Nairobi tops regional shopping mall hotspots

The project is dubbed 'two rivers' as it is built between Rivers Gichi and Ruaka, is expected to cost Sh17 billion making it the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa. It's being built on 100 acre piece of land and it's expected to occupy 62,000 square metres.

KENYA: Nairobi has the highest number of shopping mall development hot-spots in Sub-Saharan Africa, a new report says. Global property consultancy firm Knight Frank in a report titled Shop Africa 2016 notes that Nairobi’s 470,000 square metres of shopping space in the pipeline ranks above other peers in Sub-Saharan Africa’s retail markets.

Five other cities with the largest shopping centre development pipelines outside of South Africa include Angola’s Luanda, Nigeria’s Lagos, Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam and Mozambique’s Maputo.