A hypermarket of the French E.Leclerc chain is to be opened in Galeria Amber in Kalisz developed by Echo Investment. The biggest shopping centre in the Kalisz-Ostrów agglomeration is currently under construction.

The E.Leclerc hypermarket in Galeria Amber will have an area of 5,500 sqm. E.Leclerc is one of the biggest European hypermarket chains with 40 locations in Poland at this point. “The E.Leclerc hypermarket is an ideal supplement of the varied programme offered by Galeria Amber. Shops of this type work very well in big, regional shopping centres. It is a very good solution for people doing their shopping every day and for those who do it on a weekly basis, for whom a much broader range of products compared to the basic offer of supermarkets is of great importance. It is particularly convenient for people getting here from places located further away, who come to the centre rarer but shop regularly, buy more and more comprehensively.  We expect Galeria Amber to be visited by a lot of customers from out of Kalisz. It is the biggest shopping centre in the region, which is also an element of a transport hub created by the neighbouring bus and railway stations. Shopping centres based on a similar functional and transport scheme such as Złote Tarasy in Warsaw, Galeria Krakowska and Galeria Bałtycka in Gdańsk are just a few examples confirming the efficiency of such solutions,” says Marcin Materny, director of Echo Investment"s Shopping Centre Department - Foreign Projects. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Galeria Amber Galeria Amber is a four-storey shopping and entertainment centre, which is being developed in the centre of Kalisz, in the vicinity of the main bus and railway stations, at the junction of Górnośląska and Trasa Bursztynowa streets. It leasable area amounts to 33,500 sqm. There will be 140 shops and service outlets in the facility, including cafes and restaurants. There is also a 7-screen cinema planned, the operator of which will be Helios. Customers will have approx. 1,000 parking spaces at their disposal. Customers of the centre will be able to choose from the offer of a two-storey shop of the H&M clothing chain, which has leased premises with a total area of 1,600 sqm. C&A will also move into a two-storey outlet with an area of nearly 1,700 sqm. Meanwhile New Yorker has a two-storey outlet with an area of over 1,000 sqm at its disposal. Other shops in Galeria Amber include: Reserved, Adidas, Reebok, NIKE, Puma, Lee Wrangler, RTV Euro AGD, Rossmann, Ochnik, Kazar, Harpers, VIP Collection and Via Roma. The general contractor of Galeria Amber is Eiffage Budownictwo Mitex.  The opening of the facility is to take place in Q2 2013. The preliminary architectural concept of Galeria Amber was developed by Bose International Planning and Architecture while Artur Jasiński i Wspólnicy Biuro Architektoniczne Sp. z o.o. is the author of its construction design. www.galeria-amber.com.pl