Sorry for the posting overload. They're still trying to put a Target in the downtown plaza. Busy busy Rob Fong is all over it. The senior VP of development for westfield (the corp that owns the plaza) had this to say,
One of our biggest challenges to getting something done with Target is that they've got a store a mile away," Green said, referring to the Land Park Target at Broadway and Riverside Drive
Glad he noticed that might be a problem. That never stops Petrovich when he wants to plunk down a new pharmacy, though.
As proof that our type of organization can be successful, the Tower Alliance is cited as a major reason that they're not going to expand the century theater there to more than 12 screens. Hey did you guys at Tower know that the theater is "venerable"
Whole foods could hurt local businesses, such as taylors. I'm not trying to be argumentative, Beth, but I don't see how DP is more of an eyesore than it was when it opened (besides the hard rock sign). I think it's ok for a mall. It's exactly the size I like when I go shopping (small). I guess I don't buy that business is so bad there, but I don't go there that often. It can never compete with the Galleria or Arden Fair, and I'm glad, because those places are huge.
ReplyDeletewell, shit, we all already know that the tower is venereal.
ReplyDeleteFlorin Mall is no longer open. It had slid downhill very badly in the last five years. I was there last year with my grandmother, who lives directly behind the mall, and it was a ghost mall - only a handful of shops and most of them having going-out-of-biz sales.
ReplyDeleteThe only large store, J.C. Penny's, was more of an "outlet," in that they only carried remnants from other stores, and they had barricaded all but two single doors, where they had posted security guards.
I heard that they are replacing the whole area with a WalMart and a smaller strip mall.
downtown plaza is my mall of choice, but I guess thats not saying much.
ReplyDeleteI feel less trapped than Arden and its a nice lunchtime distraction sometimes.
I bet Wholefoods wouldn't compete with Taylors thats just my guess.
Taylors has a strong neighborhood niche, and Wholefoods might be used by downtown workers who would go on lunch on their way back to the burbs.
Both Whole Foods and Taylors are far too pricey for me, so maybe I'm not a good opinion on this. My wallet hurts everytime I get near Taylors. and thats why my heart belongs to Trader Joes.
-natalie.
i know it doesn't work for cities to have blighted malls but those are the only kinds i can stand. before country club got its face lift i used to like going and reminiscing about sitting on santa's lap during xmas when i was younger. the mall had the same 70s carpeting and a lot of the same shops. it was empty but i found that somehow soothing. i guess i'm not that into crowds. anyhow, now that place is a zoo. they ripped up the carpet to put down some of that shiny concrete and the acoustics are bad enough to make you deaf. they also made the facades on some of the shops jut into the middle of the mall and put in a couple medians with kiosks and juice bars and the like so it looks like an airport food court. i hate, hate, hate it.
ReplyDeleteare there really any examples of a good mall in california? or anywhere for that matter?
how is the mall struggling? it always seems full to me, when i go their the few times a year. Putting a Target there is retarted as there is one a mile away on Broadway.
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ReplyDeleteAh, Country Club Center or Country Club Plaza?
Plaza was actually originally built as an open-air mall, but that was before my time. But I'm pretty sure I also was taken to sit on Santa's lap at one them (but freaked out and didn't because I rather Odd Child).
This is a long way of saying that no, there isn't really a good example of a mall in California, at least not that I've been to.