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Saltwater wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:12 pm

Who can blame them? The Myer centre is awful with its empty upper floors, horrid escalator design and downtrodden food court. It's in desperate need of a major revamp to bring tenants and shoppers back and my feeling is the owners need Myer as an anchor tenant more than Myer needs to be in the Myer Centre.

Saltwater wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 27, 2023 8:09 am

If the rent gets cut that's only delaying the inevitable, because its less money going to the landlords who are then less likely to invest in the centre. I was upstairs at City Cross over the weekend, and if Harvey Norman and Rebel could be persuaded to move there's plenty of room up there, it would only be one level for a Myer but if they were to cut back to their best selling departments it could go ok. And leave the Myer Centre pretty much empty as a prime time to redevelop, involving:

- Re-configuring the escalators, to make it easier to move around without having to double-back every time
- Adding new escalators for direct access from the ground to second or even third floors, to get foot traffic up there
- Reconfigure the upper floors. Maybe convert to offices, or be brave and try something different like a bowling alley, holey moley type setup, nightclub... anything but retail, which would be condensed to the lower floors

A decent benchmark as a mall that operates well is 313 Somerset in Singapore, ironically its owned by Lendlease, and admittedly sits above an MRT station, but it does very well without any huge department stores like Myer, with a good fix of retail, food and services. And the escalators are designed to get people through, and up, quickly.

rev wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:35 am

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business ... 0e50e051c3

Behind the paywall, and the usual methods aren't working.

Night-time entertainment precinct in the mall..

Saltwater wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:37 am

A ground floor food court would work, or even be brave and try a food court on the upper floors. From memory 313 Somerset has one on the top (5th floor) from memory, and the escalators are configured in a way that make it easy to get up there. If not a foodcourt maybe some restaurants, rooftop bars, make the most of the height and the light that comes with it and draw people up through the mall with some decent offerings like a decent sized Uniqlo.

Myer making noise is maybe trying to reduce their footprint. Say they trimmed back to two or three floors they could probably retain most of their best selling departments, cut those that are running at a loss, and require less staff operating across huge areas and the resulting perception their customer service sucks.

Patrick_27 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 27, 2023 11:47 pm

I still frequent Myer, but more or less they are reminding me a lot of Harris Scarf in the immediate years before they left mall. Less staff about, less foot traffic and less variety. Their cosmetics section, for example, is a drop in the ocean compared to what it use to be.

I don’t think the mall as a whole would suffer too greatly from Myer leaving, it would certainly present a case for more brand specific stores in the mall precinct (that aren’t already represented in DJ’s). The biggest concern is the sheer size of leasable floor space that Myer have in the centre, no one retailer could fill that (or would want to try) and the size of the centre is too big and prominent to bulldoze and start again. I fear it would become another Rundle Mall Plaza where is exists under-utilised for many years whilst waiting for a thrifty property developer to come through with an overhaul.