The commercial renewal of Cap3000 is underway with the definitive approval of its CDAC covering 35,000m2 GLA in one of the most powerful commercial zones in France. The restructuring and expansion project of Cap 3000 is of interest to one of the sensitive sectors of the Alpes Maritimes: the Plaine du Var.
It increases the area to 152,000 m2, with more than 2,000 m2 having recently obtained authorization. This highly attractive project is ambitious.
The first to react, the CCI Nice Côte d’Azur has acknowledged the upcoming realization of this project, just like those already under construction or about to start.
This extension aims to offer more generous volumes open to the sea, comfort zones, personalized attention, and to attract an even more premium clientele with a strengthened commerce-leisure offer.
With a strategic location, near the 2nd international airport and the 5th city of France, Cap3000 attracts nearly 9 million visitors each year. With 150 shops and restaurants, it is the first “waterfront” shopping center on the Côte d’Azur. The Cap3000 expansion project will be unveiled in the fall of 2013.
The consular chamber, which also represents the interests of local businesses, sees in this project a potential threat to small local commerce:
For the immediate future, and based on a new approach to commercial urbanism in the Alpes Maritimes, which it unanimously approved among its members on May 13, the CCI Nice Côte d’Azur demands more selectivity and coherence from political leaders on commercial establishment projects, so as not to destabilize existing commerce and considering 317,000 m2 of additional space is envisaged by 2020.
Finally, the CCI Nice Côte d’Azur calls for more positive economic impacts on all sectors of activity and proposes the implementation of a “Small Business Act 06” with firm commitments from commercial operators, to benefit local businesses (construction, services, tourism…) and trade federations from the results of the completion and operation of the agreed commercial projects.
