Mirage Plaza
Verdun, Beirut

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The Residential complex consists of 20 floors Forming the residential Tower, with 19 apartments, each occupying one floor of 351m², plus one floor serving as a club exclusive for the residents of the Tower, on the 5th level of the building, with a huge garden & a large swimming pool occupying about 1500m².

http://www.coldwellbanker-lb.com/images/newhomes/mirage/mirageplan.jpg
Residential Apartment Floor Plan



The Commercial complex consists of 4 floors forming a real shopping Mall with 3 main entrances and 5 floors underground, serving as parking & services.

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A huge mall located at the ground and 1st floor in the Mirage Plaza, consisting of: ground floor shops, 1st floor stores, with 3 main electric doors and entrance from different streets, panoramic lifts, escalators and 3 stairs only to serve the shopping mall. Sky light, special light system, music and 3 underground parking spaces, 24hour security, totally airconditions, 12m high water fall.

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Ground Floor Shops

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2nd Floor Offices

^^this one is completed.

Yes, it was completed several years ago...however for reasons unknown to the public it has been vacant ever since. During the 2006 war, the displaced from the Dahyeh stayed in those apartments.

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Yes, it was completed several years ago...however for reasons unknown to the public it has been vacant ever since. During the 2006 war, the displaced from the Dahyeh stayed in those apartments.

Thats is so strange ! So is the Shopping center on the botton vactant ?
I wounder why no one wants to live there !

^^ All of it is vacant. It's not that no one wasnt to live/open business there, there must be a reason why...

it makes the area look good ... at least. Its great building

maybe its haunted?

^^haha , actualy this building is property of a family friend he built it a long time ago bas i donno its just completely empty ...nobody lives in it or has an office or anything

It's vacant because it belonged to Taha Koleilet, so it was seized along with his assets!
then Coldwell Banker got the right to display it for sale...

Good news...I just drove passed this tower the other night and the lights were on on two of the floors...maybe people have started to move in?

^^ Yes,and i read an article about this tower on Almustaqbal newspaper the day b4 BG started this thread,it called the Arab investors to open businesses in this tower's Commercial Center.

Taken today

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af175/_Zippo_/SSC%20Projects%20Pictures/Mirage%20Tower/15-7-2011-1.jpg

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^^ Has all the retail space been occupied?

^^Actually, none is. They are all empty/vacant.

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af175/_Zippo_/SSC%20Projects%20Pictures/Mirage%20Tower/Retail_stores_15-7-2011.jpg

^^ Any idea whats going on with this? The building has been complete now for over a decade. Only recently have the residential units been occupied. In 2006 the building was housing Dahieh evacuees.

Ok, so I went there and talked to the concierge pretending that I want to buy a store...(and I was convincing! :P). He told me that there's none available. I asked him if they were sold out or rented, he said that they were "mdammaneen" ( I don't know the word in English). When I asked him about the apartments, he said that they are all sold out and already occupied.

I told him how comes the retail area is still empty? He said that they are planning a big opening after Ramadan, and they will all be occupied afterwards.

Also when I asked him about the reason of that delay, he was vague in his answer. He said that there were problems with the bank vouchers or something like that. I think Rabih's post # 10 could be the logical answer.

So, in a nutshell, let's wait 2 months and hope the next pictures posted here will have some famous stores showing...

^^ Sounds promising....thanks for the investigating!