West Edmonton Mall

West Edmonton Mall
West Edmonton Mall logo
The Sea Life Caverns wing, October 12, 2015.
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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 dateSeptember 15, 1981; 43 years ago (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 tenants15[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 accessEdmonton Transit System Bus interchange 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 The 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 Hudson's Bay, 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, Babies "R" Us, Balenciaga, Rooms + Spaces Outlet, Nike Factory Store, Psycho Bunny, Moncler 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.