Panama City is not any more the only place in the country where you can visit many commercial stores while enjoying amenities under one roof. Once you cross the bridge of the Americas or Centennial heading to the country side of Panama you will find interesting malls and commercial centers along the way where you can buy almost anything you are looking for.
Panamanians love shopping, the same happens with many foreign Visitor. Anchor stores, good prices, sales, wide variety of restaurants to choose, and getting away from the melting heat outside are always good reasons to visit a mall or a commercial center
Here is a list of the most popular commercial centers in the country side and one big one soon to be open:
Boulevard Penonomé
Cocle Province has one major commercial center, at the exit of the Pan American highway towards Nata de los Caballeros you will find Boulevard Penonomé. It has more than 24,400 square meters of commercial area, 52 stores and 815 parking spots.
It’s great location gave birth to the construction of the new Transportation Terminal in Penonomé right across this commercial center. Bringing more economic development to this area.
OnDGo Aguadulce
With the slogan, “always on your way” this commercial center is part of a Strip Malls franchise nationwide. This business model delivers to Aguadulce, Cocle a unified shopping proposal, where people have access to department stores, bakery stores, fast food restaurants, health clinics and more.
It’s exterior design and direct access when driving through the Pan-American highway catches the attention of visitors.
P. H Azuero Terminal Plaza – Chitré
As the name describes, it has the advantage of being right next to Chitre’s transportation terminal. This commercial plaza helps push forward the local economy with people from surrounding areas coming to shop all they need and then taking their bus back to their homes. It’s anchor store its a renowned supermarket franchise. This commercial complex covers 4 hectares and has 771 parking spots.
Santiago Mall
While driving in Veraguas Province through the Panamerican highway, it is unavoidable to bump into this big mall with more than 40 commercial stores in 60,000 square meters. It’s total area including 1,250 parking spaces is 75,000 square meters.
The great advantage this mall has is the good connectivity people have either by driving or taking a bus to and from this commercial center.
Plaza Terronal
In Chiriqui Province, at the entrance of David City, through the Panamerican highway you can find the most sucessful commercial center in the area: Plaza Terronal. With 50,000 square metres it has a strategic location that brings together 27 commercial stores, three of them renowned franchises, plenty of wide spaces to walk along the way. It also has 4 exclusive car access for clients in order to avoid traffic jams by the great amount of people visiting.
Federal Mall, the Second Biggest Mall in Panama
Soon it will open the biggest mall in the countryside and the second largest in the country after Albrook Mall. This huge infraestructure has a 20 hectares construction area (50 acres).
Located in David on the highway to Boquete, it has 12,000 square meters committed to commercial stores and 20,000 square meters for parking space. Besides opening one of the most successful retail store in Panama, this mall will have 400 stores, eight of them anchor stores, employing more than 4,000 people.
A new attraction when traveling to the interior (countryside) is going shopping, visiting great malls and commercial centers along the way to your final destination. Now, you can get anything and everything at almost every corner of Panama.
