A new life for shopping centres
“A new type of mall investor" aims to make them places to live, work and play as well as to shop.
Retailtainment, unique experiences in shopping centres
How to enrich shoppers' visits with a variety of entertainment options at their disposal.
Interview with mall manager, Naushad Abdul Rahman
The secrets of mall-management from our distinguished guest’s lengthy experience.
Story of the world’s largest shopping centre
Long considered a "ghost mall" or "the world's largest empty mall", we look at the stages of the impressive New South China Mall.
A water park in a shopping centre
The River Mall, one of the main shopping centres in Kiev, is planning the construction of an adjacent water park.
Shopping malls’ response to a drop in footfall.
It’s a known fact that shopping centres around the world need to reinvent themselves to avoid falling sales. One of the main causes of the decrease in influx to large stores and therefore declining sales, is the migration of purchasers to online sales services. Experts say that this latter market, which continues to grow year after year, in the USA represents 15% of retail sales, whilst in Spain, it only reaches 4% of the total. The consequences are highly visible and estimates indicate that in the next five years, the US will close 1 in 4 of its shopping malls, [...]
Mr. Hamed Ehsani, MD and owner of «Under The Sea» park.
Village Market, in Nairobi, Kenya, is the first shopping centre in Africa to offer its customers a FEC (Family Entertainment Centre) with a playground for all ages. It is "Under The Sea", a leisure area with two spaces, one for children from 2 to 12 years old, and another for children from 12 years and up. A project designed and themed by Amusement Logic, surrounded by corals and sea creatures, with a submarine, a giant octopus, a workshop area, a stage for shows and various spaces destined for the celebration of birthdays and parties. And all this in a [...]
Welcome to the shopping mall of the future.
We have been told that the shopping malls have no future. That is false. Shopping centers are one of the most promising formats that exists. Only that the shopping malls of the future will be different from the ones we know today. They will look more like Walt Disney than Walmart. But as I always say in my classes and conferences: flee in terror of all the unique definitions of the “store of the future,” and of the “future consumer” with which they constantly bombard us with (take a look at the big North American consultants). In the future there [...]