Mega Mall

These days going to a Mall has become a tiresome exercise.
About ten years back it used to be such fun to go to these big shopping malls and just roam around window shopping.
Now a days we go to Mall only if we have some specific shopping to be done. But this post is not about the shopping experience. This is about some construction marvel which I am witnessing at this particular mall.
This Mega Mall came into existence about five years ago if my memory serves me right. It was just some vacant space filled with lot of greens and hubby dear remembers seeing these vacant places, while he was inspecting the nearby railway track by foot.
Suddenly lot of construction activity started and first a big mall true to the name mega came into existence. Simultaneously a big hotel came into existence and within few years a big housing Condominium came into being. There was a Railway station built near the Mall. (yes same old railway track inspected by hubby dear). Then people started pouring in by different modes of transport and mainly it was by car.
A big underground parking was built in the beginning itself and there were some A/B/C/G and E/F parking areas with two levels P1 and P2. I don't know how many cars, these parking lots could accommodate but it was real huge. Then it became impossible to get parking on week ends unless one went to the mall in the morning itself. So we stopped going to the mall on week ends.
Now comes the construction marvel part. Then suddenly one day a few months back we noticed a new entrance saying parking and we drove through it. Hey and presto they had virtually dug out under the building so to say and constructed new parking lots. We could see the walls on both sides without plaster (looking kind of rock) while going inside. It was kind of eerie. But there was quite a lot of parking spaces. When we went there next time, to my surprise I could see them linking these new parking spaces to the building above by building escalators. (kind of reverse building order) . Everything was plastered and coloured and painted neatly. All these days we had to walk through the old parking lots to get into the escalators in the northern or southern side of the mall. Probably the new escalator will lead us to the east and west of the Mall. The mall is kind of linear and it extends from North to South with a Centre court and this centre court has small extension on Western and Eastern Side.
I am curious to see now where this new escalator will lead. I really appreciate the kind of building activity going on without causing any disturbance to the shoppers and the crowd seems to grow bigger by the day and it has an appearance of a fair or Mela going on every time we go there.
We always wonder how much the Mall must be making money by way of collecting the parking charges. Previously it was just a standard charge without any time limit. (may be that was why it was full all the time as parking charges are really high in a city like Kuala Lumpur). Now wisely the parking charges are levied based on the time of entry and exit.