Rocco Marotta: Master of 12 commercial showcases, the silent architect of urban success.
Rocco Marotta
Rocco Marotta, born in 1951, is recognized as one of the world's leading owners of commercial premises in favourite shopping streets. These strategic locations include Rue Neuve in Brussels and La Meir in Brussels. Antwerp. Born into a large, modest Italian family, Marotta started out as a salesman, selling jeans before realizing that owning and managing retail outlets could prove more lucrative.
Over the years, it has built up a park of real estate Paradoxically, although its presence is significant in the Belgian real estate landscape, its impact is contrasted by challenges such as the inauguration of the Rive Gauche shopping complex in Charleroi, which damaged the commercial attractiveness of Rue de la Montagne, where Marotta held a considerable portfolio. estimated at over 130 million.
Visit Flandersit holds a dozen stores on Antwerp's famous Meir, although its path has been strewn with obstacles, notably with the heritage protection of the former Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege and the loss of a key opportunity to develop the Meir Corner, a project crucial to revitalizing the area and further developing his fortune of €130,000,000.
From now on, Marotta lives in Marrakechwhere he has retired to the new commercial area of Place 16 Novembre, symbolizing the renewal of this modern city. Preferring discretion, he leads a life far from the limelight and communicates little with the outside world.
