The Sims Freeplay- Guide to the Mall

This post will explain all about the mall, the clean up, how to unlock the shops and using the mall.

Map of the Mall

GROUND FLOOR:

MALL

SECOND FLOOR:

MALL 2

This map will show you where each area is in the mall, below in building the mall you will see the requirements needed for each part.

a= escalators

b= toilets

There are 32 shops in total, in the shops section you will see what you can buy from each of these shops and how to unlock them.


GROUND FLOOR

You firstly need to build the mall, then you need to complete The Sunset Mall Quest before you can start cleaning and building the ground floor interior.

You can have 10 sims in the mall at one time, so the more sims you use the quicker the clean up will be! The total time stated on this post would be if you used just one sim.

REQUIREMENTS: complete the sunset mall quest

Area 1- Entrance

  • Clean up trash- 30 minutes x1 = 30 minutes
  • Paint walls- 45 minutes x2 = 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Clean up trash- 1 hour 30 minutes x3 = 4 hours 30 minutes
  • Repair broken tiles- 5 hours 30 minutes x2 = 11 hours

Total time= 17 hours 30 minutes

Area 2- Fashion Walk (Shops on right hand side including the catwalk)

REQUIREMENTS: complete the sunset mall quest and clean area 1 of the mall

Build Time & Cost: 2 hours S15,000

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  • Clean up trash- 30 minutes x3 = 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Paint walls- 45 minutes x3 = 2 hours 15 minutes
  • Clean up trash- 1 hour 30 minutes x3 = 4 hours 30 minutes
  • Repair broken tiles- 5 hours 30 minutes x2 = 11 hours
  • Unpack boxes- 10 hours 30 minutes x4 = 42 hours

Total time=57 hours 15 minutes

Modelling Catwalk- unlocks catwalk hobby

Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S20,000
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Area 3- Style Promenade (back of mall, left hand side)

REQUIREMENTS: build 5 mall shops and clean area 2 of the mall

Build Time & Cost: 3 hours S25,000
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  • Clean up trash- 30 minutes x3 = 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Clean up trash- 1 hour 30 minutes x3 = 4 hours 30 minutes
  • Repair broken tiles- 5 hours 30 minutes x3 = 16 hours 30 minutes
  • Unpack boxes- 10 hours 30 minutes x3 =  31 hours 30 minutes

Total time= 54 hours

Area 4- Back Lot (back, middle and front left)

REQUIREMENTS: build 8 mall shops and clean area 3 of the mall

Build Time & Cost: 4 hours S25,000

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  • Clean up trash- 30 minutes x3 = 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Paint walls- 45 minutes x2 = 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Clean up trash- 1 hour 30 minutes x4 = 6 hours
  • Repair broken tiles- 5 hours 30 minutes x3 = 16 hours 30 minutes
  • Unpack boxes- 10 hours 30 minutes x3 = 31 hours 30 minutes

Total time= 57 hours

Area 5- Strut Avenue (back right hand side and bowling alley)

REQUIREMENTS: build 8 mall shops and clean area 4 of the mall

Build Time & Cost: 5 hours S50,000
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  • Clean up trash- 30 minutes x2 = 1 hour
  • Clean up trash- 1 hour 30 minutes x3 = 4 hours 30 minutes
  • Repair tiles- 5 hours 30 minutes x1 = 5 hours 30 minutes
  • Unpack boxes- 10 hours 30 minutes x6 = 63 hours

Total time= 74 hours

Bowling alley– unlocks the bowling hobby

REQUIREMENTS: complete the catwalk model hobby to unlock

Build Time & Cost: 8 hours S100,000
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Ground Floor Shops

1- All Sizes– adults

Build Time & Cost: 1 hour S1,000
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2- Plumbob’s- (shop already built when you open the mall)
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3- Casual Clothing– adult female (complete first row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S90,000

image4- Wumple Zone– toddlers (complete first row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S100,000

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5- No Small Feet– adult male (complete second row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 3 hours S75,000

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6- Growing Up!– preteens (complete second row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S110,000

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7- Shoulder Pad– adult female business wear (complete third row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S110,000

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8- Heel Yr Sole– adult female shoes (complete third row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 8 hours S90,000

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9- Style For Men– adult male (complete third row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 10 hours S125,000

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10- Zip It– teen male (complete third row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 10 hours S90,000

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11- Leap– teen female shoes (complete fourth row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 1 day S100,000

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12- Seniors Clothing– seniors (complete fourth row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 8 hours S110,000

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13- Simmer (Fun Fashion)– teen female (complete fourth row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 1 day S80,000
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14- Sport and Skate– teen male shoes (complete fourth row of catwalk model hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 8 hours S70,000

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15- Dreams– teen female (complete second row of bowling hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 20 hours S80,000

  16- Classy Clothing– adult female (complete fourth row of bowling hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 16 hours S125,000
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Pickle Sauce Burger Bar

REQUIREMENTS: complete the sunset mall quest in the time limit

To unlock the burger bar you have to complete the Sunset Mall Quest in the time limit, you can’t get the burger bar if you don’t complete the quest in time- you need to go up a floor (using the upstairs arrow button) to get the option to build the pickle bar, if you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The icon should appear now.

The burger bar is located on the top left level of the mall

Build Time & Cost: 15 hours S1,000

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What can you do with the bar?

Toddlers, preteens, teens, adults and seniors can have burgers (wait for burger- 1 hour) have a sim serve at the bar (10 hours) so that sim can have a burger- 10 minutes

Preteens, teens, adults and seniors can have a milkshake for one but teens can also have a milkshake for two (both teens select milkshake for two option at same table) if you want them to have a milkshake you again need a sim serving and then 2 sims sitting at one table as they share the milkshake.
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Juice Bar

REQUIREMENTS: complete the bowling hobby

The juice bar is your prize for completing the bowling hobby for the first time- you need to go up a floor (using the upstairs arrow button) to get the option to build the juice bar, if you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

The juice bar is located on the top right level of the mall

Build Time & Cost: 15 hours S50,000
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What can you do with the juice bar?
You can have a sim mix juice for 10 hours and teen, adult and senior sims can sit at the table and wait for drink order for 10 minutes, they will then take 8 minutes to drink it. (toddlers can’t)
Teens can sit at the stools and hang out for 10 minutes

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SECOND FLOOR

REQUIREMENTS: complete the sunset mall quest

You firstly need to build the ground floor, then you need to build the escalator near the burger bar to unlock the Pretty Little Planters Quest, once complete you can build the second floor interior:

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Build Time & Cost: 1 hour S15,000

You can have 10 sims in the mall at one time, so the more sims you use the quicker the clean up will be! The total time stated on this post would be if you used just one sim.

You can start on area one as soon as you have completed the quest

Area 1

REQUIREMENTS: complete the pretty little planters quest

Clean up trash- 30 minutes
Clean up trash- 1 hour 30 minutes
Repair broken tiles- 5 hours 30 minutes x2 = 11 hours
Unpack boxes- 10 hours 30 minutes x3 = 31 hours 30 minutes

Total time= 44 hours 30 minutes

Area 2- Hangout Central (and Makeup Artist hobby)

REQUIREMENTS: build 4 mall shops on the second floor

Build Time & Cost: 3 hours S25,000
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Clean up trash- 30 minutes
Clean up trash- 1 hour 30 minutes x2 = 3 hours
Repair broken tiles- 5 hours 30 minutes x2 = 11 hours
Unpack boxes- 10 hours 30 minutes x3 = 31 hours 30 minutes

Total time= 46 hours

Make up Kiosk– unlocks the make up artist hobby

REQUIREMENTS: clean area 2 on the second floor

Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S10,000
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Area 3- Memory Lane

REQUIREMENTS:  build 8 mall shops on the second floor of the mall

Build Time & Cost: 4 hours S25,000
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Area 4- Cinema Court (and Fashion Hunter hobby)

REQUIREMENTS: build 12 mall shops on the second floor

Build Time & Cost: 5 hours S28,000
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Clean up trash- 30 minutes
Clean up trash- 1 hour 30 minutes x2 = 3 hours
Repair broken tiles- 5 hours 30 minutes x3 = 16 hours 30 minutes
Unpack boxes- 10 hours 30 minutes x3 = 31 hours 30 minutes

Total time= 51 hours 30 minutes

Fashion Hunter Bargain Center– unlocks the fashion hunter hobby

REQUIREMENTS: clean area 4 on the second floor of the mall

Build Time & Cost: 8 hours S15,000
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Second Floor Shops

17- Fash n Dash– seniors

Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S60,000
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18- Little Mischief– babies and toddlers

Build Time & Cost: 4 hours S80,000
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19- Lookbook– adult female

Build Time & Cost: 1 hour S10,000
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20- The Business– adult male

Build Time & Cost: 1 hour S50,000
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21- Y.O.L.O Wear Fine Threads– adult male (complete first row of make up artist hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 8 hours S110,000
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22- Bang!Bang! Salon– adult and teen female hair and makeup  (complete second row of make up artist hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 1 day S150,000
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23- Everybody Skirts– teen female  (complete third row of make up artist hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 16 hours S135,000
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24- Scene and Heard– teen male  (complete fourth row of make up artist hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 8 hours S110,000
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25- Legit– teen male

Build Time & Cost: 12 hours S132,000
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26- Mandolin’s Boutique– adult and teen female

Build Time & Cost: 16 hours S96,000
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27- Kthxbai!– teen female

Build Time & Cost: 16 hours S96,000
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28- Electric Kapow– teen male

Build Time & Cost: 8 hours S108,000
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29- Tuck’s– adult male  (complete first row of fashion hunter hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 16 hours S180,000
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30- Friday Night– adult and teen female  (complete second row of fashion hunter hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 1 day S225,000
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31- Jack and Jill– preteens  (complete third row of fashion hunter hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 16 hours S140,000
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32- Summer to Winter– adult female  (complete fourth row of fashion hunter hobby to unlock)

Build Time & Cost: 1 day S150,000
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Photobooth

REQUIREMENTS: build Memory Lane to unlock the photobooth.

A sim can use the photobooth on their own for 5 or 10 minutes or with a friend for 10 minutes:image

Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S48,000

Wumples Play Center

REQUIREMENTS: complete the pretty little planters quest

When you complete the Pretty Little Planters quest you unlock the wumples play center for toddlers! They can play on the tree swing, tree slide and use the octopus see-saw:
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Build Time & Cost: 12 hours S20,000

Cinema

REQUIREMENTS:  complete the Fashion Hunters hobby to unlock the cinema

Going to the cinema takes 3 hours 30 minutes and costs simoleons:

  • Single Ticket-S20
  • Movie and Soda- S35
  • Movie and Popcorn- S50
  • Movie Date Ticket- S40 (one sim selects this option then the other sim clicks on that sim in the seat and select join movie date)

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Build Time & Cost: 12 hours S100,000

Indoor Skydiving Center

REQUIREMENTS: complete the fashion hunter hobby in the time limit

If you complete the Fashion Hunters hobby in the time limit you will unlock the skydiving center.

You can do a solo sky dive for 10 minutes or two sims can do a tandem sky dive for 20 minutes:

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Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S10,000

Coin Fountain

REQUIREMENTS: complete the makeup artist hobby

Once you complete the makeup artist hobby you will be able to build the coin fountain.

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Build Time & Cost: 6 hours S10,000


Buying Clothes

You can buy clothes in 3 ways:

    1. Click on the blue symbol in the entrance way to the mall as shown in the image below:

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2. Select the store tab in the wardrobe:

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3.Visit the costume and swim store or hair salon

It says NEW next to clothes you have recently unlocked in the store or brought in the wardrobe:

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This is a screenshot of makeup but it works the same as clothes

When you buy a new item it is then available in your wardrobe for as many sims as you want (who are of the same gender and life stage) to use at the same time, instead of having to buy the item for each sim like you previously had to.


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265 thoughts on “The Sims Freeplay- Guide to the Mall

  1. I would like to clear Strut Avenue but it says that I have the clear the Back Lot. I can’t see what I have missed when I cleared the Back Lot. Do I have to open both shops since I only have one open. Have you got any advice on what I could have missed?

  2. This helped me alot!! Thankyou so much thats exactly what i have been looking for!! And i just love your blog 🙂

  3. Is there a time limit to complete the catwalk hobby? I know there is a limit for the bowling hobby to earn the juice bar, which is why I plan to wait a bit before starting it, but I wanted to make sure i don’t have to rush and potentially spend a ton of lps in order to complete the catwalk hobby by a certain time.

    Thank you so much for all of your posts, you really are a life saver!

      • Enjoy your blog very much, My son and I always know where to go if we get stuck!

        One issue that just came up for me though has my head scratching. I finally finished the bowling hobby (Finally!) and it gave me the opportunity to open the last shop (Classy Clothing). I went ahead and built that and went to build the juice bar, but there’s no juice bar option! There’s nothing available there at all to click or activate. Have you come across this. Any ideas?

  4. I’m getting a message that says the tricks hobby gate is under construction , I have no ideal where this gate is I see nothing washing its under construction please help thank you

  5. I clean up Area 4- Back Lot and it still won’t unlock the last part of the mall. I could really use some help please.

  6. What about hair style/baber shop?. I want to have long hair, bcs I failed the quest, i didnt do it on time.

  7. Helpful guide! Although I think it’s so annoying they have the sims at the juice bar drink out of coffee cups, and only teens can sit at the stools in the front. It was kind of a waste of money- the only good thing about it is that now both of my escalators work so it looks normal.

  8. I have finished the catwalk hobby, but my bowling alley won’t open.. It should be open, because i already build it. Please help..

    • I think the problem is because the latest quest required the catwalk hobby it didn’t recognise it as completing to unlock the bowling alley if that makes sense, this issue will probably be fixed in the next update.

  9. I Completed the bowling hobby and the juice bar is still not available to build, and my escalator is blocked. Is there a certain amount of stores that need to be built to get the juice bar?

  10. Hi I finished the bowling hobby but I can’t buy the juice bar because it doesn’t show to buy. What can I do? Please help

  11. Finally finished the bowling hobby and the juice bar isn’t available yet. I think they may have changed it to where you have to buy all the stores too. Not sure. I still have one more store to buy

  12. Just thought I’d add- they don’t let toddlers eat at Pickle Sauce or the juice bar, but they let them eat at the Candlelit Fork. hmmm…
    I was going to have grandma take the grandkids out for lunch to the burger bar, but now I can’t! Lol. The weird thing is they ended up getting roast beef and spicy tuna rolls at the Candlelit Fork… Haha

    Great site, it’s so helpful! Oh and the comments aren’t working on the DIY home update post (unless you did that on purpose). I was going to add another change I spotted.

    Thanks for working so hard on this really cool website!!!

    • I have added that to the post!
      Yeah I did that on purpose because I had over 200 comments on that one post :/ I will turn it back on when I have got through the mass of comments
      You’re welcome

  13. Do i have to ooen the malls below where the burger bar should be? Cuz i just finished the quest but i cant see the burger bar icon to be built 😦

  14. I have completed the bowling hobby the first time and it said that I have unlocked the juice bar, but were the juice bar should be there isn’t any tab to click on to build it and im on the third time round of completingnthe bowling hobby for life style point. Please can u help?

  15. I have completed the bowling hobby, but the availability for the juice bar has disappeared. There is nothing to click on the right hand side of the upper mall. It was there before I completed the hobby and now it is gone. I wonder if anyone else has had this issue.

  16. Thanks for your guide!

    I’ve completed the bowling hobby, but now my juice bar has been “constructing” for 3+ days. I can’t move on to constructing anything else because it says my juice bar is still under construction. Anyone else having this problem?

  17. I completed the bowling hobby and it said my juice bar is unlocked but there is no unlock icon on the other side to click on to build it. Is there something that needs to be fixed/cleaned first? Do all the stores need to be built first?

    • I had 2 stores unbuilt when I started building my juice bar. Then, after the latest update, my juice bar would not stop constructing. If I tried to build a new store or a different part of the town, it said my juice bar was still constructing even though it should have finished. However, as soon as I built a new Sim HOUSE, the juice bar magically appeared. I think this is a glitch with the latest update. Maybe my “fix” will help you! 🙂

  18. Hello! First of all thank you for this blog! I just finished the bowling hobby so the Juice bar was supposed to get unlocked, but it hasn’t appeared on the 1st floor where it should have been. I haven’t “opened” all the shops yet and I am wondering if it is because of that or it is a bug. What do you think? Thanks!!

  19. This is amazing! Thanks for all the help. One question, if you town value is higher does the price of individual stores go up?

  20. I just completed the bowling hobby but I don’t see the option to build the juice bar, am I missing something? I am currently building the last store, does that have to finish first? Thanks

  21. I completed the bowling hobby, but I never saw an icon to open the juice bar and on the escalator it’s closed off. Was there a time limit on it? I hate this awkward empty space on half of the mall.

  22. Will the clothes permanently be in your wardrobe or do you have to buy it again if you decide to change into a new outfit just like the hair how it asks” Are you sure you want to change hairs even though you paid for it already”?

  23. Hi GirlWhoGames, I’m having the hardest time unlocking the Classy Clothing store. I have my Sims constantly bowling and I’m stuck on 9 out of 12 for the hobby. Any tips?

    • there aren’t really any tips for completing it quicker, all you can really do is just keep going or use LPs to do a lucky spin to try and find some of the ones you need

  24. Hi! I finished the sunset mall quest and got the burger bar, as soon as I built it the sunset mall quest started over from the beginning and now I can’t do anything else with the mall, any ideas? Thank you for your help!

  25. I completed the bowling hobby, but the option to build the juice bar is not yet available. I keep tapping all over the escalators but nothing happens, they are still blocked.

      • I don’t seem to have the ‘floor up’ arrow at the mall…the lock to build the burger bar appeared briefly once but it has gone now and I can’t get it back! Any ideas?

      • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

  26. I got everything in the mall done but i was building the juice bar well, i cant click on it to finish it because for some reason the arrow thing to go up a story isnt there. How do i fix this?

    • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

  27. Hi! You said to press the upstairs button to be able to see the icons to build the things but I don’t see it. I know what it looks like because I’ve seen and used it in houses/other buildings so I’m not sure why I don’t see it here :/

    • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

  28. Hi, I try to build area 3, but it said that I need to clear area 2. But my area 2 is all clear, only 2 stores I didn’t open, the toddler and pre-teen clothing. Is there requirement to open area 3 – like I have to complete catwalk hobby or open all stores? TIA

  29. I don’t have an upstairs button to build the juice bar. I completed the hobby months ago and it’s annoying me having that giant empty spot

    • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

    • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

  30. Anyone else having trouble with the juice bar since the update? The button to switch between floors is missing. I can move between floors at all the houses etc but not the mall. Very annoying as I can’t build anything else update until juice bar has been completed!

    • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

    • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

  31. i can’t build the juice bar cause i can’t have this 2nd floor aroow up. i have it at the community centre but at the mall – none. do you have any idea on this?may i use the opportunity ti say that your blog is the best and you are so supa useful to me 😀

    • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.
      thanks!

  32. Hi there, Can you please help, I have opened all of the stores at the mall and completed the bowling hobby but I cannot access the juice bar, I have read your blog (veryhelpful & thanks) but there isn’t an upstairs button for me to press, everything now seems to be on one level, any ideas please?

    • If you can’t see the button you need to have a sim go to the mall. Click on a bench on the left side upstairs as if you want that sim to “rest from shopping.” The button should appear now.

  33. Hi there. I want to ask how much did the mall cost to you? I haven’t built it yet but i remember it was 500,000. After the baby update the mall it now costs 900,000 to me. Don’t know it is because the baby update or because i built one more house? The price 900,000 is too expensive arggg. Any advice pls? 🙂

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