Arkadia in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 is the largest shopping complex in Central Europe

Central Europe

Central Europe or alternatively Middle Europe is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe...

. In total it has 287000 square metres (3,089,242.3 sq ft) of space, 230 shops, 25 restaurants, and a movie theater. It is owned and operated by Unibail-Rodamco

Unibail-Rodamco

Unibail-Rodamco is a French-Dutch company, headquartered in Paris, that focuses on investment in commercial property. It is the largest commercial real estate company in Europe. The main assets managed by the company fall into three categories: shopping centres, convention centres and office...

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Among the stores are: Carrefour

Carrefour

Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

, EMPiK

EMPiK

EMPiK, is a Polish commercial chain selling books, international press and media products The chain also owns a photo company EMPiK Foto as well as the foreign languages school Szkoła Języków Obcych EMPiK....

, Leroy Merlin

Leroy Merlin

Leroy Merlin is a French worldwide home-improvement and gardening retailer.Generally established on the outskirts of major town and cities, Leroy Merlin stores are large centers providing self-service and sales assisted services...

, Saturn

Saturn (store)

Saturn is a German chain of electronics stores, now found in several European countries. Saturn sells household appliances, home entertainment, and media such as CDs and DVDs. With Media Markt it constitutes MediaSaturn Holding, owned by the German retail trade company METRO...

, Cinema City

Cinema City Poland

Cinema City is a brand of multiplex cinemas in eastern and central Europe, run by the Israeli company Cinema City International . In Europe it has cinemas in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. In Poland Cinema City has almost 40% of the multiplex market, with Multikino its major competitor...

, Euro RTV AGD, H&M

H&M

H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....

, and Zara

Zara (clothing)

Zara is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Arteixo, Galicia, and founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera. It is the flagship chain store of the Inditex group; the fashion group also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and...

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Arkadia opened on October 20, 2004 and was developed by BEG Ingenierie Polska and Cefic Polska. The International Council of Shopping Centers

International Council of Shopping Centers

Founded in 1957, the International Council of Shopping Centers is the global trade association of the shopping center industry. Its 60,000 members in the U.S., Canada and more than 80 other countries include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, lenders,...

 awarded it the best shopping mall project in Poland, Shopping Center of the Year in 2004, and the European Shopping Center Award for best mall in Europe in 2006. It was declared Warsaw's most disabled-friendly building by the Warsaw Without Barriers programme and the NGO Association of Friends of Integration (Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Integracji).