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What the place needs
To me it is obvious what the place needs:
American Tourists! Hordes of us! Flying in, day after day to shower gobs of cash on a shopping center much in need of Florida retirees' money! Extend the runways and you'll get countless direct flights from LAX, and then money will pour in!
Actually, all kidding aside, I was here two years ago when it was still being built, and arrived yesterday, and walked through it. This sort of shopping center relies on multiple demographics...it may or may not appeal to farang older tourists, but one obvious problem, when comparing it to MBK and Siam center in Bangkok is the lack of young people. Young people with disposable income don't appear to me to be a huge part of the population in Phuket. There are clearly some, but it seems to me that any mall that wants to succeed needs to appeal to young people as well as older people, and you have to have an environment where young people exist with disposable income and that does not appear to me to be the case here.
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