Multi opens Forum Istanbul

Multi Corporation has announced Forum Istanbul will open on 17 November by laser-projecting the work of Turkey's 15 top living artists across Istanbul’s iconic buildings. Forum Istanbul is the largest shopping and entertainment centre in Europe.

Forum Istanbul is built on an area of 495,000 m² with 175,000 m² of leased retail area including an IKEA of 29,500 m² and the largest Real hypermarket in Turkey of 15,000 m². Leading brand names such as: Tepe Home, Saturn, Mudo, D&R, YKM and Teknosa and others, will cover over 118,000 m². Forum Istanbul will house the biggest number of international anchors including Praktiker, C&A, M&S, Zara, along with some 280 national and international brands, including Mango, Stradivarius, Bershka, Oysho, Starbucks and the first Motivi store in Turkey.

It will offer public spaces and parks where festivals, as well as cultural and sports activities will be organised, plus the first Aquarium in Turkey, by Marinescape of New Zealand (8,000 m² with 20,000 different species), AFM movie theatre, a bowling alley, an ice skating rink, play spaces for children, extensive new dining, bar and café concepts, with free parking for 5,000 cars.

The opening of Decathlon’s stand-alone first Turkish megastore will enlarge the scheme in March 2010. Located in the heart of the European side of Istanbul and creating employment for over 5,000 people, it is easily accessible, by car and all means of public transport, including direct metro, from the entire city.

Multi Turkmall is the largest developer of retail space in Turkey having completed and now managing; Forum Bornova - Izmir, Forum Camlik - Denizli, Forum Mersin - Mersin, Forum Aydin - Aydin, Forum Trabzon - Trabzon, Forum Ankara Outlet - Ankara. Multi Turkmall has 16 other projects currently under construction/development in Turkey. Multi Turkmall is the Turkish subsidiary of Multi Corporation.

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