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The Managing Director of ING Real Estate Development in Germany and Switzerland, Mr Wil van der Have, and the Chairman of BVS Company Store Villages, Mr Robin Behar, are delighted to announce that agreement has been reached between their companies respectively to finance and to develop and manage the BVS Alpenrhein Outlet Village at Landquart in the Graubünden Canton, Switzerland, just an hour from Zürich by car or train.

The project will provide some 21,000 m2 of selling space with one panoramic and several other restaurants and cafés, an art gallery, a dedicated Mountain Sports section, substantial car parking with direct access from the autoroute, and direct access to the platforms at Landquart Station with its connections throughout the day to Zürich and to the extensive SBB and RhB rail networks. Landquart is the point of arrival by train for hundreds of thousands of international travelers bound for the neighbouring summer and winter resorts of Klosters, Davos, Arosa, Flims, Laax, and St Moritz, and is just along the road from the Luxurious spa resort of Bad Ragaz.

Close to the Austrian border and to the prosperous principality of Liechtenstein, and within reach of Ravensburg across the German border at Bregenz, this will be a truly international outlet destination drawing customers from four countries as well as from the most prosperous city in Switzerland.

Planning permission (building permits) has already been obtained and construction is scheduled to commence in the early summer of this year with a target opening of late Autumn of 2008.

The leasing programme is already well under way and reservations have been taken for space from a range of top international brands, eager to join what promises to be an exceptionally upmarket and exciting tenant list, attracted by the unique location of the site and its accessibility and by the charming “Swiss Mountain Village” architecture that is designed to create a very typically warm and welcoming ambience for our customers.

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Source : http://www.bvsvillages.com, March 2nd 2007