Kigali City Tower 2005. The building consists of three components: the tower, which rises to 20 stories, the 4-story commercial center, and a car parking block which is also 4 stories tall. As of 2013 the tower is the tallest building in Kigali and Rwanda. The total retail floor space is around while office space is . The tower block is occupied mostly by office space, with only the ground, lower ground and top floors being retail. Each floor of the tower has of office space available. The largest retailer in the complex is a branch of the Kenyan supermarket chain Nakumatt, which
Kigali it remained a relatively small city until the 1970s due to government policies restricting rural-to-urban migration. The population reached 115,000 by 1978, and 235,000 by 1991. The city lost a large fraction of its population during the 1994 genocide, including those killed and those who fled to neighbouring countries. From 1995, however, the economy began to recover and large numbers of long-term Tutsi refugees returned from Uganda. Many of these refugees settled in Kigali and other urban areas, due to difficulty in obtaining land in other parts of the country. This phenomenon, coupled with a high birth rate and increased