Mediterranean Cosmos 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 ...

located in

Pylaia Pylaia () is a former municipality in the Thessaloniki Prefecture of Greece. In the 2011 local government reform, Thessaloniki Prefecture became the Thessaloniki (regional unit), regional unit of Thessaloniki (without boundary changes), and Pylaia ...

, a municipality of

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

, the second-largest city in

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. It is the largest retail and entertainment development in

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History

The mall officially opened in October 2005. In June 2012, Lamda Development, the owners of the mall, announced that they will begin to charge parking fees from mid-February 2013. In 2017,

Värde Partners Värde Partners (Värde) is an American alternative investment management firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm focuses on investments in credit-related assets and distressed securities although it has also expanded into other ...

bought a controlling stake of the Mediterranean Cosmos and planned out an extension of the mall.

Facilities

It contains more than 200 retail units and facilities including an 11-screen multiplex

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, numerous shops of

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and

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goods as well as

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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, bars, a

supermarket A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. Strictly speaking, a supermarket is larger and has a wider selecti ...

, an

amphitheatre An amphitheatre (American English, U.S. English: amphitheater) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ('), from ('), meaning "on both sides" or "around" and ('), meani ...

and an Orthodox

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Design

Inside the mall, roads and square have been designed-like traditional cities of

in combination with the advantages of a modern city's center.

Location

The mall is located east of the city-centre and approximately away from

Thessaloniki Airport Thessaloniki Airport , officially Thessaloniki Airport "Makedonia" () and formerly Mikra Airport, is an international airport serving Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece. It is located southeast of the city, in Thermi. The airpo ...

. It can be accessed by National Road 67, the highway connecting

with the southern part of

Chalkidiki Chalkidiki (; , alternatively Halkidiki), also known as Chalcidice, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous Mount Athos reg ...

References

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