Dubai Opens Massive Mall

By Staff -- Gifts & Decorative Accessories, 11/5/2008 12:58:00 PM

Dubai, UAE — Move over, Mall of America. The Dubai Mall opened on November 4, with almost 600 retailers. Jim Badour, CEO, Emaar Malls Group, said in a statement, “We have the largest ever number of retailers together for the first time in a mall opening.” When fully operational, it will have more than 1,200 stores, including anchor department stores Galeries Lafayette and Bloomingdale’s, 220 gold and jewelry outlets, 160 food and beverage outlets, a supermarket and an organic food mart. Lifestyle and leisure offerings include a Gold Souk, the Olympic-sized Dubai Ice Rink and the Fashion Catwalk atrium.

The Dubai Mall is the flagship development of Emaar Malls Group, the shopping malls subsidiary of global property developer Emaar Properties. The Group already opened Souk Al Bahar, a modern mall with Arabesque architectural features in Downtown Burj Dubai, and will open the Dubai Marina Mall in the Dubai Marina in late 2008.

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