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Queensway could be next casualty in sportswear upheaval
The decline of one of Singapore’s oldest shopping centres reveals the trade-offs we’ve accepted in the name of modernisation.
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The sports retail disruption has been particularly harsh on Queensway, which took a big hit when Sportslink shuttered in 2020 after financial woes forced it into liquidation.
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Auntie J has spent most of her life selling men’s shoes at Queensway Shopping Centre.
Once an employee, she assumed the running of the business in 1997, a few years after her daughter was born. Motherhood equipped her with both the boldness to break out on her own and an added imperative to anchor a way of life that allowed for a stream of income while minding a young child at the same time.
