The companies housed in Nordstan employ approximately six thousand people and the total annual turnover was SEK 4.1 billion in 2013.

[1] The main passageways in the centre are public spaces and therefore are open for use after shops have closed.

The construction of the Nordstan shopping centre began in 1967, over a part of the city previously neglected.

At its time, the construction of the shopping centre was Sweden's largest ever city renovation project.

[citation needed] City blocks and houses were linked together with a common roof.

Nordstanstorget was invented, Norra Larmgatan and Lilla Klädpressaregatan were taken away when the shopping centre was built.

Lilla Klädpressaregatan was taken into use again in 1986[6] when the bottom floor of the parking hall was rebuilt to business use.

Åhléns opened a fourth floor, and a further 4000 square metres of business space were given available for Elgiganten and Stadium.

[8] Nordstan was for some time a hangout for street children with foreign backgrounds, from the suburbs of Gothenburg but also migrants from Morocco, Afghanistan and Syria, after the shops close at night.

[9] Many of the unaccompanied minors hanging in the shopping centre have had several asylum applications rejected.

The Nordstadstorget square is located in the middle of Nordstan, which is a large indoor space used for exhibitions and events.

The shopping centre had to call its security guards from Securitas to organise the traffic.

By terms of sales area, the store is the largest external Apple vendor in the world.