Sello (
Finnish for ''
cello
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'') is a
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...
in the
Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland. The mall contains more than 170 shops and services including a
concert hall
A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage (theatre), stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.
This list does not include other venues such as sports stadia, dramatic theatres or convention ...
and a
library
A library is a collection of Book, books, and possibly other Document, materials and Media (communication), media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions. Libraries provide physical (hard copies) or electron ...
. The largest stores in the shopping center are
Prisma,
K-Citymarket, Power,
Tokmanni, Halonen,
H&M, and
Intersport Megastore.
The Sello is separated into three parts: the oldest part (finished in 2002), the second part (finished in 2005) and the newest part (finished in 2008). The oldest part of Sello has two hypermarkets, three banks, contains Espoo City's main library, a concert hall, gym, restaurants and cafes, pharmacy, an
Alko and a music academy. The second part of Sello has many
restaurant
A restaurant is an establishment that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and Delivery (commerce), food delivery services. Restaurants ...
s and smaller stores, and multiple sport stores such as
Intersport and
Stadium
A stadium (: stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage completely or partially surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit ...
. Sello's third and newest part was designed to have a movie theater, several restaurants and a bowling alley. Sello also has a
hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...
named Hotel Sello, property of the Palace Kämp Group.
It is served by Leppävaara
bus station
A bus station, bus depot, or bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. A bus station is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can st ...
and
Leppävaara railway station
Leppävaara station (, ) is a railway station located in Leppävaara, a district of the city of Espoo in Finland. It is located about to the northwest of Helsinki Central.
History
Near the construction site of the Rantarata line was the financ ...
immediately to the north, with
Ring I running just to the east.
On 31 December 2009, five people were killed during
a shooting spree in the mall.
See also
*
Itis shopping centre, in
East Helsinki
East Helsinki (, ) is an area in Helsinki, Finland, usually thought to comprise the city's eastern and south-eastern major districts (, ), including the districts of Vartiokylä, Myllypuro, Mellunkylä, Vuosaari, Herttoniemi, Laajasalo a ...
References
External links
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Shopping centres in Espoo
Leppävaara
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