Discount retailer Lidl has provisionally agreed to open a EUR28m (US$34.4m) logistics facility in western Paris next year.

The firm said today (1 June) that it has signed a deal with global logistics firm Goodman Group to build the 39,392 sq m facility in Chanteloup-les-Vignes.

The distribution centre will be pre-sold to Lidl France on a forward funding basis, Goodman said.

The facility will complement Lidl’s two existing logistics centres located near Paris and consists of warehouse space, with an additional 2,327sqm of office space.

However, a spokesperson for Lidl France told just-food: “Lidl has a project to open a warehouse near to Paris. At the moment this is just a project and nothing is confirmed.”

The retailer has 21 warehouses in France and said it will open a new warehouse in Angoulême et Draguignan tomorrow, which will service its 1,500 stores.

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Goodman said the Lidl development is expected to be completed by July 2011.

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