Galerías Perinorte is a shopping center in
Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico, in the northwest part of the
Mexico City metropolitan area. The architect was
Manuel Rocha Díaz
Manuel Rocha Diaz (1936–1996) was a Mexican people, Mexican architect.
He was born in Mexico City in 1936 and died in 1996. He graduated in 1961 at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico where he studied with Augusto H. Álvarez. In 1960 he sp ...
and it was built between 1985 and 1990 and opened in 1992. The main anchors are a
Cinépolis multicinema; a
Soriana Híper (formerly
Gigante) hypermarket and
Liverpool and
Suburbia department stores. The Perinorte center, as well as Liverpool and Suburbia chains, are all owned by the El Puerto de Liverpool group. Perinorte is part of the Puerto group's shopping center division,
Galerías.
The Liverpool store originally opened as a branch of
Fábricas de Francia, but the chain's stores were all rebranded as either Liverpool or Suburbia in September 2018.
The name ''Perinorte'' (which along with ''Punto Norte'', is used by other businesses near this mall) mimics the name of another Galerías-operated mall,
Perisur, which opened in 1980 as the third and then-largest, US-style mall in Mexico City. The name ''Perisur'' reflected the name of the freeway along which it was located,
Anillo ''Peri''férico ''Sur'' ("southern ring road"). Perinorte is located along the freeway where the Periférico Norte (north ring road) turns into the ''Autopista México–Querétaro'' (
Mexico City–Querétaro Toll Road), a portion of
Mexican Federal Highway 57D. Other developments have used the "Peri" prefix in various parts of Mexico.
References
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Shopping malls in Greater Mexico City
Cuautitlán Izcalli