Like its neighbors, Odysseum and Polygone de Béziers, Will the Polygone de Montpellier soon reopen its shopping arcade? The stores installed in the shopping center have lowered the curtain, since Sunday January 31, 2021. Only the Monoprix, the pharmacy and the food shops are still open. Last week, the government decided to close non-food shopping malls over 20,000 square meters to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Objective: to renew 100% of the air in the shopping arcade every 10 minutes
For a week, the Montpellier Polygone teams have been working. They may have just found the solution. “Jhitherto, like all shopping centers, we only renewed 25% of the air in the shopping arcade, explains Michel Badie-Cassagnet, director of development for the Socri group, owner of Polygones. The trick that the engineers have found is to change the settings and push this device to the maximum so that, every 10 minutes, all the air in the shopping arcade is renewed. It is as if the mistral was constantly blowing in the shopping arcade.“
In an open-air mall, the air can stagnate if it is raining or there is no wind. This is not the case with this find. It is said that the Polygone shopping center in Montpellier would become much less dangerous than Odysseum – Michel Badie-Cassagnet, development director of the Socri group, owner of the Polygones.
The Polygon submitted this study to the Prefecture this Friday February 5, 2021, hoping soon to obtain a favorable decision for a reopening. “For now, we find ourselves in a dramatic situation, explains Michel Badie-Cassagnet. We fought for a long time for a balance between downtown shops and suburban shops. With the continued openness of Odysseum, and our closure, this balance is upset.“
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