Tunisian-Saudi building company to build largest shopping centre in Tunis

[Al-Idrisi]

Tunis , June 30, 2008 (TunisiaOnline)--The foundation stone of the largest shopping centre in Tunis was laid on June 27, 2008 by Tunisian and Saudi business personalities in Tunis.

The shopping centre dubbed "Tunis City Centre", which will cover an area of 155,000 square meters located in the capital's northern urban zone( next to the Science Planetarium) will boast a shopping mall which a capacity of 11,600 square meters . A hypermarket, cinema theatres, and games centres will also be built.

Panoramic lifts and modern and state of the art escalators will endow the shopping centre whose underground area will serve as a storing area, as well as parking lot, covering some 6500 square metres .

A residential and an administrative area are also scheduled to be built and will feature 4 high- rise luxury buildings covering 9,300 square metres .

The project that is in line with the several other mega -projects which are soon due to be built on the northern and southern Tunis lake shores, is expected to give the capital a modern urban stamp which will definitely reshape its landscape.

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