Arken

Arken is one of Citycon’s principal Bergen metropolitan retail assets, opened in 1989 in the Åsane district at the northern edge of the Bergen metropolitan area along the E39 motorway corridor. The 28,000-sqm regional centre houses approximately 70 stores across two retail levels, anchoring the northern Bergen metro retail map between the central Bergen pedestrian shopping district and the broader Hordaland regional residential catchment.

The format combines a Coop hypermarket anchor with mid-tier fashion volume across the retail floors and a dining and services cluster serving the Åsane residential demographic and the broader northern Bergen suburban population. International vertical apparel chains, Norwegian specialty retailers, and the accessible-mid-market fashion register populate the tenant lineup at the value-oriented positioning oriented toward the broad demographic across the Bergen metropolitan periphery.

The catchment combines the Åsane residential population with the broader northern Bergen metro demographic that the Salhus, Lonevåg, and surrounding Osterøy and Lindås municipalities concentrate. The E39 motorway provides direct connectivity from across the Bergen metro alongside the broader Sogn og Fjordane and northern Hordaland traffic that flows through the asset’s catchment, with parking-led access from the surrounding Åsane and northern Bergen residential communities completing the demand profile.

Within Citycon’s Pan-Nordic portfolio, Arken is one of the operator’s principal Norwegian flagships alongside the broader Bergen Storsenter, CC Vest in Oslo, City Lade in Trondheim, and Kvadrat Storsenter in Sandnes. The asset’s commercial role within the Norwegian retail map is the dominant northern Bergen suburban regional, complementing the larger Olav Thon-controlled Lagunen Storsenter that anchors southern Bergen.