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Park Bulvar

shopping mall in Baku, Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ187512
Source-derived summary

Park Bulvar (English: Park Boulevard) is a multi-story shopping mall located on Baku Boulevard in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan, in the city center.

Situated near the Government House of Baku, the mall spans four floors and includes two additional subterranean levels. Constructed by Baku Plaza Ltd. at a reported cost of about $41.5 million, the mall houses 99 businesses, including a supermarket, a cinema, a children's playground, and several restaurants that offer views of the Bay of Baku on the Caspian Sea.

The opening of Park Bulvar in 2010 was attended by President Ilham Aliyev and his family.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Park Bulvar” is shopping mall in Baku, Azerbaijan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Park, Bulvar and shopping, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010. For this dossier, Park, Bulvar and shopping is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “shopping mall in Baku, Azerbaijan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q187512. Authority coordinates are 40.371, 49.850. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from Park Bulvar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.