Extension to the center of the sun is ready, little by little new stores are opening: Bath & Body Works did it this Wednesday, and next July 11 is the grand opening of the new third level where there will be Portela, gastro shopping With thirteen locations and innovative ideas such as co-cooking – which is co-working but for chefs – and a menu integrated into a platform that will allow you to order from several of its restaurants and pay on one bill.

Commercial manager Sofía Naranjo says that 14,000 square meters have been intervened with an investment of 14 million dollars for the shopping center alone, but that they imply 68 additional brand investments with new, renovated and relocated stores. In all that Shopping Mall has 278 stores.

GAP is already in Ecuador, its first store opened in Mall del Sol

In the expansion of the second level, large formats such as Marathon and EtaFashion, which have moved and now have much more space, are already working, and new brands such as the first GAP store in Ecuador, American Eagle, Skechers, Steren, Victoria’s Secret will also do so. here, it will also have its own sub-brand Pink. There is one more franchise that will occupy 2,500 meters between the upper and lower floors. This brand, which is kept in reserve, was planned for the last months of the year, but they decided to advance their opening, so the originally planned expansion in two phases was carried out in one.

Some escalators in that part lead to a new gastronomic concept, different from the food courts and restaurants that already exist. This is Portela where you can buy and take away: cans of alcoholic beverages, gifts, snacks largely.

This joint cooking was built by the mall “to be able to give an opportunity to many hard-working chefs in Ecuador who may not have to invest in a kitchen that can cost between 50,000 and 80,000 dollars to be able to put together a gastronomic project. We decided to invest as promoters to place every month chef and he could create his own menus”. The chef school liked the idea so much that they will now manage this space to organize these local and international chefs and create events show cooking.

The third level will be open to the public from Wednesday, July 12, the day after the official opening.

What’s new in Portela

in his line slogan “Mall del Sol has everything” lacks a gym, which is already planned. One will be built on Mr. Joy on 1,200 square meters, but that will be in the coming months, and it is expected to be officially opened before the end of 2023.

And that is that the investment “cannot be stopped.” Governments pass one by one, finish and another one comes. But Mall del Sol was hit by the earthquake, El Niño, dollarization, the pandemic, everything, but it continued.” Naranjo accepts Isabel Noboa’s phrase: “We are in a crisis, but we have decided not to participate in it, because we always believe and have great faith in the country.”

This implies the promotion of investment and trade, and for this reason they carry out ‘Caminitos’ every two months or once every three months to support entrepreneurs, who can be potential businessmen, an example being Sweet & Coffee whose first outlet at the national level was right in the Mall . del Sol and now has more than 175 stores. “It could have been a startup and look what a strong company it became.” This brand also gained space with the expansion of the shopping center.

After the works and relocation, these are the stores that are in Mall del Sol

Low level:

Attic:

floor 3:

floor 4: