Multi Development has announced the opening of Forum Sintra shopping centre in Portugal. Developed and managed by Multi Mall Management Portugal, the centre is 98% let.

Forum Sintra has 55,000 m2 of shopping area with 182 shops on three floors including the Pingo Doce supermarket, a food court with 20 restaurants and a 7-screen Castello Lopes cinema. It has basement parking for 2,520 cars and 130 outside. The anchor stores are Pingo Doce, Primark, Zara, H&M, Worten, Sportzone, C&A, New Yorker and Modalfa. About 20 of the shops belong to local shopkeepers trading either under their own names or as franchisees of other brands.

The centre represents a total investment of EUR 170 mln and has led to the creation of 2,500 new jobs directly and 800 indirectly.