Grand Maine

Grand Maine (大曼恩商业中心) is a regional shopping centre located in the western part of Angers, in the Maine-et-Loire department of France. It takes its name from the Maine, the river that flows through the city. The centre opened to the public in 1983 within the then-new Lac de Maine district, a neighbourhood named after the large body of water nearby. It was conceived as a sector centre serving the part of the Angers conurbation on the right bank of the Maine. The centre is structured around an anchor hypermarket. This was initially a Euromarché store transferred from the route de Paris (the site of the present Angers exhibition centre), and it became a Carrefour in 1992. Around the hypermarket runs a shopping gallery of about 70 boutiques, spread over two levels and roughly 22,000 square metres. The first floor is mainly devoted to food and dining. A medical centre and various services, both independent of the shopping gallery, are also installed within Grand Maine. Adjacent to the centre is a retail park zone dedicated to large-format stores. Ownership has changed over time. The British property group Hammerson was the owner of the shopping centre and envisaged an extension of the gallery by around 2012 with some twenty additional shops, but the project was cancelled by the CDAC (the French commercial development commission), and Grand Maine instead carried out a major renovation in 2013. In 2015, Grand Maine was sold by Hammerson to Cushman & Wakefield for 63.4 million euros. The centre is bordered by a commercial zone grouping 15 medium-sized specialised stores, mainly in home equipment (such as Cuir Center and Mobalpa) and personal equipment (such as La Halle aux chaussures and La Halle), together with a Burger King restaurant and a three-star Mercure hotel. A leisure park, the Lac de Maine, is also located immediately nearby. Grand Maine is accessible by car via the rocade de l'Atlantique (RD 323), exit "Lac de Maine / Centre Commercial", and by bus on IRIGO network lines 4 (stop "Grand Maine") and 6 (stop "Pérussaie").

Grand Maine opened to the public in 1983, within a brand-new district named Lac de Maine, a reference to the large body of water located nearby. It was designed as a sector centre for the whole part of the Angers conurbation situated on the right bank of the Maine. The centre was structured around an anchor hypermarket: first a Euromarché store transferred from the route de Paris (the site of the present Angers exhibition centre), and then a Carrefour from 1992. Around this anchor, the centre includes a shopping gallery composed of 70 boutiques. Nearby, a zone of activity dedicated to large-format retail stores was laid out. The British group Hammerson, a property company, was the owner of the shopping centre. It envisaged an extension of the gallery by around 2012, with some twenty additional boutiques. However, the CDAC (the French commission for commercial development) cancelled the project, and Grand Maine contented itself with a major renovation in 2013. In 2015, Grand Maine was sold by Hammerson to Cushman & Wakefield for an amount of 63.4 million euros. The centre brings together 70 boutiques spread over two levels and 22,000 square metres. The first floor is mainly devoted to food and dining. The whole is structured around a Carrefour hypermarket. A medical centre and various services, both independent of the shopping gallery, are installed within Grand Maine. The shopping centre is bordered by a commercial zone grouping 15 medium-sized specialised stores, mainly in home equipment (Cuir Center, Mobalpa, etc.) and personal equipment (La Halle aux chaussures, La Halle, etc.), as well as a Burger King restaurant and a three-star Mercure hotel. A leisure park, the Lac de Maine, is also located immediately nearby. In terms of accessibility, by car the centre is reached via the rocade de l'Atlantique (RD 323), exit "Lac de Maine / Centre Commercial"; by bus, lines 4 (stop "Grand Maine") and 6 (stop "Pérussaie") of the IRIGO network serve it.

• 2015

  Hammerson sells Grand Maine to Cushman & Wakefield for 63.4 million euros.

• 2013

  Grand Maine carries out a major renovation instead of the cancelled extension.

• 2012

  A planned extension of the gallery with around twenty additional boutiques, envisaged by owner Hammerson, is cancelled by the CDAC.

• 1992

  The anchor hypermarket becomes a Carrefour, following the earlier Euromarché store transferred from the route de Paris.

• 1983

  Grand Maine shopping centre opens to the public in the new Lac de Maine district of Angers.

Regional sector shopping centre serving the right bank of the Maine in the Angers conurbation, anchored by a Carrefour hypermarket.

• Carrefour hypermarket (anchor store)

• 70-boutique shopping gallery over two levels

• First-floor food and dining area

• Medical centre and independent services

• Adjacent retail park with 15 medium-sized specialised stores

1. 1Grand Maine — Wikipédiafr.wikipedia.org
2. 2大曼恩商业中心 — Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Grand Maine official websitegrandmaine.com