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Figure 5.4
Asian-themed malls in part of north-central Richmond (reproduced by permission of
David Lai)
they had entered Canada as economic migrants, almost half of them through
the business immigration programme. Customers too were overwhelmingly
immigrants, 70 percent of them from Hong Kong (Lai 2001).
The first large mall was Aberdeen Centre completed by Thomas Fung (of
Fairchild developments) in 1990. The mall's name is taken from a maritime
district in Hong Kong and the symbolism of home was further elaborated
in a rooftop mast, an abstraction of a Chinese junk. To the 60 stores of
Aberdeen Centre the group soon added Fairchild Square and Parker Place,
the latter pioneering Asian-style strata-titling for its 140 stores. President
