Sponda Plc Press release 9 May 2016 at 10:00 a.m.
Lidl to open a store in Citycenter
Citycenter’s offering will become even more diversified as Lidl will open a store in the shopping centre in spring 2017. The area of the store is 1,400 square metres.
Citycenter, owned by Sponda, is located in Helsinki city centre. The shopping centre has annually around 12 million visitors. For Citycenter, Lidl is a significant actor that strengthens the shopping centre’s offering of daily groceries.
“We are happy to provide a more extensive offering of grocery stores to our customers with the Lidl brand. Thanks to its location, the new store is easily accessible for thousands of our daily customers, conveniently on their way to work or home,” says Shopping Centre Manager Tiina Fågel.
“People have been expecting and hoping there would be another Lidl store in the centre of Helsinki. Citycenter’s Lidl gives us a chance to complement our store network according to our customers’ wishes. The store will be built in line with the new, stylish Lidl image, and we offer a pleasant customer experience and a diverse selection of goods with the best possible price/quality ratio,” says Virpi Kaikkonen, Director of Properties and Development at Lidl Finland.
Sponda Plc
Additional information: Tiina Fågel, Shopping Centre Manager, tel. +358 50 4274091
Sponda Plc is a property investment company specialising in commercial properties in the largest cities in Finland. Sponda’s business concept is to own, lease and develop retail and office properties and shopping centres into environments that promote the business success of its clients. The fair value of Sponda’s investment properties is approximately EUR 3.7 billion and the leasable area is around 1.2 million m2.