Metreon

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The Metreon in San Francisco
The Metreon at night

The Metreon is a shopping center in San Francisco , which opened on June 16, 1999th It has four floors and a floor area of ​​33,000 m².

location

The Metreon is located in downtown San Francisco at the intersection of 4th Street and Mission Street, near the Moscone Center and the subway station of the same name.

history

The shopping center was built on behalf of Sony , as the first Sony urban entertainment center worldwide, later further centers in Tokyo and Berlin followed. In 2006 the Metreon was bought by the Westfield Group , a real estate company specializing in shopping centers. In 2009 Sony announced the closure of the Sony and Playstation stores in the Metreon. As a result, the Westfield Group began realigning the mall with an emphasis on hospitality . In addition, new major tenants for commercial space were found, such as the discount retailer Target . In April 2012, the Westfield Group sold the Metreon to the Starwood Capital Group , with the Westfield Group taking over management of the building until renovations were completed.

shops

The Metreon is used in a variety of ways. The building has twenty restaurants, a movie theater that is the largest IMAX theater in North America , a massage studio, and electronics , bookstore , entertainment, and cosmetics shops .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google Maps. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ San Francisco's Metreon sold . In: Bottom Line . April 18, 2012 ( sfgate.com [accessed October 26, 2017]).
  3. ↑ a b About Us . In: Metreon . May 28, 2015 ( shoppingmetreon.com [accessed October 26, 2017]).
  4. ↑ AMC Metreon 16. Accessed October 26, 2017 (English).
  5. ^ Directory . In: Metreon . May 28, 2015 ( shoppingmetreon.com [accessed October 26, 2017]).

Coordinates: 37 ° 47 ′ 3.7 ″  N , 122 ° 24 ′ 12.3 ″  W.