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Cambodia: New $290M luxury Aeon Mall Meanchey to open next week
Aeon Mall (Cambodia) Co Ltd and Aeon (Cambodia) Co Ltd will open its third shopping mall Aeon Mall Meanchey on December 15 with an edutainment concept along Hun Sen Boulevard in the south of Phnom Penh, said a release.
The sprawling shopping mall has been built with Japanese investment and has been developed as a satellite city which is about eight kilometres south of the centre of Phnom Penh. The mall has excellent access and convenience with the expectation that the population in the area will grow and development projects will increase.
The mall has been built on about 174,000 square metres of land as the site area, 180,000 square metres as floor area and 98,000 square metres as the gross leasable area with 3-storey RC building structure—partly 4 storeys. Over 3,200 cars and 1,850 motorbikes can be parked.
Approximately 5,000 employees will serve visitors with entertainment and education for all ages with the concept of an edutainment mall, said the release.
The mall features a large outdoor park on the third floor to offer various values as a centre for edutainment, a new 35-metre-length and 2.5-metre-wide entertainment space which is made entirely from the glass well as the kid slide connecting the upside of the 3rd floor to the 2nd floor.
“The grand scale of the building is used not only for shopping but also for the first outdoor park in a shopping mall in the country, various exciting facilities and events that combine the latest trends with local culture. We provide a variety of values with our experiences and the latest technology, [and] we will continue to meet the ever-changing lifestyles and needs of our customers,” the release pointed out.
Ean Sinang, a painter working with a painting supplier at Aeon Mall Meanchey, told Khmer Times yesterday that his company has increased the number of painting workers from about 100 to 150 to speed up the painting operations for the soft opening event. “I believe we can finish our work on time for the opening,” Sinang said.
Ban Huoy, a drink vendor in front of the Aeon Mall 3, told Khmer Times that the security guards have started to ask all vendors not to sell their products to workers at the direct side of the mall, but they can sell them at another side of the mall. However, she is afraid that she would be asked to move again after the mall opens.
“We sell little things for survival. So, we hope the mall management and authorities would not evict us. Now, we are already facing difficulties in sales because it is very difficult for our customers who are the workers working at the mall to across the road to buy our stuff like food and drink,” Huoy said, adding that vendors were asked to move out or keep away from Monday this week.
The mall will also introduce the latest advanced digital signage—one of the largest in Cambodia—installed to transmit information through a spatial presentation by distributing the company’s original content. It will also propose a lifestyle of education about culture and nurturing for the future as it includes a huge art project related to the cooperation of children in Cambodia.
Cosmetics and skincare brands are gathered together to offer a fun-filled day of shopping through beauty support and tutorials in the mall’s cosmetics zone, while visitors will also be able to get new experiences in shopping that combine online shopping with a real place. Anchor Store “AEON” will offer a wide range of foodstuffs from around the world.
This second floor will offer “a wide selection of local fresh foods, as well as a supermarket, a drugstore and a speciality shop selling baby and children’s goods to provide a space that is useful for the lives of local residents along with the provision of safety and for the
post-Covid-19 and efforts such as preparation for power outages by introducing a new air-conditioning system and a large-capacity generator to prevent infectious diseases among visitors.
Source: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501197611/new-290m-luxury-aeon-mall-meanchey-to-open-next-week/