Lowered iron curtains, deserted aisles, windows covered with “total liquidation” banners, ongoing legal proceedings, depressed traders and a food hall that only operates at the end of the week… Welcome to Ateliers Gaîté, the center commercial opened just a year and four months ago on the ruins of the old center from the 1970s, along the Montparnasse station (14th century).
Is this 500 million euro project, which required a heavy five-year construction project that local residents remember, doomed to collapse?
Has the developer missed its target with its forty scaled-down brands – including a Leclerc center, a Truffaut, a Darty, a Monsieur Bricolage – and a food hall with its fifteen cooking stands?
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