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Each year since 2009 the Nordic Council of Shopping Centers (NCSC) has recognized the best achievements in the Nordic shopping center industry by announcing a winner of the NCSC Award. During the Award Night on May 11 with more than 170 guests from the Nordics, celebrating the best of the best, the challenge prize “the Nordic Star by MK Illumination” was handed out to the winner Frederiksberg Centret in Copenhagen, Denmark. Frederiksberg Centret is also winner of the European Shopping Centre Awards 2016, handed out earlier this year by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).
“Congratulations to a very worthy winner from a very strong line-up. I’m very pleased to see the Nordic Star by MK Illumination go to Frederiksberg Centret. It’s a superhot shopping centre and a true inspiration for shoppers as well as all of us in the shopping business.” Says Niclas Johansson, Managing Director, MK Illumination Sweden.
The jury's winner motivation:
“The winner of The Best Nordic Shopping Center 2016 is characterized as an attractive contemporary city centre. It has a unique and uncompromising retail mix especially within fashion, lifestyle and dining, aiming to compete more against up scaled and pedestrian street shopping environments than against traditional shopping centres. The centre went through an innovative and challenging expansion despite it was already very well functioning.
With great focus on design, both inside and outside, both in the small details such as unique sinks at the restrooms, and in the big scale impressive external facade covering, the developers manage to enhance the ambience dramatically and pamper the costumers by giving them a great experience besides their shopping experience.
On top of all this, literally, the centre has paid attention to the green trend and placed an amount of solar panels on the roof. After the expansion and full refurbishment of the old centre the footfall has increased substantially, more than 20%, despite the very difficult market conditions.
The centre is fully leased and with a long waiting list of potential tenants the outlook of this winning shopping centre seems to be extremely good for the coming decades. It is placed in most densely populated area in the nation, probably in the Nordics, and it is placed on one - and soon two - very busy metro-lines in the metropol.
The winner of this years best Nordic Shopping Center is: Frederiksberg Centret in Copenhagen, Denmark.”
Previous Award Winners:
- 2015 Täby Centrum, Sweden
- 2014 Gulskogen, Norway
- 2013 Väla Centrum, Sweden
- 2012 Grand Samarkand, Sweden
- 2011 Sandvika Storsenter, Norway
- 2010 Oslo City, Norway
- 2009 Forum Nacka, Sweden
