Forum Buenavista is a shopping mall built atop the Buenavista Station in Colonia Buenavista, central

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, where

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meets Eje 1 Norte. It was developed by GICSA, opened in 2009, and as of 2015 it was one of the ten largest malls in

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. While the train station and tracks occupy the ground floor, the mall occupies three floors above, stretching 400 meters from south to north. It is anchored by the

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, Fábricas de Francia, and Coppel department stores;

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hypermarket, Sanborns, Muebles Dico furniture,

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multicinemas,

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, H&M, and more than 50 freestanding and food-court restaurants, including

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and

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Criticism

The center has only one pedestrian entrance at its southwest corner, to the north of which the building fronts the city's iconic

boulevard with a 500-meter-long parking garage, with entrances only for cars. Alejandro Hernández, editor of ''Arquine'', stated that Forum Buenavista "is an example of architecture that does nothing but decompose its environment. It shows contempt for the city and its inhabitants, and creates an unforgiving and hostile cityscape for pedestrians. If Insurgentes, being 30 meters wide, is already unsettling for the pedestrian, then decorating its sides with car-prisons makes it the end of the pedestrian."

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* {{Shopping malls in Mexico Shopping malls in Greater Mexico City Shopping malls established in 2009 Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City 2009 establishments in Mexico