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Should be quite ok?

September opening.

The "GLO DAMANSARA" logo is up.

Yeah haha... but anyway thanks. Now we know both sides are up.

H&M is coming

Preview: Ben's Independent Grocer latest outlet in GLO Damansara Mall

Posted some pics here:

http://www.ptlm.com.my/index.php/component...-damansara-mall

This post has been edited by accetera: Apr 18 2016, 12:18 AM

Nowadays sad to say:

Got office = doesn't mean can work

Got condo = doesn't mean can work

Got MRT = doesn't mean can work


I always study malls in the region, go and have a look at mall designs in Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines.

What we lacked of is:

1. Mall design is poor or totally wrong. Flow of layout is also wrong. You don't expect a condo architect to keep designing retail spaces because a normal architect may not understand consumer/retail psychology. As they say, a mall female toilet has to be designed differently and larger than the male toilet.

2. No human interaction or engagement feature.

3. No landscape concept, no soothing feel. By right you can have alot of alfresco concept here, but all you see is a normal closed-up multiple level mall.

4. Lack of creativity and innovative retail puller. Example, in Thailand they allocate many acres outside mall to do plaza, theatre, bazaar, park, waterscapes, food truck centre, banquet hall for events, etc.

5. Lack of use of LED and innovative facade. Our malls are always designed in such a way shops have a back wall. Retail needs alot of facade exposure. Mall facade can use LED for advertising.

6. Our malls have too many levels high up. Wonder who goes up all the way these days?

7. Lack of connectors to nearest landmarks. We need to have more connections to nearby commercial centres or across the road.

8. Tenant mix. Long story for this. But basically, malls must be designed now to meet more than 70% F&B tenants from Day 1.

9. Singaporean Approach: Malls that are connected to MRT or LRT should ideally have escalators that bring down commuters to eating places at the lowest basement level and then the commuters go few levels up to Ground level to take their private transport. The approach is bottom to up. So ideally you should have your mall levels mostly from basement to ground. Anything higher are dead space.

10. We are lack of a single branded mall owner. Every mall is trying to compete with each other for the SAME kinda tenant mix. Our malls all look almost the same. The differentiation feature is missing. Developers need to identify where they stand before they put up a mall.

This post has been edited by accetera: Sep 18 2016, 05:40 PM