Yas Mall

This guide to Yas Mall in Abu Dhabi opens with the blue plywood hoarding still bolted over one side entrance, evidence of a renovation that has barely paused in a decade, and traces how Aldar Properties timed the mall's 2014 opening to the Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend next door. You'll hear about the roughly 500 million dirham phase that followed, adding a hundred new stores and a bigger food hall, and the chief executive's own explanation for the constant tinkering. Look up at that hoarding on your way in, and guess what's going in behind it.