City Nord is a shopping center located at Stormyra in

Bodø Bodø (; smj, Bådåddjo, sv, Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø (which is also the capital of Nordland count ...

, Norway. Measuring and with more than 100 stores, it is the largest shopping center in

Northern Norway Northern Norway ( nb, Nord-Norge, , nn, Nord-Noreg; se, Davvi-Norga) is a geographical Regions of Norway, region of Norway, consisting of the two northernmost counties Nordland and Troms og Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainlan ...

. The shopping center opened in 1994 and has been expanded several times, first in 2008. The center suffered minor damage in a fire in December 2008. In 2010–11, the center was expanded from to at a cost of , leading to concerns that the center might out-compete shops in the center of Bodø. These fears appeared to be allayed by early 2012, with the trade balance in the town evening out. The expanded center was opened on 10 November 2011 by the mayor of Bodø, Ole-Henrik Hjartøy, and the CEO of Coop Nordland, Lars Arve Jakobsen. The owner bought three surrounding lots for in 2013 and planned to expand the shopping center to between and , with construction starting in March 2014 and estimated to be completed before the Christmas shopping season of 2015. The cost of the renewed expansion is estimated by Coop Nordland at . By the completion of the 2014–2015 expansion, City Nord was expected to be among the ten largest shopping centers in Norway. In 2014, City Nord management announced that by November 2015, the mall would measure , equalling the size of Jekta Storsenter. City Nord is aimed at a customer base from both Bodø and the rest of the

Salten Salten is a traditional district in Nordland county, Norway. It includes the municipalities of Meløy, Gildeskål, Bodø, Beiarn, Saltdal, Fauske, Sørfold, Steigen, and Hamarøy. Salten covers an area of about and has a population (2016) of ...

region of Nordland. City Nord has a

multi-storey car park A multistorey car park (British and Singapore English) or parking garage (American English), also called a multistory, parking building, parking structure, parkade (mainly Canadian), parking ramp, parking deck or indoor parking, is a build ...

, with capacity in excess of 800 cars.

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* {{Shopping centres in Norway Buildings and structures in Bodø Shopping centres in Norway 1994 establishments in Norway Shopping malls established in 1994