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1840 and 2131 sq ft (penthouses).

Glo Dsara (mall, residence, office) is still fairly new compared to much more mature TC (mall, residence, office).

The performance of the mall will be dependent on the residence and office as well. At this point, i think the residence is doing fairly ok but not so for the office. The office towers may pick up with the help of MRT once completed.

Too early to judge for now IMO.

do u believe that a few office towers can transform this mall into a happening place? look at putraz mall with multiple office towers, hotels (2000 to be exact) n a few condos. Scale is important if the integrated components r targetted to be the main driver of footfall.

so you think glo tenants have to wait till the completion of MRT?

look at nus zentral which located beside transportation hub.. and many offices nearby.. are they doing well especially those non-F&B outlets? even several F&B outlets also closed down because of poor biz and serve with court notice though the mall have numerous visitors passing by everyday..

Yes, perhaps u may see the opportunities.
Always thrust your vision...

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

I'm not saying it will necessary pick up, just maybe too early to make a conclusion. Sometimes they may not be succesful like MV, 1u etc, survival is more important. At the current rate, don't think Glo can sustain long, but they can hope for some change once the factors i mentioned above are more established.

In the case of putra mall and nu sentral, i guess we can conclude they are not doing well. With such established surrounding, still fail to attract people. Not much hope for improvement.

Not just crowd but have to see what crowd. Ppl passing by Nu Sentral are always at a rush, those will not stop to buy.

Look at DPC Waterfront, crowds are enormous. ....

Double post

This post has been edited by David3700: Sep 19 2016, 07:34 AM

Glomac Residences is only 150 metres to the MRT station with covered walkway all the way to the station. Is it a good property to buy for investment?

am not sure people that can afford 900k property is regular MRT user or not.......

Not all restaurants in DPC are successful. A few have closed down and taken over by others.

Product must be right also.

In Nu Sentral case, some restaurant that have closed, in my opinion, serves lousy to mediocre food at exhorbitant prices.

This post has been edited by urbanite: Jan 25 2017, 09:53 AM

Pls visit the fb page n see how bad this condo is in term of maintenance, build quality and many more.

product as in the right tenant mix..

and i agree of your point that those F&B that have closed down at NU Sentral really serves lousy and overprice food..

even on lunch time, there was barely any people dining at those lousy shops..

Hi guys, I'm considering buying a 3bedrooms here. Is there any defects/negative thing about Glomac Damansara that I should know of?? Your advise is much appreciated:)

Defects r so chronic i don't even know where to start. Join te fb groups.

How's glo mall biz now? still "glowing" ?

Best location you can ever asked for. I've lived in Subang, Setia Alam, Cheras, Puchong and PJ; everywhere also jammmm and access is bad.
From Glomac, you'll reach Sprint in 10 seconds, NKVE in 5 mins, LDP in 1 min. Go Subang also easy, PJ/Kepong/MD is next door, Bangsar in 10 mins. IT's all about LOCATION.

As for the comment above about defects, their specs are one of the best in the market, the previous management sucks but I think they've replaced them with Henry Butcher July onwards.

World class specs. Friend who is a resident there sent me this. Many people know of the horror stories of this apartment.




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