Here is the twin of the Plaza Sendero Las Torres in Juarez Mexico. Here are my previous posts from the twin mall located across town in the Southern part of the city. The two malls are a little more than 6 miles apart and located on the same highway. This Plaza Sendero Mall is located very close to the Mexico/US border as well. The layout of the mall is nearly identical to the twin across town except the food court is on the opposite side of the mall here. The anchors are Coppel, Soriana, Cineapolis, and Hagalo which is a decent sized hardware store. Plaza Sendero Malls can be found in several areas throughout Mexico, click here for their website.
You can also find the Wikipedia page here, but it has not been updated in quite some time.
I am not sure what year this mall opened, but it seems very new maybe within the past 5 years.
In the food court, there was this awesome Mortal Kombat painting. I guess the cliente (customer) was beating Scorpion.
The food court had a very good variety of restaurants.
Just like the other Plaza Sendero, this mall also has a carousel.
The mall entrance to Coppel.
Now for some interior photos of Coppel.
This store had a very small second level tucked away in the back of the store. I didn't get a chance to go up there.
A close-up of their Nintendo section. The prices when converted to US Dollars is high.
Here is the walkway to the second floor.
Back out into the mall corridor. A lot of the same stores that are found at malls throughout the area are located here as well. The skylights have a green color scheme as opposed to the yellow at the twin Plaza Sendero mall.
Our visit was just after a weekday lunchtime and the mall had a good amount of traffic.
There is the other anchor on the far left side Hagalo.
The Cineapolis is in the far view of the photo. There was a car dealership setup in the open court at this end of the mall.
A closer view of the Hagalo anchor and nearby shops.
Turning back around we head towards Soriana.
Inside Soriana we find a similar setup with the electronics. The rest of the store was fairly standard and not much different than the Las Torres location. If anything, the other Soriana was a lot more creative with their advertising.
Back out into the mall we have part of the Soriana entrance. The checkout counters are at the mall entrance, which is a common setup that many mall grocery stores have here in Juarez.
Back to the other end of the mall with Coppel.
More views of the Coppel store. Had to get the motorbike section.
A couple of views on the way out.
But wait, there's more! We found ourselves back here after trying out this nearby El Taco Steak restaurant. On this visit, I was able to get a really good directory picture.
An up-close view of the stores on the directory. Notice that even the outparcels are listed here.
I noticed this used video game kiosk on the second visit. Their prices were fairly reasonable in comparison to new games in Mexico.
A better view of the checkout setup at Soriana.
The middle corridor of the mall which is the mall entrance to Soriana.
Gotta love the ceiling in this part of the mall near the food court and Coppel.
A new restaurant in development at the mall entrance near Coppel.
Here are a couple more shots of the mall while we wait for our ride to the next destination.
I suppose Houston is not, or was not, the only city with twin malls across town! I thought these photos looked familiar, but now I see why. It looks like the Soriana is the main anchor at these malls and I can see why. They kind of remind me of some of the Fred Meyer stores that Northwest Retail has posted to his blog here in recent times. It's too bad this Soriana didn't replicate the condom display that the other Soriana had, lol.
ReplyDeleteThe electronics display at the Coppel looks pretty good as well. It's really too bad we don't have stores like this in the US that sell things like electronics and motorbikes. I see the Coby name, which conjures up thoughts of Tozai-grade electronics, but it looks like they have some good stuff there as well.
It looks like this mall has a lot of American food vendors like Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's, Little Caesars, and Denny's. The latter really surprised me, I had no idea Denny's was in Mexico. That kind of reminds me of the time I ate at the Denny's in Niagara Falls, NY one day and then at the Niagara Falls, Ontario Denny's in Canada the next day. The Canadian Denny's was most certainly nicer feeling than the American one (though the American one was in the lobby of a Days Inn motel that felt about as crummy as the infamous former Holiday Inn/Days Inn/Heaven on Earth Inn in downtown Houston). I'd also rate the food at the Canadian Denny's to be a tad bit better than the American one, but the difference was pretty small. I wonder what a Mexican Denny's is like.
I didn't know this mall existed on my previous visit to Juarez. The search for the Woolworth location is what brought me to the Sendero Las Torres mall. Juarez is a dense city so that is probably how all of these malls can work in a city of about 1.5 million. That and the United States immigration office in the center of the city which has to see thousands of people weekly. I am sure the heat in the area is also another reason why so many enclosed malls exist in this city. Even El Paso has 3 enclosed malls in a city of about 500,000. The area is famous for having over 300 days a year on average of sunlight.
DeleteI may have already mentioned this, but in one of the areas of Mexico that I visited had a three story Coppel. It was a very busy location and they had security on each floor so I didn't document the store besides a few displays. It was the department store of the city so it was slightly more upscale than the stores in Juarez. The first floor when you enter the store has the electronics and motorbikes.
Mexico also has several IHOP locations, one being in front of Las Missiones Mall. That location was not 24 hours like the ones here in the US though. In most of the areas I have visited in Mexico, there is at least a nearby Subway, Dominos, or McDonalds if you have a craving for some food from back home.