Biggest Mall in Africa

[Lydon]

Canal Walk, Sandton City, Gateway, Pavilion, Eastgate, Tygervalley are those at the top of my head. I have no clue as to the size of the majority of malls in Joburg so I'll need help with those. Many of these are currently undergoing upgrades too, with a few other malls undergoing expansions that will put them in the 75 000m2 category.

Of course there are other malls under construction...not sure if any fit the super-regional category but quite a few come close.

[Matthias Offodile]

all these malls not just add a lot of cool entertianment, promote the image of a modern city, but above all help to fight poverty, many direct and indirect jobs are created!

Take a city like Bangkok it has around 50 malls (I am just taliking about the big modern ones!!). Just imagine the amount of direct and indirect jobs!!

[Matthias Offodile]

Urban Nigerian people are generally very fond of shopping! (an urban Nigerianman likes a lot more to go shopping than an urban German man, generally speaking...not to speak of Nigerian young women...especially Igbo girls, they virtually die for shopping)

Nigeria needs more malls!!!

[egypt69]

Can Someone give me the link to the African Malls Section??

[Lydon]

Zonkizizwe is currently under construction in Midrand, Johannesburg. It will be Africa's biggest mall when complete at 200 000m2.

It's part of a theme park, casino, office park among other things.

[SAHARA-1]

Originally Posted by madi

Mega Mall in rabat Morocco:

Originally Posted by icosium

wow both of these are so nice.
love them, and the South African ones are enormous..I have see a few personally.

[Klausenburg]

AFAIK Gateway in Durban is the bigest mall in Southern hemisphere. Am I wrong?

[Lydon]

From what I know you're correct. It won't be for long though as Sandton City will expand soon which when combined with Nelson Mandela Square will make it larger than Gateway.

[egypt69]

u guyz got it allllll wrong, City Stars,Cairo, Egypt is the biggest mall in africa , MIddle East and probabl Europe 750 000 m2, 750 stores and restaurants, more than 21 cinema rooms, a 6000 m2 indoor theme park, 8 floors, the largest cinnbon store outside north america.... think again

[Lydon]

Erm, no it's not...750 000m2 including all the office towers etc. yes. The actual mall is 150 000m2 which is smaller than Gateway (Gateway has 18 movie theatres, an IMAX theatre, a playhouse called the Barnyard Theatre, more than sixty restaurants, more than 300 stores, the Wave House, an arcade and theme park called Fantasy Forest, a 4000 sq. metre skate park designed by Tony Hawk, the highest indoor climbing rock in the world, a Nissan 4x4 track and a science theme park. It's 166 000m2 shopping-wise) in Durban and Sandton City in Johannesburg. A simple google search proves that.

Sandton City is currently under expansion with an 80F office tower planned. The fact that it's a part of the mall doesn't mean it's considered a physical piece of it. By that logic Century City in Cape Town would be absolutely huge due to the fact that it's surrounded by office towers.

[abdeka]

Opened on September 2008

[Matthias Offodile]

u guyz got it allllll wrong, City Stars,Cairo, Egypt is the biggest mall in africa , MIddle East and probabl Europe 750 000 m2, 750 stores and restaurants, more than 21 cinema rooms, a 6000 m2 indoor theme park, 8 floors, the largest cinnbon store outside north america.... think again

The biggest mall in Middle East and Africa are in Dubai. Mall of the Emirates and Dubai Mall which is supposed to open this month , the latter is the biggest mall in the world!

Watch the video

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/98125/dubai_mall/

[t-bang!]

i thought we're talking biggest in africa

[Lydon]

Originally Posted by t-bang!

i thought we're talking biggest in africa

We are, but he is responding to the other dude saying Egypt has the largest mall in all these territories.

[abdeka]

image hosted on flickr

[Alex Roney]

Originally Posted by Klausenburg

AFAIK Gateway in Durban is the bigest mall in Southern hemisphere. Am I wrong?

Aricanduva in Sao Paulo is bigger than Gateway.

[SAHARA-1]

I think this is a picture of a mall in Nairobi, the courtyard area.
some Kenyas on this forum can help me out here Looks very beautiful....








and if I am not mistaken this is the outside of Yaya Center Mall in Nairobi
also a great mall. I have only been there once but it is very nice

[t-bang!]

How do you actually measure a mall? is it the actual retail space, the building including offices, number of shops or what?

[Lydon]

Retail space. If it included offices Canal Walk would be very very massive.

[egypt69]

Originally Posted by Lydon

Erm, no it's not...750 000m2 including all the office towers etc. yes. The actual mall is 150 000m2 which is smaller than Gateway (Gateway has 18 movie theatres, an IMAX theatre, a playhouse called the Barnyard Theatre, more than sixty restaurants, more than 300 stores, the Wave House, an arcade and theme park called Fantasy Forest, a 4000 sq. metre skate park designed by Tony Hawk, the highest indoor climbing rock in the world, a Nissan 4x4 track and a science theme park. It's 166 000m2 shopping-wise) in Durban and Sandton City in Johannesburg. A simple google search proves that.

Sandton City is currently under expansion with an 80F office tower planned. The fact that it's a part of the mall doesn't mean it's considered a physical piece of it. By that logic Century City in Cape Town would be absolutely huge due to the fact that it's surrounded by office towers.

im not sure about that 150,000 m2 figure, it should be more because Citystars has 3 flors underground parking, 7 floor, 750 stores and restaurants, 6000 m2 theme park, 21 cinema screens, and there is a phase 2 under construction , but the features of Gateway mall sound cool