Spencer Plaza, located on Anna Salai (Mount Road) in Chennai, is recognized as the oldest shopping mall in India, with roots dating back to 1863 and opening as a department store in 1895. While the original building was destroyed by fire in 1983 and later rebuilt, it remains a historic landmark and shopping center.
Sprawling across a whopping 2,111,686 square metres, Lulu Mall Thiruvananthapuram is the largest mall in India and the second largest in all of Asia. This gigantic mall is a world in its own right. You'll get everything here.
UB City Mall is often referred to as India's first luxury mall. This is a major entertainment and luxury shopping arena that offers a perfect mix of modernity and class. It is part of the UB City, developed and owned by The United Breweries Group. UB City has luxury complexes and 5-star hotels.
The oldest shopping mall in the country, the Royal Exchange in the City of London. It's over 500 years old and was opened by Queen Elizabeth I so that shoppers could visit merchants in one place. Today it's home to high-end shops like Tiffany and Fortman & Mason, though some are not very busy.
The world's first shopping mall – a large number of separate shops grouped together under a covered roof – was at Trajan's Forum in ancient Rome, Italy. Designed by architect Apollodorus of Damascus and built between 100–112, the forum included a market area with 150 shops and offices arranged over six gallery levels.
Jio World Plaza, inaugurated in November 2023, is India's largest luxury mall, spanning 750,000 sq ft and housing 66 globally renowned brands, including Dior, Gucci, and Rolex .
The first shopping Mall in India was launched in 1999 by Ansal's Plaza in Delhi followed by Crossroads in Mumbai and Spencer Plaza in Chennai. After 2003 Malls starts multiplying in metro cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and tier two cities like Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad etc.
Knight Frank defines ghost malls very simply: any shopping centre that's at least three years old and has 40% or more of its space sitting empty. By this definition, India has roughly 15.5 million square feet of ghost mall space today. Most of it is in the big metros rather than smaller towns.
🇮🇳 Top 5 Biggest Malls in India 🏙️🔥 1️⃣ Sarath City Capital Mall, Hyderabad – 2.7 million sq. ft 🛍️ 2️⃣ Lulu Mall, Lucknow – 2.2 million sq. ft 🏗️ 3️⃣ Lulu Mall, Thiruvananthapuram – 2.2 million sq. ft 🏬 4️⃣ Lulu Mall, Kochi – 2.0 million sq.
It stands as India's tallest mall, boasting 9 floors. Saya Group made The Saya Status Mall on the Noida expressway, and DPA Singapore designed it. DPA Singapore has gained renown for designing Dubai Mall and other famous commercial buildings worldwide. Saya Status Mall of Noida boasts nearly 1.4 million sq.
The man universally credited with pioneering the modern shopping mall is Victor Gruen, an Austrian immigrant to the United States. Gruen was born David Victor Grünbaum to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria in 1903.
Chiddingstone Stores, may be the oldest working shop in the UK, dating back to 1453. Today it offers a wide range of groceries, greetings cards, gifts and homewares and ice creams. It also has an amazing traditional sweet counter.
A super-regional mall, per the International Council of Shopping Centers, is a shopping mall with over 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m2) of gross leasable area, three or more anchors, mass merchant, more variety, fashion apparel, and serves as the dominant shopping venue for the region (25 miles or 40 km) in which it is ...
The Dubai Mall is one of the world's most visited shopping centers that welcomes more than 80 million people annually. With around 12 million square feet of total space and more than 1,200 stores, it includes everything from high-end boutiques to an Olympic-sized ice rink and the world-famous Dubai Aquarium.
Built between the years 100 and 110 A.D, Trajan's Market is believed to be the first covered shopping mall in history. Situated on Via dei Fori Imperiali, Trajan's Market is an archaeological complex that currently holds the Museum of Imperial Forums (Museo dei Fori Imperiali).
