My City Centre Sur inaugurated

Dubai-based Majid Al Futtaim has opened My City Centre Sur, its first community mall in Oman.

Built with an investment of RO15.2 million ($39.4 million) on Sur’s main commercial road, My City Centre Sur has more than 50 retail outlets across 16,500 sq m and 484 parking spaces, and will serve as a fully integrated retail, dining, and leisure destination.

Sustainability was a key factor in the mall’s development, with an environmentally-friendly design and innovative architectural details that underscore Majid Al Futtaim’s goal of becoming ‘Net Positive in Carbon and Water by 2040’.

Aquarium for Mall of Dilmunia

British design firm ELSS Engineering, a specialist in large-scale aquarium design, installation and management, has won a multi-million-dollar contract to build an aquarium at an upcoming mall in Bahrain, a report said.

The 17-m-high shark and fish aquarium will be one of the highlights of the Mall of Dilmunia, located in the heart of Dilmunia Island within the Muharraq Governorate. The contract covers the complete design, installation and five-year management of the aquarium that will have black-tipped sharks, nurse sharks, stingrays and a range of smaller tropical fish, which the company will also source for its client, said the report in Belfast Telegraph.

The mall will have a gross leasable area of 47,300 sq m.  It will also have a state-of-the-art large indoor ice rink built on the first floor, and three more concepts yet to be revealed.

The main contractor for the project is Cyprus Cybarco Tabet JV and design is by DP Architects. The target opening date is October 2019.

Work starts on $365m plant

Oman’s Salalah Free Zone recently celebrated the laying of foundation stone for Felix Pharmaceutical Industries’ plant with an investment of RO140 million ($365 million), said a report.

The plant will produce more than 100 types of pharmaceuticals, added the Times of Oman report.

The project will be implemented in three stages, starting in 2018 for completion in 2021. It will include a research and development centre and high quality international laboratories. The project seeks to establish an industrial logistics centre for international companies in this field and a point of contact between local and international investors.