Dragon Mart 2’s new Géant hypermarket opened for business on Tuesday. The 100,000 square foot store is among 500 new shops, restaurants, and entertainment outlets at Dragon Mart 2, Nakheel’s Dh1 billion, 1.9 million square feet extension to the original Dragon Mart retail complex.

“Our extension has doubled the size of this hugely popular trade and consumer hub, which already welcomes an average of 65,000 visitors a day, and up to 80,000 at peak times,” Ali Rashid Lootah, Nakheel’s chairman said.

Géant outlets feature at a number of Nakheel retail developments in Dubai, with the largest, at 160,000 square feet, at Ibn Battuta Mall. Others can be found at Nakheel’s retail Pavilions at Discovery Gardens and Jumeirah Park, with two more signed for Nakheel’s upcoming retail centres at Badrah and Al Furjan West.

Some stores at the two-storey, 500-outlet Dragon Mart 2 are already operational, with the rest due to open shortly. The complex also has a new multistorey car park for around 2,000 vehicles and a 240-room hotel set to open soon.

Dragon City includes another mall with 1.3 million square feet of leasable space, a car park with 6,200 spaces, a twin-tower residential complex with 1,120 apartments, and a second hotel with 250 rooms.