Shopping mall

Bomb threats necessitated the evacuation of customers and staff of Mall Plovdiv and Mall Galeria in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv on Saturday.

Specialised police units were dispatched to the malls and are carrying out inspections for explosive devices.

Some 74 new malls are currently being constructed across Turkey, with Istanbul boasting the biggest rise in square meters reserved for malls, according to a new sector report. 

Istanbul, which has 93 malls at present, is set to add 22 malls to its portfolio with new investments, according to a report conducted by the IT and consulting company Maptriks. 

The ICSC European conference, hosted by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), will celebrate its 40th anniversary on 20 & 21 April at the Park Plaza Hotel on Westminster Bridge in London.

The union representing retail store employees has called a strike for this Sunday, when shops are meant to open.

The Federation of Private Employees (OIYE) opposes Sunday opening, saying that it favors multinationals, malls and discount centers over small and medium-sized businesses.

A change in legislation earlier this year allows stores to open on seven Sundays a year.

A comparison of 20 satellite photos hosted by Google Earth reveals how Istanbul has changed with more concrete and less green spaces over the past decade.

Only 16 of the planned 64 malls in Turkey have been able to be completed this year due to cancellations or postponements in investments, a sector report has shown.

A police school in Istanbul’s upmarket neighborhood of Etiler was closed by a Cabinet decision in a move that gives the go-ahead for the construction of a huge residential complex that includes a shopping mall

The mega-opening of Mega Mall Sofia attracted tens of thousands of visitors on the event's first day on Friday.

Austria's Real4You group is the investor in the first major shopping mall built in Lyulin residential district, on the western outskirts of Bulgaria's capital.

ECE Bulgaria will manage the facility and lease out commercial space to retailers.

A Turkish advertisement agency is preparing to introduce audio commercials at shopping malls, increasing the number of advertisements to which individuals are exposed in daily life.

The project was designed by Cahit Ceylan, a prominent Turkish advertisement sector representative, and will be actualized by the Swiss mobile marketing platform Adwin AG.

"The Justice and Development Party's [AKP] era is remembered and will be remembered fıor construction,” Hürriyet Daily News columnist Mustafa Sönmez wrote in January.