Shopping City Süd

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The Shopping City Süd (SCS) is located to the south of Vienna, Austria.

With a leasable area of 173,000 square meters, it is the biggest shopping center in Austria and also one of the biggest in Europe. It contains over 330 shops and has got about 4,500 employees. The SCS offers 10,000 parking spaces, and so it also serves people from Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

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Opened Sept. 22nd, 1976
Expansion on Oct. 20th, 1988
Opened Multiplex Center Oct. 25th, 1994
Total sales area (Main complex, multiplex & specialised dealers on SCS area): ~ 270.000 m²
Total roofed over area (Main complex, IKEA and Multiplex): ~160.000 m²
total length of show window miles: ~3 km
longest stretch of buildings: 1,6 km
Parking lot for ~10.000 vehicles
gross turnover 2004: ca. €1 bn.
visitors 2005 (to date): >25 Million
persons employed: ca. 4.500