The centre has two major food anchor tenants,
many fashion retailers and a nine-auditorium
cinema complex. The gross building area of the
entire centre is 485,000m².
The Site
Waterfall City is highly accessible, located adjacent
to the Allandale Road exit of the N1 Highway, the
first free-flow intersection of its size in Africa.
The Mall holds prime position in the tailor-made
330ha new city that embraces integrated living,
with shops, offices, homes, hotels, a hospital,
light industry and the all-important lifestyle and
leisure components. The precinct master plan’s
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urban design seeks to promote an integrated livework-play environment.
The developer undertook major roads upgrades
around the development to make it easy for
shoppers to arrive at Mall of Africa’s 26 entrances.
Challenges
Construction began in October 2012, providing
a construction period of just 42 months for this
development, which included 12 months for bulk
earthworks. The sheer magnitude of the project
and the limited construction period for completion
posed an interesting challenge. The structural
engineer and the architects needed to stay ahead
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