ADMIC, operator of the Monoprix and BHV stores in Lebanon, are adding to their retail stable. The company has begun its PR and marketing campaign for the 200,000 square meter City Mall, due to open at the northern gateway to metropolitan Beirut in three stages between December 2005 and the end of 2006. ADMIC chairman and CEO, Michel Abchee, told EXECUTIVE the mall will open on the ground floor with specialty shops and one new ADMIC-operated anchor store, the 11,000 square meter hypermarket Casino Geant. In the second phase, the food court and shops on the upper level will open in early spring; followed by a 18,000 square meter BHV outlet as a second anchor and a nine-cinema multiplex at an unspecified date in 2005. The company is in negotiations with a sporting goods store that would function as the mall’s third anchor. The $70 million project is running slightly
