Investment in the mountains, party in the capital

Many of the Romanian retail market’s leading figures gathered at Bucharest’s Radisson SAS hotel to meet, mix and find out more about Echo Investment’s Korona shopping and leisure centre in the mountain city of Braşov Things may not be easy in Romania’s political and economic world at the moment, but you wouldn’t have known it at the Eurobuild CEE Pre-MAPIC Business Mixer, which brought together not only retailers and retail experts, but also senior figures from the wider business spectrum. The focus was Echo Investment’s 53,000 sqm (GLA) Korona shopping and leisure centre which, on completion, will house 240 stores including a hypermarket, a bowling centre and a multiplex cinema. After welcome comments from Mirosław Cieślik, first counsellor of the Polish Embassy in Romania, who emphasized the strong trade links between Poland and Romania, Mariusz Kowalczyk, leasing team director of Echo’s shoppin