City Mall (Kenya)

The City Mall, Mombasa, Kenya

The City Mall (formerly known as The Nyali Mall) will become Mombasa’s first truly ultra modern shopping mall and leisure centre. The mall will adjoin the existing Nakumatt Nyali complex, already the most popular and busiest shopping outlet in the North Coast, and once complete the two developments will be inter-connected to form a single shopping and leisure experience for the public. The new mall will create over 100,000 square feet (9,300 m²) of new lettable space to complement the existing buildings.

The City Mall will fulfil a lack of retail and leisure space in Mombasa – it will also set new standards by offering an ultra modern shopping environment and facilities. The mall will cater for the needs of a fast expanding middle class income group residing in the surrounding areas and for tourists staying in the numerous nearby hotels and apartments.

The mall will comprise 7 floors – these will include 2 lower basement parking floors, 4 shopping and leisure floors above ground with retail units, banking halls, cinemas, fast food stalls, restaurants and cafes. All floors will be served with elevators and shopping and leisure floors will also have escalators.

Safe and secure parking will be well provided for in the new mall. The two lower basement floors will contain 200 parking spaces. The ground floor will have a further 200 parking spaces to ensure that traffic moves swiftly in and around the complex, and with minimal disruption to all visitors. The ground floor is house retail units and banking halls and will connect to the existing Nakumatt Nyali complex that will bring the new and old together as one shopping mall. The first floor will feature additional retail units and fast food stalls while the second floor will have cinemas and restaurants.

Location

The City Mall Site Plan

The mall is situated along the main Mombasa‐Malindi Road in the North Coast of Mombasa at the northern end of the Nyali suburb. The new development is adjacent to the major existing shopping complex Nakumatt Nyali and will be connected to this complex to create an exemplary shopping mall experience.

The existing complex’s anchor tenant is the leading supermarket chain in Kenya, Nakumatt. Other tenants include Kenya Power and Lighting, Kenya Airways, Telkom Kenya, Safaricom and NIC Bank amongst others. The Nakumatt Nyali supermarket averages approximately 10,000 shoppers on a daily basis.

The developed surrounding areas are all commercial enterprises which makes the location once of the busiest corners on the main Mombasa-Malindi Road. The mall is also within close proximity of over 33 hotels with a total bed capacity of 8,000 and 24 self‐catering apartment resorts.

Building schedule

Ideal Ceramics, Mombasa Road, Nairobi

Construction on The City Mall shopping mall began on August 25th 2009 and is envisaged to last for a period of 14 months. The anticipated completion date is therefore November 2010.

In general all materials shall meet standard BS construction norms and Kenya Bureau of Standards (KBS). Care will be taken to ensure that an optimal choice of fixtures and fittings are utilized and that the best construction procedures are used in this development. The project will go a long way to ensure the use of local skills and hence will provide local employment.

All building materials are being supplied by Ideal Ceramics, a company specialising in bathrooms, tiles and home and office interiors in Kenya

Letting and management

As demonstrated by the ever-increasing number of clients on real estate agencies databases, demand for retail units in Nyali and the North Coast is fast rising. The rise in demand is attributed to a rapidly increasing middle income population residing in surrounding areas. These areas have in the past few years seen the development of numerous housing estates for an ever growing middle income population.

The project is scheduled for completion around November 2010 by which time the global and Kenyan economies are likely to have emerged from the current economic gloom. Due to high demand for space, there has been a considerable shift in preferences, with people opting to go for upcoming rather than existing units – the principal benefit in this is the ability to work with the developer to provide tailor made solutions to the letting requirements of tenants.

This project is anticipated to be over-subscribed to its unique offering as Mombasa’s first truly modern shopping and leisure centre, that will be safe, clean, entertaining, with secure parking and with the ability to provide all-under-one-roof shopping. All enquiries are to be directed to Knight Frank Kenya.

External links

• City Mall, Kenya
• Ideal Ceramics Limited