groundwater in
the area of a central technical
system, which means that it
cannot be put into operation
in the short term.
Analysis of the damage has
begun. In view of the seasonal
retail calendar and the
summer vacations, which this
school year in Hamburg run
from July 18 to August 28, the
new date, which is still vague,
has been chosen.
More than 70
Galeria stores
to be kept open
The new owners of Galeria
Karstadt Kaufhof want to get
the insolvent department store
chain back on the road to success.
„We believe in the future
of Galeria and have only
one focus: the department
store,“ said investor Bernd
Beetz yesterday lunchtime in
Essen. The department store
is part of the German way
of life. Together with the US
investment company NRDC,
the 73-year-old is forming a
consortium that wants to take
over Galeria.
The new owners would probably
continue to operate
more than 70 of the current
92 stores, said insolvency administrator
Stefan Denkhaus.
This figure is part of the investor
agreement, which was
notarized on Tuesday. We already
reported yesterday that
Beetz and NRDC were to win
the bid in the bidding process
(and have since done so).