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Originally Posted by nono1973
It will eventually become old due to the lack of consistent maintenance in about another year or 2.
Enjoy it while it last.
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One example is harbourbay mall.. Now becomes a dead mall with less than 40% of the shops are open and the rest are vacant. Fixtures and fittings in the mall were run down, the bridge connecting it to the ferry terminal was also leaking water..
Unlike a few years ago about year 2010 when it was just newly built, during the time when wavemaster ticket office was in one of the shop, we could see huge customer crowd in the mall.
Harbourbay mall can hardly revive to its old days due to the following reasons:
1) Wavemaster ferry ticket office is no longer there, that took away some of the customers to the mall.
2) The trade mix of harbourbay mall did not have much variety type and lack of advertising and promotion activity held in the mall.
3) Location was not ideal as it is located at the far north eastern part of Nagoya so the type of customer will be limited to majority tourists only sporean/malaysian who will need to go to the harbourbay ferry terminal next to it. On the other hand, Nagoya Hill Shopping centre is a very successful mall as the general public and even tourist will patronise the mall due to its wide variety of trade and its ideal location
4) There are wear and tear and lack of maintenance in the building.
5) The walkway from the bridge to the mall are dark and long (poor design)
6) The air-con was also not fully in operation ..quite warm.
7) The toilets were dirty and rundown and in need of a refurbishment or upgrading.