Emmen Center

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Emmen Center
Emmen Center
Logo Emmen Center
Basic data
Opening: 19th February 1975
Total area: 41,500 m²
Shops: 83
Visitors: approx. 4.5 million / year
Owner : Manor, Nordmann & Co.
Transport links
Railway station: Emmenbrücke
S-Bahn : S9, S99, S1, RE
Omnibus : Lines 40, 41, 42, 43
Motorways : A2, A14
Parking spaces : 2,100
Bicycle parking spaces : 150

The Emmen Center is a Swiss shopping center in the municipality of Emmen on the border with the city of Lucerne . It opened in February 1975 and was one of the first shopping centers in Switzerland. Today, after the Mall of Switzerland, it is the second largest center in Central Switzerland with around 41,500 m² of retail space on three floors.

history

Opening and operation

The Maus Frères Holding shopping center was designed by the American architect Victor Gruen between 1968 and 1972 . After a construction phase of almost two years, it was opened on February 19, 1975 as the "Emmen Shopping Center". When it opened, the Emmen Center was the largest shopping mall in Switzerland. Today it includes a shopping center with natural light, a multi-storey car park with bicycle and moped parking spaces, a gas station and a residential building. The vision of the "Shopping Center Emmen" was unusual for the time and was successfully implemented based on the American model.

Reconstruction and expansion

Between 1999 and 2001 the "Shopping Center Emmen" was completely renovated. A third floor was added to the building and a glass roof was added. This additional floor added around 6,000 m² of retail space. On September 11, 2001, the "Shopping Center Emmen" was reopened and named "Emmen Center". The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) awarded the Emmen Center the "Certificate of Merite" for the renovation and expansion. The current center structure is divided into food (six shops), non-food (61 shops), gastronomy (seven businesses) and nine service businesses. In 2016 the center was extensively renovated, rebuilt and modernized.

  • Emmen Center before the renovation in 2016/2017

  • Emmen Center exterior view

  • Bus station in the entrance area

  • entrance

  • Logo Emmen Center until 2016

  • Logo Emmen Center from 2017

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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 27.8 "  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 14"  E ; CH1903:  664450  /  two hundred fourteen thousand and fifty-seven