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Babilonas (shopping mall)

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Location
  
Panevėžys, Lithuania

Developer
  
Ogmios group

No. of stores and services
  
78

Phone
  
+370 45 424001

Number of stores and services
  
78

Opening date
  
28 August 2007

Architect
  
Gintautas Navickas

Opened
  
28 August 2007

Owner
  
Ogmios group

Babilonas (shopping mall)

Management
  
Justinas Lapinskas, Managing Director

Address
  
Klaipėdos g. 143A, Panevėžys 37386, Lithuania

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–12AMMonday10AM–12AMTuesday10AM–12AMWednesday10AM–12AMThursday10AM–12AMFriday10AM–12AMSaturday10AM–12AMSunday10AM–12AM

Similar
  
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Profiles

Babilonas is a shopping and entertainment mall in Panevėžys, Lithuania (Klaipėdos street 143a). It is a part of a wider Babilonas real estate development.

Contents

Shops and entertainment businesses

In the shopping mall there are:

  • Three restaurants and a cafeteria.
  • Cinema (Forum Cinemas Babilonas, 3 cinema halls).
  • Separate hall for furniture sales (4590 sq. m).
  • Hall for entertainment and events (967 sq. m). Here, depending on the season various entertainment is offered (ice rink, trampoline jumping, sailing balls). Additionally, various events, sporting competitions and gigs take place here.
  • Electronics store (Topo centras, 1545 sq. m).
  • Chinese goods store (Azijos centras, 800 sq. m).
  • Food store (Solo, 1000 sq. m).
  • Various other stores and entertainment places (up to 400 sq. m): clothes, sports and lifestyle, drinks, books.
  • Furniture retail hall, cinema and the electronics store are the largest in northeastern Lithuania (Aukštaitija).

    History

    The construction of the shopping mall started in 2006 and ended in 2007.

    In the August 2008 the mall was expanded: the cinema and several additional shops were opened.

    In 2007-2008 the primary market catered by the mall was that of household goods: furniture, construction, interior décor. Other primary target market was that for entertainment (cinema, ice rink).

    Since year 2009 the market orientation changed: the number of interior goods stores lowered somewhat and at the same time number of stores selling soft goods such as clothing and shoes. In 2010 a supermarket (food store) opened for the first time in Babilonas.

    Image and architecture

    As the name “Babilonas” means Babylon, the interior of Babilonas is modeled after the ancient Middle East. On the walls over the shop entrances there are frescoes with bulls and ancient people. In front of main entrance there are improvised columns. Inside a shopping center in a special terrarium a crocodile, named by children Babilonijus, lived for several years.

    References

    Babilonas (shopping mall) Wikipedia