Plaza Carso
Large mixed-used development in Mexico City, Mexico
19°26′29″N 99°12′15″W / 19.441406°N 99.204083°W / 19.441406; -99.204083Plaza Carso is a large mixed-use development in the Nuevo Polanco area of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City,[2] backed by billionaire Carlos Slim. The total cost of the complex is quoted between US$800 million[3] and 1.4 billion.[4] The complex claims to be the largest mixed-use development in Latin America.[5] It was built on the site of a former Vitro glass factory.[6]
The complex includes the following components:
- Museo Soumaya, owned by the Carlos Slim Foundation. The museum contains the Slim's extensive art, religious relic, historical document, and coin collection.[7] The museum holds works by many of the best known European artists from the 15th to the 20th century including a large collection of casts of sculptures by Auguste Rodin. The building is a shiny silver cloud-like structure reminiscent of a Rodin sculpture.[7]
- Museo Júmex, opened November 2013, to house part of the Colección Jumex, the contemporary art collection of the Jumex juice company.
- The Plaza Carso shopping center, which from 2010 through 2020 was home to an 82,500 sq ft (7,665 m2) Saks Fifth Avenue store, the second to have opened in Mexico.[8] Together with the atrium this section measures 48,090 square metres (517,600 sq ft).[9]
- Teatro Telcel theatre
- Residential towers: Torre Dalí, Torre Monet and Torre Rodin[5]
- Office towers,[10] two of 23 floors each, and one of 20 floors. The three buildings are joined on the lower 3 levels by an atrium and the shopping center.[9]
- Torre Telcel - the headquarters of América Móvil are here[11]
- Torre Falcon
- Torre Zurich
- A 6-level underground parking garage[9]
External links
- Photo of Carlos Slim touring the Plaza Carso project, Forbes, August 2010
References
- ^ ""Plaza Carso Masterplan", FR-EE website". Archived from the original on 2013-04-28. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
- ^ "Mapa de Ubicación." Plaza Carso. Retrieved on April 12, 2016. "Plaza Carso, Lago Zurich Esq. Cervantes Saavedra, Polanco, Miguel Hidalgo, D.F., México" (click on blue pointer to see the address)
- ^ "Emperor's New Museum", Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2011
- ^ "ICSC website". Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
- ^ a b "Quiénes somos", Plaza Carso website, retrieved April 13, 2013
- ^ ""Factories left a mark on Miguel Hidalgo borough", Obrasweb". Archived from the original on 2016-04-23. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
- ^ a b "Carlos Slim: At home with the world's richest man". The Telegraph. 21 February 2011.
- ^ saks-expands-presence-mexico-city VMSD
- ^ a b c "Glass on Web news site". Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
- ^ "Corporativo", Plaza Carso website
- ^ ""Contact Information", América Móvil website". Archived from the original on 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
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stations
- Chapultepec Castle
- Museo Nacional de Historia
- Museo de Arte Moderno
- National Museum of Anthropology
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Museo Soumaya
- IEMS
- Escuela Preparatoria Miguel Hidalgo "Carmen Serdán"
- Lycée Franco-Mexicain Polanco campus
- Peterson Schools Lomas Campus
- Westhill Institute (Two campuses)
- Colegio Ciudad de México Plantel Polanco
- The Wingate School Lomas campus (primary school) (opening 2016)
- Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt Plantel Kindergarten Prado Norte
- Eton School (Preschool and toddler center)
- Escuela Sierra Nevada two locations
and mixed-use
- Antara Polanco
- Miyana
- Parques Polanco
- Plaza Carso
Borough of Miguel Hidalgo topics
This list is incomplete.
