Later this year Emporio, a new luxury-goods mall, will open in a prosperous neighbourhood in the south of Delhi.
"A good mall typically does north of $600 to $700 a square foot, so this is a pretty big number," said Marc Frankel, a senior managing director at the broker Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Retail.
Check each of the restaurants for happy hour specials -- you can sit outside, look at the sea, enjoy a mojito and then go tipsily buy furniture at CB2...and those my friends, are the makings of a good mall.
OPTIONAL: Buy everything you need at a good mall.
(Nice place. Good schools. Pretty cheap cost of living. Many good malls and chain restaurants. Nearest beach: Galveston. Only 300 or so miles, or, in California-speak, about 4 1/2 hours. Also, in summer, like living inside an oven. Spring is nice, except for the tornadoes. Winter not too bad, until the ice storms cometh. Fall? See spring).
If there are no good malls near your house, no worries.
But if there ARE good malls near where you live, read Step 3. It helps.
In 2011 Ma announced that Taobao would split into three companies: Taobao Marketplace, where individuals could buy and sell goods; Taobao Mall, an online shopping portal; and eTao, a shopping-related search engine.
This seemed particularly alluring because we were stuck in the convention hall, close to lots of hot air but nowhere near a good shopping mall.
Of course they have a good cause," mall lawyer Susan Gaertner said.
Up to 25 percent of luxury goods sold in Mall of the Emirates are purchased by Chinese tourists, according to Iyad Malas, chief executive officer of the Majid Al Futtaim group, which has 11 malls across the Middle East including Mall of the Emirates, known for its indoor ski slope.
