Sickla Köpkvarter is a

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and shopping district located on a redeveloped

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in Nacka, Sweden. It's wholly owned by Atrium Ljungberg — a

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company

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in the area — and consists of several

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in varying sizes, in addition to office buildings with shops at street level and a

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housing a museum, art gallery, library and

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. In 2013, the shopping center had 2,600 parking spaces, a total of 168 stores with a combined retail floor area of and annual turnover of SEK 3 billion. The biggest stores are ICA,

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and Best of Brands, accounting for nearly a quarter of the annual rent payments. It's one of the biggest shopping centers in Stockholm in terms of sales.

History

Sickla is an area on the western part of the peninsula Sicklaön, in the municipalities of Nacka and Stockholm. The

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is said to be derived from Old Swedish, meaning "boggy ground, from which water emerges." The area north of

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Sicklasjön, today known as ''Sickla Köpkvarter'', was previously an industrial estate, established in connection with the

Saltsjöbanan Saltsjöbanan is an electrified suburban rail system between Stockholm and Saltsjöbaden in Nacka, Sweden. It is in length and has eighteen stations in use. An average of 17,200 boardings are made on an ordinary workday (2019). The line is ...

railway expansion in the early 1890s. Two companies were active in this part of Sickla, and would later merge to form the global industrial group

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; with its factories remaining active on site until the late 1980s. In 1994, Nacka Municipality rezoned the old factory premises and turned the area into a retail park, in cooperation with a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Copco. Real estate company Atrium Ljungberg acquired the property three years later, and began working on reshaping the area into a modern shopping destination. This led to the construction of a new mall, ''Sickla Galleria'', which was inaugurated in 2005. Atrium Ljungberg have continued to develop and manage the area since then, adding more office space and shopping malls.

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* * Shopping centres in Sweden Shopping malls established in 2005 2005 establishments in Sweden Nacka Municipality Buildings and structures in Stockholm County {{mall-stub

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