Johor new shopping mall

Joan Verdon North Jersey Record Published 6:45 AM EST Dec 5, 2018 What does it take to manage New Jersey's largest shopping mall? You have to be able to walk the "walk." The "walk" is a morning inspection tour the management team at Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus does three times a week to make sure all 2.1 million square feet of the shopping center are shipshape. The 2-mile-walk around the center is now led by a new manager, Jay Daly, who took the top job at the Plaza just before the start of the busy holiday shopping season.  Daly, 55, was an assistant manager at the Plaza from 2013 to 2017. He then spent a year at the Westfield mall at the World Trade Center as assistant manager, before being promoted to the manager job at the Plaza. He previously managed a restaurant at the Plaza, Joe's American Bar & Grill, from 2008 to 2013, and worked in other restaurant industry jobs.  He replaces Bryan Gaus, the Plaza's manager for … [Read more...] about New Paramus mall manager takes job in stride

Russ Wiles Arizona Republic Published 7:00 AM EST Nov 19, 2018 The next time you head to a mall — perhaps this weekend — notice how many people  aren't actually shopping. They may be eating at a restaurant, going to a movie, working on a laptop, playing happy-hour trivia, practicing yoga in a common area, listening to a band or taking in a cooking class or beauty workshop. Retailing has gotten a black eye lately with store closures by Sears, Toys R Us, Mattress Firm, JCPenney, Macy's and others. Mall vacancies hit a seven-year high in the third quarter amid declining rents. Some 7,000 stores in and outside shopping centers closed in 2017, a sharp increase from the prior year, according to a University of Arizona study released this month. But that doesn't tell the whole story. Many malls, including those in the Phoenix metro area, have remained vibrant — largely by reinventing themselves with more activities, … [Read more...] about Shopping malls are thriving in Arizona and elsewhere after reinventions

JC Reindl Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Oct 1, 2018 An epidemic of shuttered storefronts and liquidating department stores continues to plague many of metro Detroit's enclosed shopping malls, threatening the existence of some once-thriving properties that couldn't keep up with retail changes or simply have too much empty space to fill. “We are definitely over-malled, and the malls are too big," said retail analyst and consultant Ken Dalto, who is based in Bingham Farms. This shopping mall shakeout is the result of nonstop growth in Internet shopping and more closures of traditional mall anchor stores such as Macy's, JC Penney, Sears and Carson's. The same phenomenon is happening across the country; some analysts have predicted that up to 25 percent of malls nationwide could close by 2022. Numerous malls have lost one or more … [Read more...] about Epidemic of empty stores threatens metro Detroit shopping malls