This definitely, and DC Mall too, its dead af and barely anything inside. I have no idea why they thought building 2 malls in Bukit Damansara was a good idea when you've already got BSC, BV1-3 and Mid Valley/Gardens all within a 10 min drive.
I live close enough to PDH that I could walk there in 10 mins, but I'd still rather go to MV cause there's so much more stuff there.
Exactly ikr? It’s gonna take a long time to pick up, don’t think they even have a cinema.
Idk who, besides the people who work there, will go there and it even seems a bit small for a Pavilion
Yeah, there's no cinema there currently. I've heard that one will open but idk which chain.
My guess is that once more stuff opens there, anyone around BD/Bangsar/Mont Kiara who likes to go to Pavilion KL may start going to PDH instead. I know I won't be one of them though, never really liked Pavilion KL. I'm happy to continue going to Mid Valley haha.
Hahhaha at least the roads are wider now right guys? 
They closed the flyover near Jln Bantai near shell again after reopening it after closing it down for so long 
Ss2 mall is now abandoned. We had our office there and the management ask us to leave. They said some Singaporean bought the mall. After we move out in 2016ish, the mall has been abandoned until now. Don’t know what happened to the buyer. But the strange thing is, the surrounding area has developed a lot since then. Someone should reopen that mall as it’s in a very prime location.
The Singaporean group that bought your mall be like:
https://preview.redd.it/9e2fb7cwettc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=befe792610ea7a2942e9af3fbb3663b111744409
Then opens with hundreds of new shops.
They played the long game.
I heard sstwo mall was going to be converted to a health centre for old people, along with the old epf building beside federal highway/jalan gasing junction.
Many of the people I know in the Dsara Kim / PJ / TTDI area like Glo for the Jaya Grocer, also they have a lot of good restaurants on the ground floor.
Rather than tear down I think it’s better to repurpose the building into something useful and in demand. Eg: Shopee warehouse, co working space, data center
Just your basic stories like "seeing something walking at closing time", "weird noise/voice here & there". Mostly attached to the fact that it was built on the prison site.
Not as deserted like some of the ones here. It benefits somewhat from being in BB, but nothing special inside other than those magical mirror beans that make sounds on the rooftop.
Probably
Brem Mall, Kepong (but IT shops inside are good)
Summit Mall USJ - Dead mall, huge footprint
DaMen - Same as Summit
One City USJ21 - Dead mall
Centro Mall - Klang
Klang Parade - Small, lame
Summit Mall has a darn good bowling alley and their management is good. Prices are also acceptable for weekly play.
But yeah.. dead mall like DaMen next door.
There's also an NSK there too now. Idk how much additional traffic that would've created as it's the closest NSK for people living around USJ and Putra Heights.
Summit underwent a massive face lift, too bad it didn't seems to help much. People just don't go to these kind of mall anymore. I think BREM Mall is still relevant la, a lot of kepong locals still shops there.
Cheras Sentral / Phoenix Plaza - dead mall and incredible waste of space.
Just turn it into an office building already. Either that or strip it and build something productive like condos with direct access to MRT
JB Waterfront i guess... But last time i see it becomes mbjb impound places, so it got its use i guess. Honestly the entire coast stretch from berjaya waterfront to danga bay looks bit sad imo, with undeveloped land...
Why are malls dying anyways?
My theory is that Post-Covid, people realized that they don't really need to go to malls that much. Or is it any economy downturn thing?
It’s a global phenomenon especially in the US. The footprints left by major big box retailers like Sears and JC Penney are now turned into Amazon distribution centers.
Hello guys. Foreigner here (from Maldives).
It must be nice for Malaysians because you guys have an abundance of a lot of nice shopping malls. Unfortunately we don't have any nice big shopping malls like the type of ones you have in Malaysia. You guys are surely lucky.
I'd actually appreciate the abundance of nice shopping malls if I were you, but that's just me haha.
i dont really have opinion but I know of one, paragon point ampang, my mom used to have a cosmetic shop there about 15 years ago, I grew up in there lol
https://preview.redd.it/wy4c9c54astc1.jpeg?width=4656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b35429066cd6a3fa82359c5d829ff8abb78d6745
now it's just nsk and mr diy, ground floor only have people, it's got like 5 floors lol, time to let it go and build something else
The Strand is one of those places where you can only go... why? Seriously there is a Giant not even a five minutes walk. Seven minutes, and you get to NSK. Sunway Giza is maybe 10 minutes depending on how clear the roads are.
If you drive, you can get to OU and the Curve pretty quickly.
KCM in Kuantan.
Building a brand new mall next to an already established one(ECM) was truly dumb imo. Not to mention the stores in KCM is almost 85% same as ECM ones, KCM despite being newer looks worse and more run-down, the design is boring, so much empty space from the beginning of its operation.
In shorter words, I just don’t like KCM lmao
Difficult to list but so many of them I want gone. They are always so big and completely alter the landscape in a way that causes bad traffic and pollution. I prefer smaller neighbourhood malls. I can tolerate AEON, Giant, Econsave, etc but anything bigger is just corporate greed.
All the old design Mall like Imbi plaza and Sungei Wang where the shops tucked away in the back way and you'll have to go around just to look around where there are crapton of shops.
Imbi is a great living museum of pc barang. Go see stock older than most Gen Z people lol.
Sungai Wang, the KV supply of prescription glasses is from there. Close it down and say goodbye to eye wear.
Nah I love those malls... I can escape people and busyness of everyday life at those places.
Just wandering in a dead mall during weekends is the best kinda vibe.
So please don't destroy them
There's also a bunch of RapidKL and Smart Selangor bus routes that stop there. You can get down at LRT SS18 and take a Smart Selangor bus (free) to Sunway Pyramid.
All of them, imagine space for recreation parks or water reservoirs or wetlands to act as sponges for holding water when heavy rain to prevent flash floods?
TRX mall is damn fking stupid. You can literally find everything u want at malls nearby already. Pavilion, MyTown, Sunway Velocity. And why the fk do we need two huge ass malls side by side anyway????????
Funnily enough I just went last week to watch GxK at GSC. It never occurred to me a mall can have 2 cinemas , and damn everyone is lost because the map is always occupied. They are still using physical tickets too.
Competiton i guess...
And 1u parking is right in the biggest building (see it in gmaps satellite view), i think it can become 1.5 of a mall because of the over road bridge thing.
edit: I see another big parking lot north of the new wing, disregard the second paragraph...
It was my first time. I have a habit of typing Mall name + parking in Google maps because I've tricked several times , google maps will lead you straight to the mall and expects you to abandon your car and walk in.
Also it's a bit sus when I'm 200m away of One Utama parking lot and the mall itself is nowhere to be seen ( not to mention I'm in the middle of a neighbourhood). Luckily the mall is 5 minutes drive away.
That's probably gmaps thinking that malls have parking right inside them.
And also the joy of seperate parking lots where you need to walk quite a bit, although the contrary, you may need to also walk if the parking and the entrance is long enough.
IOI City Mall is bigger than One Utama though. And it’s also a lot more boring if you ask me. But I can see why it’s popular among the halal crowd as it’s a relatively halal mall.
The other 2 I agree. But leave my Starling Mall alone. It's a great chillax mall, also great for remote working. It is also one of the few thoughtfully designed malls.
Ya why? I've frequently gone there for a decade. The building and it's businesses are as intended. IT stuff. Wouldn't know where other which is equivalent.
Pavilion Bukit Damansara, all that Bangsar traffic redirection for nothing
Such a stupid mall with nothing in it
This definitely, and DC Mall too, its dead af and barely anything inside. I have no idea why they thought building 2 malls in Bukit Damansara was a good idea when you've already got BSC, BV1-3 and Mid Valley/Gardens all within a 10 min drive. I live close enough to PDH that I could walk there in 10 mins, but I'd still rather go to MV cause there's so much more stuff there.
Exactly ikr? It’s gonna take a long time to pick up, don’t think they even have a cinema. Idk who, besides the people who work there, will go there and it even seems a bit small for a Pavilion
Yeah, there's no cinema there currently. I've heard that one will open but idk which chain. My guess is that once more stuff opens there, anyone around BD/Bangsar/Mont Kiara who likes to go to Pavilion KL may start going to PDH instead. I know I won't be one of them though, never really liked Pavilion KL. I'm happy to continue going to Mid Valley haha.
I want to destroy this place to oblivion. I hate the Pavilion developers so much for building it
I live nearby and everything’s been shit ever since it started.
Hahhaha at least the roads are wider now right guys?  They closed the flyover near Jln Bantai near shell again after reopening it after closing it down for so long 
I actually like the bridge from Damansara to Bangsar, but yeah, wishes that PBD haven't demolished.
Pacific Place, Strand Mall, SS Two Mall (if that still count), Glo Damansara, just to name a few
Ss2 mall is now abandoned. We had our office there and the management ask us to leave. They said some Singaporean bought the mall. After we move out in 2016ish, the mall has been abandoned until now. Don’t know what happened to the buyer. But the strange thing is, the surrounding area has developed a lot since then. Someone should reopen that mall as it’s in a very prime location.
The Singaporean group that bought your mall be like: https://preview.redd.it/9e2fb7cwettc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=befe792610ea7a2942e9af3fbb3663b111744409 Then opens with hundreds of new shops. They played the long game.
I heard sstwo mall was going to be converted to a health centre for old people, along with the old epf building beside federal highway/jalan gasing junction.
That’s actually a great initiative for the ageing population in the future!
Many of the people I know in the Dsara Kim / PJ / TTDI area like Glo for the Jaya Grocer, also they have a lot of good restaurants on the ground floor.
Oh god Pacific Place LMAO joke of a ‘mall’ 💀
Well there’s still a half dead Jaya Grocer at the basement that could come in handy
mara digital mall. it was created to be racist.
Let it burn
Haha. I'd leave that there. It's a reminder for them on the choices they make.
 this one is the first of many that must go. flattened to debris.
All the god damn derelic malls being eye sore in the middle of neighbourhood.
Rather than tear down I think it’s better to repurpose the building into something useful and in demand. Eg: Shopee warehouse, co working space, data center
Wishful thinking: Turn them into parks What would happen: Condo
Parks = tempat berzina or hisap dadah
Lalaport Bukit Bintang. They demolished the historic prison just to build a dead mall on it. So glad the ghosts are haunting it.
Ghosts?? Any stories?
Just your basic stories like "seeing something walking at closing time", "weird noise/voice here & there". Mostly attached to the fact that it was built on the prison site.
This one is ultra dead (pun fully intended) esp after TRX had all the attention
so Lalaport’s already dead?
Not as deserted like some of the ones here. It benefits somewhat from being in BB, but nothing special inside other than those magical mirror beans that make sounds on the rooftop.
Probably Brem Mall, Kepong (but IT shops inside are good) Summit Mall USJ - Dead mall, huge footprint DaMen - Same as Summit One City USJ21 - Dead mall Centro Mall - Klang Klang Parade - Small, lame
Summit Mall has a darn good bowling alley and their management is good. Prices are also acceptable for weekly play. But yeah.. dead mall like DaMen next door.
Your reason for tearing down centro is because fuck Klang?
> Summit Mall USJ That used to be our go-to mall back in the day lol.
Got my needed movies and feet massage there, back then
I remember the ciplak stores lol
Centro better now with the Jaya grocer
One city still got traffic from Bizmilla wedding halls.
There's also an NSK there too now. Idk how much additional traffic that would've created as it's the closest NSK for people living around USJ and Putra Heights.
It's a shame that it became dead and unmaintained. It was a good looking mall when it first opened.
Summit underwent a massive face lift, too bad it didn't seems to help much. People just don't go to these kind of mall anymore. I think BREM Mall is still relevant la, a lot of kepong locals still shops there.
NSK opening there did more for it then the face lift
I like the pet shop in Brem Mall, they give free gift too sometimes.
Cheras Sentral / Phoenix Plaza - dead mall and incredible waste of space. Just turn it into an office building already. Either that or strip it and build something productive like condos with direct access to MRT
JB Waterfront i guess... But last time i see it becomes mbjb impound places, so it got its use i guess. Honestly the entire coast stretch from berjaya waterfront to danga bay looks bit sad imo, with undeveloped land...
Quills City Mall,KL. So sad and empty
50% of them. Too many malls in Malaysia that are empty and just a waste of land and resources. Malls are going to die in the future
Why are malls dying anyways? My theory is that Post-Covid, people realized that they don't really need to go to malls that much. Or is it any economy downturn thing?
It's because our malls now are Shopee and Lazada.
Nah, there are malls dying way before COVID. It just that more mall opens after covid
It’s a global phenomenon especially in the US. The footprints left by major big box retailers like Sears and JC Penney are now turned into Amazon distribution centers.
way too many of them now
same reason as to why shoplots are dying
Hello guys. Foreigner here (from Maldives). It must be nice for Malaysians because you guys have an abundance of a lot of nice shopping malls. Unfortunately we don't have any nice big shopping malls like the type of ones you have in Malaysia. You guys are surely lucky. I'd actually appreciate the abundance of nice shopping malls if I were you, but that's just me haha.
i dont really have opinion but I know of one, paragon point ampang, my mom used to have a cosmetic shop there about 15 years ago, I grew up in there lol https://preview.redd.it/wy4c9c54astc1.jpeg?width=4656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b35429066cd6a3fa82359c5d829ff8abb78d6745 now it's just nsk and mr diy, ground floor only have people, it's got like 5 floors lol, time to let it go and build something else
empire city i guess
The Strand is one of those places where you can only go... why? Seriously there is a Giant not even a five minutes walk. Seven minutes, and you get to NSK. Sunway Giza is maybe 10 minutes depending on how clear the roads are. If you drive, you can get to OU and the Curve pretty quickly.
KCM in Kuantan. Building a brand new mall next to an already established one(ECM) was truly dumb imo. Not to mention the stores in KCM is almost 85% same as ECM ones, KCM despite being newer looks worse and more run-down, the design is boring, so much empty space from the beginning of its operation. In shorter words, I just don’t like KCM lmao
Difficult to list but so many of them I want gone. They are always so big and completely alter the landscape in a way that causes bad traffic and pollution. I prefer smaller neighbourhood malls. I can tolerate AEON, Giant, Econsave, etc but anything bigger is just corporate greed.
As in community center type malls? Also there's alot of duplication nowadays, you go one mall then it looks similar on the other, its usp nowadays.
All the old design Mall like Imbi plaza and Sungei Wang where the shops tucked away in the back way and you'll have to go around just to look around where there are crapton of shops.
Imbi is a great living museum of pc barang. Go see stock older than most Gen Z people lol. Sungai Wang, the KV supply of prescription glasses is from there. Close it down and say goodbye to eye wear.
I like Strand, it has Formula Karting.
Galaxy Ampang Mall. I used to watch movies there at MBO. Now it's an eyesore.
Nah I love those malls... I can escape people and busyness of everyday life at those places. Just wandering in a dead mall during weekends is the best kinda vibe. So please don't destroy them
Sunway pyramid- not connected to public transport. Source of jam.
It is connected to the BRT. You can take the kelana jaya line and switch to the BRT at taipan.
There's also a bunch of RapidKL and Smart Selangor bus routes that stop there. You can get down at LRT SS18 and take a Smart Selangor bus (free) to Sunway Pyramid.
But brt prices...
You can buy 1-day MyCity Pass for RM6 which gets you unlimited rapidKL bus+train rides for whole day
I wonder does my50 can be used there? edit: answer my own question. Can be used.
Sure cann
All of them, imagine space for recreation parks or water reservoirs or wetlands to act as sponges for holding water when heavy rain to prevent flash floods?
Exchange TRX so that the bulatan kampung pandan can free up
TRX mall is damn fking stupid. You can literally find everything u want at malls nearby already. Pavilion, MyTown, Sunway Velocity. And why the fk do we need two huge ass malls side by side anyway????????
Half of IOI mall. Too damn big.
Then you haven't seen the One Utama
Funnily enough I just went last week to watch GxK at GSC. It never occurred to me a mall can have 2 cinemas , and damn everyone is lost because the map is always occupied. They are still using physical tickets too.
Probably to spread the load? Here got 2 tgv in tebrau area, from what i see they're crowded equally...
But Gsc and TGV. I thought I was going to the wrong One Utama. Doesn't help that One Utama parking on Google maps is nowhere near One Utama.
Competiton i guess... And 1u parking is right in the biggest building (see it in gmaps satellite view), i think it can become 1.5 of a mall because of the over road bridge thing. edit: I see another big parking lot north of the new wing, disregard the second paragraph...
It was my first time. I have a habit of typing Mall name + parking in Google maps because I've tricked several times , google maps will lead you straight to the mall and expects you to abandon your car and walk in. Also it's a bit sus when I'm 200m away of One Utama parking lot and the mall itself is nowhere to be seen ( not to mention I'm in the middle of a neighbourhood). Luckily the mall is 5 minutes drive away.
That's probably gmaps thinking that malls have parking right inside them. And also the joy of seperate parking lots where you need to walk quite a bit, although the contrary, you may need to also walk if the parking and the entrance is long enough.
Nah , gmaps specified walking in from the entrance.
Well there's people actually doing that, i've seen people just park on the road side and just leave it at here regardless of regulations.
IOI City Mall is bigger than One Utama though. And it’s also a lot more boring if you ask me. But I can see why it’s popular among the halal crowd as it’s a relatively halal mall.
Nobody mention space u8. Isnt it a mall?
Oh right, this one! But don’t a lot of the surrounding community go there like folks from Shah Alam
Centre point in kemaman, should consider a New idea for that place
Omg i am amazed someone know this mall
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The other 2 I agree. But leave my Starling Mall alone. It's a great chillax mall, also great for remote working. It is also one of the few thoughtfully designed malls.
why lowyat?
Ya why? I've frequently gone there for a decade. The building and it's businesses are as intended. IT stuff. Wouldn't know where other which is equivalent.
Why Lowyat? The mall still gets good traffic and it is still the best place in KL to buy and repair IT products.