Moreno Valley Mall Redevelopment Idea (Riverside, Redlands: theatre, high school, university)

[eloc08]

Gottschalks and Sears have been closed with no announced replacement anchor.

So what are they going to do with this mall? Would they like expand it eastwards and add new department stores like Nordstrom and sitdown restaurants like CPK and some stuff like that?

[apple92680]

Originally Posted by eloc08

Gottschalks and Sears have been closed with no announced replacement anchor.

So what are they going to do with this mall? Would they like expand it eastwards and add new department stores like Nordstrom and sitdown restaurants like CPK and some stuff like that?

Nordstrom Rack maybe? But I highly doubt that. They closed Nordstrom at the Galleria at Tyler in Riverside, but opened a rack instead at Riverside Plaza. If there was an exceeding demand for a Nordstroms in Moreno Valley, that one (Galleria at Tyler) would have stayed open.

Something to think about: if Redlands, with its university and upper-middle class demographic + Loma Linda next door, can only support a Nordstrom Rack, what makes anyone think Moreno Valley would get an actual Nordstrom?

Remember that these retailers pay for lots of data on a given area before any decisions are made. Such things as income + level of educational attainment + projected growth + consumer macro and micro trends are all weighed into the decision.

Secondly, in an economy where brick-n-mortar stores are competing with online, it doesn't make sense to open more brick-n-mortars.

Another thing to consider in retail is the amount of absorption in a given market.

[melonside421]

They should create the one necessary thing in pretty much every metro area: a homeless shelter. If you don't want them on the streets, put them in some building. I am guessing that the Sears store is well-spaced enough for this endeavor. This is a project that will actually help people in the end, maybe getting back on their feet.

Another idea is a school. In the area of the Crossroads Mall in OKC, one of the anchor stores turned into a charter high school. This will definitely help disadvantaged kids in the long-run than just another store. There's plenty of department stores already with new shopping centers all across the state and especially neighboring Texas.

[Forever Blue]

Is this mall still open now? I see over on YELP (the site where people write reviews for public establishments), this mall's no longer on there like it used to be, but the Crunch Fitness w/i the mall is & all the reviews for the entire mall is under the Crunch Fitness currently. Hmmm.

I don't go to this mall often, but did probably about 3-5 mos ago, in which they were doing COVID testing in a certain vacant store space. I've never seen a mall that contains a library, movie theatre, bowling alley/arcade center, AND a gym! This was probably a very nice mall back in its day.

They definitely need to remodel it because it's a nice, wide open space as well as the food court area! It could be great again like it probably used to be, although I never went to it back in its heyday because the 1st time I went here was just in March 2018.

I'd love to finally see some different clothing & shoe stores that most other malls don't have, but I don't know what that would be.

[DabOnEm]

If nothing else they could just demolish the department stores and turn it into a mall park or something. Either that or demolish the whole mall and start over with a new "lifestyle" center (housing + retail). This mall used to rely on people coming from Beaumont/Banning as well as parts of Perris. Beaumont/Banning are getting a lot more retail on their own now so no need to travel and Perris is following.

It's too bad the City of MV doesn't have the shopping centers on the other side of Day Street in its city limits. Those areas are busier and filled with mostly MV residents, but all the tax dollars go to Riverside. I wonder how that happened.

[eloc08]

How about this, could you imagine if Westfield brought the mall and called it "Westfield Moreno Valley"? Or even could the mall be renovated, which would look futuristic (or super-modern)? (or both)

[Pugsley]

The site of the mall used to be the Riverside International Raceway. Ken Miles lost his life there in 1966, as depicted in the movie Ford vs Ferrarri.

[Fisherman99]

Originally Posted by Pugsley

The site of the mall used to be the Riverside International Raceway. Ken Miles lost his life there in 1966, as depicted in the movie Ford vs Ferrarri.

No way...didn't realize Ken Miles died there...that was a good movie. My dad used to race...spun out on that track back in the 1950's. Could barely hear the race cars from UC Riverside back in the 80's when I was there before the mall was built.