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Polo Park Mall is situated on the Polo Park Grounds in the city of Enugu, Enugu State. The mall is developed by Polo Park Development Company; a private-public-partnership between the Enugu State Government and Persianas Group (the developers and owners of The Palms Shopping Mall, Lagos - Nigeria's premier Shopping Mall).

This initiative aims to propel Enugu State towards achieving a mega city status, provide employment for its citizens and give residents a modern shopping experience

Shoppers will be able to browse, walk around at leisure and make purchases in a serene, clean environment complete with state-of-the-art facilities. The mall will be home to a variety of shops ranging from cosmetics, food items to electronics. There will also be a food court packed with some of the biggest food chains in Nigeria and abroad, a cinema, and entertainment centers.

Persianas group has put together a world-class team of professionals from Nigeria and abroad for this project. They include TPSP architects, Conceptaul Architect Rob Bray, ECAD Architects, COSTEC, MO&A and New Technics Construction Company. Nigerian Banks like Fidelity Bank Plc and Stanbic IBTC have provided the financing for the project, with financial advisory services from Cardinal Stone. 

The Guardian, Monday, July 06, 2009
Persianas, Enugu govt in N5.2b Polo Park project
By Tunde Alao

INDIGENOUS property development company, The Persians Group - developer of the ultra-modern shopping mall, The Palms, at Lekki, Lagos - is wrapping up plans to replicate the project in Enugu, the Enugu state capital.

To be known as 'Polo Park,' the project was initiated at the instance of the Enugu State Governor, Mr. Sulvian Chime and the Chairman of Persianas Group, the owner of The Palms, Mr. Adetayo Amusan.

The project already estimated to cost N5.2 billion excluding the cost of land and title documents sits on an approximately 80,000 square feet parcel of land.

Facilities planned for the first phase of the park include an entertainment arcade, five cinema halls, office space; 67 retails shops; a food court and parking space to accommodate 1,320 vehicles at once, while the second phase is designed to house an hotel and office complex.

The project is to be executed under a private-public-partnership (PPP) arrangement with a consortium of banks undertaking the funding. The banks include Equitoral Trust Bank and Fidelity Bank among other financial institutions. The project, upon which construction work commenced in April this year, has December 2010, as its expected completion date.

The mall is designed as a two-storey building, excluding the mezzanine and the ground floor, with 67 "standard retailing shops" planned for the building.

The Project Head, Persians Group, Mr. Chuka Okoye, said that the level of industrialisation, educational institutions, commercials activities and other social engagements in Enugu, coupled with security situation "made Enugu an ideal environment" for such project.

"Besides, establishing the park in the "Coal City State," would engender transformation and benefits for the people within and outside the state, such as Abia, Anambra and Imo states, among others."

The features of the mall include controlled technology entry and exit to the mall complex and properly structured road network system.

The mall will house tenants cutting across the banking sector, telecommunications, consumer goods merchants, department stores and consumers' service providers.

Manager of The Palms in Lagos, Mrs. Bola Shobande, said that some of the corporate social activities carried out by Parsianas Group in Lagos would be replicated in Enugu, include donating money realised from parking charge to the less privileged homes and rehabilitation and construction of access road to the plaza.

"We plan that the corporate responsibilities we are able to carry out in our Lagos plaza is replicated in Enugu, when the project is eventually completed," she said.

samyng:

The truth of the matter is that i use Nigerian Products too as i love to encourage Nigerian products and ideas. The problem is that most Nigerians build and make bad impression of their products, also note this foreign companies have big money to setup this big stores and expansion. eg Shoprite, game etc.

There are companies here in Nigeria which started Good with nice performance but along the way don't know how they went down

HITV,  Dont know what happened and this company is slow in growth and popularity right now and DSTV is back with no competition
GLO, Am so happy Glo is keeping up with the competition with MTN
Visafone and starcomms only CDMA networks in the country and they are really trying their best.
Zinox,  How many people would want to get zinox computers or laptops here in Nigeria,  I wonder how many nairalanders have zinox computers or laptops.

The list is endless. it all begins with each and everyone of us and most times these Nigerian companies contributes to this, 
The way out of all this if the People and the Government can all join hands encourage this indigenous companies and give them all the support and complain  they need to do better, i believe they will do better and expand thereby creating more employment for us living in it

mr.official:

See them complaining. How many of you are using Glo? Most of una na MTN.

What makes you think you won't run to shoprite even if there is a Nigerian mall close to it?


Make una go sit down, abeg.

samyng:

[size=13pt]Okay Good that's your own opinion,  All i know is that i have already started making my own hard earn money and i will always patronize my Nigerian people and also get products from other as well.  i use both foreign and locally made products made here in Nigeria. As i believe it will improve our GDP as well as create more employment here in our country. All i do is filter Nigerian products that are very Good and are up to standard for me as they are plenty of them. I don't use Zinoks cos am scare of how long it would last and also been using HITV till dey messed up. Also i visit ROMAS store in Enugu the last time i was there but that does not mean i will not visit polo park when i go there,  All am trying to say is that we need to encourage our Nigerian Brothers and Entrepreneurs and get happy when some compete strongly with foreign companies.

Are we not happy to see our own brother  Oluwaseun Osewa's work (Nairaland, Nairalist) Yielding results for him and us. its all proudly Nigerian and we need to keep up with the support and encouragement.
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