West Edmonton Mall

West Edmonton Mall
The Sea Life Caverns wing, 12 October 2015.
Coordinates53°31′22″N 113°37′23″W / 53.52278°N 113.62306°W / 53.52278; -113.62306
Address8882 170 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5T 4J2
Opening date15 September 1981 (1981-09-15)
DeveloperTriple Five Group
ManagementDanielle Woo[1] alongside The Ghermezian family
OwnerTriple Five Group
ArchitectMaurice Sunderland
No. of stores and servicesmore than 800
No. of anchor tenants14 [2]
Total retail floor area350,000 m2 (3,800,000 sq ft) (leasable)
490,000 m2 (5,300,000 sq ft)(total)[3]
No. of floors2
Parking20,000+,[4] 10,000 overflow[5]
Public transit access West Edmonton Mall Transit Centre
Websitewww.wem.ca

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,[6] after the Toronto Eaton Centre in Toronto, followed by Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby,[7] and the 14th largest in the world (along with Dubai Mall) by gross leasable area.[8] 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)[9] and West Edmonton Mall encompasses 490,000 m2 (5.3 million square feet).[10][3] 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.[11] The mall was founded by the Ghermezian brothers, who emigrated from Iran in 1959.[12] 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,[13][14] and parking for more than 20,000 vehicles.[4] 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, Balenciaga, Nike Factory Store, Psycho Bunny, Moncler, Jo Malone London, Columbia Sportswear and Chick-fil-A.

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  2. ^ "Store listing". West Edmonton Mall. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
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  4. ^ a b Westly, Erica (10 November 2008). "The World's Largest Parking Lots". Forbes. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Largest car park". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Canadian Shopping Centre Study 2019" (pdf). Retail Council of Canada. December 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  7. ^ Van Santvoort, Albert (31 August 2019). "This Burnaby mall is now the third-busiest in Canada – despite its size". Burnaby Now.
  8. ^ Sheth, Khushboo (11 January 2019). "The Biggest Shopping Malls in the World". WorldAtlas. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Mall of America By The Numbers" (PDF). 2016.
  10. ^ "About | West Edmonton Mall". www.wem.ca. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  11. ^ "About | West Edmonton Mall". www.wem.ca. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  12. ^ "The Ghermezians build the West Edmonton Mall". CBC News. 9 November 1985. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Facts about WEM". Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  14. ^ "History of WEM". West Edmonton Mall. Archived from the original on 28 August 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
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