anyone here that is staying at this condo? How's the demographics? Locals or expats? Westerners or middle easterners?

I noticed there's a lot of the 625 sqf units out for rent...

edit: dbl post.

This post has been edited by Neil_Old: Apr 1 2013, 09:19 PM

Interesting. I noticed there is *A LOT* of middle eastern guys in their early 20ies in the shopping mall there so i thought maybe they are staying in the condo.
Also got many units out for rent now which i usually don't consider as a good sign.

I guess I will just have to go there and check it out myself before I decide if i should shortlist it or not, having a walk around the public areas such as pool
is usually a good way to get an idea about the demographics

Anyway appreciate your comments, always good to get first hand information.

But I wonder how good this mall is actually doing recently. Just back from there and a lot of shops have closed since last time, most notable Best Denki no longer there. Seems to me that only a few of the restaurants there can survive and have good business (a lot of the restaurants also closed down already as well).

Right now there are so many "Something exciting opening here soon" there, makes me wonder if this mall is actually doing well now...

No I feel that The Curve has much more crowd now compared to 4-5 years ago. 5 years ago e-curve for example is empty, but now has OK business there and "old" Curve has a huge crowd (always difficult to find parking there for example, but tropicana always can find).

But I will still go to TCM because of a few things: GSC, Aeon big + some of the restaurant (that have good business always) like for example Sushi Tei, Pasta Zanmai. But i get the feeling that many of the other shops there are struggling.

Many. Off the top of my head, Artista (some time ago though, korean replacement), Kay Cafe (adidas shop now, too bad i liked this place), Otak-Otak place, Sandwich shop at 1st or 2nd floor (dont remember name but it was a good one, too bad it closed), Otak-Otak place, top floor next to subway one (forgot the name, not good though tried it 2 times before). There are more... If u go to TCM now you will see that a lot of the shop lots are on "something new opening here soon" mode.