Westfield Rosny 2

Westfield Rosny 2, long known simply as Rosny 2, is a shopping centre located in Rosny-sous-Bois in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is the second-largest shopping centre in eastern Paris by both size and turnover, after Créteil Soleil. The centre is owned by the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield group and, as of 2021, houses a Carrefour hypermarket and 180 shops. Inaugurated in 1973, the centre originally featured BHV, La Samaritaine and Marks & Spencer as its anchor stores. It underwent a first renovation in 1997 and a second in 2016. Since 1997 it has also hosted a fifteen-screen cinema multiplex, the UGC Ciné-Cité Rosny, which is the eighth-largest cinema in France by attendance, with 1,405,000 admissions in 2015. The centre occupies a quadrilateral bounded by Avenue du Général-de-Gaulle, Rue Léon-Blum, the Paris-Est to Mulhouse-Ville railway line and Boulevard d'Alsace-Lorraine. It is accessible by RER E at Rosny-Bois-Perrier station, by Métro Line 11 at Rosny-Bois-Perrier station, and by numerous RATP bus lines (102, 121, 143, 145, 221, 245 and 346). By car, access is via the Rosny interchange from the A1/A3 (north), A3 (west)/A86 (north) and A4/A86 (south). An extension project was studied from the late 2000s, envisaging an enlargement of about 17,635 m², entirely underground, allowing the opening of 40 new stores and 5 medium-sized shops, plus the expansion of BHV Déco and Carrefour. At the end of 2018, the Westfield group filed four building permits, including a 13,050 m² restaurant zone and a new 17,902 m² retail area with parking. The project has been challenged before the administrative court by environmental associations, which raised concerns about inadequacies in the impact study, basement pollution and health risks from the works. Since 13 June 2024, the shopping centre has been served by the Rosny-Bois-Perrier station of Paris Métro Line 11. In 2031, that station is expected to be served by the eastern section of Line 15 of the future Grand Paris Express.

Westfield Rosny 2, long known simply as Rosny 2, was inaugurated in 1973 in Rosny-sous-Bois, in the eastern suburbs of Paris. At the time of its opening, its anchor stores were the department stores BHV and La Samaritaine, along with Marks & Spencer. The centre established itself as a major retail destination for eastern Paris, and it is described as the second-largest shopping centre in eastern Paris by both size and turnover, after Créteil Soleil. A first renovation was carried out in 1997. That same year, a fifteen-screen cinema multiplex, the UGC Ciné-Cité Rosny, opened at the corner of Rue Léon-Blum and Rue Conrad-Adenauer. The cinema became one of the largest in France by attendance, ranking eighth nationally with 1,405,000 admissions in 2015. A second renovation of the shopping centre took place in 2016. By 2021, the centre comprised a Carrefour hypermarket and 180 shops, and it is owned by the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield group. Plans to extend the centre were studied from the late 2000s. The envisaged project was an enlargement of approximately 17,635 m², entirely underground, which would allow the opening of 40 new stores and 5 medium-sized shops, as well as the expansion of BHV Déco and Carrefour. At the end of 2018, the Westfield group filed four building permits, notably for a 13,050 m² restaurant zone and a new 17,902 m² retail area with parking. The project was contested before the administrative court by environmental associations, which raised concerns including inadequacies in the impact study, basement pollution and health risks generated by the works. In terms of transport access, the centre is served by the RER E at Rosny-Bois-Perrier station and by numerous RATP bus lines (102, 121, 143, 145, 221, 245 and 346). Since 13 June 2024, it has also been served by the Rosny-Bois-Perrier station of Paris Métro Line 11. In 2031, that station is expected to be served by the eastern section of Line 15 of the future Grand Paris Express.

• 2024

  Shopping centre becomes served by Rosny-Bois-Perrier station of Paris Métro Line 11 (13 June 2024).

• 2018

  Westfield group files four building permits for the extension project.

• 2016

  Second renovation of the shopping centre.

• 1997

  First renovation; opening of the UGC Ciné-Cité Rosny fifteen-screen multiplex.

• 1973

  Inauguration of the shopping centre in Rosny-sous-Bois.

Second-largest shopping centre in eastern Paris by size and turnover, anchored by a Carrefour hypermarket and a major cinema multiplex.

• Carrefour hypermarket

• 180 shops

• UGC Ciné-Cité Rosny multiplex (15 screens)

1. 1Westfield Rosny 2 – Wikidatawikidata.org
2. 2Westfield Rosny 2 – Wikipédiafr.wikipedia.org