UNO Shopping
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The UNO Shopping is a shopping mall
Shopping mall
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 in Leonding
Leonding
Leonding is a city situated to the southwest of Linz, Austria in the state of Upper Austria. It has a population of about 22,269 and an area of 24.05 km²...

, Upper Austria
Upper Austria
Upper Austria is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg...

 and is located southwest of Linz
Linz
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...

. It was opened on 16 October 1990.

After two extensions in the years 2005 and 2006 the UNO shopping has a sales area of approx. 48000 square yards. The second extension was primarily aimed at the improvement the infrastructure. The multi-storey car park
Multi-storey car park
A multi-storey car-park is a building designed specifically to be for car parking and where there are a number of floors or levels on which parking takes place...

 constructed during this phase has increased the comfort for the customers by providing additional parking space and shortening the ways from the car to the shops.

Besides more than 90 shops the UNO shopping houses several restaurants and entertainment-businesses as well as a playground with an area of approx. 680 square yards. The total number of employees is around 750.

Criticism

One point of criticism is that purchasing power is transferred away from the city center of Linz. Another one is the enormous volume of traffic produced by several other businesses along Kremstal A-Road one of the main routes entering Linz.
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