Shopping mall

  • a shopping mall is in the beginning a site where several trade route converges.

  • a shopping mall or center of purchase (sometimes indicated by the Anglicisme shopping center , in particular in Belgium) then became the term to generally define a whole of Commerce S which share the same space, in a gallery.

The first shopping malls, appeared in the Years 1960, were generally established outside the agglomerations, and were equipped with vast parks of Stationnement to facilitate their access in Automobile. The first shopping mall was the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele with Milan, Italy. Many of other big cities created the similar shopping malls towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century along the similar lines.

A shopping mall forms a closed place in which the act of consumption is supported by the cut with the outside world (Climatisation, background music, interior street, sometimes attractions). Its objective is to gather all the trade in the same place. It often includes large surfaces, department stores or Hypermarché S, which is the engines, whereas paradoxically, those have vocation to offer all the products under the same roof. In France, the regional shopping malls have generally more 40  000  m ² of sales area. Historically, the first shopping mall of this type was that of Parly II, established with the Chesnay, close to Versailles. Thereafter, of the shopping malls were established in full downtown area, generally at the time of operations of urban refitting, following the example shopping mall the Forum of the Markets, with Paris.

The Hypermarché S generally obtained an commercial arcade which supplements the proposed services by the hypermarket itself. The first shopping mall to be opened on this model in France was that of Englos close to Lille, around a hyper Auchan. Today, of many French peripheral centers include in their perimeter of vast parks of marketing activities made up of stores of do-it-yourself, pieces of furniture, sport… In order to give again a cohesion with these heteroclite units, often built with the wire of time without clear guiding line, the promoters develop from now on the concept of the retail park .

The greatest shopping mall of North America is the West Edmonton Mall, which is in the province of Alberta to the Canada, whereas largest of the the United States off names Mall America. The greatest center of purchase of the world at a discrete place is the agglomeration of two shopping malls: the Plaza At King off Prussia and the Short At King off Prussia in the suburbs of Philadelphia. In the same way, without it being able to really be comparable at a shopping mall, the greatest center of purchase of Western Europe is the district Haussmann in Paris, followed by Oxford Street to London.

The greatest shopping mall of the world is South China Badly 660.000 m2 and its 1500 shops open in 2005, follows the Golden delicious Center Resources of Beijing: 560.000 m2 and its 1000 shops open in 2004. A project of larger center still in Dubai is in hand.

The greatest French shopping mall is that of Beautiful Spine in Thiais in the Val de Marne with 140.900 m2, then come " Four Temps" with Defense in the Hauts de Seine with 130.000 m2 for which it will be necessary to add 30.000 m2 of the CNIT in 2008, which will be transformed into shopping mall and which will make pole of Defense the greatest center of France. Unless in the Seine Denis Saint in the town of Rosny under Wood, the two shopping malls Rosny 2 and Domus (respectively 119.000 m2 and 75.000 m2) are not connected by a footbridge, then cumulating a shopping mall of almost 200.000 m2.

The shopping mall of Share-God in Lyon was the greatest European shopping mall for a long time. It remains however, with 110.000 m2 and 260 shops out of 5 stages, more the center European shopping mall of center town.

To still note among the greatest centers of Europe: Blue Toilets in England, in the outer suburbs of London.

The Galleries of Arabia inside Dubaïland with Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which will open in 2006, will become the greatest shopping mall in the world.

See too

External bonds

  • DeadMalls.com

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