Simon Arzt starts restoration works on Port Said’s historic building

Egyptian development and management firm, Simon Arzt says it has started the restoration works at a historic building, Simon Arzt Department Store Building in Port Said city, 170km (106 miles) northeast of Cairo.

At a cost worth 85 million Egyptian pounds ($4.7 million), the building is owned by Egypt’s Ministry of Public Business Sector, a senior official in the firm said on Sunday.