From the get go this location next to Crossiron never made much sense to me for an asian bazaar/flea market style set up.
Crossiron was developed to be the destination in that area, once you fought the traffic on the highway, dealt with the maze of a parking lot, wander the mall for a while, then lugged your family/shopping back into the car... you're well spent emotionally/physically/financially. Fighting more traffic to scoot across one of the exit roads for a bubble tea just isn't gonna happen.
Even looking at similar projects in Calgary or other cities they tend to either be the only complex of this type in the area(Farmers Market, Crossroads Market), or they're in densely populated areas(Pacific Place Mall)... New Horizon Mall has neither.
This project should have either been placed in a densely populated area (something like Currie Barracks) or a suburban car-centric shopping districts like West Hills. Locations where people are either going come out specifically for the asian market, or an area where they aren't competing directly with a one stop mega complex.
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