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Mall of Istanbul

Coordinates: 41°03′45″N 28°48′18″E / 41.0625272°N 28.8049507°E / 41.0625272; 28.8049507
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Mall of İstanbul
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Locationİkitelli OSB, Süleyman Demirel Blv No:7, Başakşehir, Istanbul
Coordinates41°03′45″N 28°48′18″E / 41.0625272°N 28.8049507°E / 41.0625272; 28.8049507
Opening dateApril 2014; 10 years ago (April 2014)
No. of stores and servicesca. 350 plus amusement, cinemas, gourmet/food, hotel, museum, and sports and recreation facilities
No. of anchor tenantsca. 10 retail anchors
Total retail floor area154,000 square metres (1,660,000 sq ft) (retail)
No. of floors4 (retail), 1 (parking)

The Mall of İstanbul (with a dotted capital I, the Turkish spelling of the word İstanbul; abbreviated form MOİ) is a 3,800,000 sq ft (350,000 m2) mixed-use development in the Başakşehir district of Istanbul, centered around one of Turkey's largest shopping malls with 154,000 m2 (1,660,000 sq ft) of gross leasable area.[1]

The complex also includes:[2]

  • offices
  • Hilton hotel (175 rooms, opened 2020)[3]
  • IMAX theater/Cinetech fifteen-screen multicinema
  • MOİ Sahne (lit. "MOI Stage") theater (700 seats)
  • MOİPark amusement park
  • nature park
  • gourmet center
  • terraced gardens
  • swimming pools, club and spa
  • sports fields
  • WOX Turkey İllüzyon ve Oyuncak Müzesi (illusion and toy museum)

It opened in April 2014 with about 350 retail stores. Milestones in Turkish retail included the first two-story LC Waikiki store, the first H&M home store in Turkey, the first full-line Victoria's Secret store in the country and the second Debenham's store in Turkey after its Istanbul Cevahir location.[1] Debenhams closed both locations in 2017.[4]

Retail anchors and larger tenants as of June 2024 include:[5]

The two more upscale Turkish department store chains (Beymen and Vakko) do not have branches in the mall, but there is a Vakko Boutique.

Awards

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International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) "VIVA (Vision, Innovation, Value, Achievement) Best-of-the-Best" award for sustainability, 2017. Reasons cited were its being a LEED Gold Certified building, incorporation of skylight roofing, a greywater drainage system, 90% usage rate of LED lights, and inclusion of five separate atriums providing plentiful natural light.[6]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Riebe, Marc-Christian (2 February 2015). Retail Market Study 2015. The Location Group. ISBN 978-3-9524314-5-0. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  2. ^ DDG: The Master Architects series Revisted 2.0, Selected & Current Works. Images Publishing. 31 July 2014. ISBN 978-1-86470-468-6. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  3. ^ "New Hilton hotel connects to Turkey's largest mall - Hotelier Middle East". Hotelier Middle East. 25 October 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Debenhams Türkiye'deki 2 mağazasını kapatıyor" [Debenhams closes its two stores in Turkey]. Posta (in Turkish). 27 July 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Mall Map". MOİ Shopping Mall. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  6. ^ "ICSC Announces Winners of 2017 VIVA Awards". International Council of Shopping Centers. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2024.