The Avenues (Kuwait)

The Avenues (Kuwait)

Founded April 2007.

Headquarters Al-Rai Area , Kuwait , 5th ring road.

Owner(s) Mabanee Company

Website The-Avenues.com

The Avenues (Arabic: الأفنيوز ‎) mall is the largest mall and shopping center in Kuwait.[1] It is soon to be the largest mall in the middle east and one of the largest malls in the world. It is located in the Al-Rai industrial area, along the Fifth Ring Road. The first phase of the mall, inaugurated by Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, officially opened in April 2007.
Mohammad Al-Shaya, the manager of Mabanee Company, the company in charge of building the mall, said that "The Avenues is one of the plans that aim to transform Kuwait into a business center and trade region, for rebuilding the ability of Kuwait to attract investments from all over the world.

The Project

The project contains four phases:
Phase 1 (2007): over 150 lifestyle shops, restaurants, cineplex, Carrefour hypermarket and an IKEA showroom .

Phase 2 (2008): an extension of phase 1, adding 100 higher-end shops, a large food court, an outdoor fountain and outdoor dining venues .

Phase 3/4 (2011): a much larger expansion of the mall which will add a traditional Arabian souk, a European-themed Grand Mall, a luxury mall housing top-end brands, a shaded garden with water features (dubbed 'The Oasis'), two hotels, showrooms and a conference hall.

The mall is expected to have over 900,000 square meters of usable space upon completion in 2011.

Safety

The mall contains a police station which operates from the time the mall opens until it closes. It also includes over 950 surveillance cameras located all over the complex (including the subterranean and overground parking lots), and there are 350 guards monitoring the mall.

Shopping center

The mall includes outlets of some of the world's most popular fashion chains, as well as restaurants, coffee shops, a hypermarket, entertainment venues and an 11-screen cineplex.
Some of the following brands have outlets inside the shopping center:

Debenhams

Guess

Zara

Lacoste

H&M

NEXT

GAP

Diesel

MEXX

IKEA

Alghanim Electronics

Carrefour

Magic Planet

Restaurants

T.G.I. Friday's

Pizza Express

Ruby Tuesday's

Chili's

Nando's

Johnny Rockets

Pizza Hut

McDonald's

KFC

Hardee's

BurgerKing.

Le Notre

Starbucks

Costa Coffee

Caribou Coffee

Columbus Coffee

Dunkin' Donuts

The Chocolate Bar

Krispy Kreme

Nino's

Dean & Deluca