West Edmonton Mall or Who has the Largest

[Tarolisol]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

It never was the "worlds" largest, only the largest in north america.. but I hear they are planning on building one in the US that is even bigger.

Steve

Actully it held the title of worlds largest for nearly 20 years.

[TheReefGeek]

I dont think there is any larger mall outside of North America

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Tarolisol

Actully it held the title of worlds largest for nearly 20 years.

Considering the Oriental Plaza was built in the 70's and has a total area of 800 000 m^2 I would say you are wrong.. I was a Edmontonian for most of my life and I am just as big of a chest thumper as any other Albertan and I will be moving back when I retire but lets keep our chest thumping backed with facts.. and yes this means Calgarians cannot talk about wanting a professional hockey team anymore

Steve

[TheReefGeek]

I beg to differ! West Ed is the largest mall in the world, unless the Dubai mall is actually completed larger in 2008.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/ref..._edmonton_mall

[Tarolisol]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

Considering the Oriental Plaza was built in the 70's and has a total area of 800 000 m^2 I would say you are wrong.. I was a Edmontonian for most of my life and I am just as big of a chest thumper as any other Albertan and I will be moving back when I retire but lets keep our chest thumping backed with facts.. and yes this means Calgarians cannot talk about wanting a professional hockey team anymore

Steve

All my info was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall so i do have facts. Now your the only one thumping his chest.

Heres also some more facts for you http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/Malls.htm

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Tarolisol

All my info was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall so i do have facts. Now your the only one thumping his chest.

Heres also some more facts for you http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/Malls.htm

your own links showes orental plaza as being bigger. west ed, 5.3 milion square feet total area, Orental plazza 8.6 million square feet total area.

Steve

[Tarolisol]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

your own links showes orental plaza as being bigger. west ed, 5.3 milion square feet total area, Orental plazza 8.6 million square feet total area.

Steve

I never said the oriental plaza wasnt bigger. I said west edmonton mall was the worlds largest for nearly 20 years, since oriental plaza was opened in 2000. May be we should use facts here.http://www.wcities.com/en/record/229...78/record.html
And Oriental plaza is almost half office space as well as residential housing.

And this doesnt look like a building that was built in the 70s

[Skimmerking]

Man Doug its good to see that your thread stay on it's topic. You were right thou...

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Tarolisol

I never said the oriental plaza wasnt bigger. I said west edmonton mall was the worlds largest for nearly 20 years, since oriental plaza was opened in 2000. May be we should use facts here.http://www.wcities.com/en/record/229...78/record.html
And Oriental plaza is almost half office space as well as residential housing.

And this doesnt look like a building that was built in the 70s

weird as after an hour trying to find out when it opened I found 1970.. oh well guess the internet isn't that good. but I do remember when I was working building stage 3 of west ed talk of a bigger mall, I will try remember but maybe it was a lie.

Steve

[Tarolisol]

I have heard that west ed is going to expand again, but they need some support which they arnt getting.