Phoenix Marketcity 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 ...

developed by The Phoenix Mills Co. Ltd., located in

Bengaluru, Karnataka Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most p ...

, India. It is the largest mall in Bangalore by area and occupying built-up area with of retail space on four floors, which houses 296 stores, a nine-screen

PVR Cinemas PVR Ltd (formerly Priya Village Roadshow Ltd), doing business as PVR Cinemas, is an Indian multiplex chain based in Gurgaon. PVR pioneered the multiplex revolution in India by establishing the first multiplex cinema in 1997 at Saket, New Delh ...

multiplex and a

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Accidents and incidents

On 28 October 2013, the PVR multiplex along with 54 other shops in the mall were sealed for not having obtained trade licenses from the

Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is the administrative body responsible for civic amenities and some infrastructural assets of the Greater Bengaluru metropolitan area. It is the fourth largest Municipal Corporation in India an ...

, but later reopened. On 18 May 2016, Phoenix Mall was raided along with other malls in the city, on a tip-off that they were ignoring the ban on plastic bags. Phoenix was one of the bigger violators and over of plastic bags were seized from the mall and a fine imposed.

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{{Shopping malls in India Shopping malls in Bangalore 2011 establishments in Karnataka Shopping malls established in 2011

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