Plaza Carso is a large mixed-use development in the Nuevo Polanco area of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City,[" Mapa de Ubicación." Plaza Carso. Retrieved on April 12, 2016. "Plaza Carso, Lago Zurich Esq. Cervantes Saavedra, Polanco, Miguel Hidalgo, D.F., México" (click on blue pointer to see the address)] backed by billionaire Carlos Slim. The total cost of the complex is quoted between US$800 million[ "Emperor's New Museum", Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2011] and 1.4 billion.[ "Quiénes somos", Plaza Carso website, retrieved April 13, 2013] It was built on the site of a former Vitro glass factory.
The complex includes the following components:
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Museo Soumaya, owned by the Carlos Slim Foundation. The museum contains the Slim's extensive art, religious relic, historical document, and coin collection.
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Museo Júmex, opened November 2013, to house part of the Colección Jumex, the contemporary art collection of the Jumex juice company.
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The Plaza Carso shopping center, which from 2010 through 2020 was home to an Saks Fifth Avenue store, the second to have opened in Mexico.
[ saks-expands-presence-mexico-city VMSD] Together with the atrium this section measures .
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Teatro Telcel theatre
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Residential towers: Torre Dalí, Torre Monet and Torre Rodin
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Office towers,
[ "Corporativo", Plaza Carso website] two of 23 floors each, and one of 20 floors. The three buildings are joined on the lower 3 levels by an atrium and the shopping center.[
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Torre Telcel - the headquarters of América Móvil are here
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Torre Falcon
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Torre Zurich
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A 6-level underground parking garage
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