CITYLAND MALL NAMED AS THE BEST COMMERCIAL PROJECT OF 2019 AT THE ARABIAN BUSINESS REAL ESTATE AWARDS
Cityland Mall, the world’s first ‘nature-inspired’ shopping destination has been awarded the ‘The Best Commercial Project’ of 2019 at The Arabian Business Real Estate Awards. The recognition marks the company’s efforts to introduce a distinguished and unique project in the UAE real estate and retail landscape. The award was received by Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Cityland Group, Fahimuddin Sharfuddin at a gala event held at the Le Royal Meridien Beach and Resort & Spa, Dubai.
Speaking on the occasion, Fahimuddin Sharfuddin, commented: “We are delighted and honoured to be recognised as the Best Commercial Project of the year, alongside some of the most revered and established names in the UAE real estate sector. We have set out to ensure that Cityland Mall will provide a totally unique retail and leisure experience – there is no precedent for it – and we are very pleased that our vision and endeavours have been recognized.”
Cityland Mall is pioneering a new trend in family entertainment where superior retail experience meets ecological preservation, sustainable design, and interaction with nature. A key attraction of the mall will be an expansive, 200,000 square feet outdoor garden, called ‘Central Park’, which will highlight the rich biodiversity of nature through unique attractions.
Recognizing exceptional developments and talents across the region, the prestigious event lauded the accomplishments of the leading players in the real estate sector who deliver outstanding results and vital contributions to the industry. An annual fixture for real estate professionals, the awards celebrated the excellence of one of the largest growing industries in the UAE.
CARREFOUR HYPERMARKET OPENS AT THE WORLD’S FIRST NATURE INSPIRED CITYLAND MALL
- The 109,000 sq. ft store opens at Cityland Mall, located close to Global Village, off the 311 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Highway
- Several other retail brands will open over the coming months
A brand new 109,000 Sq. ft Carrefour Hypermarket, developed as part of major retail development, Cityland Mall, off the 311 Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed highway, has opened its doors. The 1.2 million sq. ft GLA Cityland Mall is adjacent to Global Village, and Carrefour, being developed as part of the ambitious project, will cater to the residential communities of Arabian Ranches, Majan, Al Barari. Layan, The Villa and Falcon City, all of which are located within a ten-minute drive-time.
Carrefour, operating under Majid Al Futtaim, will offer customers a wide variety of their signature items, including fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, and high-quality non-food products, in addition to a Healthy Kitchen aisle, Food2Go, and Cuisines of the World at unprecedented prices.
Cityland is the World’s first nature-inspired mall and when complete will offer an unrivalled shopping and leisure experience. The mall has already been the recipient of a global award for innovation by Global RLI Awards, underpinning the developer’s efforts to introduce a distinguished project in the real estate and retail landscape. In addition to its extensive retail and food and beverage offering, it will comprise a 200,000 sq. ft. botanical garden – “Central Park”, a mini water park, an amphitheater with 3,000 seating capacity, an ancient tree garden, Koi pond and mini version of Dubai Miracle Garden, as well as a family entertainment area complete with cinema complex.
Fahimuddin Sharfuddin, Chief Executive Office and Board Member, Cityland Group comments: “We are delighted to welcome Carrefour to Cityland Mall. This well-established popular brand offers shoppers an unparalleled experience in convenience, choice and quality and their presence will provide a significant boost to our varied retail offering at Cityland Mall. As one of the UAE’s leading operators in the hypermarket sector their presence here will be much appreciated by local communities.”
Philippe Peguilhan, Country Manager of Carrefour UAE at Majid Al Futtaim Retail says, “Carrefour in Cityland Mall is well positioned to provide unparalleled shopping experiences for communities in the surrounding area that have been anticipating our arrival. We look forward to creating great moments for residents’ everyday as we’ve done in the past, albeit closer to home.”
Over the forthcoming weeks, Carrefour will be joined by several other brands opening their doors at Cityland Mall. They include a Home Furnishing anchor tenant, Food & Beverage outlets, Banks, Exchange Companies and Pharmacies, along with telecom service providers.
VINDICO DELIVERS RETAIL FOR THE WORLD’s FIRST NATURE INSPIRED SHOPPING DESTINATION, CITYLAND MALL
- The retail delivery specialist co-ordinates tenant fit-outs and ensures scheme is on schedule.
The progress of Cityland Mall, the 2.2 million sq. ft retail and entertainment scheme being developed by Cityland Real Estate Development off the 311 Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Road, continues apace with Vindico on board to deliver the retail element.
Vindico is the world’s leading international retail delivery consultancy and now that the construction process of the entire mall is in the advanced stages of completion, it will be responsible for coordinating the mall tenants’ fit-out works and ensuring that their opening remains on time.
The AED 1.2 billion Cityland Mall is the world’s first “nature inspired” shopping destination, incorporating a 200,000 sq. ft green central park area. Its retail capacity totals over 1.2 million sq. ft of space accommodating over 350 retailers and F&B outlets. The major anchor tenant, Carrefour hypermarket, a part of Majid Al Futtaim Retail, will open its door before the end of the year. Cityland Mall also boasts a variety of entertainment and retail global brands including VOX Cinemas, Fabyland and the Scandinavian home furnishing brand JYSK among others.
Vindico was chosen by developer, Cityland due to its vast experience in delivering retail for some of the world’s largest and most high profile schemes including Yas Mall, Abu Dhabi; Festival City, Dubai and Mall of Qatar, Doha. In all, the organization has assisted with the delivery of 65 shopping centres and airport projects, and over 9,000 shops and restaurants.
Fahimuddin Sharfuddin, Chief Executive Officer, Cityland Group, comments: “We are pleased to have a strategic retail professional of Vindico’s calibre come on board, as we strengthen our focus on retailers and on creating exciting shopping experiences for our visitors. Vindico are global specialists in retail delivery and tenant coordination since 2002, I firmly believe their expertise will be invaluable in enhancing and executing the mall operations. The Vindico team are playing a pivotal role by maintaining a continuous dialogue with tenants to ensure the timely completion of their fit-out works. As we continue to diversify the mall’s retail mix, comprising of prestigious brands and household names, we are confident that these retailers will add new and exciting elements for shoppers and the community at large.”
Richard Kim, Managing Director, Vindico comments: “With its highly strategic location and innovative retail proposition, we are delighted to be bringing to Cityland the expertise and guidance that such a unique and ambitious project deserves. As retail delivery specialists, our goal is to uphold the high standard already in place at Cityland Mall, and ensure that tenants can efficiently realise their exciting plans in order to start operating and serving Cityland’s shoppers. Our intimate knowledge of the market coupled with our expertise in retail delivery, gained through our work on a wide range of global retail schemes, we are ideally positioned to focus on a key element of the project’s success – shops and restaurants that are open and earning on time.”
CITYLAND SELECTS YARDI SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO MANAGE OPERATIONS FOR THE WORLD’s FIRST NATURE-INSPIRED CITYLAND MALL
- Single connected solution will streamline property management of over 1 million square feet of leasable retail space in Dubai
Cityland Real Estate Development, the developer of the world’s first nature-inspired retail shopping and entertainment center, has chosen Yardi Voyager® for its property management and accounting operations.
The Cityland Mall, featuring over 350 retail stores restaurants with an expansive of 200,000 sq.ft . “Central Park’ conceived within the mall property will soon open its door for public. It will also feature easy visitor access to Global Village, UAE’s top leisure and Entertainment Destination with approximately 6-8 Million visitors per season.
Cityland will automate operations by implementing Yardi Voyager®, which combines property management and accounting with ownership, financials, budgets, forecasts and maintenance. The company will also utilise other integrated solutions from the Yardi platform, including Yardi® Leasing Manager, Yardi® Orion Business Intelligence and Yardi® Procure to Pay. Each solution offers mobile access to workflows and performance metrics, ideal for a busy retail management team.
“This software will significantly enhance our efficiency and enable us to manage our system operations very professionally. We are very pleased have appointed the market leader in retail management software and look forward to a long and fruitful relationship.” said Fahimuddin Sharfuddin, Chief Executive Officer, at Cityland.
“We are excited to welcome Cityland as a client and be involved in some of the world’s most inspiring new retail developments,” said Neal Gemassmer, vice president of international for Yardi. “We are very proud that our expertise continues to be recognised by the leading real estate operators in the Middle East sector.”
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CITYLAND MALL MAKES ITS MARK AT THE GLOBAL RLI AWARDS 2018
- Cityland Mall wins the ‘most anticipated opening of 2018’ award.
Cityland Mall, the world’s first ‘nature-inspired’ shopping destination, recently celebrated a major win at the 13th edition of Global RLI (Retail and Leisure International) Awards at the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom. Cityland Mall, located beside Global Village, was recognized as the ‘Most Anticipated Opening of 2018’, underpinning the company’s efforts to introduce a distinguished project in the real estate and retail landscape.
The Global RLI Awards honors the most visionary and dynamic retail and leisure concepts from across the globe, paying tribute to those companies that continue to push the boundaries. Evaluated by an eminent panel of industry experts, the award recognises Cityland Mall as the most anticipated and promising project of the year that will bring innovative features and customer satisfaction while achieving remarkable overall business performance. Widely acknowledged to be the most prominent awards within the industry, on a global scale, the accolade gives retail owners, developers, and related management the opportunity to network and showcase their projects to a global audience.
The annual awards program recognized winners across 17 categories. The competition received project submissions from the main players of the shopping center market, as well as developers, management companies, architects, designers and retailers from around the world.
According to Fahimuddin Sharfuddin, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, Cityland Group, “We are extremely delighted and grateful to be recognized on the world-stage of Global RLI Awards 2018 for outstanding achievements in the design, development and concept of the property in terms of vision, innovation and creativity. We are honored to receive such recognition much in advance during the development phase of the project.. This award is testament to Cityland Mall’s unwavering commitment to present an eclectic mix of retail and entertainment experience and our willingness to challenge the retail projects landscape and be the first to introduce this distinctive proposition to the world’s retail space. The mall’s striking architecture, central park accompanied by entertainment and premium brands make the project truly spectacular. In addition, its green space, water-park, amphitheater and other attractions mark it as a truly unique shopping and leisure destination and we are very proud to have set new standards for the retail sector across the globe”.
“Introduced last year as an invitation only vote to RLI’s global audience, the ‘RLI Most Anticipated Opening 2018’ award was included in the main line-up
of awards for the first time. The Judges felt that Cityland Mall will bring a unique and innovative concept to Dubai on opening with its themed courts and impressive Central park concept increasing creativity and modernism to the local community that are eagerly awaiting the cutting edge development.”, said Jayne Rafter, Joint Managing Director and Publisher, Retail & Leisure International.
Cityland Mall which will be the world’s first ‘nature-inspired’ shopping destination remains on track for opening in Q4 2018 with construction of the mall continuing at a consistent pace. In terms of construction, over 60 per cent of the project has been completed. In parallel, the leasing of the mall has also made considerable progress, with over 50 per cent of retail spaces having been leased or committed.
Cityland Mall is participating as an ‘Entertainment Sponsor’ of the London West End Show ‘Motown’ at the prestigious twelfth Annual Global RLI Awards to be held at the Palazzo Versace Hotel, Dubai on the 10th May 2017.
