{"id":678967,"date":"2023-04-06T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=678967"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:44:26","slug":"new-18000-sqm-shopping-mall-opens-in-kzn-as-another-makes-a-big-comeback-after-the-2021-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/678967\/new-18000-sqm-shopping-mall-opens-in-kzn-as-another-makes-a-big-comeback-after-the-2021-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"New shopping mall opens in KZN – as another makes a big comeback after the 2021 riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new shopping mall in Tongaat, KwaZulu Natal has opened its doors to the public.<\/p>\n

After 10 years of development purgatory, the oThongathi Mall opened its doors at the start of the month, bringing 18,000 square metres of retail space to the people of Tongaat.<\/p>\n

The mall has has taken a long time to reach its opening day after development on the space was shut down following a collapse in 2013 that left two dead and many more injured.<\/p>\n

The development changed hands over the years, causing more delays, before it was ultimately bought and completed by BBB Properties over the last year.<\/p>\n

Shoprite is an anchor tenant at the mall, and in a first for South Africa, the retailer has launched both a Shoprite and Checkers brand store for the area in the same mall at the same time.<\/p>\n

The mall also has other tenants such as McDonald’s, Spur, OK Furniture, Ackermans, Specsavers, Clicks and points of presence from the major retail banks, among others.<\/p>\n

Grand-reopening<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the province is getting a new mall, another retail centre is also re-opening following almost two years of closure.<\/p>\n

Bridge City Shopping Centre in KwaMashu, owned by the Futuregrowth Community Property Fund, officially reopened on 6 April 2023, following its closure in July 2021 as a result of extensive damage and looting during the nationwide riots that year.<\/p>\n

The 40,000 square metre regional shopping centre, which is managed by Capital Land Asset Management, originally opened in 2009 in the centre of Bridge City, a mixed-use precinct which
\nconnects the communities of Phoenix, Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu.<\/p>\n

It was developed with the objective of stimulating economic growth and empowering these communities through improved access to public transport, employment opportunities, services, and retail offerings.<\/p>\n

However, after suffering damage during the 2021 riots, the full closure and internal reconstruction of the shopping centre was required.<\/p>\n

During this time, the mall also gained some further enhancements.<\/p>\n

Bridge City Shopping Centre is a double level, enclosed centre with anchor tenants Shoprite, Superspar and Woolworths positioned on each end of the shopping centre.<\/p>\n

The tenant mix has been strengthened with existing and new tenants, as well as the establishment of fashion nodes, a banking hall on the upper level and a food court on the lower level.<\/p>\n

Free WiFi facilities are available throughout the shopping centre and provide free access to the internet for the community.<\/p>\n

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While South Africa has seen a host of new shopping malls crop up over the last year, a key trend among the new developments is that many are being built in remote and rural areas of the country.<\/p>\n

According to developers in this space, there is no sign of these developments slowing down, despite the economic pressures facing many households and businesses.<\/p>\n

Even with load shedding and the prevailing power crisis, alternative energy such as solar, or mitigation measures such as diesel generators are being built into these projects.<\/p>\n

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Read: A look at the new shopping mall opening in South Africa in December \u2013 with even more planned for 2023<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People in Tongaat and KwaMashu will have a new place to shop this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":679015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-678967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679039,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678967\/revisions\/679039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}