feb-2018c

48 court restaurants, in addition to government and commercial offices. Massy Stores & Pharmacy opened a new outlet in 2014. The Massy store occupies 33,000 square feet – including 20,000 square feet of retail space – in a completely refurbished and re-designed space that is also home to smaller retail outlets in front of the entry to the super- market. “Massy has in- vested a lot of money in terms of the aesthetics and the product offering and the whole ambience of the supermarket,” Eastmond says. “It’s a state-of-the-art, well laid-out supermarket. The mall extension cost us about $4 million and I’m sure it cost the supermarket well over $7 million dollars in new equipment, new electrics, and new air conditioning.” Eastmond says that the supermarket accounts for 2,000 to 2,500 transactions per day; 3,500 to 4,500 people a day eat at one of Sky Mall’s six restaurants; and its Scotia Bank location is the busiest one in the entire Caribbean. The growing success of Sky Mall has triggered plans for expansion. “An expan- SKY MALL