The French sporting goods manufacturer and retailer Decathlon will be the new anchor tenant in the two shopping centers Westfield Ruhr Park in Bochum and Palais Vest in Recklinghausen. Both shopping centers are operated by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Germany.
In the Westfield Ruhr Park, Decathlon will present its range on a sales area of over 1,000 square meters; in the Palais Vest the sales area is around 1,000 square meters, said URW in a press release.
The openings are planned for spring 2025.
With around 118,700 square meters of rental space and over 150 stores, Westfield Ruhr Park in Bochum is one of the largest shopping and leisure destinations in Germany. The Palais Vest shopping center offers around 100 shops on 45,600 square meters of rental space.
“Our new locations in Recklinghausen and Bochum show our commitment to further promoting sports culture in the region and making it easier for local people to access sports products for beginners and experts. “Thanks to our new formats and the interweaving of digital and stationary retail, we are able to present our product variety in an area of around 1,000 square meters and can therefore be as close as possible to our customers in the important shopping centers,” says Abdelaziz Rachidi, head of expansion at Decathlon Germany.