Attention, mall owners......shoppers want more

Shelley Fralic: Attention, mall owners — shoppers want more

Interesting article in the Vancouvedr Sun. 
Is your mall family friendly?

Metrotown, B.C.’s biggest
mall with 450-plus stores,
so it should know better,
has not a single free play
area for children.

At International Play Company we design, manufacture and install play structures for children of all ages.   Parents are not happy with the new mall.


Here is a play structure we installed at Eglinton Square Mall in Toronto, Ontario.  This is our Tuff Stuff, which is a soft foam and is great for children under the age of six.  We also install world wide.

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International Play Company (Iplayco) designs, manufactures and installs commercial indoor play structures, custom theming, soft sculpted foam play and exciting interactive events.

 For retail environments, we offer our Tuff Stuff soft sculpted foam play products and areas as well as traditional indoor play structures. Tuff Stuff is highly durable, sculpted soft foam play components that have a smooth, gelatinous finish which is naturally antibacterial. Add in themed carpet, safety flooring, padded seating and walls, play panels, shoe keepers and rules signage and you have the ultimate interactive play time experience that is safe, healthy and fun.

   Our play structures meet or exceed all standards set forth by worldwide safety associations. 

We install worldwide and active members of IAAPA, ICSC, MECSC, TEA, IAAPI, ACM, RSA, IHRSA

 

Marshfield Mall is celebrating the grand opening of a new farm-themed indoor playground.

Marshfield Mall is celebrating the grand opening
of a new farm-themed indoor playground.

The mall and Marshfield Clinic worked together to fund the building of Farmland Playland, a two-story structure for children 6 months to 12 years old that features climbing equipment, bumpers, tunnels, a tube slide and a tractor’s steering wheel.

Marshfield-Mall-welcomes-Farmland-Playland

Written by 
Marisa Cuellar   News-Herald Media

Marshfield Mall office manager Cindy Gosar said the playground offers a ground-level toddler play area with a small slide, and parents can easily accompany small children into the space.

“I think it adds a lot,” said Chris Weis, who brought his 2-year-old son, Hannon, to the playground. “It gives kids something to do at the mall.”

Gosar said mall executives and clinic leaders originally considered a medical theme for the playground, but decided a barnyard theme would be more exciting.

The mall and clinic wanted to create a place where children could be active, especially during winter, Gosar said.

“There’s nothing like it in Marshfield,” she said.

The playground’s opening on Saturday came in time for Monday’s snow, which Gosar said drew parents and children to the playground in the morning.

“Some kids were crying when they had to leave,” she said.

Sarah Marcott, whose 6-year-old daughter, Lakota, was using the tube slide, said, “The mall needed more things for kids to do.”

Gosar said she hopes the playground, along with recent additions to the food court, will attract families to the mall. She said she envisioned parents allowing their children to use the playground if the children were well-behaved during the shopping trip.

“As a kid, I loved coming to the mall, and we want little ones to have the experience that the mall is fun,” she said.