SAFE award for Eastgate Shopping Centre

Eastgate Shopping Centre was recently awarded Africa’s only SAFE-certified retail destinations, scoring the highest global safety and security rating against 180 international assets.

In line with its strategy to continuously provide unrivalled experiential offerings at its shopping centres, Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) has purposefully invested in protecting the health and safety of its shoppers, tenants and service providers.

A first of many initiatives by L2D for the African continent, L2Ds’ co-owned super-regional shopping centres Sandton City Precinct and Eastgate Shopping Centre, have been certified as safe retail destinations in accordance with the SHORE certification by international body SAFE Asset Group.

SAFE Asset Group offers the only internationally acknowledged resilience certification and has awarded the two super-regional centres Gold Level Excellence for their ability to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions.

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This follows the certification of the L2D portfolio of assets as fully Covid-19 compliant by the certification body.

“We continuously strive to benchmark our retail assets against global standards. In doing so, we aim to show a duty of care by providing our tenants and service providers with quality spaces that are safe, attractive and support them in their operations, while offering our shoppers and communities the best of breed experiential environments that are underpinned by safe and hygienic spaces in line with our Safe Spaces building block,” said Jonathan Sinden, L2D chief operations officer.

Using the international SHORE-certification standard, the Sandton City Precinct and Eastgate Shopping Centre were measured against the 180 international shopping centres and assessed for their operational risk and resilience levels.

This is based on six core variables of crisis and business continuity management, safety and security management, tenant management, property protection, management system and risk management, and visitor management.

“Sandton City Precinct and Eastgate Shopping Centre have accomplished great results. Not only do they have the paperwork to prove their efficiencies, but they have the operational procedures in place to match. “These two shopping centres are well prepared to respond to any risk and security incident and bounce back swiftly from them because they and their teams are well trained, well versed and operationally excellent and resilient,” said Erik Engstrand, CEO of SAFE Asset Group.

L2D already had safety and security measures in place across its portfolio of assets before the emergence of the pandemic. In a post-Covid-19 world and as part of the response to the pandemic, L2D has intensified all protocols at the centres in the best interest of all its stakeholders.

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