Metrocentro Managua Metrocentro Managua Metrocentro Managua is a shopping center in Managua, Nicaragua, developed and operated by the salvadorean Grupo Roble. The shopping center is home to 120 stores, a food court, a supermarket and a movie theater. The construction of the first phase of the shopping center was finished in 1974. Due to the war, further development was halted until 1998 when it was renovated and extended with more store space and the building of the four-star Hotel Real InterContinental Metrocentro Managua. In 2004, a third renovation took place, adding more than of new commercial space and a two-level parking space.
Managua and reconstruction programs were expanded. New governmental buildings, galleries, museums, apartment buildings, squares, promenades, monuments, boat tours on Lake Managua, restaurants, nighttime entertainment, and broad avenues have resurrected part of downtown Managua's former vitality. Commercial activity, however, remains low. Residential and commercial buildings have been constructed on the outskirts of the city, in the same locales that were once used as refuge camps for those who were homeless after the earthquake. These booming locales have been of concern to the government because of their close proximity to Lake Managua. The construction of a new sewer system and the redirecting of