MetroCity is a shopping mall that opened on April 30 2003 in the financial district of Levent4. Besides the shopping mall, the financial district has other three additional towers. Two of the three towers are made up of 205 apartments located in the two 26-floor residential towers. In addition there is a 24-floor office building5. The complex is directly connected to the Levent Metro station. The complex occupies an area of 60,000 m². MetroCity has a parking lot capacity of approximately 1,300 vehicles.
Kanyon, like MetroCity, is a multi-purpose complex also located in the Levent Business District of Istanbul. Built three years after MetroCity, it opened on the 6th of June 2006. The complex is built on 250,000m² piece of land and has a 26-floor office building. The residential building includes a total of 179 apartments spaced on 22-floors6. Unlike MetroCity, Kanyon has 9 theatre halls and has a larger parking lot with a total capacity of 2,300 vehicles. A reported $210 million7 was invested in building this upmarket complex.
