{"id":17,"date":"2003-11-23T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/lifelong_learner\/?p=17"},"modified":"2003-11-23T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2003-11-23T17:34:28","slug":"largest-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Largest Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not in the US! It’s in Canada, and it’s Alberta’s No. 1 tourist spot.<\/p>\n

West Edmunton Mall covers 5.3 million square feet on two levels — the equivalent of 115 footbal fiedls — and cost about $800 million to build. The largest in US, in Bloomington, Minn., has 4.2 million square feet.<\/p>\n

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So what’s in the mall? <\/b>It is listed in Guiness World Records for housing the planet’s largest parking lot, with 20,000 spaces. Besides its 800-plus shops, and more than 110 eateries, it also has seven major attractions, including the world’s biggest indoor amusement park, and six major retail franchises.<\/p>\n

Wow! Seems like a city in itself! Visit WestEdMall.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not in the US! It’s in Canada, and it’s Alberta’s No. 1 tourist spot. West Edmunton Mall covers 5.3 million square feet on two levels — the equivalent of 115 footbal fiedls — and cost about $800 million to build. The largest in US, in Bloomington, Minn., has 4.2 million square feet. So what’s in the mall? It is listed in Guiness World Records for housing the planet’s largest parking lot, with 20,000 spaces. Besides its 800-plus shops, and more than 110 eateries, it also has seven major attractions, including the world’s biggest indoor amusement park, and six major retail franchises. Wow! Seems like a city in itself! Visit WestEdMall.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}