Oakland Mall

- Zona 10, Diagonal 6

Oakland Mall, built in 2008, is the newest and most upscale shopping mall, it has 170 stores on 6 floors and is sitauted in Zona 10, right at the East boundary of Zona Viva. The mall features a waterfall (that seemed impossible to find), an aquarium, lost of escalators, atriums with glass enclosed elevators, a merry-go-round, a mobile train for children, large panorama windows, a Siman department store (chain from El Salvador), a Cinépolis (Mexican cinema complex), several restaurants and a foodcourt (where we had breakfast). A vintage VW bus can be found at Saul's Café on the upper floors. The structure is complex with several groundfloors so if it wasn't built that open with atriums and glass floors it would be easy to get lost. Since we visited early in the morning to have breakfast (on the food court on the 3rd floor) there were almost no people in the mall. The main entrance is along the busy avenue Diagonal 6, next to Zona Viva. The exterior of this postmodern mall buildings features curvy glass elements.