Nigerian Times

Morocco Mall, first Mall in Africa and the Mediterranean region, granted 5-star Award for best retail development of the year in Africa and World Nomination Award by the International Commercial Property Awards Casablanca, November 22nd 2011 – On the eve of its official opening in early December in Casablanca, Morocco Mall has been granted a 5-star Award in the Best Retail Development category in Africa and a World Nomination Award in the same category, at a ceremony organised by the International Commercial Property Awards organisation, which took place in Dubai from the 16th to the 17th of November 2011. Salwa Idrissi Akhannouch, Chairman of the AKSAL Group, who initiated the project, commented: “The award for best retail development in the African region for 2011 underlines the importance of Morocco Mall, its size, its innovation and its ability to keep in line with the market trends and all this even before it has officially opened. Morocco Mall is a major development in Morocco th...

Morocco Mall: First Guinness World Record™ for the largest in-store shop façade Casablanca, November 17th 2011 – The Galeries Lafayette department store in Casablanca, whose doors are set to open on December 5th along with Morocco Mall, has been awarded a Guinness World Record™ as having “The largest in-store shop façade has a combined area of 3,381.92 m² (36,402.68 ft²) distributed over the three-storey Galeries Lafayette shop (France) located in the Morocco Mall shopping centre in Casablanca, Morocco. The store, developed and managed by Groupe Aksal (Morocco), was designed by Davide Padoa of Design International (UK) and it will be inaugurated in December 2011.” With an overall height of 14m over 3 floors, the façade of Galeries Lafayette in Casablanca wraps itself gracefully around the shop for nearly 241m. This façade surpasses all architectural splendour: backlit and made of aluminum bronze, it is modelled, with aesthetic design and motifs, on the famous dome of the original store...

Casablanca is about to make a turning point in its history by becoming one of the leading premium shopping destinations in the world with the upcoming grand opening of the largest tourist attraction and the economic development initiative of the Mediterranean Region, Southern Europe and Africa. The awesome Morocco Mall in Casablanca is a breathtaking sight from all angles. Tourists from far and wide are definitely going to captivated by the 200, 000 square-meter mega complex with a vaulted sky dome of shops, piazzas and open spaces strategically located on a 10-hectare site outside of the country’s most famous city with panoramic views from five sets of lifts, twelve escalators and four travellators. Bordering the Atlantic Ocean on the prestigious Casablanca Corniche coast, Morocco Mall stretches over 10 hectares (24,700 acres) with 250,000m² (2,691,000 sq. feet) of construction, 30,000m² (323,000 sq. feet) of outdoor space and 14,000m² of landscaped gardens. With 70,000m² (753,500 sq...