ROMANIA Iulius opens second Iași Family Market

The 5,500 sqm convenience centre has been developed in an investment of EUR 1.2 mln and will generate 180 jobs. It offers 26 brands including a 2,000 sqm Auchan hypermarket as well as Sinsay, La Bottega, La Ciambella, Kosarom, Spartan, Dr Max, Inmedio and a McDonald’s drive-thru. It also features 5,000 sqm of green space with 150 mature trees and over 7,000 small plants, as well as 151 parking spaces with facilities for cyclists and electric charging stations.

The Family Market concept emerged before the pandemic, but the restriction period strengthened the usefulness of the concept, especially in residential areas on the outskirts of cities, which have attracted more and more young families. The five months in operation of our centre in Miroslava have confirmed to us that it is a concept that the market needed. In the case of the project opened in Bucium, the app, 30,000 residents of the neighbourhood will instead of travelling to the centre of Iași, located 7–8 km away, be able to access shops and services that are now close by,
Radu Pârlea, the shopping centre manager of Family Market

Iulius’ retail portfolio now includes more than 310,000 sqm of retail, in two mixed-use urban regeneration projects (Palas Iași and Iulius Town Timișoara), its national network of regional shopping malls (Iulius Malls in Iași, Cluj- Napoca and Suceava) along with the two Family Market projects in Iași (Miroslava and Bucium). The centres attract 70 mln visits annually.