Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Fame: World's largest shopping and entertainment complex.
Statistics:
Total Area: 49 hectares (121 acres), equivalent to 104 Canadian (115 American) football fields, or 5,300,000 ft^2.
Total Construction Cost: CDN$1,200,000,000.00.
Parking: Over 20,000 vehicles, World's largest.
Annual Visitors: 20,000,000.
Light Fixtures: 325,000.
Entrances: 58.
Stores: Over 800.
Restaurants: 110.
Employment Opportunities: 23,500.
Indoor Lake: World's largest.
Indoor Wave Pool: 2 hectares (5 acres), World's largest.
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Indoor Amusement Park: 37,160 m^2 (400,000 ft^2), World's Largest.
Bungy Jumping: World's only indoor location (inside the water park).
Hotel: 354 rooms, 118 of which are "themed".
Movie Theatres: 19.
Visit the W.E.M. site too find out more.
Mall to elect its own 4 Members of Parliament. Further news follows...
Annual Visitors: 20,000,000.
That IS amazing, actually.
While we speak, K D Lang is recording the Provincial Anthem of The West Edmonton Mall.
It's title is: Where The Sun Dont Shine .
It's title is: Where The Sun Dont Shine .
That's a little inaccurate. Plenty of sky lights in the mall.
They are really striking, dayglo lime-green.
If it's like practically every other mall I've been to in my entire life then 90% of the stores in WEM sell nothing but women's shoes.
Not true. They also have two sex shops and three tattoo shops. Far from your average mall.
If it's like practically every other mall I've been to in my entire life then 90% of the stores in WEM sell nothing but women's shoes.
Not true. They also have two sex shops and three tattoo shops. Far from your average mall.
And just which one do you frequent the most???
Rather than a delightful mix of everything, it's just clothes and cell phones.
If it's like practically every other mall I've been to in my entire life then 90% of the stores in WEM sell nothing but women's shoes.
Not true. They also have two sex shops and three tattoo shops. Far from your average mall.
Are they clustered around the submarine base?
If it's like practically every other mall I've been to in my entire life then 90% of the stores in WEM sell nothing but women's shoes.
If it's like practically every other mall I've been to in my entire life then 90% of the stores in WEM sell nothing but women's shoes.
Not true. They also have two sex shops and three tattoo shops. Far from your average mall.
And just which one do you frequent the most???
Depends on the day.
If it's like practically every other mall I've been to in my entire life then 90% of the stores in WEM sell nothing but women's shoes.
Not true. They also have two sex shops and three tattoo shops. Far from your average mall.
Are they clustered around the submarine base?
Nope. Cinnabons.
All sorts of sweet stuff in that corner.