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Old 05-19-2014, 09:13 PM
 
Location: Columbus,Georgia
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Sad. 13 years ago Columbus had a mall to shut down. Only for a new mall to open.
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Old 05-20-2014, 07:32 AM
 
Location: Huntsville
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CBL & Associates Properties Inc. plans to sell 21 of its shopping malls, about a quarter of its nationwide holdings, in an effort to upgrade its remaining properties and boost the Chattanooga company's income.

Stephen Lebovitz, CBL's chief executive, said that the company plans to divest the properties within the next 24 to 36 months. He didn't identify the centers.
The only Penney's that is scheduled to close in the state is in Selma.
Interesting if MSM is one of those centers to be sold. I wonder if JC Penney and Sears will be around in MSM in 24 to 36 months.
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Old 05-20-2014, 07:40 AM
 
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Interesting if MSM is one of those centers to be sold. I wonder if JC Penney and Sears will be around in MSM in 24 to 36 months.
Sears and Penny's are the ONLY reason I go to MSM. They have man clothes at prices I can live with.
Most stores in most malls ignore the men.
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Old 05-20-2014, 07:49 AM
 
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When malls first became popular, they were made up of lots of more local businesses with large corporate anchors. It used to be fun to go to a new city and check out their malls because it had a personality. Unfortunately, over time malls started charging so much that smaller merchants couldn't afford the rent. In came the cookie cutter corporate stores and before long, every mall was made up of pretty much the same old same old, except for whatever the regional department stores were along with Sears, Penney's, etc. Most malls ended up being just about the same except for a different layout of stores and a different fountain in the middle. While I don't think it's the main reason malls started dying, I do think that shoppers just got bored. And once the economy started to tank a few years ago, the corporations pulled out and left some high dollar retail real estate that no one, especially local businesses, could afford.
Since the bookstore closed down a few years back there's nothing other than restaurants in Parkway Place that I go to regularly. I buy clothes in the big stores every few months. I wish they'd get a video game store, arcade, bookstore, or some other store worth going to.

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One thing we did notice was that it was sweltering hot in all three of those stores.
Sadly a common sign of a mall on its way out. The owners or tenants figure they can save money or ac, but instead they just drive cutomers away by making the shopping experience miserable.
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Old 05-20-2014, 08:35 AM
 
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I used to go there, not often, but I would go, I like JCP for cheap clothes, however, about 2 months ago I went there after work about 2pm, parked at the lower JCP parking lot, not many cars there. As I was walking in, a guy who owned a 2010ish durango, (I own a 2012 durango) said you beter watch your durango, I looked over at his truck and his door was bent and smashed and said his ignition was ripped out.

I won't go to that mall anymore...
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Old 05-20-2014, 07:20 PM
 
Location: Boonies of N. Alabama
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About 2 Christmas' ago thieves were busting into a bunch of cars trunks in the parking lot too, if I recall.
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Old 05-20-2014, 10:21 PM
 
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The sad thing is that if CBL had sold MSM eight or ten years ago to a proactive company it could possibly have been redeveloped.
But it was obviously their poor management that allowed them to ignore the big crime issues, both real and perceived. Most likely they have poisoned the well. There will always be quite a few people that will not go back if this is simply refreshed as a mall. And where would the stores come from. If they could lure stores that are in other locations they will not gain much from people who will most likely maintain a familiar pattern of shopping. There just aren't enough stores for a mall that large that is down to America's old standbys that are on life support.

Mixed use; but what use. That will be the question.

Raj
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Old 05-21-2014, 12:04 AM
 
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I will continue to go to Madison Square Mall at least twice a year as long as JC Penny and Sears remain there. But honestly I would rather be at Madison Square Mall when it is raining outside rather than at Bridge Street in the rain!
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Old 05-21-2014, 07:59 AM
 
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I think we need to go full circle. Tear it down and build a Madison County Colosseum.
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Old 05-21-2014, 10:16 AM
 
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About 2 Christmas' ago thieves were busting into a bunch of cars trunks in the parking lot too, if I recall.
On Christmas eve 2 years ago they drove a screwdriver thru the door handle of my GM truck and stole what they could grab. Police told me I was one of many that night to be robbed in the parking lot.

I still go to MSM, but only in the daylight and only park really near a door.

On a side note, I sure wish I could have seen the criminals faces when they played my TSO Christmas CD's to see what they sounded like. hahahahaha. Not gang music there.
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