Centro Sambil Caracas , located in Caracas , Venezuela , is the sixth largest shopping mall in South America . It was completed in 1998 and has over 500 stores in approximately 3 million square-feet (250,000 square metres). The mall has five levels : Autopista, Libertador, Acuario, Feria, and Diversión. There are other Sambil malls located in Valencia , Margarita , Maracaibo , San Cristóbal , Barquisimeto , Paraguaná , Santo Domingo , Curaçao and Madrid .
6-628: The mall is owned by Constructora Sambil, run and owned by the Salomon Cohen Levy family. Alfredo Cohen is the director. A second mall in Caracas is located in La Candelaria parish under the name "Centro Sambil La Candelaria". In December 2008, just months before the building was inaugurated, the Venezuelan government, under President Hugo Chávez , expropriated the building without compensation. After
12-420: A Venezuelan building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This retail business article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Salomon Cohen Levy Salomón Cohen Levy (28 May 1927 – 24 June 2018) was a Moroccan Jewish-Venezuelan civil engineer and real estate businessman. He was the founder and owner of the construction company Sambil . Salomón Cohen
18-607: The Central University of Venezuela . He started his career as an engineer at the Ministry of Public Works and Housing during the mandate of President Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1953. He left his post at the ministry and was appointed as manager at Banco Obrero . Cohen was a member of the Israelite Association of Venezuela . In 1953 he founded Constructora Sambil, and became a real estate businessman. His first major project
24-582: The government took over the building, the building remained unfinished, dismantled and unoccupied until 2011 when it was used as a homeless shelter and then, as a warehouse of the government. On March 18, 2022 the government of Venezuela returned the ownership of the building to the Salomon Cohen family, which soft opened by November 30, 2022 and to grand open by May 28, 2023. 10°14′20″N 68°00′01″W / 10.23889°N 68.00028°W / 10.23889; -68.00028 This article about
30-749: Was born in Jerusalem , then in the British Mandate of Palestine , into a Moroccan Jewish family which resided in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco . His family moved to Caracas , the capital of Venezuela, at the age of three, when his father Ezra Sión Cohen looking for a better future in the thriving Latin American country. He studied at the Liceo Andrés Bello . In 1951, he obtained a degree in civil engineering at
36-803: Was the Lido shopping mall located in El Rosal, Caracas ; with a mix of offices and hotel rooms, it gave birth to the Lidotel chain. In 1998 it expanded into a growing developing business, the building and administration of shopping malls, opening the Centro Sambil located in Chacao . Later on more Shopping malls openings followed in other cities in Venezuela , Curaçao and the Dominican Republic . In 2012, his company purchased
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