Konak Pier

About Konak Pier

Konak Pier is a small shopping and leisure centre in a 19th-century customs house on the Konak waterfront, between Atatürk Caddesi and the sea, about 500 metres from Konak Square. The building is widely believed to have been designed by Gustave Eiffel, according to the Turkish Treasury's privatisation documents. The stone building served for a long time as İzmir's customs house, was turned into a fish market in the 1960s and worked as one until 1987, and was used as offices by the ESHOT transport authority in the early 1990s. After a restoration that began in 1996 it reopened in January 2004 as the Konak Pier shopping and lifestyle centre, with shops and five cinema screens. Today most of the space is given over to cafes and restaurants, with apparel and cosmetics shops and entertainment; as of May 2026 about two thirds of the leasable area was let. Operation passed back to the Turkish Maritime Organisation at the end of 2025 and the state is tendering a new long-term operating licence, so the tenant mix may change. Good to know: - Individual businesses keep their own opening hours.