Crocus City Mall is a

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located in

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, a western suburb of

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Development

Developed by Aras Agalarov's Crocus International, the site is located near the

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Administrative HQ, just outside Moscow's

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ring road. Built of natural stone in a mixture between neo-classical and oriental architectural styles, the two-storey building opened in 2002.

Transport

The paid for the

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railway station at Myakinino to be additionally planned and built on the extension of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, located between Volokolamskaya and Strogino stations. Added as a single-platform ground-based station, it was built as a two-platform underground development, thanks to Crocus's funding input. Myakinino opened on 26 December 2009 which is the first station to be built outside Moscow.

Present

Today it houses retailers, including: *Clothing:

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, JLO by Jennifer Lopez, Philipp Plein,

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*Children's wear:

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*Housewares:

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*Accessories: Bally, Faberge,

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Crocus Expo

Crocus Expo is the adjacently located

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and

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, also built, run and operated by Crocus International. It is the largest business centre in Russia. Since 2011, Crocus hosts annual video game exhibition

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, which was moved there from VDNKh exhibition center due to an increasing number of visitors. Over a hundred thousand visitors attend Igromir in Crocus each year. In 2014 Crocus Expo also hosted the first

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and in 2016 it received a bomb threat via phone call which caused its evacuation. A concert hall in the neighboring Crocus City Hall received similar threat a year later.

References

External links

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Shopping malls in Russia Buildings and structures in Moscow Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast Shopping malls established in 2002 {{Russia-struct-stub