Cairo Festival City

Cairo Festival City, an Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (UAE) development, is a mixed-use urban community located east of the ring road in New Cairo, Egypt, and north of 90 St. The development extends over a land area of some 3 million sq. m (700 acres) and comprises residential villas, apartments, business districts, a shopping mall, international schools, automotive parks, and office spaces. It's currently the biggest shopping mall in New Cairo. [1]

Souad Massi at The Marquee

Cairo Festival City
Cairo Festival City logo
Coordinates: 30°01′37.29″N 31°24′42.48″E
CountryEgypt
Websitehttp://www.festivalcitycairo.com/
The Village

Oriana Villas

The development hosts a gated residential community named Oriana Villas. The community comprises 600 villas, extending over 830,000 square meters.[2]

Festival Living Apartments

Festival Living Apartments are located northwest of Cairo Festival City, near the shopping mall and Oriana Villas.[3]

Cairo Festival City Mall

Cairo Festival City Mall is a regional shopping center located in the heart of the Cairo Festival City. The mall extends over 158,000 square meters spread on three levels, anchored by furniture flagship store IKEA, hypermarket Carrefour, and four department stores (Debenhams, H&M, Marks & Spencer and ZARA).[4] The retail mall was built by an Al-Futtaim Carillion Orascom Construction Industries Joint Venture[5] and was completed in November 2013.[6]

The mall includes a village area, with some 35 restaurants surrounding a water fountain and an amphitheater. East of the amphitheater is The Marquee Theatre with 1,656 seats. Since its inauguration in 2015, The Marquee hosted a series of international and regional performances, some of which are the international productions of Thriller Live and Dora as well as the regional TEDxCairo. The Marquee also hosted the French pianist, Richard Clayderman, the Romanian Royal Camerata, Gheorghe Zamfir, and the Algerian singer Souad Massi.[7]

Business District

The Business District at Cairo Festival City is divided into a northern district and a southern district; both will accommodate more than 250,000 square meters of office space with more than 11,000 parking slots, in addition to high-tech business facilities. The Business Districts are equipped with security services, infrastructure operations, property maintenance and repairs, in addition to traffic management and control, all set within landscaped environment.[8]

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