FMZ, a new shopping center set to open by the end of March in the Austrian border town of Hainburg, will target Bratislava residents. The project is a redevelopment of a former tobacco factory in the center of the small town. The Austrian developer Halpin is building a mixed-use scheme on the 5.6 ha brownfield that will offer both flats and retail. The company plans to invest €40m into the project, which is expected to add 240 jobs to the local labor market. It will offer 150 apartments and 25 retail units on 14,000 sqm. Lidl, CCC, Merkur, Dressmann, C&A Mode and mister* Lady have already signed leases. Hospodarske noviny quoted Terno analyst Lubomír Drahovský saying that the new complex will compete with the shopping centers in Bratislava, as Slovaks tend to do their shopping across the border in Austria.
