TAIPEI -- Developer Mitsui Fudosan on Wednesday opened Mitsui Outlet Park Linkou in New Taipei City, one of the largest outlet malls in northern Taiwan and the first outlet mall in Taiwan operated by a Japanese company.
The mall, a joint venture with a Taiwanese company, covers 67,340 sq. meters and is designed with open space to create the image of a southern resort. Its convenient location, 30 minutes by car from downtown Taipei and around 20 minutes from Taoyuan International Airport, aims to draw both locals and tourists.
The roughly 220 tenant stores sell everything from fashion apparel to food. Japanese products are popular in Taiwan, and 59 of the tenants are Japanese stores, including Beams and United Arrows.
Sales of around 6 billion New Taiwan dollars ($178 million) are anticipated in the first fiscal year, when the mall is expected to draw 6 million people. The number of visitors to Taiwan topped 10 million for the first time in 2015.
This is Mitsui Fudosan's third overseas outlet mall, joining sites in Malaysia and China's Zhejiang Province.