17 July 2020

“Leroy Merlin” Will Be Opened in the Smolensk Region in October

“Leroy Merlin” Will Be Opened in the Smolensk Region in October

Development Director of “Leroy Merlin Vostok” Elizaveta Lisyukova told about this the Governor Alexey Ostrovsky. To date, construction of the shopping center building has been completed.

The construction of external and internal engineering networks, such as gas, water, power supply and wastewater, was completed. The company has applied for commissioning a building. At the same time, delivery and laying out of goods, as well as shop equipment installation and staff recruitment are under way.

It should be recalled that the agreements on the shopping center construction in Smolensk were reached in February last year on the sidelines of the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi. The investment project involves the opening of a hypermarket, where a wide range of goods will be presented in five areas: house, interior, construction materials, renovation and garden. In particular, residents of the region will be able to purchase coating materials, wallpaper, room and entrance doors, ceramic tiles, laminate, parquet and parquet board, linoleum, sanitary ware, kitchen furniture, etc. In total, the line of products has about 35 thousand items. For convenience of customers, a parking lot with a capacity of more than 600 places will be located in the surrounding area. The shopping center building will include a retail space, storage premises, a sawing area, an office space, a staff canteen, a meeting room, a training room, a pick-up point, an amenity space. It is important that the total investment volume will be about 1.4 billion rubles, and will be result in creation of 200 jobs (to date, 159 people became employed, 99% of them are inhabitants of Smolensk).