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I had to Google about that mall. There is a separate Wiki page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Mall_of_the_Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

by throwaway2037 3y ago

I had to Google about that mall. There is a separate Wiki page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Mall_of_the_Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Mall_of_the_Netherla... > Total retail floor area 117,000 m2 (1,260,000 sq ft) > Parking 4,000 That retail floor area is enormous! And, LOL: If this was US, parking would be 10x! FYI: Westfield is a huge global mall developer. Before 9/11, they ran the mall under NYC World Trade Center. It was one of the highest grossing retail spaces in the world. They must have done a lot of market analysis before they built that mall in the Netherlands.

ljlolel 3y ago
Westfield has a huge mall in SF and Paris center I’ve been to
OkayPhysicist 3y ago
That's not really enormous. It's big compared to most buildings, but ~1million sq ft of retail space is just about the minimum viable mall today. People aren't going to the mall to fulfill a specific need, they're going for the variety. It's hard to cram enough variety into much less space than that. For context, Valley Fair, Westfield's mall in San Jose, has 2.2million sq ft, and looking through their list of holdings, it doesn't look like they operate any malls smaller than a million sq ft in North America.