CyberZone MOA to close down by end of month

Barely a year after the new CyberZone at Mall of Asia opened its doors, it’s now apparently closing down by the end of the month.

Got curious after seeing some of the stores were packing up last Sunday so I asked several of the attendants about it and they said they only have until July 28, 2009 to pack up and move out.

cyberzone closed

They revealed that a lot of the stores in CyberZone aren’t making enough sales to maintain rent so the mall management decided to close it down.

Been hanging around that area for some time now and have noticed very few people visit the place:

Foot traffic is very low. Not a lot of people knew about the CyberZone area or even know where it is.
CDR King is probably one of the few ones people really go to and that’s only because the other CDR King at the 2nd floor North Wing is always full.
The bridge-way from the North Wing to the eComm Building took some time to get done so people wandering around the main mall had a hard time to get to CyberZone.

The vacant space left will then be converted to office spaces or possibly an extension of the existing call center in that building.

Abe Olandres

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38 Comments

Patrick says:

16 years ago

Well the cyberzone at SM North lost some foot traffic also since they moved from the old carpark building to the new Annex building. You’d forget you are in SM North because of the number of people there especially during weekdays.

But I expect they’d get more people coming in by next year once the Grand central terminal opens. Still, those shops there must have lost a lot of business since the relocation. Their previous spot was just more accesible.
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biliPH says:

16 years ago

yup, it’s tiring to get to the 5th and 6th floors of the new Annex just to go to cyberzone… even if there are elevators.

I wonder what they’ll do with the ground floor of the carpark building.
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Victor says:

16 years ago

I think the said area is better if it will become a call center office / outsourcing office etc.
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Patrick says:

16 years ago

@biliPH: It will be like a home lifestyle center area. All the tenants in the upper floor of the main building will move there so that they can renovate the city center next.
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peter says:

16 years ago

@patrick and biliPh

ano ba ang subject ng article na ito? Cyberzone MOA or SM North?
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Jovz says:

16 years ago

Sayang…fave ko pa naman yung CDR King branch dito since walang pila and yung mga products na mahirap hanapin meron sila..and I’ll miss ASUS PC Gilmore din. =(
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bertsan531 says:

16 years ago

cyberzone location in MOA is bad they should be located at lower levels same in Megamall…
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Mike says:

16 years ago

Maybe the mall is too big for its own good.
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Patrick says:

16 years ago

@peter: Sorry about the OT. I was merely pointing out that a similar thing could happen to SM North’s cyberzone since ganito rin ang nanyayari ngayon dun. Sorry again…
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Kaye says:

16 years ago

I never even knew this place existed.
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