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Sickla

Sickla Köpkvarter
Luftverkstaden Sickla 2014a.jpg
Sickla Köpkvarter, 2014
Location Nacka, Sweden
Coordinates 59°18′21.7″N 18°07′32.8″E / 59.306028°N 18.125778°E / 59.306028; 18.125778Coordinates: 59°18′21.7″N 18°07′32.8″E / 59.306028°N 18.125778°E / 59.306028; 18.125778
Opening date 1994, 2005
Owner Atrium Ljungberg
No. of stores and services 168
Total retail floor area 78,700 m2 (847,000 sq ft)
Parking 2,600
Public transit access Sickla Station or Nacka Station, Saltsjöbanan
Website kopkvarter.sickla.se

Sickla Köpkvarter is a retail park and shopping district located on a redeveloped industrial estate in Nacka, Sweden. It's wholly owned by Atrium Ljungberg — a real estate company headquartered in the area — and consists of several shopping malls in varying sizes, in addition to office buildings with shops at street level and a civic center housing a museum, art gallery, library and multiplex. In 2013, the shopping center had 2,600 parking spaces, a total of 168 stores with a combined retail floor area of 78,700 m2 (847,000 sq ft) and annual turnover of SEK 3 billion. The biggest stores are ICA, Elgiganten, Willys and Best of Brands, accounting for nearly a quarter of the annual rent payments. It's one of the biggest shopping centers in in terms of sales.

Sickla is an area on the western part of the peninsula Sicklaön, in the municipalities of Nacka and . The toponym is said to be derived from Old Swedish, meaning "boggy ground, from which water emerges." The area north of lake Sicklasjön, today known as Sickla Köpkvarter, was previously an industrial estate, established in connection with the Saltsjöbanan railway expansion in the early 1890s. Two companies were active in this part of Sickla, and would later merge to form the global industrial group Atlas Copco; with its factories remaining active on site until the late 1980s.


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