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Accra Mall
Accra Mall is a shopping mall in Accra, Ghana. It is located near the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange, adjacent to the Tema Motorway. Commissioned on 4 July 2008, It is the first fully enclosed mall to be built in the country.

It is owned by Atterbury Property Development, Sanlam and the Owusu-Akyaw family. As of 2017, approximately 7 million people visits the mall annually.

History

The mall opened on 4 July 2008. Joseph Owusu-Akyaw, a Ghanaian private businessman and Actis, a British investment firm, secured funding for the mall's construction. The cost of the mall was approximately $36 million dollars. In 2012, Actis share hold of the mall (85%) was bought by Sanlam Ltd. and Atterbury Investment Holdings Ltd.

Facilities

There are 75 stores and one food court in the building, more than 30% of whom are Ghanaian-owned. Major brands located in the mall are Woolworths, Nike, Mango, and Apple. The 2 anchor stores in the mall are Shoprite and Game. The Accra mall is home to Ghana's only multiplex.

Incidents

In 2018, 3 people sustained minor injures after parts of the mall's roof collapse.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Accra Mall". www.accramall.com. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
  2. ^ Yeboah, I.; Asante-Wusu, I.; Arku, G. (25 November 2022). "Globalisation, Western-style malls and consumerism in the Accra-Tema city-region, Ghana". International Development Planning Review. 45 (2): 175–202. doi:10.3828/idpr.2022.12.
  3. ^ "Statement: Actis sells Accra Mall | Business". Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Here is the number of people who visited Ghana's premier shopping mall in 2016". pulse.com.gh. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  5. ^ Eduful, Alexander (16 July 2019). "Neoliberalism, urban development and Accra's (Ghana) shopping malls as new spaces of urban consumption". University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Sanlam, Atterbury Acquire 85% Stake in Accra Mall From Actis". Bloomberg. 23 May 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  7. ^ "The best shopping malls in Accra". Time Out. 28 January 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Ghana's Accra Mall roof collapse not due to lack of maintenance, officials say". Africa Feeds. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
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