Iulius Town Timișoara

Romanian shopping mall

Iulius Town Timișoara

Location| Timișoara, Romania
Coordinates| 45°45′59″N 21°13′41″E﻿ / ﻿45.7664°N 21.2281°E﻿ / 45.7664; 21.2281
Address| 2 Council of Europe Square
Opening date| 20 October 2005
Previous names| Openville Timișoara (2015–2019)
Owner| Iulius Group [ro]–Atterbury Europe
No. of stores and services| 450
Total retail floor area| 120,000 m2 (1,300,000 sq ft)
No. of floors| 5
Parking| 4,070
Website| iuliustown.ro

Iulius Town Timișoara (until 2019 Openville Timișoara)[1] is the name of a mixed-use development, edge city and shopping mall located in Timișoara, Romania. Owned by the Iulius Group [ro]–Atterbury Europe consortium, the project was conceived from the beginning to integrate Iulius Mall, now completed with office, retail and entertainment functions. The mixed project includes, in addition to the shopping area, a park, event rooms, offices, a health center, a cinema and over 4,000 parking spaces.[1] Over 442 million euros were invested in the first phase of the project, partially inaugurated in August 2019, being one of the largest infusions of private capital in the real estate sector ever made in Romania.[2] The estimated annual traffic for Iulius Town is over 20 million visitors.[2]

## Iulius Mall[edit]

Interior of Iulius Mall Main entrance of Iulius Mall

Iulius Mall Timișoara, the second mall within the Iulius national network, was inaugurated on 20 October 2005, following an initial investment of 45 million euros.[3] It was developed on a site that hosted antennas mounted in the 1940s and that remained undervalued in the early 2000s.[4] Iulius Group [ro] was founded in 1991 by Iulian Dascălu, and the company currently owns three other malls in Iași, Suceava and Cluj-Napoca. At the time of its inauguration, Iulius Mall Timișoara was the first mall in western Romania.

In 2005, Iulius Mall Timișoara had a gross leasable area of 31,000 m2, which was then expanded to 73,000 m2 in 2009 and over 120,000 m2 in 2019.[4] The mall has: 4,070 parking spaces, 450 stores, including a 11,500-square-meter Auchan hypermarket, a 12-screen Cinema City cinema, a 2,500-seat food court, full-service restaurants, bars and cafés, a semi-Olympic swimming pool and largest fitness club in Romania (over 3,400 m2), a climbing wall and ice rink (during the winter season), a bowling and billiard hall, a casino, indoor playgrounds and play areas, banks, police offices (vehicle registration and passport services) and a post office.

After the extensions, it is the largest mall outside Bucharest and the third largest in Romania, after AFI Cotroceni and Băneasa Shopping City.[5]

## Iulius Gardens[edit]

Iulius Gardens and UBC 3 seen from UBC 0 UBC 1

Iulius Gardens have an area of 5.5 ha, being the largest suspended park in Romania. The park involved an investment of 8.7 million euros and was carried out by a team of specialists from Italy, Germany and Romania.[6] Arranged above the underground car park in the complex, the green space integrates 10,000 shrubs and 1,400 large trees.[6] Iulius Gardens also include an 800-square-meter lake, a multi-storey Venetian carousel for children, a gazebo, promenades and plazas for outdoor events and fairs.

## United Business Center[edit]

Iulius Town includes in the first stage of development over 100,000 m2 of Class A office space in four buildings, employing about 13,000 people.[6] All four buildings are operational as of 2022, with tenants including multinational IT, automotive and customer support companies.[7][8] United Business Center 2 is the first office building that was commissioned within the Iulius Town complex, opened in early 2017.[9] The last one to be inaugurated and the tallest of them, having 15 floors and two technical floors, is United Business Center 0.[10]

Current status of construction  Completed  | Topped out | Under construction  | On hold  | Presumably

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Name | Started | Completed | Height | Floors | Gross leasable area | Notes

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United Business Center 0 | 2017 | 2022 | 70 m | 15 | 30,000 m2[11] | It was lowered (original plans were to build a 155-meter-high tower).
United Business Center 1 | 2016 | 2017[12] | 52 m[13] | 12[13] | 13,000 m2 |
United Business Center 2 |  | 2017[12] | 54 m[14] | 12[14] | 18,000 m2 | It is the first office building put into use in the Iulius Town Timișoara.
United Business Center 3 | 2017[12] | 2019[15] | 68 m[16] | 15[16] | 19,000 m2 |
United Business Center 4 |  |  | 60 m[17] | 10[17] |  |
United Business Center 5 |  |  | 60 m[17] | 10[17] |  |

## Notes[edit]

## See also[edit]

* Palas Iași
* Iulius Mall Cluj
* Iulius Mall Iași
* Iulius Mall Suceava

## References[edit]

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1. ^ a b Roșu, Roxana (15 May 2019). "Openville Timișoara, proiect imobiliar de 220 mil. euro, este rebranduit sub numele Iulius Town și va fi cea mai mare zonă de retail din vestul României". Ziarul Financiar.
2. ^ a b "Iulius Town Timișoara a fost inaugurat, valoarea investiției totale ridicându-se la 442 de milioane de euro". Forbes România. 30 August 2019.
3. ^ "Extinderea Iulius Mall Timișoara, o investiție de 60 mil. euro, gata în noiembrie". Wall-Street.ro. 20 October 2009.
4. ^ a b "15 ani de IULIUS în Timișoara – o zonă industrială transformată în lifestyle center". Mediafax. 28 October 2020.
5. ^ Mareș, Cătălina (7 May 2021). "Unde se află, de fapt, cel mai mare mall din România și ce suprafață are". Money.ro.
6. ^ a b c "S-a deschis Iulius Town în Timișoara, un proiect mixt în valoare de 442 de milioane de euro". Economica.net. 30 August 2019.
7. ^ Drăgan, Aurel (30 August 2019). "Iulius Town opens in Timișoara after EUR 327 million investment". Business Review.
8. ^ Popescu, Marius (4 October 2022). "A fost inaugurată cea de-a patra clădire de birouri din Iulius Town Timișoara". pressalert.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 13 February 2023.
9. ^ "United Business Center 2". United Business Center.
10. ^ "United Business Center 0". United Business Center.
11. ^ "Iulius Town Timișoara ajunge la 80.000 mp de birouri premium, după inaugurarea United Business Center 0". deBanat.ro (in Romanian). 4 October 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
12. ^ a b c Stanciu, Marius Alexandru (4 December 2017). "Iulius a inaugurat o nouă clădire de spații de birouri în Openville Timișoara, a doua în decursul acestui an". Wall-Street.ro.
13. ^ a b "United Business Center 1". CTBUH.
14. ^ a b "United Business Center 2". CTBUH.
15. ^ Dichis, Bianca (2 July 2020). "United Business Center 3 din ansamblul Iulius Town Timișoara, singura clădire office certificată LEED Platinum din afara Capitalei". Opinia Timișoarei.
16. ^ a b "United Business Center 3". CTBUH.
17. ^ a b c d "Hotărârea nr. 293/2015". Timișoara HCL.

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Places in Timișoara

Historical|

* Anchor Palace
* Baroque Palace
* Brück House
* Communal Abattoir
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* Dicasterial Palace
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* Mühle House
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* Palace of Culture
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* Timișoreana Brewery
* Water Palace
* Weiss Palace

Cultural|

* Banat Village Museum
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* German Cultural Centre
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* National Museum of Art
* National Museum of Banat
* Romanian National Opera

Places of worship|

* Cetate Synagogue
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* Fabric Synagogue
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Educational|

* Ana Aslan National College
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* Central Library of Politehnica University
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* Eugen Todoran Central University Library
* Francesco Saverio Nitti Economic College
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* Ion Vidu National College of Art
* Israelite High School
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* Nikolaus Lenau High School
* Piarist High School
* Politehnica University
* Sorin Titel County Library
* Tibiscus University
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* West Technical College
* West University

Statues, monuments and
fountains|

* Capitoline Wolf
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* Floral Clock
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* Plague Column
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* Virgin Mary Monument

Forests, parks and
gardens|

* Alpinet Park
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Public squares|

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* Trajan Square
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Sports venues|

* CFR Stadium
* Ciarda Roșie Stadium
* Constantin Jude Sports Hall
* Dan Păltinișanu Stadium
* Electrica Stadium
* Gheorghe Rășcanu Stadium
* Știința Stadium

Business centers|

* AFI Park
* Bega Business Park
* United Business Center
* Vox Technology Park

Shopping venues|

* Bega Shopping Center
* Iulius Mall
* Shopping City

Infrastructure|

* Cioca Airfield
* Port
* Timișoara East railway station
* Timișoara North railway station
* Timișoara South railway station
* Timișoara West railway station
* Traian Vuia International Airport

Edge cities|

* ISHO
* Iulius Town

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Shopping malls in Romania

Bucharest|

| Current|

* AFI Cotroceni
* Băneasa Shopping City
* București Mall
* Grand Arena
* Liberty Center Mall
* Plaza Romania
* Promenada Mall
* Sun Plaza
* Unirea Shopping Center
* Mega Mall
* Park Lake
* Veranda Mall

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Planned|

* The Colosseum
* Dâmbovița Center
* Esplanada Center

Cluj-Napoca|

* Iulius Mall Cluj
* VIVO! Cluj-Napoca

Iași|

| Current|

* Iulius Mall Iași
* Palas Iași
* Era Shopping Park Iași
* Felicia Shopping Center Iași

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Planned|

* Mall Moldova Iași

Oradea|

* Lotus Center
* Era Shopping Park Oradea

Timișoara|

* Iulius Town Timișoara
* Shopping City Timișoara

Elsewhere|

* City Park Mall
* European Retail Park Brăila
* Iulius Mall Suceava

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