Socri Reim has announced the acquisition of La Coupole shopping centre, a project that had been dragging on for some time. The Montpellier-based company Socri Reim, which has already owned the Polygone in Béziers since 2013 and retail premises leased to Monoprix and Maisons du Monde at Polygone Montpellier since 2019, has officially announced that it has acquired the La Coupole retail complex in Nîmes. Crédit Agricole is the financial partner for this acquisition, which has taken a long time to come to fruition (the City of Nîmes announced it over a year ago). La Coupole was inaugurated in 1992 and covers an area of almost 15,000 square metres. Socri Reim has announced that its aim is to make it “the benchmark shopping centre in the city centre and thus work with the local authority to support the commercial revival of the city centre”. Group Chairman Nicolas Chambon says: “This is a natural and obvious acquisition for Socri Reim, which is pursuing its policy of revitalising our city centres. We’re going to contribute our recognised expertise in the design, development and marketing of exceptional sites”. With the number of empty premises having risen sharply, the challenge of bringing La Coupole back to life is a major one.
