Jamuna Future Park

Jamuna Future Park
Logo of Jamuna Future Park
Location	Ka-244, Pragati Sharani, Kuril, Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh^[1]
Coordinates	23° 48′ 48″ N, 90° 25′ 27″ E
Opening date	6 September 2013
Management	Jamuna Group
Owner	Jamuna Group^[1]
Architect	A J M Alamgir^[1]
No. of stores and services	500^[2]
No. of floors	8^[2]

Entrance

Air plane over JFP

View from the gate

Jamuna Future Park is a shopping mall located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.^[3] The mall is the largest of its type in South Asia, and also the 11th largest in the world with a gross leasable area of 4,100,000 square feet (380,000 m²) and total area of 5,450,000 square feet (510,000 m²).^[4]^[2] It was inaugurated on 6 September 2013. Construction began in 2002, by Jamuna Builders Ltd., a subsidiary of the Jamuna Group and the exterior was completed in 2008.

Location

The complex is spread across 33 acres (13 ha) of land in Kuril, Baridhara, situated on the Pragati Sharani, neighboring posh residential areas of Dhaka city like Gulshan, Banani, and Bashundhara.^[3] It is relatively close to Shahjalal International Airport, offices of multinational companies, major embassies and other offices.^[2]^[3]

It can be accessed by the Kuril Flyover, which opened on August 2013, from both directions of the Airport Road.^[2]

Structure

Exterior of the building.

The centrally air-conditioned shopping complex has eight floors, equipped with its own 45 MW powerplant and WiFi internet.^[2] The lower basement and middle basement floor are reserved for car parking and a portion for a supermarket and a hypermarket.^[2] Level 1 is the base floor for all atria, facilities for live entertainment, musical and fashion shows.^[2] From the ground floor to the fifth floor, there are several categories of outlets, non-branded shops, banks, online booths and food courts.^[2] The fifth floor has space for a children's theme park, a gymnasium and a health club, two separate swimming pools for men and women, exhibition halls, banquet halls, international standard movie theater with seven individual halls, 22-lane bowling alley with karaoke facilities, and a musical and entertainment floor. JFP is also going to have Dhaka's second ice skating rink. The shopping mall is built to withstand 7.5 magnitude earthquake.^[2]^[4]