Emporia is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

located in the

Hyllie Hyllie () is an area and former city district ( sv, stadsdel) in the central of Malmö Municipality, Sweden. On 1 July 2013, it was merged with Limhamn-Bunkeflo, forming Väster. In 2012, Hyllie had a population of 32,998 of the municipality's ...

city district of

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

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. It is one of Scandinavia's biggest shopping malls and is situated next to

Malmö Arena Malmö Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Malmö, Sweden, and the venue for home games of SHL ice hockey club Malmö Redhawks. It is the largest arena in the SHL, and the second-largest indoor arena in Sweden. Apart from hosting Redh ...

and the

Hyllie railway station Hyllie Station ( sv, Hyllie station) is a railway station located in the Hyllie city district in the southwestern part of Malmö, Sweden. It is the final station on the Swedish side of the Öresund Line before trains pass the Øresund Bridge towa ...

. Emporia opened on 25 October 2012 with total construction expenses of about 2 billion Swedish kronor. The architect of the Emporia project is

Gert Wingårdh Gert Wingårdh (born 1951) is a Swedish architect whose company, Wingårdh arkitektkontor, maintains an international practice.''Gert Wingårdh; Thirty Years of Architecture'', Mikael Nanfeldt (ed.) (Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2008 ...

of Wingårdh arkitektkontor. Klepierre owns the building. The building has been decorated with sound design and soundscapes created by Radja Sound Design Agency.

Facts and figures

Approximately 200 shops are located in Emporia, with a total area of 93,000 m². The mall is three stories topped with a roof terrace measuring 27,000 m², equivalent to approximately four soccer fields. In total, the mall employs around 3,000 people. According to Emporia, they have around 25,000 visitors per day.

2022 shooting

On 19 August 2022, two people were shot; one man was killed and a woman was injured inside the shopping mall. A 15-year old male was arrested shortly afterwards. The police stated that the motive appeared gang-related.

Gallery

File:Emporia byggs 2.jpg, Under construction, December 2010 File:Emporia från norr.jpg, Emporia seen from north File:Emporia1.jpg, The roofpark File:Havstorget, Emporia köpcentrum, Malmö.jpg, The Sea Square

References

External links

Official website
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