A new shopping mall is to be built in the Dordogne that will offer 10,000 square meters of shops.

The new retail development aims to compete with other retail centres in the Dordogne and neighbouring departments, such as Poitiers Cordeliers in Limoges or the ’Grands Hommes’ mall in Bordeaux. It will be called ‘Le Montaigne’ mall, after the place in Perigueux where it is being constructed – currently a car park.

According to Sudouest, the Mayor of Perigeux believes that the development will help draw national retail chains into Perigueux. A new underground parking lot will replace the surface car park currently standing in Montaigne place.

The mall will have three levels of shopping outlets and was designed by Jean-Pierre Buffi, a renowned architect who designed the National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies. The €30 million mall is predicted to open in 2014, with construction beginning over the next year.

Sudouest reports that currently the project is behind - held back by debates among locals about how the new development will accommodate a memorial to the French resistance that is currently installed in the Montagine car park. Some people object that moving the cenotaph would mean it had been moved for a second time.

The development of the mall in Montaigne may also stimulate private development of Perigueux’s public spaces. Sudouest reports that a cinema may be opened at the site of the town’s old bus station.

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