Mediterranean Cosmos is a

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located in

Pylaia Pylaia ( el, Πυλαία) is a former municipality in the Thessaloniki Prefecture of Greece. In the 2011 local government reform, Thessaloniki Prefecture became the regional unit of Thessaloniki (without boundary changes), and Pylaia became a par ...

, a municipality of

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...

, the second-largest city in

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. It is the largest retail and entertainment development in

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History

The mall officially opened in October 2005. In June 2012, Lamda Development, the owners of the mall, announced that they will begin to charge parking fees from mid-February 2013. In 2017, Värde Partners bought a controlling stake of the Mediterranean Cosmos and planned out an extension of the mall.

Facilities

It contains more than 200 retail units and facilities including an 11-screen multiplex

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, numerous shops of

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and

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goods as well as

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s, restaurants, bars, a supermarket, an

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and an Orthodox

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Design

Inside the mall, roads and square have been designed-like traditional cities of

in combination with the advantages of a modern city's center.

Location

The mall is located east of the city-centre and approximately away from

Thessaloniki Airport Thessaloniki Airport , officially Thessaloniki Airport "Makedonia" ( el, Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Θεσσαλονίκης "Μακεδονία", Kratikós Aeroliménas Thessaloníkis "Makedonía") and formerly Mikra Airport, is ...

. It can be accessed by National Road 67, the highway connecting

with the southern part of

Chalkidiki Chalkidiki (; el, Χαλκιδική , also spelled Halkidiki, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous Mount Athos region co ...

References

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