Iso Omena

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Iso Omena as seen from the Länsiväylä highway.

Iso Omena (Finnish for "Big Apple") is a shopping centre in Matinkylä, Espoo, Finland, opened on September 24, 2001. The construction of Iso Omena aimed to take heed of the wishes of the population of Espoo as well as possible. Because of this, Iso Omena includes many centralised municipal and private services. Iso Omena also includes apartments, with a direct connection to the shopping centre.

Iso Omena includes 115 businesses. The total area for rent is approximately 53 thousand square metres. The building has three floors, a parking lot on the bottom floor and a separate parking building and an office tower.

The name "Iso Omena" comes from the nickname "The Big Apple" of New York City, USA.

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Businesses: 115
Floors: Parking lot floor P, Market floor M, Forum floor T and Service floor S
Total sales: approximately 200 million Euro per year
Number of visitors: approximately 9 million visitors per year
Area:
- Total area 150 thousand m²
- Area for rent:
  - Shopping centre 52,550 m²
  - Offices 8,000 m²
- Senior apartments 7,000 m² (95 apartments)
Opened: September 24, 2001
Parking: approximately 2,200 free parking spaces in total:
- Parking lot floor P1 (1,061)
- Parking lot floor P2 (818)
- Outside on the market floor P3 (136)
- Outside on the roof P2 (172)
- Total: 2,187
Owner: Doughty Hanson & Co Real Estate Fund
Architect: Mauri Tommila
Largest businesses:
- Citymarket: 10,594 m²
- Prisma: 10,249 m²
- Kirjasto Omena: 2,443 m²
- On Off: 1,609 m²
- Stadium: 1,595 m²
- HOK, restaurants: 1,316 m²
Jobs: approximately 1,100
Motto: "Like a small city"

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Library
Espoo city common service centre
Ticket service and medical and dental health service
Chapel
KELA
Office of the Finnish employment bureau
Movie theatre

[edit] Connections

Iso Omena can be reached by all buses travelling along Länsiväylä past Matinkylä, and by buses passing over Piispansilta. In the future, the shopping centre might also be reached by the metro. The terminal reservation of the Länsimetro is located directly south of Iso Omena.