2 August 2010

Belco Mall starts to look good?

| bobbatty
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You have to give it to whoever is doing the Belco Mall upgrade, it’s starting to look like a winner. I’m impressed by Magnet Mart leaving and the Goodies taking over the building and can see how all this could flow into the main centre.

I must say that the developers are doing a better job in Belco over recent years with the exception of the Art whatever on the lake. Even some of the restaurants are lifting their food service and quality.

Man, it’s a good time to be alive in Belco with all the changes!!

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Jim, no need to make up nonsense…I can do that myself!

bobbatty said :

Sometimes it feels like I’m the only one trying to gentrify this place

Don’t knock the renos in Belconnen – it gives us public servants something to watch when we look out the window LOL

There’s no doubt that zombies have already taken over the Hyperdome.

colourful sydney racing identity2:20 pm 04 Aug 10

bobbatty said :

Look you people….

1. To those that disparage me and my optimism for a better Belco; you need to consider Gungahlin it’s a better place for people like you.
2. To the rest who believe in a better Belco; thanks for the support. I believe that in the end Belco can be better than the city with modern permanent accommodation and a vibrant shopping centre that people love.

And now, you have been told.

Can I just say that ‘To those that disparage me and my optimism for a better Belco’ is the funniest line I have read for a long time. Surely this could go on the random quotes that appear at the top of the page.

Look you people….

1. To those that disparage me and my optimism for a better Belco; you need to consider Gungahlin it’s a better place for people like you.
2. To the rest who believe in a better Belco; thanks for the support. I believe that in the end Belco can be better than the city with modern permanent accommodation and a vibrant shopping centre that people love.

Muttsybignuts11:26 am 03 Aug 10

But when the zombie apocalypse comes, you know that it’s a much safer place to bunker down than the Canberra Centre

maybe so, but i’ll be heading for bunnings…

Nah, Jim has got it right. Ever since watching Dawn of the Dead in the 80s my mates and I still assess every mall we go to for Zombie defence. We would have a field day running around the upper level car parks picking off the undead as they shambled across Benjamin way.

gospeedygo said :

Everyone knows zombies can’t swim. Its barge time.

Zombies don’t need to breath – they’ll travel through water to get to fresh meat.

georgesgenitals10:02 pm 02 Aug 10

Apart from the fact that Bunnings is a particularly bad layout from a zombie survival perspective (one big hall with lots of hiding places; no way to section off infected areas), there’s nothing to eat at Bunnings.

Lots of hardware and cool shit to build weapons of all types. As well the ability to fortify your position, plus turn your car into a tank.

Not to mention the whipper snippers and chainsaws.

Alien Fiend said :

Where did the Cameron offices go?

Someone decided that a series of concrete and glass cubes built in the seventies should be replaced by a series of concrete and glass cubes built in the noughties.

At least the Cameron/Benjamin Offices had some architectural value.

Ah Belconnen! Half of the Belconnen town centre has been razed and rebuilt and it’s barely 35 years old. Where did the Cameron offices go? It’s like a built up Glenloch with traffic lights. And it’s about to get a whole lot worse (and that’s before you even step in the door).

Everyone knows zombies can’t swim. Its barge time.

But when the zombie apocalypse comes, you know that it’s a much safer place to bunker down than the Canberra Centre

maybe so, but i’ll be heading for bunnings…

Apart from the fact that Bunnings is a particularly bad layout from a zombie survival perspective (one big hall with lots of hiding places; no way to section off infected areas), there’s nothing to eat at Bunnings.

Enough of the crazy talk.

…and yes, I know un-inhindered is an awesome use of language.

I am still amazed that belco mall and belco bus interchange could not be replaced / revamped / whatever without the introduction of numerous sets of traffic lights and the removal of what was a almost un-inhindered bus lane from one side of the town centre to the other.

georgesgenitals4:34 pm 02 Aug 10

georgesgenitals said :

“Let’s go the mall…. today!”

It’s “Let’s go TO the mall… today!” you idiot.

Let’s not beat around the bush. It’s a giant concrete monstrousity.

But when the zombie apocalypse comes, you know that it’s a much safer place to bunker down than the Canberra Centre.

georgesgenitals4:29 pm 02 Aug 10

“Let’s go the mall…. today!”

Just one more reason to shop somewhere else. Tried finding a disabled park at the mall lately? And this for a few more more chain stores. Woo hoo!

my faith in humanity is further eroded when i see people are excited by the re-development of mall.

mp2615 said :

This is a troll right ?

bloody traffic lights on every corner. considerable disruption to drivers, pedestrians, cyclists et al. I think all the shops at Jamieson are loving it right now. In the long run this voracious mall only means it will be harder for smaller suburban centres, which are at the heart of Canberra’s utility and character, to survive.

What crap. The vast majority of shops (read non supermarkets) at the Belconnen Mall, and other Canberra malls do not compete in any way shape of form with suburban shopping centres. Never have and never will.

The only way for suburban centres to survive is for people to actually shop there. To shop there the shops need to either compete on price OR offer some good reason to actually make the effort to go local. Don’t see either happening too soon.

Hey Bob, you a workmate or friend of MP123?

What did the change of the tennancy of a building across the road have to do with the upgrade to the mall/bus interchange? That changeover isn’t about flow into the upgraded/upsized Mall, but a hope for parasitic feed off of it.

And Magnet Marts move out almost certainly had more to do with the construction of the Bunnings monolith on Belconnen Way (where you only have to try escaping from the car park to question the logic behind that one) than any kind of masterplan.

Giving developers a pat on the back while slagging off the construction of an “of the Art whatever on the lake” – great trolling material, poor thought process.

Spruik on, salesman.

Personally, I wonder what kind of “soul” Belconnen is going to have. A whole lot of apartments have been built and are being built – not just Oracle and the proposed Alitude site, the miriad of ones peppered along Beisell Street, and the existing Miramar block by the lake… Everyone living in their little box, and so little to link them other than a megamall. The lakeside has lifted a bit, but is still dominated by takeout venues serving the latent demand of said box-dwellers and the odd foray in try out new pizza places.

Belconnen – not a place to be, just a place to spend.

I hope they all go back to the mall, b%#tards. I find it hard to get decent park at Jamo these days.

Rawhide Kid No 22:21 pm 02 Aug 10

mp2615 said :

This is a troll right ?

bloody traffic lights on every corner. considerable disruption to drivers, pedestrians, cyclists et al. I think all the shops at Jamieson are loving it right now. In the long run this voracious mall only means it will be harder for smaller suburban centres, which are at the heart of Canberra’s utility and character, to survive.

Um I don’t know. When shoppers get to experience shopping at Jamo compared to the Mall they might want to keep shopping at Jamo. At least for basic groceries and stuff.

This is a troll right ?

bloody traffic lights on every corner. considerable disruption to drivers, pedestrians, cyclists et al. I think all the shops at Jamieson are loving it right now. In the long run this voracious mall only means it will be harder for smaller suburban centres, which are at the heart of Canberra’s utility and character, to survive.

When was it ever not a good time to be alive in Belco?

screaming banshee10:07 am 02 Aug 10

So does you property go up for sale this week or has it already been listed?

And since when is the Magnet Mart/Goodguys building part of the mall?

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