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Fontvieille: Futuristic Shopping Centre for 2027!

If ever there was a building project that gets tongues wagging it’s the future of the Fontvieille shopping
centre, an innovative design by architect, Massimiliano Fuksas.

© FUKSAS / ATELIER JEAN MUS / L35 / SOCRI MC

This building project is hot stuff When the first has been on the cards since 2002. A first project swimming pool to the Esplanade des Pêcheurs.
mock-ups were published on social media in was launched in 2008 but it was abandoned due Digging is scheduled to start in 2023. “The work
2019, the future shopping centre of Fontvieille, to the financial crisis. A project by commercial will begin with the extension of the car park
designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, created a real estate company, Unibail, was subsequently towards the sea, under avenue Albert II. Next, at
buzz and a lot of comments about how much it considered before the call for tenders which end of 2024, upstairs works will begin, creating a
will transform the face of the district. The overall resulted in the choice of the Socri project. It was definitive ground floor and relocating the shops
urban development, by Socri MC (constructors undoubtedly the most pleasing project from an upstairs. Commercial activity will continue before
of the Polygone Riviera in Cagnes-sur-Mer), will aesthetic point of view and it takes into account delivery in 2027,» explains Philippe Clerissi. Clearly,
double existing shop floor space (30,000 m²) over the possible construction of a cable car that the shopping centre will not close during the works
four storeys and will also include a modernised, would link the Exotic Gardens, Fontvieille and managed by Socri, who also take care of marketing.
larger Carrefour hypermarket, a multiplex, latest- the Rock of Monaco,» recalls the businessman. «There will eventually be 70 shops, compared to 38
generation cinema, between 800 and 900 parking There was even a time when moving the shopping today,» adds Mr Clerissi, who does not rule out an
spaces, new office space and around 40 state centre to the Port Hercule was considered, which even more ambitious project. “The Athos Palace
housing units. Moreover, one of the major benefits would also have involved moving the Rainier III is state-owned and that area is being studied.”
is that there will also be a new green belt for the
Principality, with a park of some two hectares,
with around 2,000 trees and plants, landscaped by
Jean Mus, the star gardener of the Mediterranean.

“On the cards since 2002”
Philippe Clerissi, president of the Shopping
Centre Economic Interest Group and consultant
for the National Council, has lived through all the
stages of the extension project. «The expansion
of the original centre, which dates from 1992, © photobeginner

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