Albrook Mall
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| Location | Panama City, Panama |
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| Opening date | 2002[1] |
| No. of stores and services | 700 |
| Total retail floor area | 380,000 square metres (4,100,000 sq ft) |
| Website |
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Albrook Mall is a large shopping mall and leisure complex located in Panama City, Panama. As of August 2015 it was the fourteenth largest mall in the world, the largest in the Americas and the largest shopping mall outside Asia.[2]
The mall was opened in 2002 on the site of Fort Clayton, which had been a United States Air Force base in the former Panama Canal Zone.[3] It is located beside the city's main bus station and the Marcos A. Gelabert domestic airport.[4]
In March 2013, the mall contained 700 businesses, which received between 30,000 and 50,000 visitors per day.[5] As of March 2016, approximately 25% of the visitors are foreigners.[6] The mall provides employment for around 10,000 people.[5] Businesses included cinemas, restaurants, supermarkets, pharmacies, travel agents, hairdressers, fitness centres, and children's play areas.[3]
On 13 March 2013, a fire broke out. While no one was injured, damage was caused to 60 shops, resulting in losses of approximately $ 15 million.[5] The damage was exacerbated by the lack of fire sprinklers, which had not been installed when the mall was opened.[5]
References
- ↑ Albrook Mall cierra sus puertas por seguridad, La Opinión, 15 March 2013
- ↑ "15 Biggest Malls in the World". Insider Monkey. 26 August 2015.
- 1 2 El paraíso perdido del canal de Panamá, El País, 31 August 2014
- ↑ Woods, Sarah (2009). Panama. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 105. ISBN 1841622605.
- 1 2 3 4 Albrook Mall no tiene rociadores, La Prensa, 15 March 2013, accessed 9 May 2016
- ↑ Mayor competencia de ‘malls', un desafío a la rentabilidad, La Estrella de Panamá, 20 March 2016