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Mecca Mall 
Internal View of Mecca MallLocation Amman, Jordan Opening date 2003 Developer Mohammad Wardat Management Kurdi Group Owner Kurdi Group No. of stores and services 350+ No. of anchor tenants 0 Total retail floor area 95,000 m² Parking 3,500+ cars No. of floors 5 Website MeccaMall.jo Mecca Mall (Arabic: مكة مول) is one of the biggest shopping malls in the Jordanian capital, Amman. It is located on Mecca Street, and this is the reason the mall was named Mecca Mall. It includes a large number of stores, mostly women fashion shops, but also includes home decor stores, Mobile Phone vendors, 22 Restaurants, 8 Cinemas, Video arcades, bowling alley, Miles grocery store, and more.
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Overview
Mecca Mall is owned by the Kurdi Group, also the owner of Abdoun Mall, previously the biggest mall in Amman. Kurdi Group announced the project a year before completion, by putting up 3D-model images in Abdoun Mall. The Jordanian population was anticipating the new mall, which promised to be much more spacious than the current one.
Mecca Mall is known for its adequate security. Though only a minimal number of CCTV or surveillance cameras operate within the mall, at the entrances all visitors have to be checked by security officers. These security measures were introduced after the November Bombings in 2005.
The mall has been recently expanded, with the construction of a new section that includes more retail space. As it has been reported on the official website of Kurdi Group, from 65,000 to 95,000 square meters. The mall has created far more parking spaces to fill in a sum of more than 3,500 cars. A fitness center has been added. A playground, Exhibition/Expo Center and indoor go-kart track are expected.
The designers failed to consider the pressure of the traffic the large mall would cause in the area, thus disturbing the neighborhood with badly-planned parking and roads made quickly, as an afterthought.
The mall is least crowded on weekday mornings.
Brands & Stores
A list of some of the stores open in the mall.
A
B
- BabyShop
- Batshon Home Fashions
- Blue Fig
- Bossini
- Burger King
C
- Cool Cuts
- Cinnabon
- Century Cinemas
- Chili House
- Candy Box
D
E
F
- Flavours
- Forget-me-not
G
- GlassesHut
- Golden Mobile
I
- InTouch
J
- Jabri
K
L
- Lebnani Snack
- La Habanna
M
- Mall Pharmacy
- Marloboro Classics
- Mertch
- Mango
- McDonald's
- Mrs. Fields
- Max
- Miles
P
R Raceways (karting)
S
T
- Tche Tche Cafe
- Timberland
- TOTcare
U
- United Colours of Benetton
Criticism
the mall has a very homophobic policy, specially against shoppers of the male gender who are stereotyped by the way they are dressed or so. this homophobic policy hides behind their policy not to admit young men unless accompanied with some one of the female gender. yet it is widely reported that this policy is being only stressed when it comes to shoppers who tend to be more " flamboyant "
Demographic
Almost all the stores is aimed towards women and children leaving very limited options of stores for young men to shop and visit.
Food court
Almost all of the food court area is reserved for families only. The mall management defines families as any group of people that includes at least one woman. A man (or men) sitting on a table in the family section will get accosted by security and asked to leave despite having paid for their meal. This is applicable even if the handful of tables men are allowed to use are all occupied. The mall management justifies this by claiming that young men can't be trusted to behave themselves around women, and are assumed to be ill-intentioned by default if sitting on a table by themselves or with other men. Moreover based on the same policy, on certain days of the week (particularly on holidays) mall security will prevent male(s) unaccompanied by a woman from even entering the mall.
External links
Additional information can be found at this site: http://www.tweakingservers.net/billing/aff.php?aff=002
Categories:- Tourism in Jordan
- Shopping malls in Jordan
- Jordan stubs
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