Prime Kapital, MAS to deliver new mall in Iași next month

Business Forum

21 March, 2025 at 10:28 AM

Prime Kapital Development and MAS PLC are preparing to open their new Mall Moldova project in Iași next month.

Work on the completion of the shopping centre is at an advanced stage, with the official opening scheduled for April 17th.

Mall Moldova is the largest shopping destination in Moldova and outside of Bucharest, with over 110,000 sqm in this phase of the project, offering more than 250 national and international brands, with 50 concepts being introduced for the first time in Iași.

”Mall Moldova is an ambitious project, created to become the benchmark for retail in the region, and we want to be able to offer our visitors a complete shopping and leisure experience,” said Mihaela Adam, Asset Manager of Mall Moldova Iași.

The developer says that over 3,000 builders, engineers, architects and designers, and hundreds of items of equipment and machinery were involved in the completion of the retail project.

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