Closing yesterday (October 30) at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Dubai, was the big RECon Middle East and North Africa conference with awards programme that has run for three days. Among the exhibitors was the UAE-based mall operator Line Investments and Property.
The big gathering of regional developers and operators of malls and the content of malls, including family entertainment centres and other attractions, saw Line highlighting its new Mall of UAQ project.
Line is a division of the giant supermarkets chain Lulu Group International, based in Abu Dhabi. Its projects are now operating across three of the emirates of the UAE, mostly in the suburban ‘community malls’ sector, but all with some type of FEC or attraction in them.
The Mall of UAQ (Umm Al Quwain – one of the most northerly of the emirates) should open for business in the first quarter of 2019, although some of the units within it are already open for business, including the Orange Hub, a 2,313sq.m family entertainment centre. Later this year there will open in the mall a major multiplex cinema.
Meanwhile at Sharjah, another of the emirates, Line has another project under way also scheduled to open in 2019 containing a VOX cinema with 11 screens, another Orange Hub FEC. Another new project is the Silicon Oasis, due to open in 2020, again with a VOX multiplex plus a 6,800sq.m FEC.
Image: The Line project at Mall of UAQ.
