Latin American Shopping Chain Centralizes Security And Emergency Operations
Mall Plaza is one of the main shopping center chains in Latin America, and a member of the Falabella group. Mall Plaza currently operates 21 shopping centers in the region: 15 located in Chile, five in Peru, and one in Colombia. Of special note among them are Mall Plaza Egaña, Chile’s first sustainable shopping center, located in the city of Santiago, and Mall Plaza Copiapó, the first shopping center in the Atacama Region, and the first built with sustainability standards located outside the country’s capital. In addition, Mall Plaza is developing five projects which will open during the next few years.
In 2009, Mall Plaza came up with the idea of centralizing the security systems and standardizing the subsystems of the central control area of all the shopping centers in operation in Chile, mainly due to the difficulty of having access to reliable and timely information that would allow real-time decision making, in particular under a disaster scenario.