Dubai is planning to build a temperature-controlled city featuring the world's largest mall and an indoor park, as well as hotels, health resorts and theatres.
Tembisa Mega Mart development in Gauteng has a new buyer in the form of Delta Property Fund‚ after a previous deal to acquire the township mall failed.
The drive to revamp existing malls and open new ones in SA will continue in 2014, potentially leaving listed property stocks overexposed to retail.
Shopping centre developers are beginning to change the layout of malls to cater for shoppers' changing habits.
Jozini Mall, the new 18,220sqm community shopping centre in North-Eastern KwaZulu-Natal, is now fully let and will open on Thursday, 24th October 2013.
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane snubbed an invitation to the unveiling of a multimillion-rand mall in Meadowlands, Soweto, on Monday.

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