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Originally Posted by Arrakis
Lol. Avalon Mall is not a community centre and was never intended to be one. Bringing in swimming pools and basketball courts are not gonna bring in consumers. We have separate community centres around town for that. The brand new Summit Centre in Mt Pearl, the Mews Centre, and there's a brand new community centre being built to replace the Wedgewood Park centre. I get the impression that you and I have completely different ideas on what a successful shopping mall should be.
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Well I was thinking more so the Village for swimming pools.
And again the key word is private based community centers. Think west edmonton mall, where one can rock climb, bowl, watch a movie, and fine dine all in one location.
Considering the most sucessful gym in the city is based on being located at primary hubs of the city, I think it's very much in step in what already is.
The mews center is garbage, for the record, and the one in mount pearl is in mount pearl which is the point.
The village has already failed as a mall and I think it's simply too late to reinvigorate it with more shops.
The Avalon is more conventional,however I don't think it has the right location or building type to go upscale. At the same time it's becoming to expensive for the dollar store model.
Honestly I don't think our ideas of what a mall are that different, however I think we diverge is our ability to picture the avalon being successful.