Shopping in the US has always been fun so far: enough parking space, big shops, friendly sales people and very reasonable prices compared to Switzerland - especially during sale. So I decided to go to the biggest Mall in America, located in Bloomington near the airport about 12 miles south of Minneapolis, to get some new clothes...
The Mall of America itself offers in more than 520 stores about 235'000 m2 retail floor area (total area is nearly 400'000 m2) and is considered to be the biggest US Mall and the 20th biggest Mall in the World. For a comparison: The "Glattzentrum" near Zurich offers about 42'000 m2, the "Shoppyland" near Bern about 32'000 m2... The Mall also offers over 50 restaurants, around 13'000 parking spaces on the west and east side of the Mall (and in Bern the VCS complains about 200 parking speaces more!!!) and employs around 12'000 people. In the middle of the building there is a huge amusement park that offers a variety of roller coaster and places interesting for children and teens. It even has a wild water roller coaster... There are also 14 cinemas a Lego-Land, a dinosaurier museum and an underwater aquarium. In phase II they plan to integrate a whole water amusement park, a dinner theatre, a ice rink and three hotels (!) ... just crazy!!!
So here you go with a little taste of "the Mall"...to locate the building, download the Earth Google flag in the sidebar.
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