Plaza Satélite is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

in the northwest part of

Greater Mexico City Greater Mexico City is the conurbation around Mexico City, officially called the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico (). It encompasses Mexico City itself and 60 adjacent municipalities of Mexico, municipalities of the State of Mexico and Hi ...

Ciudad Satélite Ciudad Satélite (), commonly known as Satélite, is a middle-, upper-middle and upper-class area in Naucalpan, in the western part of Greater Mexico City, located some 14 km northwest of the Historic Mexico City Center. Officially, the n ...

on the Anillo Periferico ring road. Opened on October 13, 1971, it was Mexico's first American-style shopping mall. It has over 240 stores and services.

History

Plaza Satélite began construction in 1968 in Ciudad Satélite with the blueprints of architect

Juan Sordo Madaleno Juan Sordo Madaleno (October 1916 in Mexico City – 12 March 1985 in Idem) was a Mexican architect. Biography Sordo Madaleno was one of the most important Mexican architects of his era. He worked with other renowned architects, including Lui ...

. It was inaugurated on October 13, 1971 with four anchors:

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

, Sanborn's, and París-Londres, with 150 retail units in total including restaurants, banks and the largest movie theater in Latin America with 1,400 seats. At that time it had

parking space A parking space, parking place or parking spot is a location that is designated for parking, either paved or unpaved. It can be in a parking garage, in a parking lot or on a city street. The space may be delineated by road surface markings. The ...

for 3000 cars. By 1995 the mall was expanded, doubling in size to 240 commercial spaces. The fast food section was completed, and the movie theaters were completely renovated and expanded into a 15-screen

Cinépolis Cinépolis is a Mexico-based international movie theater chain. Its name means ''City of Cinema'' and its slogan is ''La Capital del Cine'' (). Cinépolis was the biggest cineplex chain in Mexico, with 427 theaters in 97 cities. It is also th ...

multiplex. The expansion was concluded in 1998 with the addition of a branch of luxury department store El Palacio de Hierro. The parking lot was also expanded to 5472 parking spots, making it, at the time, the largest shopping mall parking lot in Mexico. In 2018, the mall was expanded to including of retail space. It was completely redesigned with an airier, more open feel and a large atrium. The orange-colored theme and orange-tinted roof with glass blocks was replaced with a more neutral, contemporary theme of stone, wood, and steel."Plaza Satélite, from architectural success to retail landmark", Sordo Madaleno Architects
/ref> A park of with a lake was added. All in all, with the expansion, Satélite became the third-busiest mall in

, behind

Multiplaza Aragón Multiplaza Aragón is a shopping center in Ecatepec, in Greater Mexico City, opened in 1978. As of 2018, it had the highest number of visitors of any shopping center in the metropolitan area, 2.8 million visitors per month. As of 2023, the shoppi ...

and Centro Santa Fe. In 2021, the plaza replaced 900 parking spots with a green rooftop.

External links

Photos of renovation in ArchDaily Mexico
h1>

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Plaza Satelite Shopping malls in Greater Mexico City Shopping malls established in 1971 Naucalpan de Juárez 1971 establishments in Mexico