Bashundhara City
| Location | Panthapath, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
|---|---|
| Opening date | 6 August 2004 |
| Management | Bashundhara City Dev. Ltd. |
| Owner | Bashundhara Group |
| No. of stores and services | 2325 shops including 100 food courts. |
| No. of anchor tenants | 9 |
| No. of floors | Mall: 8 Office: 19 |
| Parking | 500 cars |
| Website | bashundhara-city |
Bashundhara City (Bengali: বসুন্ধরা সিটি) is a shopping mall in Dhaka, and the second largest shopping mall in Bangladesh with a gross leasable area of 191,200 square feet (18,000 m2). Opened to the public on 6 August 2004, the mall located in Panthapath, near Kawran Bazar. Bashundhara City is 19 stories tall, of which 8 are used for the mall and the remainder as the corporate headquarters of the Bashundhara Group.
The mall has space for 2,325 retail stores and cafeterias and has a large underground gymnasium, a multiplex cinema, a top-floor food court, an ice skating rink, and a theme park. The fully air-conditioned shopping mall with rooftop gardens is considered a modern symbol of the emerging city of Dhaka. Bashundhara City is one of the largest shopping malls in South Asia: up to 50,000 people visit daily.
It is the first modern mall in the city, designed by the principal architect Mustapha Khalid Palash and Mohammad Foyez Ullah of Vistaara.
Construction started in 1998 under Shafiat Sobhan vice-chairman Bashundhara Group. The cost of the building was more than $100 million.
On 13 March 2009, the top floors of the Bashundhara City complex caught on fire. The blaze started around 1:30 pm, after Friday prayers, on one of the top floors. Most of the offices were empty, as Friday is the first day of the weekend in Bangladesh. A security guard died as he jumped off the top of the building to escape the fire. Seventeen others were injured. The chief security officer of the building was rescued from the roof top by a Bangladesh Air Force Bell-212 helicopter.
Later on the same day, reports stated the death of three more people – found in an elevator by a group of Fire Fighters. Fifty people were injured – most of them treated for smoke inhalation. The fire took six hours to be brought under control due to the summer winds. It attracted thousands of onlookers outside the complex from Panthapath to Hatirpool, causing heavy traffic.
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