{"id":72933,"date":"2023-11-24T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T22:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=72933"},"modified":"2023-11-24T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T22:09:44","slug":"new-horizons-mall-struggles-to-find-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2023\/11\/24\/new-horizons-mall-struggles-to-find-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons Mall struggles to find businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sharpening Up:<\/strong> Joseph Revelar sharpens his scissors before he opens his store for the day in Balzac, AB, on Friday, November, 10 2023. His store is in New Horizon Mall. (Photo by {Josh Salvucci}\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T<\/span>he New Horizon Mall has gained a bad reputation since opening in 2018, with many Calgarians calling it the ghost mall.<\/a><\/p>\n

I<\/span>f more stores were to open at New Horizon Mall, would it be able to compete with its daunting neighbour, CrossIron Mills?<\/p>\n

Small business owners within New Horizon’s walls are hopeful.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there were more stores open that would mean more business,\u201d said Amanda Kaywalchuk, owner of TFCTOYS.<\/p>\n

New Horizon Mall opened in 2018 and since then has struggled to find its footing. Though there is room for 517 stores within the mall, only nine businesses were ready at opening.<\/p>\n

The Torgan Group owns and manages New Horizon Mall. The property management company previously opened Pacific Mall in Markham, Ont. in 1997.<\/p>\n

As of 2023, Pacific Mall houses more than 350 businesses, according to its official website,<\/a> even though it opened with just a handful of stores. As such, there is reason to be optimistic about the growth of New Horizon Mall. But is that enough for the business owners to feel the same way?<\/p>\n

“The price is definitely good and I like the units,” said Overtime Sports Cards owner Rob Veldhuzien. Veldhuzien has operated the sports card grading business for 20 years. It started as a webpage before he moved to New Horizon Mall.<\/p>\n

Even with a lack of customers, a big reason why businesses choose that location is the low cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, New Horizon Mall is the best place to start a small business because the rent is not that expensive,\u201d said Joseph Revelar, owner of Rev\u2019s Barbershop.<\/p>\n

Revelar has seen some regular customers at his previous barber shops follow him to the current location. A recurring theme with some shops is having an established consumer base to carry them through slower times.<\/p>\n

New Horizon Mall is trying to change the narrative from being a \u201cghost mall,\u201d to a destination for small businesses to thrive.<\/p>\n

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Getting Started: <\/strong>Joseph Revelar stands in front of his barber chair before he opens his store in Balzac, AB, on Friday, November, 10 2023. His store is in New Horizon Mall.(Photo by {Josh Salvucci}\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Horizon Mall has seemed to have a bad reputation under its name since its opening in 2018. With many videos, articles or even Calgarians calling it the \u201cghost mall.\u201d [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":72934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S2 New Horizon Mall JS ","footnotes":""},"categories":[1248],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-style"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73122,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72933\/revisions\/73122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}