Henderson Place Mall

Wasted Space???
This mall is sad. really sad.
Henderson Place is a large building across Coquitlam centre. Not much in this place. You walk in and walk out. Half of the units are empty and the stores that are open have nothing in them. I walked into a eye glasses store and hardly anything. Food court nothing special. Overall not worth going into. Too bad because the actual building is pretty.

this place is very deserted. ive seen more people in target than in this entire mall! too few people, too few stores up and running. it’s quite sad, really. i only went in there for a doctor’s appointment. i came on a saturday afternoon and i was surprised many stores were closed. even the bubble tea store was closed which was the only thing i wanted to eat because it was hot. there were only a few asian owned shops that were up and running at the time. such as clothing shops and knick knacks from asia. there USED to be an excellent restaurant called kirin but that place closed long ago. a mediocre chinese restaurant repalced it. only a handful of people were in the food court in the entire mall. i saw a few teenagers in the food court hanging about with nothing to do. there is one general store on the bottom floor with the owner waiting all day for a customer with a sad look on his face. pros are the mall is clean. and there are security guards present patrolling the mall so i feel safe. this place has so much potential, it is in the busiest area of coquitlam, but it needs to attract more people and more stores somehow. right now, there is absolutely no reason to shop or go there over coquitlam centre across the street unless you have a doctor’s or barber’s appointment.
here’s hoping the mall will gets more people inside and better stores after the evergreen line is finished. i will update this review when that time comes.

Complete waste of time, it’s a miracle people still visit when this place have almost nothing to offer compare to Coquitlam Center next door. The Tung Sing supermarket is low standard, dirty, lack of variety, crappy layout and unfriendly staff who doesn’t speak English. T&T across the street has a much better selection, decent freshness and alot more helpful staff. The Price Smart nearby is decent also now they start carrying a small selection of Asian products. The guy who owns this place clearly doesn’t know how to run it properly when over 50% of the stores in the mall are empty.

If it weren’t for the fact that the owner is so rich that he can afford to have a nearly dead mall (don’t we wish that?), Henderson would’ve been gone a long time ago.
If you were to come here it would be because there’s a specific reason to do so. I come here these days because of the Chinese restaurant, Grand Palace (the restaurant that replaced Kirin since its closing) or the other restaurant, North House. The mall has two eyewear shops, a small food court that includes bubble tea, Korean, and Chinese food. There is also a pizza place, a convenience store, a café that’s attached to a florist shop, a cosmetic shop, a bakery, a Chinese medicine shop, travel agency, a supermarket, Karaōke, dentists, and S.U.C.C.E.S.S. There used to be a HSBC bank, but that has been closed. Despite with these shops, the mall is very much empty except for the restaurants, supermarket, and occasionally the food court when the teens get out of school. I would love to see Henderson really develop into something like Crystal in Burnaby or Aberdeen in Richmond.

If you wonder where the high school kids go after school to hang out and date, come to Henderson Mall. You might even get hit on by one like I did (thank you but no thank you. I think if I do I might goto jail*). Anyways, with no Kirin, how does this mall survive. But then again it holds my eyewear store «Unique Eyewear’ and a pretty good food court, cheap and fast.

There is absolutely nothing to see here. The mall is essentially a barren wasteland. There’s an Asian stationary stores, a bakery and a couple restaurants. The only thing going for this mall is the Fresh Slice. But even that has a separate entrance from the street…

I’m going to have to give some props to Henderson Place Mall!
I’ve been going to it since my wee years in highschool. It was one of the first places to have a Bubble Tea shop, and its still there, and the prices are still the same, and its delicious. And their golden waffles are the best i’ve ever had!
When going to Henderson. you need to know why you’re there!
Food court. even limited to 4 – 5 open stalls. are yummy, delicious. and all affordable. Good portions too!
Kirin is there, and so is Koreana. Both great restaurants! I’m pretty sure the appreciate that the mall isn’t too busy, so their customers can find parking: P
Maxim bakery is there with their yummy pastries, and a few other shops.
I also like how they throw a few special events for the kids and the elderly during special times of the year: Mid-​Autumn Festival, Halloween. etc :) Its all free for the kiddies too~
If only other leasors could see the hidden gem you are, and open some shops that are lasting as long as the others… I wish you only the best Henderson!

I heard somewhere that the owner is this super rich person from Hong Kong and built the entire place without a single penny on debt.
And that’s why the owner can afford to charge super high rent (and have ¾ of the place empty) instead of filling it up by lowering the rent.
I had high hopes when this place was first built but this place is like a ghost town… I go there for their food court or bakery occasionally… There is a karaōke bar, internet café. Kirin Restaurant and few other random stores.
It could have been Aberdeen mall of Coquitlam, especially with a huge Asian population in the area, but it is just a big building of emptiness…

The building is an empty shell. Not sure how they keep the lights on.

* Build it, and they might not come. *
Silence. Emptiness. Ghost town like. Do you hear the sound of crickets chirping?
This mall is anchored by the Henderson Supermarket (
), a few restaurants like Kirin, and an HSBC branch. But I would say at least 75% of the space was either closed or not developed at all. It was eerily empty. Kind of freakishly so.
I felt bad for the few food court vendors that jumped up in anticipation as they heard my footsteps wandering by, as if they hadn’t had a customer in a LONG LONG LONG time. I couldn’t bring myself to eat though, worrying about how long any ingredients had been sitting around.
I kind of feel bad for the developers of this mall, Henderson Development. They also developed the equally deserted International Village Mall in Vancouver.