Iso Omena is a shopping centre in Matinkylä

Matinkylä

Matinkylä or Mattby is one of the major urban areas of Espoo, a city on the southern coast of Finland. Matinkylä is understood as the area between the Helsinki-Hanko highway and the coast of the Gulf of Finland, between the areas of Haukilahti and Iivisniemi.About 30 000 people live in the...

, Espoo

Espoo

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, Finland

Finland

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, 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 apartment

Apartment

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s, with a direct connection to the shopping centre.

Iso Omena includes 115 business

Business

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es. 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

New York City

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, USA.

Information

• Businesses: 115
• Floors: Parking lot floor P, Market floor M, Forum floor T and Service floor S
• Total sales: approximately 200 million Euro
  Euro
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   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
    Prisma
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    : 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"

Services

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

Connections

Iso Omena can be reached by all bus

Bus

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es travelling along Länsiväylä

Länsiväylä

is a motorway in the Greater Helsinki area of Finland, mainly at the Helsinki conurbation. It is part of the Finnish national road 51. The road begins in Ruoholahti in western Helsinki and continues west through the island of Lauttasaari and then across the city border to Espoo. The Länsiväylä road...

 past Matinkylä, and by buses passing over Piispansilta. In the future, the shopping centre might also be reached by the metro

Helsinki Metro

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. The terminal reservation of the Länsimetro

Länsimetro

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is located directly south of Iso Omena.