St. Ignatius Plaza

St. Ignatius Plaza, also known by its Chinese name Xuhui Plaza, is a shopping center in Luzhou District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It opened on March 2, 2012, and became the first and largest shopping mall in the district. The center was developed as a substantial retail and leisure destination serving Luzhou and surrounding parts of New Taipei City, combining fashion retail, lifestyle stores, restaurants, and parking facilities in a vertically arranged complex. The mall has approximately 110,000 square meters of total floor area, or about 1.2 million square feet. Its occupied and public areas extend from the fifth level above ground to the B2 basement level. The third through sixth underground levels are used for parking, giving the complex capacity to serve visitors arriving by car as well as by public transportation. A pedestrian connection on B2 links the mall with St. Ignatius High School metro station, making the center directly accessible from the Taipei Metro system. Its tenant mix includes internationally recognized lifestyle and apparel retailers such as UNIQLO and MUJI, together with themed restaurants and other commercial tenants. These anchor stores position the property as more than a neighborhood convenience center: it functions as a combined shopping, dining, and leisure destination for local residents and transit users. The mall's scale and station connection are particularly important in Luzhou, a densely developed urban district where convenient access and a broad range of everyday retail services are central to a shopping center's appeal. Available reference material identifies the opening date, location, floor area, transport connection, and several core tenants, but does not provide reliable information about the developer, ownership structure, management company, financial performance, executive leadership, formal brand campaigns, or subsequent expansion history. Accordingly, St. Ignatius Plaza is best documented as a place-based retail and commercial property rather than as a consumer-goods brand with a publicly disclosed corporate history.

St. Ignatius Plaza is a shopping center located in Luzhou District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It opened on March 2, 2012, marking the arrival of the district's first major shopping mall and establishing the property as its largest retail complex. The center was designed as a vertically integrated commercial facility, with retail and public areas extending from the fifth floor above ground to the B2 basement level and additional underground floors dedicated to parking. The mall's approximate total floor area is 110,000 square meters. Its scale allows it to combine several retail and leisure functions within one property, including fashion, lifestyle merchandise, dining, and other shopping-center services. Core tenants identified in reference material include UNIQLO and MUJI, supported by a selection of themed restaurants. This combination gives the center a broad everyday-use profile rather than restricting it to a single retail category. A significant part of the mall's accessibility strategy is its connection to the Taipei Metro network. A passage on the B2 level links the shopping center with St. Ignatius High School metro station. The connection supports pedestrian access from the station and reinforces the center's role as a commercial destination serving both nearby residents and passengers using public transportation. Multiple underground parking levels provide an additional access route for customers arriving by car. The available historical record is limited. It confirms the mall's opening, physical scale, location, principal access arrangement, and selected anchor tenants, but does not establish the identities of its founder, owner, developer, operator, or senior executives. It also does not document major renovations, ownership transactions, financial results, formal advertising campaigns, controversies, or later changes in tenant strategy. On the available evidence, the principal historical turning point is the property's 2012 opening and its subsequent operation as Luzhou's leading shopping-center destination.

• 2012

  Opening of St. Ignatius Plaza

  [1]St. Ignatius Plazaen.wikipedia.org

  St. Ignatius Plaza opened on March 2, 2012, becoming the first and largest shopping mall in Luzhou District.

• 2012

  Launch of a large-scale Luzhou retail complex

  [1]St. Ignatius Plazaen.wikipedia.org

  The property opened with approximately 110,000 square meters of total floor area, combining retail, dining, and extensive underground parking.

• 2012

  Metro-connected shopping access

  [1]St. Ignatius Plazaen.wikipedia.org

  A B2-level connection linked the mall with St. Ignatius High School metro station, providing direct pedestrian access to the Taipei Metro system.

A large, transit-connected district shopping center combining everyday fashion and lifestyle retail with dining and leisure uses.

• Retail category · 2012

  Fashion and apparel retail

  Fashion retail is one of the shopping center's principal commercial functions. UNIQLO is identified as one of its core stores, giving the mall a major apparel anchor oriented toward everyday clothing and broad household demand.

• Retail category · 2012

  Lifestyle and household goods

  Lifestyle merchandise forms another important part of the tenant mix. MUJI is listed among the mall's core stores, providing a recognizable anchor for household, stationery, apparel, and general lifestyle shopping.

• Food and beverage · 2012

  Themed restaurants

  The center includes various themed restaurants as part of its dining and leisure offering. The available reference does not specify the individual restaurant names, cuisines, or operating history.

• Property services · 2012

  Shopping-center access and parking services

  The property incorporates multiple underground parking levels and a B2 pedestrian passage to St. Ignatius High School metro station. These facilities are part of the center's practical visitor proposition and support access by both car and public transit.

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