Grand Arena opens karting track on the first floor

An indoor karting track has been set up close to the food court in Grand Arena shopping centre in southern Bucharest about a month ago, in an attempt to keep up with increasing competition from shopping centres.
According to representatives of developers, a five-minute ride costs 10 RON, whilst in Cotroceni Park, another mall in Bucharest that offers this kind of entertainment, a ten-minute race costs between 30 and 45 RON, depending on the day and on the time interval.
The track has been set up on the upper floor of the shopping centre, where Grand Arena is now left with less than ten tenants, mostly coffee shop and restaurant operators, after around 20 of the project’s retailers closed their stores in winter. In southern Bucharest, competition among malls has been increasingly tight after around a month ago the Sun Plaza project was inaugurated next to Piata Sudului metro station. Grand Arena required a 180 million-euro investment and counts Carrefour, Altex, Deichmann, and Kiabi among its tenants.