Famous Golden Sorya Mall to get fresh start

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Kali Kotoski

 

Golden Sorya Mall (GSM), the semi-open air plaza on Street 51 in Phnom Penh best known for its seedy nightlife, will be undergoing an extensive renovation to make it “more commercially viable”, one of its investors said yesterday, refuting rumours that the near-empty venue faced imminent closure.

 

GSM, which opened in 2009, once operated at near-full capacity – with more than 100 shops and stalls leased to salons, arcades, minimarts, restaurants and bars. As of yesterday, the northern side of the block-long plaza was almost completely shuttered with locks on the store fronts, while only a few generally older male foreigners and their female Cambodian companions huddled in its cloistered central bar area.

 

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cloistered huddling? this journalist either has some good drugs or is a repressed poet