Mall of Istanbul
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]
- Boyner department store
- Decathlon sporting goods
- DeFacto clothing
- FLO shoes
- H&M clothing and home stores
- Koçtaş home improvement/DIY
- Koton clothing
- LC Waikiki clothing
- Marks & Spencer clothing
- Media Markt electronics and appliances
- 5M Migros hypermarket ("5M" is the largest Migros format)
- Özdilek hypermarket
- TeknoSA electronics
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
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]
External links
- Mall of Istanbul official website (English version)
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "New Hilton hotel connects to Turkey's largest mall - Hotelier Middle East". Hotelier Middle East. 25 October 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ "Debenhams Türkiye'deki 2 mağazasını kapatıyor" [Debenhams closes its two stores in Turkey]. Posta (in Turkish). 27 July 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ "Mall Map". MOİ Shopping Mall. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ "ICSC Announces Winners of 2017 VIVA Awards". International Council of Shopping Centers. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
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