Val d'Europe (mall)
Val d’Europe is a shopping mall located 30 minutes to the east of Paris, the French capital and 5 minutes from the Disneyland Paris theme park and the Villages Nature holiday village. Opened in 2000, the mall has 190 shops and 30 restaurants, covering over 1,000,000 square feet since its most recent expansion completed in March 2017. History The beginnings of the mall can be traced to 1987 when 6 institutions – the state, the Île-de-France region, the Seine-et-Marne department, RATP Group, and government development companies: EPA Marne and EPA France – gave 1943 hectares to the Walt Disney Company, for the construction of an urban project near the pre-existing theme park. The aim of this project was to re-balance the economic development of the Île-de-France region and the East of the Paris basin. It was not until 1996 that agreements on the proposed development were signed between the land owners, Eurodisney CSA, and developers, Ségécé, for the creation of a large shopping mall. Construction began in October 1998 and the mall was opened two years later, on 25 October 2000. In 2002, Val d’Europe won an ICSC International European Shopping Centre PROCOS award in the New Developments: Large Centres