Sello ( Finnish for ''

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in the Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland. The mall contains more than 170 shops and services including a

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and a

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. The largest stores in the shopping center are

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K-Citymarket K-Citymarket is a Finnish hypermarket chain owned by Kesko. The chain has about 80 stores in Finland. The first K-Citymarket store was opened in Lahti year 1971. The size of the stores are between 7,000 m² (75,347 sq ft) to 10,000 m² (107,639 s ...

, Power,

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, Halonen, H&M, and Intersport Megastore. The Sello is separated into three parts: the oldest part (finished in 2002), the second part (finished in 2005) and the newest part (finished in 2008). The oldest part of Sello has two hypermarkets, three banks, contains Espoo City's main library, a concert hall, gym, restaurants and cafes, pharmacy, an

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and a music academy. The second part of Sello has many

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s and smaller stores, and multiple sport stores such as

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and

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. Sello's third and newest part was designed to have a movie theater, several restaurants and a bowling alley. Sello also has a

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named Hotel Sello, property of the Palace Kämp Group. It is served by Leppävaara

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and

Leppävaara railway station Leppävaara station (, ) is a railway station located in Leppävaara, a district of the city of Espoo in Finland. It is located about to the northwest of Helsinki Central. History Near the construction site of the Rantarata line was the financ ...

immediately to the north, with

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running just to the east. On 31 December 2009, five people were killed during a shooting spree in the mall.

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* Shopping centres in Espoo Leppävaara {{mall-stub

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