We were commissioned to do some FN’B Feng Shui Assessment in our recent Shanghai trip. The location is Super Brand Mall in PuDong, Shanghai. It is in THE location in downtown PuDong where it is the only mall facing the circular pedestrian bridge “东方浮庭” being constructed to serve pedestrians of the golden circle of the banking, financial and administrative district. The circle will connect the human traffic of LuJiaZui Road, FengHe Road and Century Avenue.
Anyone would have thought the Super Brand Mall stands to gain as the only main shopping mall at the connector. But it doesn’t seem like it. Sales in this mall has dropped 15-20% since construction work started.
There are a number of obvious Feng Shui features so one has to wonder where does the function of Feng Shui lies in Mall Feng Shui.
You have a Yin-Yang technique 收山出煞 applied in an uncouth manner. Look at the jagged and slanted panels. Not all premises that have been Feng Shui-ed are guaranteed to do well. Not all Feng Shui application even those that use ‘famous’ techniques are applied correctly or sentimentally for protection and sustainability of Qi.
(This Four-Face Buddha has no Feng Shui bearing to the building.)
Mall Developers need to be aware:
1. Feng Shui can be maximised to attract crowd.
2. A well Feng Shui-ed Mall must fill the traffic evenly through all floors.
Look at this image during lunch hour. Super Brand is centrally located in populated Business District – you can hardly tell this is a lunch-time ‘crowd’.
The question is when the pedestrian bridge is finally completed. Will this flight of stairs bring more or less crowd to Super Brand?
