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Here is a mall in the heart of the Mexico City financial district. Reforma 222 is a 4-level shopping and entertainment mall. The mall is a hybrid indoor/outdoor center. The main entrance off of Paseo De la Reforma Ave. is an open air, attention grabbing plaza. The rest of the mall is covered by a roof, but only the stores, and the fourth level seem to have air conditioning. The mall is anchored by a Cinemex cinema and a 2-level Sanborns, as well as 2 large office towers. We made several trips to this mall since it was right down the street from our hotel. Many of the stores inside of the mall are on the small side with a limited selection of inventory. There is a collection of Mexican and USA retailers and restaurants inside of the mall. Many of the sit down restaurants stay open later than the mall retailers. This is a bustling mall and it was packed during the day.
The towers really make the entrance to the mall stand out. Paseo de la Reforma Av. where the main entrance to the mall is located, has skyscrapers lining both sides of the street.
Here are more views of the main entrance.
Now we are in the center court of the mall. The mall is only about a block long, but there are 3 floors of retail and a fourth floor with the cinema and a gym. There are a couple of fountains in the mall, the best one is under the escalators. The escalator to the fourth floor is located in the food court, but the elevator shown here goes up there as well.
The view from near the center court to the main mall entrance.
Some of the restaurants have these café style seating areas which are a nice touch.
The Sanborns main mall entrance is on the first floor behind the escalator in this shot. We will see more of Sanborns towards the end of this post. The second level of Sanborns is the restaurant, which has an entrance in the back of the mall.
Mixup is where the crowd is gathered. A musician Mon Laferte was making a meet and greet appearance for her fans. Mixup is an FYE/Sounds type of store with Movies, music, video games, electronics, and collectibles. Sadly I did not get any photos of this store.
Here is the second fountain. It is somewhat hidden near the entrance to the Italiannis restaurant.
Where the outdoor meets the indoor portion of the mall.
Here is the Sanborns restaurant entrance.
This is the fourth level with the gym, and Cinemex.
We watched a movie here late one night, the area felt very safe.
The food court is located on the third level.
The next few photos were taken after most of the mall closed, but the sit down restaurants and movie theater were still open.
McDonald's had a separate kiosk for desserts, and the ice cream machine works 😀.
A better view of the Sanborns entrance.
GNC even makes an appearance at this mall.
This hallway leads to another Starbucks and the back mall entrance.
There is a Starbucks at each mall entrance.
The second Sanborns Mall entrance. You can access the Sanborns restaurant on an escalator near this entrance.
Even though the stores had closed, there was still decent foot traffic in the mall.
Now for the inside of Sanborns.
As you can see from the next few photos, this Sanborns has a good selection of electronics.
This store is a little bit smaller than some of the other Sanborns I have visited, but they have a good selection of merchandise.
Toys
The awesome candy counter is here as well.
Tobacco counter.
Liquors
The escalator to the Sanborns restaurant.
The exterior entrance of Sanborns.
More retail posts on the way from the USA and Mexico.
