MEGA Family Shopping Centre

Mega or MEGA (Russian МЕГА ) is a chain of large shopping centers ( "Mega Mall" ) in Russia. It is operated by the Swedish Ikea Group, which lets build next to existing or simultaneously constructed Ikea furniture stores the mega malls. The mega malls are currently the largest shopping centers in Russia and are also among the largest in Europe.

General

Mega Mall is a concept very large shopping centers that has been developed by the Swedish furniture store IKEA Group for the Russian retail market. All mega malls are similar in design: In addition to the actual shopping malls, which combine each hundreds of small and large stores, hypermarkets, cafes and restaurants, multiplex cinemas, service companies, as well as a year-round functioning ice rink under one roof, including the two anchor tenants IKEA and the DIY Obi to the complex. The centers will be built for space and cost reasons in the surrounding areas; be also ample parking and a convenient freeway access allows.

Locations

The first mega - center ( Tjoply Stan) was built in late 2002 in Moscow, at the southwest part of the city's outer ring road just outside the city limits; its sales area is 150,000 m² of total area of around 53 hectares. The second center, which was built in 2004 in Khimki near Moscow, surpassing the first again in size. A few months later opened a mega mall in Kazan on the Volga. In the fall of 2006, three malls were opened in Russia the same: two in St. Petersburg and one each in Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. The third Moscow Megamall ( Belaya Dacha ) in the southeastern countryside followed in February 2007.

Currently (as of October 2011) are 14 malls in the metropolitan areas of Moscow ( 3), St. Petersburg ( 2), Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar ( Tachtamukay in Adygea ), Rostov-on- Don, Novosibirsk, Samara, Omsk and Ufa operation.

Other locations in Perm, Kaliningrad and Tomsk were to the 2009 financial crisis in planning, but have so far not been realized.

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