Centro Sambil Caracas, located in

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, is the sixth largest

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. It was completed in 1998 and has over 500 stores in approximately 3 million square-feet (250,000 square metres). The mall has five ''levels'': Autopista, Libertador, Acuario, Feria, and Diversión. There are other Sambil malls located in

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, San Cristóbal,

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, Paraguaná,

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and

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. The mall is owned by Constructora Sambil, run and owned by the Salomon Cohen Levy family. Alfredo Cohen is the director. A second mall in Caracas is located in La Candelaria parish under the name "Centro Sambil La Candelaria". In December 2008, just months before the building was inaugurated, the Venezuelan government, under President

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, confiscated the building without compensation while citing concerns with the congestion of the zone. After the government took over the building, the building remained unfinished, dismantled and unoccupied until 2011 when it was used as a

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and then, as a

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of the government. On March 18, 2022 the government of Venezuela returned the ownership of the building to the Salomon Cohen family, which soft opened by November 30, 2022 and to grand open by May 28, 2023.

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Centro Sambil Caracas Official website
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