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Location | Bloomington, Minnesota, United States |
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Coordinates | 44°51′15″N 93°14′32″W / 44.85417°N 93.24222°W |
Opening date | August 11, 1992 |
Developer | Melvin Simon & Associates & Triple Five Group |
Management | Triple Five Group |
Architect | HGA, KKE Architects, Inc., Jerde Partnership[1] |
No. of stores and services | 520+ |
No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
Total retail floor area | 2.5 million sq ft + 5.4 mn expansion (8 mn sq.ft). (230,000 m²) |
No. of floors | 4 |
Parking | 20,000 spaces, including two 7-story ramps and overflow surface lots. |
Website | http://www.mallofamerica.com |
Mall of America (also MOA, MoA, the Megamall) is a large shopping mall in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. The mall is southeast of the junction of Interstate 494 and Minnesota State Highway 77, north of the Minnesota River and is across the interstate from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. In the United States, it is the second-largest inside mall in terms of retail space but is largest in terms of total enclosed floor area.[2][3] Opened in 1992, the mall received 40 million visitors in 2006.[4]
Triple Five Group, owned by the Ghermezian family of Canada, fully owns and manages the property, and has also owned West Edmonton Mall in Canada.[5]
In addition to the inside of the mall, outside of the mall are additional hotels, kiosks, restaurants, and stores. The Mall of America and the additional businesses meet at the South Loop District in Bloomington.
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The Mall of America is modeled on the West Edmonton Mall in Canada, one of the largest malls in the world, which Triple Five also owns.
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