The Usce shopping center, covering 130,000 sqm and employing around 1,200 people, has officially opened in Belgrade.

The owners of Belgrade's second shopping mall are MPC Properties, a subsidiary of MPC Holdings owned by the U.S. bank Merrill Lynch and Serbian businessman Petar Matic.

The center, the biggest of its kind in the Balkans, cost 150 million euro to be built and offers visitors a range of facilities, from shopping to entertainment.

The mall, including 50,000 sqm of shopping space, is made up of 150 shops, a supermarket, seven fast-food restaurants, a multiplex cinema