Shopping center

West Edmonton Mall (WEM), located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is the largest shopping mall in North America and the sixth largest in the world. It was the world's largest mall for a 23-year period from 1981 until 2004. West Edmonton Mall covers a gross area of about 570,000 m² and cost C$1.2 billion to build. There are over 800 stores and services and parking for more than 20,000 vehicles. More than 23,000 people are employed at the property. The mall receives 28.2 million visitors per year...

The Bucureşti Mall is a shopping mall located in Bucharest, Romania, close to the Dudeşti and Văcăreşti neighbourhoods. Located on Calea Vitan approximately 1 km outside Bucharest's historic center, the four-story, 50,000 m² mall opened in 1999, in a Ceauşescu-era abandoned hunger circus, or giant food warehouse, in an area largely shaped during the Communist period (see Ceauşima}. The transformation into a modern mall was a 40-million-US dollar project, carried out by the Turkish firm...

The Shops at Prudential Center is an urban shopping mall located at the base of the Prudential Tower in Boston, Massachusetts. There are over 75 stores there, including upscale department stores Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue. Upscale stores include Lacoste and Club Monaco. The Prudential Center and the Museum of Science act as the departure points of the Boston Duck Tour.

Roosevelt Field Mall is the largest shopping mall in the state of New York and eighth in the country as measured by gross leaseable area at 2,189,941 sq ft. (203,452 m²). Located in East Garden City on Long Island, the anchors of the 270 store mall are: Bloomingdale's, JCPenney, Macy's and Nordstrom. Previous anchor stores were Gimbel's (succeeded by Stern's) A&S;, and Alexander's (succeeded by Bloomingdale's). The original anchor stores were Macy's and Gimbel's. The specialty stores cover a...

Stanford Shopping Center is an upscale open air shopping mall located on El Camino Real at Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California. It is adjacent to the Stanford University campus and the underlying land is owned by the university. However, both the shopping center and the neighboring Stanford University Medical Center are actually part of the city of Palo Alto. The shopping center buildings are owned by Simon Property Group, which manages the property and leases the land from the university. ...

The St. Enoch Centre is a shopping mall located in the central area of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. The Architects were the GMW Architects. The construction, undertaken by Sir Robert McAlpine, began in 1986, and the building was opened to the public in May 1989. It was officially opened by the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in February of the following year. Located on the site of the former St Enoch Station, the building is just off Glasgow's famous shopping thoroughfare,...

The Shops at Columbus Circle is an urban shopping mall in the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, New York City a complex of skyscrapers that was completed in 2003. It is located at Columbus Circle, next to the southwestern corner of Central Park. It includes mostly upscale stores selling luxury brands, including Davidoff, L'Occitane, Hugo Boss, Tumi, Coach, Cole Haan, Thomas Pink, Tourneau, and Stuart Weitzman. The mall also has several restaurants such as the Michelin 3-star Per Se and Masa ...

MetroCentre is the largest shopping centre in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the third biggest on the European continent after the Cevahir Mall in Istanbul, Turkey and the Shopping City Süd located south of Vienna in (Vösendorf). It is located at Swalwell, Gateshead, UK on a former industrial site, close to the River Tyne. The Metrocentre opened in 1986 and has nearly 330 shops occupying 1.78 million square feet (165,000 m²) of retail floor space. Additional retail space is...

Yorkdale Shopping Centre is an upscale shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has over 240 stores. It is located in the community of Downsview in the former City of North York, a former suburb of Toronto. It is the fifth largest shopping mall in Canada. Yorkdale also enjoys the highest sales per square foot of any mall in Canada, with current merchandise sales levels at approximately $1000(CAD)/square foot. The centre draws in approximately 400,000 customers a week. Yorkdale is Canada's...

Sydney Central Plaza, located in the heart of the Sydney CBD shopping precinct, on Pitt Street Mall, is the result of a major redevelopment of the former Grace Bros store located on its site. It remains enclosed in the original Grace Bros building however the interior reflects no similarities to the prior disjointed and dysfunctional department store. When the owners of Grace Bros, the Coles Myer Group decided to redevelop their Sydney flagship store they decided that it would also be...

Wild Blue Yokohama is a large indoor pool complex located inside a shopping mall in Yokohama, Japan, just south of Tokyo. The complex contains an artificial rubber beach, decorated in a tropical theme, featuring generated waves, heat lamps, and tanning booths. it is a great place to go to 4 vacation The entrance fee is $2,900 Yen for adults. Patrons receive a bar-coded wristband which records all of your purchases and rentals.

The Mall Romford (Also Known as Liberty Shopping Centre and the Liberty), is a covered shopping mall located in Romford in East London. The centre takes its name from the Royal Liberty of Havering and is owned by The Mall Fund. The mall has recently (2004) been refurbished and entirely modernised at a cost of £54M. It is the largest indoor shopping mall in the London Borough of Havering and covers 63,000 square meters with around 100 units. Redevelopment of the site is part of a planned...

The Danbury Fair Mall is the largest shopping mall in the U.S. state of Connecticut and is one of the largest malls in New England. It is located off of Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 7 in the city of Danbury opposite the Danbury Municipal Airport. The Danbury Fair Mall was built by the Wilmorite Corporation. The mall was first opened on October 28, 1986 starting with two anchors, Sears and G. Fox (which became Filene's in 1993) (which is now closed). Followed by Macy's in October 1987, and JC...

Galeries d'Anjou is a shopping mall located in the Anjou borough of Montreal , Quebec, Canada. Current major tenants include The Bay, Sears, Zellers, Sports Experts/Atmosphere and The Brick furniture store. It is roughly 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Opened in 1968, its original anchors were Simpsons, Steinberg and Eaton. The mall was expanded in 1976 to make room for an additional wing including the arrival of the current Sears. Les Galeries d'Anjou is one of Cadillac Fairview's four...

Northridge Mall, located in Salinas, California, serves as Monterey County's largest shopping mall. It is owned and operated by The Macerich Company. The single-story structure encompasses of retail space and features more than 110 shops, two restaurants, a fast-food court with eight outlets, and four department stores including Sears, J.C. Penney, Macy's, and Mervyns. There are approximately 3,000 spaces in the open-air parking lot. Northridge Mall opened in 1972 with sixty stores and...