The most popular and interesting shopping centers in Barnaul

Despite the fact that the capital of the Altai Territory is by no means the largest or the richest city in the country, it stands out that from year to year it confirms the status of one of the most well-off shopping areas. For every thousand inhabitants there are 880 square meters of shops and shopping centers - more only in Krasnodar. What can boast shopping centers in Barnaul?

The oldest shopping centers of the city

Today, there are about a dozen malls in the city, but you can not count small cozy shopping centers . So far, many of those that have opened 15-20 years ago. Then the shopping centers were just rows of shops without entertainment facilities, fountains and huge galleries.

In 2001 the shopping center "Caesar" was opened in the city. A red brick building with columns and a wide porch for many years was the most popular shopping place in the city. Luxury brands of clothes and shoes could be bought here. Today, like many out-of-date shopping centers in Barnaul, it has exhausted its former gloss and loses anchor tenants one by one.

In 2002, the shopping center "Altai" was opened on the site of empty factory premises. At 63 thousand square meters then the main flagships of the market were presented - a grocery supermarket, a store for home goods, furniture salons and many boutiques of clothes and shoes. Today it is also popular, despite the fact that it is competed by the larger shopping centers of Barnaul.

The list of favorite shopping centers by the townspeople would be incomplete without a building built specifically for trade - "Ultra" on Lenin Avenue. It opened in 2004 and for 10 years did not stand out among its own kind. But in 2015 the trading house changed the concept and began to position itself as a place of leisure and entertainment in the historical part of the city.

Newest malls

Literally every year new shopping centers of Barnaul are opened, photo projects are captured by the townspeople because the buildings are huge and modern. So, in 2014 a huge shopping and entertainment center "Arena" was opened in the city, and a year later in Barnaul Parad shopping center was opened.

This year, among the newcomers, there were two interesting projects - the Gulliver shopping and office center and the Pioneer shopping and entertainment center. In 2017, it is planned to open another mall called "Galaxy".

The largest shopping centers in Barnaul

And here there is something to boast of the city on the Ob River - at its disposal is one of the largest malls in Russia - the SEC "Arena" with a total area of 170 thousand square meters! It is visited by 15 thousand people a day and can get here any entertainment - from rich shopping to watching a movie or dinner in a restaurant.

But the Arena will not be the longest - it will soon be built a shopping center Galaxy on the site of an inactive hardware and mechanical plant. The area of the future complex is 200 thousand square meters. It will accommodate and stores, and entertainment, and even a full-fledged hockey field.

While the second largest center is Pioneer in the New Market. Its area of "only" 80 thousand squares, but the advantage in location - the mall is located in the heart of the city with excellent transport accessibility. You can get here by all means of transport - bus, shuttle, trolley and even a tram.

Interesting malls for entertainment

If the trading part of the malls is almost all similar - except for a couple of anchor tenants brands in all are similar, then in the entertainment part, the new shopping centers are trying to outperform their competitors.

Barnaul is no longer surprising with good cinemas in the malls, many of them have their own cinemas:

• "Arena" - 9 rooms IMAX and D-BOX.
• "Europe" and "Fires" - the halls of the Barnaul network "Kinomir".

Also in all the malls you can eat on the food court, in a cafe or a full-fledged restaurant:

• Under the roof of the Arena there are both, for example, restaurants Balkon, Fargo, Cafe Sinnabon, pancake, fast food and coffee shops.
• In the "City-center" are restaurants "Titian" and "Greenwich".
• In the "Lights" is the bar "Hans".
• In the "Europe" guests are waited by a steak-pub, a sushi bar and a coffee-restaurant.

And many shopping centers in Barnaul offer their amusement parks for families. In "Spring" Happy Land with bowling, attractions and slot machines, in "Lights" "Smeshariki" for kids and Dream land for older children, and in "City Center" - "Kosmopark". "Arena" surprises with an attraction of gyroscope and rope park, a mirror labyrinth and numerous Toy Library.