Mall Of America - Official Souvenir Video

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.