Kabul City Center
shopping mall in Kabul, Afghanistan
Kabul City Center (Dari: کابل سیتی سینتر) is a shopping mall in Shahr-e Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan. Opened in 2005, it consists of 100 stores and a food court. It is equipped with see-through elevators and escalators and is notable for being the first building in Kabul to be equipped with functional escalators. The building also includes the Safi Landmark Hotel, a 4-star hotel that occupies the top six of the building's ten floors. The Safi Landmark has become one of the most famous hotels in Kabul for visitors and foreigners. The building has been subject to two terrorist attacks, in 2010 and 2011. In 2013, the mall received media attention for housing an unofficial Apple Store.
History
When Ghulam Hazrat Safi returned to Kabul from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, he invested US$35 million to build both Kabul City Center shopping mall and its adjacent hotel, the Safi Landmark Hotel. The hotel employs 150 local staff and 100 Indian staff.
On 26 February 2010, the mall was attacked by a Taliban suicide bomber, who killed 16 people inside the building, 11 of whom were foreigners (nine Indians, an Italian, and a French person).
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