Menlyn Park mall, now Africa’s largest, will reopen soon
The newly revamped Menlyn Park shopping centre in Pretoria is set to open in just over a week, on November 24. It will be the largest shopping centre in Africa, usurping Durban’s Gateway Theatre of Shopping. It will also be larger than Gauteng’s Sandton City, Cape Town’s Canal Walk and Waterfall’s Mall of Africa. South African shoppers’ faith in large retail centres is undented, with many people preferring to visit malls once or twice a month and do all of their shopping, rather than visiting several smaller malls many times in a month. Menlyn Park, which is owned by private company Pareto, has been extended by 50,000m² through a project that cost about R2bn. The expanded super-regional mall will be more than 170,000m² and contain about 500 stores. Certain parts of the mall have also been refurbished. Gateway, SA’s second-largest mall at 166,636m², has 362 stores. Sandton City follows at 146,803m² with about 300 stores. Canal Walk is the largest shopping centre in the Western Cape, ...
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