Updated - Development: Gateway Mall, Lugbe, Abuja - FCT

• Name: Gateway Mall;
• Size: 15,000sqm (Phase 1); 25,000sqm (Phase 2);
• Location: Airport Expressway, Abuja;
• Developer: Novare Equity Partners;
• Development Managers: Mayibentsha Property Developers;
• Completed: Q4:2017;
• Architects: International – Stauch Vorster Architects; Nigerian – Brown InQ Architects;
• Contractor: Monterosa Construction;
• Tenants: Shoprite, Genesis Deluxe Cinemas and others.
• Published: July 2017; Updated: December 2017.

Gateway Mall is a two-phase shopping mall development located close to Lugbe, along Airport Road in Abuja. The first phase of this development by Novare Equity Partners delivered 15,000sqm of retail space in Q4:2017 2017 with a range of tenants including Shoprite, Fun World, Pep, Genesis Deluxe Cinemas and more. The second phase will add another 10,000sqm to the mall, however a timeline for this addition has not been specified.

When both phases are complete, Gateway Mall will be the largest development in Novare’s portfolio. Much larger than the 8,300sqm Apo Mall (formely the Grand Towers Abuja Mall), which is located approximately 18km away from the Gateway Mall site and the 22,000sqm Lekki Mall in Lagos, which opened last year.

Images published Novare Equity Partners show that site clearing activity was ongoing during July and August 2015, it was completed and opened in November 2017.

Abuja’s rapidly growing population and high GDP growth rates seen in the last decade make the region an attractive one for real estate investors. A pipeline that comprises Jabi Lake Mall by Actis and Asokoro Mall by RMB Westport mean that the retail offering in Abuja is growing significantly. Competition among developers should also increase, as they push to ensure their developments have a unique selling point in the midst of growing supply.

Brown inQ designed the mall and Monterosa, the contractors behind Lake Point Towers in Banana Island, Lagos will be building it.