Biblioteksgatan
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Biblioteksgatan (Swedish for "Library Street") is a street in Norrmalm in central Stockholm. The street starts out as a pedestrian street at Norrmalmstorg until it passes Stureplan, whereafter it continues towards Humlegården and the Royal Library.
The street is a well-known shopping street with many luxurious brand stores and some of the highest rent levels for retail in Stockholm.
In 2010 the dominant real estate owner of the area, , launched an effort to incorporate the streets crossing Biblioteksgatan in a larger shopping district they want to call Bibliotekstan ("Library Town"). The concept is influenced by a similar campaign in London to expand the shopping street Carnaby Street into a "".[1]
Notes[]
- ^ Klas Andersson, "Shoppingstriden hårdnar i Stockholm", E24 Näringsliv, 10 March 2010. The author of the article points out that Hufvudstaden has chosen to use the name Bibliotekstan with a single s, rather than the grammatically more correct Biblioteksstan.
Coordinates: 59°20′1.5″N 18°4′22.8″E / 59.333750°N 18.073000°E
- Streets in Stockholm
- Pedestrian streets in Sweden
- Shopping districts and streets in Sweden
- Stockholm road stubs