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When people and politicians speak of commercial development within Mexico City in the last ten years, the Santa Fe Center is invariably the first name to pop up. Since it opened in 1993, this sprawling zone of shops and offices in the northern part of the city has managed to attract about 8 million people a year. It is easily the largest single commercial development in Mexico and one of the largest in all of Latin America. To many Mexicans, it is a hopeful symbol of modernization.

One of the visions behind the Center was to fill it with every kind of business imaginable. There are small fast food parlors, fine restaurants, giant department stores, exclusive jewelry shops, 14 movie theaters, toy stores, banks, travel agencies, boutiques, art dealerships - and that is just the beginning. The mall is as diverse and integrated as any in the world, and its economic foundation is bolstered by heavy foreign and domestic investments.

The mall also ranks very high when it comes to "quality of life." Because of superb security, Santa Fe is very safe, and the location enjoys much less pollution than other parts of the city. For all of these reasons, plans are in the works to expand the center by another 35,000 square meters - and if history is any lesson the new addition will probably hit maximum occupancy in a very short time.

Some of the firms invested in the Centro Santa Fe:

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