Here is another mall from my visits to Mexico. This is the Gallerias Tec Mall in Juarez Mexico. This 'T' shaped mall is slightly larger than most malls in the Juarez area. There are no traditional department stores anchoring the mall, but there is a good mix of retail and specialty businesses here. The 2-level mall has a Gala Furniture store, a Fanatic casino, an S-Mart grocery store, and a 12-screen Cinemax movie cinema. There is very little information about the mall with the exception of their Facebook page. The mall looks fairly new, maybe built within the last 10 years or less. The front entrance of the mall also has some stores with exterior only entrances including GNC.
While the mall is doing well, there are several vacancies on the second floor. This mall is in direct competition with the Plaza Juarez Mall. Plaza Juarez is only about 5 minutes away and has much more to offer shoppers.
I did not get too many photos of the first level. Security was not only walking around mainly the first floor, but many store fronts also had security at the door. Otherwise, enjoy this look into one of the quieter Juarez Malls.
The entrance to the Cinemex 12 screen cinema.
This is the end of the bottom of the 'T' of the mall.
The corridor near the food court has lots of vacancies on the second level.
The food court.
A look at the Gala furniture anchor. This is the only store that is truly an anchor. The furniture store is open to the mall on both floors.
A good view of the center court of the mall with the second floor food court in the far distance.
More shops on the second floor.
The S-mart is pictured on the first level in the next 2 photos.
As you can see from this photo, the customer traffic on the first floor is much heavier than the second floor.
In this quiet corner of the mall, is one of the best video game stores I came across in Juarez. This video game store had a good variety of anything you can think of, from classics to the latest video games.
Looking from the quiet corner of the second floor to the other side where the Gala furniture store is located.
More views from the same section of the second floor.
The main mall entrance where no true anchor caps off this end of the mall. There is a casino on the first floor, but access is limited.
Center court.
Here is a view of the mall from the main entrance. As you can see from the 2 photos, the mall is not very big. The back of the mall, the bottom of the 'T' is about as long as this area of the mall.
Here is one of the most creative ways I have seen a blank storefront covered up. This is near the food court on the upper floor.
It is always interesting to look at these foreign malls to see what is similar and what is different from our malls. Structurally, this mall does not feel tremendously different from a lot of two-story malls which were built in the US in the 1980s and 1990s. Of course, I should not be surprised that this mall has stage lights in at least one spot given that it seems that almost every department and music store in Mexico sells stage lights!
ReplyDeletePerhaps this mall is more oriented towards services rather than traditional retail. I see a number of hair and nail salons in this mall. In fact, in one picture, there is a hair salon on the first floor and then a different hair salon right on top of it on the second floor!
That Apple logo at the PC & Laptop Solutions store is clearly fake. Oh well, I doubt the Apple Store people will notice, lol. It would be nice if US malls had privately run computer stores in them. I have not seen that in the US since The Floppy Wizard moved out of Memorial City Mall many years ago.
There is a lot of variety in the stores at the mall, but there were very few places that sold Men's clothing. I forgot to mention the Coppel Canada store, it is a much smaller version of Coppel that mainly sells shoes. I guess since the nearby Plaza Juarez Mall has a full sized store, they decided to go with the smaller format here.
DeleteThe umbrella theme across the mall is another thing I did not get, it was kind of strange. Most of the malls in this area have some kind of Internet cafe, or a one stop shop with computer repairs like this place. The second Plaza Sendero Mall in Juarez has a place similar to the one at this mall.