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Shopping Mall in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape province, The Mthatha Plaza Shopping Centre is located at 35 Nelson Mandela Dr, Norwood.
Mthatha Plaza shopping mall, which opened in 2007, is a lively shopping area that caters to a varied range of clients with a distinctive urban shopping experience.
The Mthatha Plaza boasts an organically-inspired design with trees and cobbled streets creating a shopping oasis that fuses natural lighting and ventilation, creating a welcoming shopping environment and pleasant retail spaces. With over 66 stores offering banking, fashion, eateries, health, beauty, and much more, the Mthatha Plaza boasts an organically-inspired design with trees and cobbled streets creating a shopping oasis that fuses natural lighting and ventilation, creating a welcoming shopping environment and pleasant retail spaces.
Checkers, Game, and Rhino are the anchor stores of Mthatha Plaza Mall.
The Mthatha Plaza Shopping Centre is a significant step forward in the development of peaceful urban shopping areas.
The tree-lined, cobblestone streets provide an oasis and add size and accessibility to a city notorious for its chaotic, raucous, and filthy environments.
The success of this 35 000m2 regional shopping centre can also be seen in the ease with which both high-spenders from the city and low-spenders from rural areas mingle during their shopping experience.
It symbolizes a step forward from the enclosed, artificially illuminated, air-conditioned shopping malls that clutter our cities.
It also doesn't resemble shopping malls with stores strewn about a central parking lot.
As a result, it begins to form a shopping center typology that needs be further developed.
A notable enhancement would have been to connect the newly developed pedestrian streets more directly to the town's cityscape and spaces.
