Shahba Mall

Shahba Mall
شهباء مول‎
The main entrance of Shahba Mall in 2012 before its destruction
General information
Status	Destroyed
Type	Shopping mall, hotel
Location	Aleppo
Address	Gazi Ayntap Avenue
Town or city	Kafr Hamrah
Country	Syria
Coordinates	36°15′29″N 37°05′45″E
Opened	2009 (2009)
Closed	16 October 2014 (2014-10-16)
Destroyed	16 October 2014 (2014-10-16)
Cost	US $ 70 million
Owner	Syrian Jordanian Company for Tourism and Real Estate Investment (SJC)
Technical details
Floor count	7
Floor area	125,000 m2 (1,350,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Structural engineer	Daaboul Industrial Group
Other information
Number of stores	350
Number of rooms	250
Website
http://shahbamall.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 17, 2012)
References

Shahba Mall (Arabic: شهباء مول) is a defunct shopping mall in Aleppo, Syria, and was the largest shopping mall in Syria prior to destruction during the Syrian civil war. Located in northern Aleppo, the mall consists of 125,000-square-metre (1,350,000 sq ft) area of building that consists of fashion stores, boutiques, electronics stores, supermarket, restaurants, cafes , an indoor amusement park, a carting circuit, cinema and a four-star hotel with 250 guestrooms. The main anchor inside this mall are Carrefour and Virgin Megastores.

The mall was permanently closed when the mall was damaged during the Syrian civil war on October 16, 2014.

History

Pre-Syrian civil war era

Shahba Mall is one of the first project which were developed by Syrian Jordanian Company for Tourism and Real Estate Investment (SJC) and was expected to open in the final quarter of 2009. This project will includes 4-star hotel with 250 rooms, a seven-storey shopping mall, eight screen cinema, a business center, and 36 restaurants and cafes. The mall will be located at northern Aleppo which is close to motorway that links to Gaziantep, Turkey. The construction of this mall will cost around US $ 70 million and once completed it will become the largest shopping mall in Syria. Carrefour and Virgin Megastores will be one of the anchor inside the mall that will be operate for long-term since the opening.

Destruction and aftermath

The mall was damaged during the Syrian civil war clashes which causes the mall to be permanently closed on October 16, 2014. Syrian activists believed that the bombing of the mall was did by pro-government airforces.

According to a 2015 article in the Guardian, the mall had served as a prison while it was under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

External links

• http://shahbamall.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 17, 2012)