Live Aldi is investing more than ever in the modernisation of its store range. In addition, the discounter has more and more to the roof. Literally. Last year, there are 95 apartments on top of a branch of the supermarket chain built. Meanwhile in that way all 54 Aldi’s ‘inhabited’. In the latest innovative project is even a green roof, with private garden and petanque square for the residents.
Aldi builds up in the hills of Kortessem at a brand new store. The need for the customers the most modern Aldi of the new generation. But also the exterior promises to be innovative: for the first time, it will totally shop roof to be occupied for habitation. Residence Groenstraat will be 14 luxurious apartments count, with private gardens and even a petanque square, on top of the roof. “In the new project goes a lot of attention to sustainability,” says Dieter Snoeck of Aldi. “So, for example, invested in an ecological roof garden – hence the name Residence Groenstraat , and install Aldi a system of heat recuperation.”