Bashundhara City
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| Location | Panthapath, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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| Opening date | 6 August, 2004 |
| Management | Bashundhara City Dev. Ltd. |
| Owner | Bashundhara Group |
| No. of stores and services | 1,500 shops including 100 food courts.[2] |
| No. of anchor tenants | 9 |
| No. of floors | 21 |
| Parking | 1,000 cars |
| Website | Bashundhara City |
Bashundhara City (Template:Lang-bn) located in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is the largest shopping mall in South Asia[3][4]. It was opened to the public on 6 August, 2004. It is located at Panthapath, near Karwan Bazar, in Dhaka city.
Bashundhara City is 21 stories tall, of which 8 are used for the mall and remaining floors are used as the corporate headquarters of the Bashundhara Group.
The mall has space for 2,500 retail stores and cafeterias and also possesses a large underground gymnasium, a multiplex styled movie theater and top floor food court along with an indoor theme park. The fully air-conditioned shopping mall with rooftop gardens is considered a modern symbol of the emerging city of Dhaka.
Up to 25,000 people visit the mall daily, which is the first western style building in the country, designed by the director, Latiful Husain. The cost of the building is more than $100 million, construction started in 1998. The building has been described as the highlight of the division between the middle class and the lower class, and is one of the showcase of the development in Bangladesh.[3]
On March 13 2009, the top floors of the Bashundhara City Complex was damaged by a fire.[5] The fire in the building started at the top floors of the 20-storey building, which mainly contains offices. Most of the offices however were empty, since it was on a Friday (first weekend). One person, a security guard, was killed as he tried leap off the top of the building in an attempt to escape the fire. Seventeen others were also injured. The fire lasted for at least four hours, due to lack of equipment by the fire department. The chief security officer of the building was rescued by a army helicopter from the roof.[6]
References
- ^ :: Bashundhara Group :: > News
- ^ :: Bashundhara Group :: > News
- ^ a b BBC NEWS | South Asia | Shoppers flock to Dhaka mega-mall
- ^ http://www.metalworld.com/trade/aa1057928.html
- ^ One killed, 17 injured in shopping complex fire in Bangladesh's capital Xinhua (China View).
- ^ Fire hits Dhaka shopping centre BBC News (BBC) (13 March 2009). Retrieved on 2009-03-13.
External links
- Official webpage
- Bashundhara City Building and Construction Photos
- Bashundhara City Photos Forum Thread
- Google Satellite View
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