Mall Store Directory — Multi-Country, One Dataset

Extract store directories from major mall operators across the US, UK and Europe as a single unified dataset. One crawl covers Simon Property Group, CBL Properties, Landsec (Bluewater), Westfield (URW), NEPI Rockcastle (Romania + CEE), AFI Europe, Iulius Group, Sun Plaza, Băneasa, ParkLake, Veranda and Colosseum — one record per store with a consistent 20-field schema no operator publishes on its own. Every record carries mall_country (ro/us/gb/hu), mall_operator, store, category, floor/unit, contact data and an anchor-tenant flag; first_seen / last_seen / is_closed turn repeat runs into a vacancy & churn time-series.

Input

{
  "countries": ["gb", "us"],
  "operators": ["landsec", "simon"],
  "includeAnchor": true,
  "extractDetails": true,
  "output": "json"
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
countries	array	["all"]	ro, us, gb (or uk), hu, or ["all"]
operators	array	["all"]	nepi, afi, iulius, sunplaza, baneasa, parklake, veranda, colosseum, simon, cbl, landsec, westfield (alias urw)
malls	array	["all"]	Specific mall ids (overrides countries/operators)
includeAnchor	boolean	true	Set false to exclude anchor tenants
extractDetails	boolean	false	Visit store pages for floor/phone/hours/email (slower, richer). NEPI, Băneasa and Landsec always carry full detail
output	string	json	json, csv or xlsx (csv/xlsx via Console export)

Output

One dataset item per store:

{
  "mall_id": "king-of-prussia",
  "mall_name": "King of Prussia",
  "mall_city": "King of Prussia",
  "mall_address": "160 N Gulph Rd, King of Prussia, PA 19406",
  "mall_country": "us",
  "mall_operator": "Simon Property Group",
  "store_name": "Zara",
  "store_brand": "Zara",
  "category": "Women's Fashions / Men's Fashions",
  "floor": "",
  "unit_number": "2036CT",
  "website": "https://www.zara.com",
  "phone": "(484) 673-1851",
  "email": "",
  "opening_hours": "",
  "store_url": "https://www.simon.com/mall/king-of-prussia/stores/zara",
  "anchor_tenant": true,
  "first_seen": "2026-08-14T10:00:00+00:00",
  "last_seen": "2026-08-14T10:00:00+00:00",
  "is_closed": false
}

Unpublished fields return empty strings — records always have the same shape, so CSV/Excel exports stay clean.

Coverage by operator

Country	Operator	Malls	Source type
RO	NEPI Rockcastle	19 (Mega Mall, Promenada, Shopping City…)	Strapi CMS JSON API
RO	AFI Europe	2 (Cotroceni, Ploiești)	WordPress brand sitemap
RO	Iulius Group	4 (Cluj, Iași, Suceava, Iulius Town)	Shopping index HTML
RO	Sun Plaza, Băneasa, ParkLake, Veranda, Colosseum	5	WordPress / Laravel / Inertia
US	Simon Property Group	10 flagship malls (King of Prussia, Lenox Square…)	tenant JSON API
US	CBL Properties	6 malls	featured-store lists (partial)
GB	Landsec	Bluewater	Umbraco content API
GB	Westfield (URW)	London, Stratford City	retailer index + schema.org

Use cases

• Retail analytics / site selection — store mix, anchor presence, category density
• Vacancy & churn monitoring — stores that disappear get is_closed: true next run
• Cross-border brand tracking — brand footprints across countries
• Leasing / REIT analysis — unit-level occupancy signal
• Local SEO & citations — accurate store lists with floor/unit refs

Run from your code

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("darknezz/mall-store-directory").call(
    run_input={"countries": ["gb", "us"], "operators": ["landsec", "simon"]})
for store in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(store["mall_country"], store["mall_name"], store["store_name"])

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.002 per store extracted, plus Apify's standard compute. A full multi-country run costs a few dollars; a single-mall run costs cents.

FAQ

Which countries are covered? Romania (full directory), the US (Simon + CBL), the UK (Landsec Bluewater + Westfield London/Stratford) and Hungary (NEPI Mammut). More operators are added as their structures are verified.

What is an anchor tenant? Foot-traffic drivers — hypermarkets (Auchan, Tesco, Walmart, Carrefour…), cinemas (AMC, Odeon, Cinema City…), department stores (Macy's, Nordstrom, John Lewis…) and big electronics/DIY/sport anchors. Flag derived from name and category with a multi-country brand list.

Why is ParkLake sometimes empty? ParkLake (Sonae Sierra) runs a JS-challenge WAF serving datacenter IPs an HTTP 202 challenge (verified 2026-08-13). From residential/proxy IPs its REST API returns ~223 stores; from Apify's default egress it contributes 0. The adapter tries curl_cffi impersonation then the sitemap, and logs honestly. Run with a residential proxy for full coverage.

Why does CBL return only a handful of stores? CBL publishes only "Featured Stores" paragraphs, not a full directory. The adapter extracts those featured tenants (exactly the anchors the schema flags) and logs the partial-coverage caveat.

Is crawling respectful? Yes — robots.txt is honoured, requests are paced with backoff, and operator-owned public JSON APIs (NEPI Strapi, Simon tenant API, Landsec Umbraco) are queried politely with small pages.

Why is is_closed false on my first run? is_closed becomes meaningful from the second run (previous snapshot diff). First runs are a baseline. Some operators (Simon) expose comingSoon / closedForRenovation / temporarilyClosed, mapped to is_closed immediately.