Colombo City Centre is at the forefront of the dynamic changes transforming Sri Lanka and its capital into one of the world’s most exciting cities. Conveniently located, Colombo City Centre represents the best of our country with an innovative design inspired by Colombo’s rich cultural heritage and integrated with the style of a progressive Sri Lanka. In addition, The Residences at Colombo City Centre features 192 luxurious, state-of-the-art apartments in the heart of the city, while The Mall at Colombo City Centre is Sri Lanka’s largest shopping destination, housing the best local and international brands alongside world-class restaurants and entertainment.

Green Path turns into an avenue for street artists and craftsmen to display their work. As such many abstract paintings, multi-frame wall art, oil paintings, and many such pieces of art brighten up the entire place. Woodworking and metalworking craftsmen, with a number of other handcrafted item sellers, Gem museum and Ceylon tea and jewellery store.

The Colombo Old Town Hall & Museum, which was built by the prominent Muslim Arasi Marikar Wapchie Marikar, is located at Kayman's Gate, so named because the Dutch used to stock crocodiles at Beira Lake to prevent their slaves from escaping. Today the building acts as a post office on the ground floor, and as a museum on the upper floor. Outside, there is an exhibit of old steam engines. Most of the businesses in Pettah are dominated by Muslims who specialise in trading goods and the Tamil people who have migrated from India traders who specialise in gold and jewellery shops. At the end of pettah is sea street which is Sri Lanka s gold market where people from all around Sri Lanka come to purchase jewellery. It is a long street of jewellery shops with hundreds of shops next to one another. There are also some jewellery shops on the high street gaspaha junction.