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The malls are alive... but only if they groove to their own music
Malls need an identity to thrive. Cinemas and supermarkets have become standard accessories and no longer act as effective anchor tenants.
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Independent cinema The Projector and mainstream giant Golden Village took over the Cineleisure space vacated by Cathay.
ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN
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Depending on whom you ask, malls are either thriving or dying. I wrote a story a few weeks ago about the state of the cinema business in Singapore, and one finding was that if a cinema is in a quiet mall, there is a good chance it will suffer financially.
Case in point: The change of ownership in cinemas at Cineleisure (quiet mall) in Grange Road The Cathay in Handy Road
