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Location | Khlong Toei, Bangkok, Thailand |
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Coordinates | 13°43′51″N100°34′08″E / 13.7307°N 100.5689°E |
Address | 622 Sukhumvit Soi 24 |
Opening date | 27 July 1997 |
Developer | The Mall Group |
Management | The Mall Group |
Owner | The Mall Group |
No. of anchor tenants | 7 |
No. of floors | 7 and 1 basement |
Website | theemdistrict |
Emporium is a luxury shopping mall in Khlong Toei District, Bangkok, Thailand. It opened on 27 July 1997. It is owned and operated by The Mall Group, who also operate the EmQuartier and Siam Paragon malls in Bangkok.
It is on Sukhumvit Road at Sukhumvit Soi 24 beside Benchasiri Park. It is connected directly to the Phrom Phong Station on the Sukhumvit Line of the BTS Skytrain by a footbridge.
Emporium is a major component of the "EM District" and contains a shopping mall, department store, a luxury cinema "Emprivé Cineclub by SF Corporation", a high-end supermarket, food court, office building, exhibition hall, children's play centres and a hotel. Emporium is a popular hub for entertainment, food, and education for local residents and visitors.
Emporium was designed by J+H Boiffils. [1] Emporium was their first shopping mall design project in Thailand. They later designed Siam Paragon, another Bangkok shopping mall, for the same developer. Emporium was Bangkok's first luxury lifestyle mall offering venues for upscale shopping, dining, entertainment, and supermarket in one complex. With the launch of the Bangkok Skytrain system several years later, Emporium was the first mall to allow direct access from the Skytrain station.
Currently, the building has two functional parts.
In 2013, The Mall Group announced six new projects, [3] including the re-announcing of the Emporium Quartier and the Emporium Sphere, and called them as The EM District. [4] The EM District is a group of three Emporium's shopping malls:
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