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| Project Name | Cairo Design District |
| Location | New Cairo |
| Developer | Landmark Sabbour Developments |
| Project Area | 344315 Feddan (~1,446,409,000 m²) |
| Unit Types | Retail Shop، Restaurant & Café، Class A Office، Medical Clinic |
| Starting Price | 10,000,000 EGP |
| Down Payment | 5% |
| Installments up to | 8 years |
| Delivery Year | 2027 |
Cairo Design District is the new retail and F&B destination by Landmark Sabbour Developments inside the One Ninety master-plan, on South 90th Street in the heart of New Cairo's Fifth Settlement.
This is not a residential compound. Cairo Design District is an open-air commercial district mixing retail shops, restaurants, cafés, administrative offices and medical clinics across a pedestrian-friendly streetscape designed for slow-walk discovery.
The concept echoes Miami Design District and Dubai Design District, hosting local boutiques, global brands, art galleries and live street performances to drive constant weekly footfall, not weekend-only traffic like a closed shopping mall would.
The project serves three audiences. Commercial investors seek stable yield on a prime Fifth Settlement address. Brand operators want a shopfront on an active pedestrian street. Companies and doctors look for Class A office or clinic space close to the New Cairo client base they serve.
Total plot is 344,315 square metres. Built-up area is just 199,000 square metres, leaving the remaining 145,000 square metres for walkways, plaza spaces, landscaping and outdoor seating. That low building footprint is what makes the open-air streetscape work end to end.
Cairo Design District sits on South 90th Street in New Cairo's Fifth Settlement, directly opposite Cairo Festival City Mall and Downtown Mall. The South 90th corridor carries over 65,000 vehicles a day, one of New Cairo's highest commercial-traffic addresses.
The catchment area covers the entire Fifth Settlement residential population (over 350,000 people), the American University in Cairo (AUC) student and staff base, and the inbound flow from the New Administrative Capital, El Shorouk, El Rehab and Nasr City through the main axes.
Coordinates: 30.0134° N, 31.4067° E. The exact location is shown on the interactive map at the bottom of this page, so you can measure the driving distance from your workplace or home anywhere in New Cairo.
Cairo Design District breaks the mould of the typical enclosed Cairo shopping mall. It is an open-air district built around internal pedestrian streets, with full-height glass facades letting natural light into every ground-floor unit.
The ground floor is given over to retail and F&B with a six-metre clear height, generous outdoor seating in front of each restaurant and café, and a week-long programme of live street performances on plaza nights and weekend evenings.
Upper floors house Class A administrative offices and medical clinics with three-and-a-half to four-metre ceiling heights, double-glazed facades for thermal and acoustic insulation, and fully separated lift cores so retail visitors never share access with office tenants.
Landscaping is designed by international walkable-urbanism specialists, with fountains, pergolas and planted strips between blocks, plus a programmable LED lighting layer that shifts colours to match the seasonal events calendar at Cairo Design District.
Underground parking holds over 2,000 cars at a parking ratio of one bay per 50 retail square metres. That ratio beats most competing South 90th malls and keeps the streetscape surface clear of surface-parking clutter at Cairo Design District.
Cairo Design District blends four unit categories. Retail shops, restaurants and cafés, administrative offices, and medical clinics. The mix is deliberate. Each category drives footfall at a different time of day, so the district never goes quiet.
Retail shops start from 100 square metres on internal pedestrian frontages and scale up to 500 square metres for anchor shops on the main 90th Street facade. Frontages on the main street command premium pricing because of the through-traffic visibility.
F&B units run between 120 and 400 square metres. Most include an outdoor terrace facing either the central plaza or one of the internal streets, and this category sees the highest demand because the design district concept lives or dies on its restaurant scene.
Class A offices range from 100 to 350 square metres on the upper floors. They are sold as core-and-shell, with the option for the buyer or tenant to fit out to brand identity. Medical clinics start from 100 square metres with a flexible floorplan that accepts single or grouped specialties.
Complete unit-type details and starting prices per category are listed in the Unit Types table at the top of this page, refreshed live from the CompoundGate database whenever you open the article.
Unit prices at Cairo Design District start from 10,000,000 EGP for the smallest 100-square-metre administrative or medical unit, and rise above 80,000,000 EGP for anchor retail shops on the main South 90th Street facade.
Average retail price per square metre at Cairo Design District ranges from 160,000 to 220,000 EGP/m² for street-front shops, and from 100,000 to 140,000 EGP/m² for shops on the internal pedestrian streets. Frontage drives that 50-60% gap directly.
Class A office pricing runs between 80,000 and 110,000 EGP/m², roughly half the retail rate for the same building. That ratio is normal across South 90th Street commercial projects in New Cairo. Medical clinics price in a similar band to offices.
Three factors drive the Cairo Design District price list. Use type, with retail above office above clinic. Unit location, with main-street frontage at roughly twice the price of internal frontage. And floor level. Contact the CompoundGate team for the latest live availability per category at Cairo Design District.
Expected rental rates at Cairo Design District start from 2,500 to 4,500 EGP/m² per month for street-front retail, and 1,200 to 1,800 EGP/m² per month for office space. Those numbers feed straight into the yield maths discussed in the Investment section below.
Landmark Sabbour offers two payment plans on Cairo Design District units. Both are designed to give the commercial investor flexibility on cash outlay versus payment term, and both register the unit on completion of the initial deposit tranche.
Plan 1: 5% down plus a 5% second tranche after three months, with the balance over seven years in equal quarterly installments. This is the entry plan that most small investors choose because it brings the first cheque down to 500,000 EGP on the smallest unit.
Plan 2: 10% upfront down payment, balance over eight years in equal quarterly installments. This suits the buyer who wants to lock in today's price over a longer term in exchange for a higher initial payment. The quarterly installment is materially smaller across the full eight-year term.
Delivery is scheduled for 2027. Retail and office units handover as core-and-shell, while clinics handover with painted walls and basic flooring. All MEP infrastructure, fire suppression, CCTV and utility connections are fully included in the purchase price.
Contracts are formally registered once the cumulative 10% deposit is paid on Plan 1, or immediately on Plan 2 after the first deposit. Landmark Sabbour issues a tax invoice and a payment-clearance receipt for each installment to support the buyer's annual VAT and income filings.
The expected commercial yield on Cairo Design District units sits between 10% and 14% per year for prime retail, 8% to 11% for Class A offices, and 9% to 12% for medical clinics. These ranges reflect a fully leased project in a strong New Cairo address.
Footfall projections benefit massively from Cairo Festival City Mall directly opposite, which pulls over 25 million visitors a year. That neighbouring traffic plus the Fifth Settlement resident base and AUC traffic substantially de-risks the launch year for the district.
Lease-renewal cycles on South 90th retail typically run three years for shops and five years for offices. These cycles let the unit owner reset rents in line with inflation, protecting the unit's value over the long horizon investors target.
Exit strategies are clear. Sell to an institutional commercial investor after two years of operating performance at a 40% to 70% premium over purchase price, or hold the unit as a long-term yield asset inside a family portfolio of income-producing commercial real estate.
Compared to South 90th rivals (Downtown Mall, SODIC Westown Hub, Mivida Business Park), Cairo Design District offers two distinct edges. A direct-facing location opposite Cairo Festival City, and a design-district concept that differentiates from the standard enclosed mall format.
Central HVAC covers every internal unit with individually adjustable controls. Smart-building energy management is fitted across the district. Backup generators cover 100% of all leasable area against grid outage, with automatic switchover and no service interruption.
Rear loading docks are hidden from the customer-facing facades to serve retail and F&B without congesting the main frontages. Dedicated freight elevators serve the upper-floor offices and clinics independently of the visitor lift cores, keeping the customer experience clean.
Round-the-clock security with full CCTV coverage and trained mall-management staff is built into the operating budget. Main-entrance security checkpoints follow international mall protocols. High-speed fibre-optic infrastructure runs to every leasable unit at Cairo Design District.
The internal food court seats 600 people in addition to the stand-alone restaurants spread across the district. ATMs, mother-and-baby rooms and accessible restrooms are placed on every floor of Cairo Design District to support the full day-out customer journey.
Mall management is contracted to a specialist operator, with a monthly events calendar (art exhibitions, music performances, weekend markets, fashion shows) designed to lift footfall and keep the design-district identity continuously fresh and culturally relevant.
First drawback: Final anchor-tenant names have not been publicly committed ahead of the launch, which can create uncertainty for the commercial investor about the project identity and the footfall trajectory through the first operating year in 2027.
Mitigation: Landmark Sabbour runs a flexible tenant-selection process with end-buyer consultation, including a right of refusal on the immediate-neighbour activity type. A specialist mall-management firm curates the complementary brand mix before opening Cairo Design District, lowering the early-stage tenant risk materially.
Second drawback: Traffic congestion on South 90th Street, especially during weekday peak hours and weekend evenings, can reduce the perceived accessibility of Cairo Design District for visitors coming from outside the immediate Fifth Settlement catchment.
Mitigation: Cairo Design District has three separate entry points — South 90th itself, the Fifth Settlement secondary ring road, and a southern service road. The deep underground parking removes surface congestion from the customer experience.
The Mohamed Bin Zayed and Suez Road axes also feed external visitors directly to the project, bypassing the busiest South 90th Street segments at the weekend peak.
Landmark Sabbour Developments is one of the Sabbour family's established Egyptian real-estate companies, founded to deliver focused projects in New Cairo and the North Coast. It operates as a separate legal entity from Al Ahly Sabbour despite shared roots in the Hussein Sabbour engineering family.
The residential portfolio in New Cairo is anchored by the One Ninety project, the parent master-plan that hosts Cairo Design District, alongside Castle Landmark in the New Administrative Capital and several North Coast developments. Landmark Sabbour is known for on-schedule delivery and tight construction governance.
On the commercial side, Landmark Sabbour has previously delivered three retail destinations in New Cairo. One Ninety Mall, which opened phase one in 2024 and ramped successfully. Three Sixty Mall, a flagship Fifth Settlement project. And East Side Mall, a smaller neighbourhood-scale destination.
Lease-up at One Ninety Mall passed 85% within its first 18 months of operation, well above the South 90th market average. That track record gives Cairo Design District investors solid evidence that the developer can fill the new district with the right anchor mix at opening.
Landmark Sabbour's in-house mall-management arm runs the full commercial portfolio under one operator. That gives Cairo Design District investors cross-marketing leverage with One Ninety Mall and the other developer destinations, and a single accountable operations partner across the lifecycle.
Cairo Design District sits on South 90th Street in New Cairo's Fifth Settlement, directly opposite Cairo Festival City Mall. It is 5 minutes from the American University in Cairo (AUC), 15 minutes from Cairo International Airport, and 15 minutes from the New Administrative Capital via the Mohamed Bin Zayed axis.
| Unit Type | Area | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Retail Shop | 100 – 500 م² | 16,000,000 – 80,000,000 جنيه |
| Restaurant & Café | 120 – 400 م² | 18,000,000 – 60,000,000 جنيه |
| Class A Office | 100 – 350 م² | 10,000,000 – 35,000,000 جنيه |
| Medical Clinic | 100 – 250 م² | 10,000,000 – 27,000,000 جنيه |
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Landmark Sabbour Developments — trading internationally as LMD — is one of Egypt's most recognizable upscale developers, founded in 2007 by Eng. Ahmed Sabbour, a member of one of Egypt's longest-standing real estate families. LMD grew out of the Sabbour family legacy that began i...
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