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Mall of Arabia will be a huge shopping mall to be built as part of the City of Arabia in the Dubailand theme park premises in Dubai. It was announced by the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group and it will include leisure and entertainment facilities, a theatre stage, and feature an ancient Middle Eastern exterior. Its Phase 1 has a Gross Leasable Area of 4,000,000 sq ft (370,000 m²)., however, when all phases are completed, it will have a final Gross Leasable Area of 10,000,000 sq ft (930,000 m²)., becoming the largest mall in the world. It has two levels of retail and entertainment, rooftop hotels and numerous leisure facilities. There will be 10,400 covered car park spaces in its first phase. In August 2005 the Starbucks Coffee Co. of Seattle, Washington announced that the world's largest Starbucks cafe will be built in the centre court of the mall, symbolizing the Middle East's long association with coffee and the expanding business partnership between Starbucks and the growing Dubai marketplace. It will rival the nearby Dubai Mall, which is expected to become the largest shopping mall in the world if completed before the Mall of Arabia.
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