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Nairobi’s Oldest Shopping Mall Undergoes Sh4bn Revamp
This is the first major revamp by Sarit Centre since its inauguration in 1984.
Sarit Centre is undergoing a Sh4 billion expansion to consolidate its customer base amid intensified competition from new malls such as Two Rivers, Garden City, and The Hub Karen.
The extension will involve the construction of a new mall adjacent to the existing one – adding some 250,000 square feet of space to Sarit Centre, thereby doubling its size.
Sarit Centre director Nitin Shah said the ongoing construction is the first major revamp by the mall since its inauguration in 1984.
The face-lift will enhance the mall with more retail space, larger conferencing and exhibition spaces, a multi-storey car parking silo, a rooftop garden and more leisure spaces for patrons.
“We are looking for ways to keep visitors at the mall after 6 pm. We are open to fine dining options like speciality restaurants, pubs, and cinemas,” Natin said in a recent interview.
Sarit Centre, which promotes itself as “a City within a City” is owned by Soma Properties, a Nairobi-based developer, and has been a key landmark in the Westlands district of Nairobi.
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The shopping mall houses about 130 tenants including top retail brands and service companies among others. Soma Properties directors have in the past told journalists that Sarit Centre has enjoyed full occupancy for more than two decades.
In the last ten years, wealthy developers have invested billions of shillings in malls across Nairobi staging stiff competition for businesses with older facilities such as Sarit Centre.
Some of the newer malls include the Westgate, near Sarit Centre, Garden City Mall on Thika Road, The Hub Karen, Thika Road Mall, Village Market, and Two Rivers Mall on Limuru Road.
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