
Akropolis is the largest
shopping mall
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in the
Baltics
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by floor area, a shopping center and
entertainment center
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in
Vilnius
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, the Lithuanian capital. It was built in
Šeškinė
Šeškinė (''literally'' lt, 'A place with a lot of polecats') is a fairly new district located in the north of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, built in 1977 as a microdistrict.
Šeškinė is a largely residential district although it is ...
by Akropolis Group in 2002 and opened in April 2002 (at that time the area was 54,000 square meters). The bank "
Hansa
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LTB" financed the construction. The authors of the project "Akropolis" were architects Gediminas JureviÄius and
Algimantas Nasvytis
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from Vilnius. Interior project author was designer Unko Kunnap (
Estonia
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).
Vilniuje - prekybos ir pramogų kompleksas "Akropolis"
TOPsport
There is a free car park next to the building. In Akropolis there are grocery stores, Maxima LT supermarket, shops etc. The shopping center also has a bookstore. The area has an area of 110,000 square meters. Not far away is the other shopping center, PC Ozas
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, built by German companies.
See also
* List of shopping malls in Lithuania
Lithuania has around 15 shopping malls with more than square meters of space. Another two are under construction.
At the end of 2018, the total retail space in shopping centres larger than of gross leasable area and with more than 10 tenants amo ...
External links
Akropolis
(lt, en)
References
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Shopping malls in Vilnius
Commercial buildings completed in 2002
Šeškinė
2002 establishments in Lithuania