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Business Buildings are where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered. From the very beginning of the human civilization, Market Place or Bazaar, shopping spaces remained as the essential part of common men's life.
Market Place or Bazaars are outdoor yards that include wholesale or retail sales outlets for farm and non-farm produce, storage yards for goods, circulation path, parking access to trucks, sanitary facilities, and garbage disposal yards.
Shopping mall or shopping centers are one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area – a modern, indoor version of the traditional marketplace. Shopping malls are typically known to be indoor shopping centers, though some have outdoor areas with the shops having their own indoor space. These are concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region.
However, present day malls are more far more diverse and complex in term of internal spatial planning, overall organization of various functions and decisions regarding the site/location criteria keeping in view the not only the unorganized and unpredictable growth of our cites but also the rapidly changing and fluctuating trends and preferences of our society. These may include - information centre, anchor stores, medium size outlets, small size shops, theatre -1000 capacity, food courts, rentable retail space, administration department, maintenance department, electrical department – power maintenance, building services lifts & escalators centralized a/c public rest rooms, fire fighting system, generator room, safety & security services, parking temporary parking –site level parking permanent parking – building level – basement & multilevel parking
Shopping centers are bound to attract attention of a sizeable number of population if well designed, appropriately planned and suitably located thus it is also essential to consider the role of mall as a cultural hotspot for any locality or area for which they are planned.
Shopping malls are the points where both utilitarian as well as entertainment opportunities are available at one spot. They provide opportunity to further heighten social activity and interaction via appropriate design and planning considerations. They facilitates variety of shops, food courts, theatre, recreational and entertainment activities. Success of a shopping mall depends on various parameters like accessibility, stimulation and experience of pleasant shopping environment, most important availability of enough / ample parking space. They also have segments within the main basement or the entrance arena to look after toddlers. The adolescents can indulge in the cyber cafes at the malls or the gaming arcades within. They are weather-protected and offer the ‘under-one-roof’ shopping experience. A shopping property management company specializes in managing shopping malls. This management is welcomed by the retailers who either own the shops or rent them, since the functionality of the utilities like the escalators and elevators are taken care of by the shopping property management firm.
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