West Edmonton Mall
The Sea Life Caverns wing, 12 October 2015. | |
| Coordinates | 53°31′22″N 113°37′23″W / 53.52278°N 113.62306°W |
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| Address | 8882 170 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5T 4J2 |
| Opening date | 15 September 1981 |
| Developer | Triple Five Group |
| Management | Danielle Woo alongside The Ghermezian family |
| Owner | Triple Five Group |
| Architect | Maurice Sunderland |
| No. of stores and services | more than 800 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 14 |
| Total retail floor area | 350,000 m2 (3,800,000 sq ft) (leasable) 490,000 m2 (5,300,000 sq ft)(total) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 20,000+, 10,000 overflow |
| Public transit access | West Edmonton Mall Transit Centre |
| Website | www |
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West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is a large shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, that is owned, managed, and operated by Triple Five Group. It is the second most visited mall in Canada, after the Toronto Eaton Centre in Toronto, followed by Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby, and the 14th largest in the world (along with Dubai Mall) by gross leasable area. It is the second largest shopping mall, by square footage, in North America behind the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Mall of America encompasses 520,000 m2 (5.6 million square feet) and West Edmonton Mall encompasses 490,000 m2 (5.3 million square feet). By store count, West Edmonton Mall is the highest in the Western Hemisphere as it currently counts over 800 occupants, in comparison to Mall of America's 520 occupants. The mall was founded by the Ghermezian brothers, who emigrated from Iran in 1959. The mall's major anchor stores are London Drugs, Marshalls, Simons, The Brick, Winners/HomeSense and West Edmonton Mall Toyota.
West Edmonton Mall has over 800 stores and services including nine attractions, two hotels and over 100 dining venues in the complex, and parking for more than 20,000 vehicles. More than 24,000 people are employed at the property. The mall receives about 32 million visitors per year; it attracts between 90,000 and 200,000 shoppers daily, depending on the day and season. Recent tenants at the mall include L.L.Bean, Babies "R" Us, Balenciaga, Nike Factory Store, Psycho Bunny, Moncler, Jo Malone London, Columbia Sportswear and Chick-fil-A.