City Centre Deira is recorded in this encyclopedia from the source named below.
Overview
City Centre Deira (Arabic: سيتي سنتر ديرة) is a mall located in Port Saeed, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the original flagship mall in the Majid Al Futtaim Properties portfolio. City Centre Deira opened on 28 November 1995. It is located in the older part of the city on the crossroad between Sharjah, Bur Dubai and the Airport. It is a known shopping, entertainment and leisure complex with 3 levels. It has over 1.2 million sq. ft. of retail selling space, with 370 shops and 3,600 car-parking spaces. It's a land mark project, which was newly formed as Majid Al Futtaim Group and was the largest mall at the time .It was made at an initial cost of Dh300 million. City Centre Deira is owned by the Majid Al Futtaim group, and is one of fourteen City Centre malls — the others are located in Mirdif, Me'aisem and Al Shindagha (Dubai); Sharjah, Ajman and Fujairah (UAE); Alexandria and Cairo (Egypt); Muscat, Qurum and Sohar (Oman); Manama (Bahrain); and Beirut (Lebanon). In 2014, City Centre Deira changed its logo.
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Editorial note
This record is a sourced summary, not original research. Where the underlying material is silent on a point, this article is silent too. Last reviewed 2026-09-23.