The shopping thread. (Greenville, York, Woodruff: salons, real estate, 2009)

[g-man430]

Oh, it was only a matter of time before this came up. This thread is devoted to mostly newcomers who want to know what large shopping centers there are and what each one has to offer in terms of retail/restaurant establishments. First is Haywood Mall, which at 1.25 million square feet is the largest mall in South Carolina. It ocated on Haywood Road just off of I-385 and recently went through a multi-million dollar renovation. The exterior of the mall doesn't look to hot except for at the entrances, but the inside is amazing.

Official website: Simon Malls | More Choices — Haywood Information, Haywood Gift Cards

LONG list of shops/restaurants-
Department Stores:
Belk
Dillard's
JCPenney
Macy*s
Sears

Restaurants (order at the counter):
Chick-fil-A
Dairy Queen
Fajita Express
Great Steak & Potato Company
Jambalaya Cajun Eatery
Le Petit Bistro
Panera Bread
Sarku Japan
Sbarro
Subway
Wok Presto

Restaurants (order via wait staff):
Ruby Tuesday

Retailers:
Abercrombie & Fitch
Aerie by American Eagle Outfitters
Aeropostale
Aerosoles
After Hours by Mitchell's
Aldo Shoes
All About Cellular
American Eagle Outfitters
American Greetings
Amy's Hallmark
Ann Taylor
Aveda Lifestyle Store
Bakers
Banana Republic
Bath & Body Works
Boardwalk & Park Place
Body Shop of America
Bombay Company
Borders Express
Brookstone
Buckle
Build-A-Bear Workshop
Caché
Candy World
Champs Sports
Charlotte Russe
Cingular Wireless
Claire's Etc.
Coach
Coldwater Creek
Dell Direct Store
Eddie Bauer
Express
Finish Line
Friedman's Jewelers
Footaction USA
Foot Locker
fye - For Your Entertainment
GameStop
Gap
GapKids
Glamour Shots
GNC
Goddess
Godiva Chocolatier
Gold Gallery
Great American Cookie Co.
Gymboree
Guess?
Hair Plus
HairSay
Helzberg Diamonds
Hollister & Co.
Hot Topic
Jarman Shoes
J. Crew
Johnston & Murphy
Journeys
Journeys Kidz
Karat Plus
Kay Jewelers
Kids Foot Locker
Lady Foot Locker
Lane Bryant
LensCrafters
Lids
Manhattan
Marble Slab Creamery
Marks & Morgan Jewelers
MasterCuts
Merle Norman Cosmetics Studios
Mimi Maternity / Motherhood Maternity
Mori Luggage & Gifts
Nail Fashions
New York & Company
Nextel
Nina's
Nine West
One Stop Cellular
PacSun
Payless ShoeSource
Perfumania
Piercing Pagoda
Pottery Barn
Pretzel Time
Rack Room Shoes
RadioShack
Reeds Jewelers
Regis Salons
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
Savvi Formalwear
SC Place
Select Comfort
Shirin Jewelers
Simon Guest Services
Spencer Gifts
Sports Fan Attic
Starbucks Coffee
Streetcorner News
Stride Rite
Sunglass Hut
The Body Shop
The Children's Place
The Limited Too
The Picture People
The Walking Company
Things Remembered
Thomas Kinkade Gallery
Trade Secret
Victoria's Secret
Williams-Sonoma
Zales Jewelers


Next up is the Shops at Greenridge. Located on Woodruff Road , this 513,290 square foot lifestyle center consist of many fine retailers and restaurants to suit your every need.

Official website: .: The Shops at Greenridge | Home

Other information: The Shops at Greenridge

List of shops/restaurants:
Ann Taylor Loft
Augusta 20
Barnes & Noble
Best Buy
Brixx Pizza
Charisma
Chico's
Coldstone Creamery
Dick's Sporting Goods
Foxfire Gallery & Kitchen Shop
Great Clips
Hand Picked
Harold's
Linens 'N Things
Longhorn Steakhouse (under construction)
Lowe's Home Improvement
Marshalls/Home Goods
Mattress Firm
Meal Makers
Mimi's Cafe
Mr. Knickerbocker's
Off Broadway Shoes
Office Max
PETsMART
PF Chang's
Panera Bread
Planet Beach Tanning Spa
Portrait Innovations
Red Robin
Ross
Salsarita's
Schumacher Homes of NC
Smith & James/Chelsea's
Swoozie's
Talbots
The Shops of Provence Etcetera
The Vitamin Shoppe
Total Wine
Twigs
Ulta Salon
Urban Nirvana
Verizon Wireless
White House Black Market
World Market
Yankee Candle

That's all for now. I'll do some more over the next couple of days.

[Mjames]

Thank You!

My wife will really appreciate this thread!!

[g-man430]

Next up is Magnolia Park Town Center, which will be located on Woodruff Road and open in the summer of 2009. Before you read anything below, please read this article first to understand what is going on with this development:
Magnolia Park Town Center: News (broken link)

A landmark destination-
Magnolia Park Town Center, formerly the Greenville Mall, is currently being transitioned from an enclosed mall to a 676,000 square foot, open-air shopping center that will include offices and a hotel. Current tenants include Sports Authority and Regal Cinemas, with an additional contract finalized to construct a Rooms to Go. It is designed from the ground up to be a lifestyle center and community gathering place. The high-profile site will serve as a major landmark destination for the entire region. The buildings and spaces of Magnolia Park will reflect the simple and refined traditions of the region while illustrating the light contemporary lifestyle that makes Greenville a much-coveted destination for achieving a high quality of life. Magnolia Park's refreshing approach to urban living includes plenty of options for shopping, dining, work and play with upscale amenities and conveniences - the perfect place to relax with friends, spend time with family or enjoy some leisure time. Magnolia Park will flourish with a distinct blend of specialty retail, upscale dining, state-of-the-art offices, and world-class hospitality, all in one pedestrian-oriented lifestyle village.

Please ignore ALL site plans you see on websites posted, except for this one. They are old and out-dated. This is the only one that is new and valid (Page 2): http://www.theshoppingcentergroup.co...s/pf000415.pdf The grey you see on the site plan are parking garages. There will be three of them in all.

Official website: Magnolia Park Town Center

Other information: Menin Development (broken link)

Already built:
Regal cinemas Hollywood 20-largest and highest grossing theater in the state/20 screens.
Sports Authority-store will move to location next to Costco.

Under Construction:
Costco-scheduled to open in the next month or two.

Announced:
Rooms To Go

Proposed(P) or rumored(R) retailers/restaurants so far. This list will change due to new developer:
Border's Bookstore-P
Urban Outfitters-R
Apple Store-R (Probably going to Haywood Mall)
Z Gallerie-R
Sur La Table-R
Anthropologie-R
Petco-P
DSW shoe store-P
Michael's-P
Lifestyle Fitness-P
Cheesecake Factory-P
Ruth's Chris and/or Maggianos-P
Starbuck's-P
Chipotle-P
REI-P
Five Guys-P
Ben and Jerry's and/or Maggie Moos-P
Aloft, Element, Hyatt Place, or Springhill Suites hotel-P
David's Bridal-P
FedEx-Kinkos-P
Camilles Cafe-P
Bravo and/or Biaggis-P

[p2y2r7o]

I am so insanely excited about a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse coming to Greenville, but I wish they would put it downtown. I guess it's good it's at the less busier end of Woodruff Rd...though it will be just like the rest soon.

[g-man430]

After that is Cherrydale Point located at the intersection of Pleasantburg Drive and Poinsett Highway. Phase 2 was just recently completed. Here is the site plan for phase 3, which was just recently proposed and announced (Page 2): http://www.theshoppingcentergroup.co...s/pf000999.pdf This shopping center located near Paris Mountain consists of a movie theater and many retailers/restaurants including:

Atlanta Bread Company
Bath and Body Works
Chick-Fil-A
Consolidated Theaters-16 screens
Dollar Tree
Dressbarn
Flat Rock Grille
Frodo's Pizza
Goody's
Ingle's grocery store
KFC
O' Charley's (coming soon-Proposed)
Old Navy
Olive Garden
Petco
Radio Shack
Ross
Ruby Tuesday's
Shoe Carnival
Staples
Starbuck's Coffee
T.J. Maxx
Wachovia

-These are just a few of the retailers/restaurants located at and around Cherrydale Point. Take a trip out here sometime and check out the other ones.

[Sonrise]

Gman,
With all due respect, the inside of the haywood mall isn't amazing. The thin, 80's decor carpet is filthy and covered in every stain known to mankind and looks as if it's at least 10 years old. In a word, it's disgusting. Replace it with hardwoods and then we'll talk. The foodcourt is awful as well. The rest is pretty nice. You're correct about the outside, other than the remodeled entrances the rest of the edifice reeks of 1950's Soviet era commie blocks. The outside of JC Penny's is, well, ahem....

This is totally my speculation but I expect a mall or should I say, "lifestyle center" to be built on Harrison Bridge Rd./Fairview in the next 5-7 years. It's the epitome of prime real estate and the demographics are there. This county has the pop. to support more than 1 mall.

Friday we were in Lennox Square in Atlanta. That's a mall!

[p2y2r7o]

Lennox Square is a mall, yes. Atlanta is also like, a billion times larger than Greenville...

I'm not a fan of malls to begin with, but I think Haywood Mall is perfectly fine for Greenville. Sure, a second mall would be good but there's nothing wrong with the current one.

[Sonrise]

g-man,
Where were my manners? Thank you for making the thread, very helpful. Sorry about that. p2yp70, (I'm still trying to decpiher that one, kinda like a personalized license plate) why don't you like malls?

[p2y2r7o]

Well, malls are good if I really need to find something there but I'm just really not a big fan of shopping to begin with, haha. I'll head over there every now and then. I usually get pretty aggravated with the people walking around in there too, but that's beside the point.

I do agree that Haywood Mall isn't the absolute nicest of malls, but it is definitely better than it was a few years ago! I was in Boston last summer and they have some awesome malls. It's pretty cool how they would just be in the bottom few floors of giant buildings.

And yes...many people have trouble with my username. (seeing as it's my username for AIM, gmail, and every other site i'm a member of) It came about a few years ago during my obsession with fire (pyro) and our group of friends (227 - not a gang, haha...actually i don't even know how that came about).

[Sonrise]

I lol'd when you admitted to having an obsession with fire. I guess you'll never be accused of being in denial. Is this something that has gotten you in the news before, i.e is this a destructive thing? Really curious.