Mall of Arabia

Mall of Arabia is a shopping mall planned to be built as part of the City of Arabia in the Dubailand theme park premises in Dubai. Original announcements said it would be completed in 2008. Following the collapse of the Dubai real-estate market, the first phase will not open until 2013.

It was announced by the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group and was to include leisure and entertainment facilities, a theatre stage, and feature an ancient Middle Eastern exterior. Its planned Phase 1 has a gross leasable area of 6,000,000 sq ft (560,000 m2); however, if all phases are completed, it might have a final gross leasable area of 50,000,000 sq ft (4,600,000 m2), which would surpass the South China Mall inDongguan, China, and the SM Mall of Asia in Manila, Philippines as the world's largest shopping mall.