{"id":36322,"date":"2017-11-21T09:33:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T09:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/utc-rebranded\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:37:54","slug":"utc-rebranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/utc-rebranded\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC rebranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new proprietor, Kigali Investment Company (KIC) bought the mall in an auction at Rwf6.8 billion following the former owners\u2019 failure to clear tax arrears with Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, the KIC Managing Director, Godfrey Kayumba said that some tenants that had left the mall during the auction period have come back to reintroduce their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>He said earlier, tenants had left their working place fearing that the mall could be closed or razed down. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder new management, we urged existing tenants to continue their operations; requested other clients to come back and by now 90% have returned,\u201d he said adding that the mall is almost fully occupied.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22794 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0-3.jpg\" alt=\"Workers rebranding UTC Building&#039;s look \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22795 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22796 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-51.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22797 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-53.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22792 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-86.jpg\" alt=\"Tenants have continued their Operations \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22791 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-75.jpg\" alt=\"The new proprietor, Kigali Investment Company (KIC) assured Security reinforcement in UTC\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22793 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-97.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being auctioned in September this year, the former tycoon Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa\u2019s owned mall, Union Trade Center (UTC) has been rebranded to Kigali City Mall (KCM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36322"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36322"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}