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About the company
In ten years Spice has grown from a small, local shopping mall to one of the two biggest shopping centres in Riga. Furthermore, it has become a complex with two centres. The Shopping Centre Spice with its total space of 77,000 square metres and the specialized Domestic Goods Centre Spice Home with the total space of 30,000 square metres together form one of the biggest commercial areas in Latvia. Currently there are more than 150 shops, services and catering facilities in Spice. RIMI hypermarket provides the widest range of food commodities. A large car park for 1991 vehicles is located within the complex: 1291 open parking spaces and 700 parking spaces in Spice multi-storey parking garage. Spice motto is World to the Family; therefore Spice is offering the biggest choice of children`s goods in Riga, for example, such shops as Mothercare, Premaman, Polarn O. Pyret, Chipollino, etc. Spice is also the only shopping centre in Latvia that has Lido catering complex and Kids Playtown with the area of more than 4000 square metres.Spice is home to the best cafés and restaurants in Riga, for example, Gan Bei, McDonald’s, Costa Coffee, etc. There is no doubt – shops are one of the most essential indicators of uniqueness and success stories; we have attracted popular fashion operators such as ZARA, Pull&Bear, Bershka, NewYorker, Lindex, Promod, Guess, Timberland, Puma and many others. There is a special Fashion Alley created for the joy of fashion gourmands. Spice is paying a lot of attention to attracting new mono brands to the complex – some shops are the first or the only representatives of certain brands in Latvia, for example, Jones, Brax, Sandro Ferrone, Oasis. Development of Shopping Centre Spice: - Opened in 2001 – 80 leaseholders; - In December 2005, 2nd round with more than 50 new shops completed; - In April 2006, Fashion Alley opened featuring over 20 new stores with customers` best-loved clothing and footwear brands - some of them newcomers to the Latvian market; - In April 2006, redesigning of RIMI hypermarket completed: from now on it houses own bakery, pastry shop, a café and fresh-made juice bar; - In November 2007, the specialized satellite centre of Spice - Spice Home accommodating 40 interior, furniture and domestic goods shops was opened; it is the biggest shopping centre of its kind in the Baltic; - In October 2010, works for extension of the left-hand turning of Lielirbes Street and Spice territory landscaping were completed: the capacity of traffic flow and the number of parking spaces have increased; a pedestrian road between the Shopping centre Spice and Spice Home has been made; children`s recreation facility has been established. More than 55.6 million Euros have been invested in the construction and expansion of the Shopping Centre Spice. Shopping Centre Spice is a subsidiary company of MerkoGroup: one of the biggest construction and real estate management concerns in the Baltic. MerkoGroup is competent in managing shopping centres: the concern owns the popular shopping centres Viru Keskus in Tallinn , Saules Miestas in Siauliai and Panorama in Vilnius. MerkoGroup is also active in the hotel, residential and office building sector.
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