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Fate of 3.1b euro Paris fun park hinges on a subway stop

EuropaCity's developers worry as govt keeps deferring plans and tries to cap ballooning costs

Published Fri, Feb 9, 2018 · 09:50 PM

    Paris

    FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron's move to curb spending on a vast plan to expand the Paris transport network is making developers of a 3.1 billion euro (S$5 billion) shopping and leisure complex increasingly nervous about the future of their project.

    The suburban development called EuropaCity - slated to include malls, cinemas and an indoor ski slope - is the brainchild of Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin's Dalian Wanda Group and French retailer Auchan.

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