Da Men buyers should be happy. The Kesas U turn is ready. Will be great to know how this turns out to ease the traffic flow around the area and also residents in general.

Rather than blaming on menial stuffs like reno quality all these, i put my bet is on the market sentiment. Come on man, nowadays shopping malls mushroom like once in a month. Eventually the 'mall hype' dies down and no one is rather more interested to visit new malls and do shopping like last time. In 2xxx any crappy looking malls could easily get visitors. Still rmb Sogo Leisuremall Sgwang were always crowded. Plus now economic downturn who the heck could easily afford 200+ bucks a single day out. Blaming on reno stuffs like that is like lying to yourself the external factors dont exists. If majority has spending power, imagine buying one Zara cloth doesnt cost you 10% of ur salary, I believe any mall would be doing good for that economic time frame. Its all relative. People are holding back on expenditure. Im not saying you particularly, but the majority.

Anything that goes up must come down before picking back up again. This is not SG Taiwan HK where land scarcity is REAL as how your agents exaggerate. We have fukken plenty of land. Land that no one can afford shit.

When everyone goes crazy bout prop hype, more and more getting tied to credit loan. Its quite surprising how easy to secure a loan back then. And the effect doesnt take one month to see, but years, so yeah now the effect starts to be apparent. More and more are tied to commitments, holding less cash, worrying bout monthly budget more than wearing branded clothes, aims to survive for the month. Less disposable cash leads to less consumer sales in the market right?

Many other external factors plays a role too..

Just my 2 cents, though i could be off topic

Disrespectful?! You mean rub salt to the wound?

If dm couldn't attract visitor during peak festive period, how it could attract visitor during off peak period? How many shops can sustain through lean time?

In restaurant and hotel franchise, owner/franchisee follow franchisor's sop, renovation, purchase, etc to give a consistent product. In shopping mall, franchise management have better experience in mall management, could attract but couldn't order/insist brands to open there. It is syok sendiri to expect dm to be like pavilion bb.
In every investment, there are always some if not many people blinded by greed; alternative opinion would give a balanced and realistic view so more wouldn't fall into the trap.

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how will this affect the condos nearby? esp new vp one that tried to price in the brt (freaking expensive one) and new high end mall (that's dying)...