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of exceptional commercial, entertainment, and housing facilities. Oceania
The 122,000sq m venture features a wide variety of restaurants, Located at the eastern gateway to Perth’s CBD, across
cafes and retail stores topped with 117 three-storey residential a 6 ha site on the banks of the Swan River, Waterbank
units that overlook stunning views. Al Liwan also includes a will include a mix of residential, commercial, retail and
state-of-the-art cinema theatre, a family entertainment centre circa four hectares of public open space. A collaborative
as well as open areas and boulevards, granting its residents the effort between the WA State Government’s Metropolitan
most memorable experience. The scheme is expected to open Redevelopment Authority (MRA) and Lendlease, the vision
its doors during the first quarter of 2021. for Waterbank is to create a new wellbeing precinct: a social
Developer Majid Al Futtaim has announced a new opening place that reflects the cosmopolitan Perth of today. At
date for Mall of Oman, which is now scheduled to open its Waterbank, everything will be on your doorstep. Situated
doors to customers in September 2021. Mall of Oman is on the banks of the Swan River in East Perth, Waterbank
primed to become Majid Al Futtaim’s fifth and largest shopping provides easy access to free public transport and is a short
and entertainment destination in the Sultanate. It will have walk Perth’s vibrant CBD.
145,000sq m of retail space, comprising of dining outlets and Yamanto Central will be a next-generation sub-regional
a range of lifestyle experiences. In addition to 350 retail outlets, shopping centre situated in a fast growing region when
the mall will also house Oman’s largest VOX Cinemas, a Magic it opens in mid-2021. A celebration of local independent
Planet family entertainment centre, a 12,100sq m Carrefour and national retailers, Yamanto Central is 35km from
Hypermarket, and the largest indoor snow park in the Sultanate. inner-city Brisbane, and 5km south of the Ipswich CBD. It
The upcoming Mall of Dilmunia represents a balanced is phase 1 of the planned 22.5ha Yamanto Town Centre.
modernistic and futuristic architecture which creates an exciting The nearby Amberley RAAF Base has 7,000+ service
family oriented universe within it. It will include retailers from personnel which contributes to the significantly higher
across the MENA region that are yet to enter the Bahraini median household income when compared to the wider
market, it aims to provide a quality entertainment, leisure Ipswich area. Queensland-based shopping centre owner
and retail destination, which adds value to the Island’s tenants and manager JMK Retail and development management
and guests. Being developed by Dilmunia Mall Development group DMA Partners will deliver the 20,000sq m retail
Company, the Mall of Dilmunia will redefine the shopping precinct at Yamanto.
experience in Bahrain by adding urbanity to the retail experience
through the development of a Boulevard.

Waterbank
Perth, australia
Developer: Lendlease & Metropolitan
redevelopment authority