text: On 20 October 1971, a major commercial complex was opened in Block 11-C, along the Lenin Boulevard (modern Mihajlo Pupin Boulevard). It included the Mercator Shopping Mall (today known as Old Mercator), which at the time was the largest shopping mall in Yugoslavia with the total retail floor area of . Other parts of the complex include the roofed farmers' market, garage with several hundred parking spaces and the Mercator Department Store, the largest one in Belgrade at that point. Northern section of the complex was occupied by the 600-seats multipurpose cinema hall "Jugoslavija" (cinema now defunct) and hotel "Putnik", designed by Mihajlo Mitrović, today part of the Tulip Inn hotel chain.
  In general, development of New Belgrade is divided in four major phases, all of which have a landmark buildings constructed in that periods:
  a) First phase (1948–1958)
  completion of the first residential blocks, 7 and 7a;
  founding of the first local community “Pionor” (now Paviljoni);
  completion of the Studentski Grad (1949–1955).
  b) Second phase (1958–1968)
  Friendship Park and SIV (Palace of Serbia) completed in 1961;
  Building of the Municipality of New Belgrade finished (1961–64);
  Museum of Contemporary Art finished in 1965;
  Ušće Tower, completed in 1964
  Hotel Jugoslavija Opened 1968
  c) Third phase (1968–2000)
  Residential blocks 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 45 and 70 (first half of the 1970s)
  Sava Centar with Hotel Intercontinental (now Crowne Plaza Belgrade) opened in 1977.
  Western City Gate finished in 1980
  d) Modern period (from 2000)
  Belgrade Arena, finished in 2004
  Delta City, opened in 2007
  Belville Complex, opened in 2009
  Sava City Opened in 2009
  Airport City Belgrade
  Ušće Shopping Mall, opened in 2009
  A Block, still in construction