Dubai Mall was inaugurated on 4 November 2008, with about 1000 retailers.
In 2011, Dubai Mall was the most visited building in the world and it attracted over 54 million visitors.[4]
In January 2023, the shopping mall announced that it was officially changing its name from "The Dubai Mall" to "Dubai Mall".[2][5] Dubai Mall has received a record 105 million visitors in 2023, a jump of over 19 per cent from the previous year, which had 88 million visitors.[6]
In June 2024, real estate developer Emaar Properties announced a 1.5 billion dirham ($408 million) expansion of Dubai Mall.[7]
At over 13 million square feet (1,200,000 m2) (equivalent in size to more than 50 football pitches), Dubai Mall has a total internal floor area of 5.9 million square feet (550,000 m2) and leasable space of 3.77 million square feet (350,000 m2), about the same as the West Edmonton Mall.[24]
It also has 22 cinema screens plus 120 restaurants and cafes. The mall has over 14,000 parking spaces across 3 car parks, with valet services and a car locator ticketing system.[25] The mall has won five awards – two awards at the Retail Future Project Awards at Mapic, Cannes, in 2004, for Best Retail Development Scheme (Large) and Best Use of Lighting in a Retail Environment[26] and the Dubai Mall brochure collected three awards at the Summit Creative Awards 2005 in Portland, Oregon – the Gold award for: Best Art Direction / Graphic Design, Silver award for Best 4-colour B2B Brochure, and a Judges Special Recognition award.[26]
The Mall also features an Olympic-sized ice rink for recreational skating and Emirates Ice Hockey League games,[27] also the Emirates A380 Experience, an Airbus A380 aircraft simulator.[28]
In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Mall
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