Westfield Mall of Scandinavia is a

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located in

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. It was inaugurated on November 12, 2015, and is the fourth largest mall in the

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with 224 stores and restaurants, many of them with double-height storefronts up to tall. 50,000 shoppers showed up to the opening of the mall. About 20-25% of the leasable area is dedicated to experiences, there are 44 restaurants and a 15 screen

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with the first purpose-built commercial IMAX theatre in the

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(and also the second overall IMAX theatre in Sweden after the Cosmonova

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at the

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). The shopping mall has 3,700 parking spaces and a retail

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of . The building also house an additional of office space and condominiums. The project cost is estimated at SEK 6.1 billion and the mall is owned by

Unibail-Rodamco Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE (previously Unibail-Rodamco SE) is a European Multinational corporation, multinational Commercial property, commercial real estate company headquartered in Paris, France, and is the owner and operator of List of West ...

with

Peab Peab AB (originally Paulsson Entreprenad AktieBolag ) is a construction and civil engineering company headquartered in Förslöv, Scania, listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. It is the third largest construction company in Sweden and the Nordic regi ...

as the main contractor. Located near the Solna

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station, approximately seven minutes from the

city centre, and the E4 highway, it is part of the Arenastaden project, which includes of new office space, the Friends national football arena and 1,500 residential units. In 2018, Unibail-Rodamco merged with Westfield Corp, bringing the mall under the new company. The mall changed its name from Mall of Scandinavia to Westfield Mall of Scandinavia on September 28, 2019.

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Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
- official website of the mall owner {{Shopping centres in Sweden Shopping centres in Sweden Shopping malls established in 2015 Solna Municipality 2015 establishments in Sweden Buildings and structures in Stockholm County Mall of Scandinavia 21st-century establishments in Stockholm

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