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Fun Facts and Quotables
- Date opened: August 11, 1992
- "What Las Vegas is to Casinos, Bloomington is to shopping." (Evening Standard, London)
- Mall of America attracts over 40 million visitors per year. That's more annual visitors than Walt Disney World and the Grand Canyon combined! (Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
- Visitors to Mall of America contribute $1.4 billion to Minnesota's economy annually. Eighty percent of the economic impact comes from out-of-state visitors. (study by Simon Property Group, Inc.)
- Mall of America's 4.2 million square feet is five times larger than Red Square, which is 800,000 square feet.
- Number if permanent jobs created by Mall of America: Nearly 13,000
- Gross leasable retail space: 2.5 million sq. ft.
- Owners: Teacher's Insurance & Annuity Association, Triple Five Corp., Ltd. and Melvin Simon & Associates, Inc.