Palm Beach Mall to be auctioned off (Royal Palm Beach: stores, better)

[Rcraft]

ComSense...I have to disagreed with you again. You already have set your mind. That's ok. Maybe with the new owner, we will have a nicer area and maybe we will have the honor of you and your family visiting the area again...and maybe you change your mind and would you take your time again and write a nice quote, to encourage the people that live here? I hope so, I have a family like you that lives here right across the mall and so the mayor of West Palm Beach Ms. Lois Frankel....This area is NOT a terrible location like the rumors are trying to make to believe. It is a battle of real estate rumors that is trying to pick on this area and you are falling for it...nobody can sell any real estate anywhere... this location it is just Downtown West Palm Beach...close to I-95, close to Palm Beach Island, close to city place, close to the beach, close to worth ave...It is not anyway to be so unsafe like you are blindly trying to state. You have a lot of "not-so-good" things to say for a person that don't know that well the neighborhood and don't live at the area.Nice talking to you...

[Delray Patty]

Whatever they put there I hope they think it through..People really need jobs here and they are hurting.
don't know if retail is the way to go though..maybe some mixed use like offices and apartments, kind
of like the Renaissance commons down in Boynton? maybe that would work.....some restaurants, etc.
Just hope like someone else said it doesn't lay dormant for years....

[StreetSmarts]

I used to live in WPB. I was born there. How long have you lived in WPB? I've been to that mall more times than I can count. BUT, I hope it does turn around and become a nice, quiet, and safe place for you and everyone else in the area.

[Rcraft]

My husband was born in here like you...and we came from Orlando when we decided to purchased our home in WPB a 5 years ago. Our condominium is a great place to live.It is located right across the mall on the Presidential Way. We don't have any foreclosures and we have just 4 short sales from the 99 units that we have on total. Most of the owners are young professionals at the area, doctors, nurses and medical devices sales professionals.We have very high standards in order to live here. You need to have a great credit score in order to be able to buy or rent in here.Our HOA is the lowest at the area. We probably are the only building at the area that have more than $100.000 on reserves. All of our units have stainless steel appliances on the kitchen,all the units have marble in the bathrooms and kitchen and family room, all units have jacuzzy on the bathrooms. We have heated pool, gym, sauna and a great decorated and fun club house.Well, I am not a real estate broker, and I am not selling anything...but my husband and I indeed have invested in our unit. And I felt the need to stand up for our area. I hope when you visite WPB again you hear good news about what the "not-so-good" area turned out to be...a good area to go, a good place to live, a good area to hanging out with your friends and family, like it used to be. Have a good week.

[StreetSmarts]

Your condo sounds nice. I'm glad you enjoy it! Sometimes older, run-down places can be transformed and revitalized. Like buying an old house and making it new again. Sounds like that is what's happening by the PB mall. Glad to hear it. All that matters is that you and your husband like it, and that it's safe. Safety is most important. Glad to hear that it's turning around and becoming a great place again!

Originally Posted by Rcraft

My husband was born in here like you...and we came from Orlando when we decided to purchased our home in WPB a 5 years ago. Our condominium is a great place to live.It is located right across the mall on the Presidential Way. We don't have any foreclosures and we have just 4 short sales from the 99 units that we have on total. Most of the owners are young professionals at the area, doctors, nurses and medical devices sales professionals.We have very high standards in order to live here. You need to have a great credit score in order to be able to buy or rent in here.Our HOA is the lowest at the area. We probably are the only building at the area that have more than $100.000 on reserves. All of our units have stainless steel appliances on the kitchen,all the units have marble in the bathrooms and kitchen and family room, all units have jacuzzy on the bathrooms. We have heated pool, gym, sauna and a great decorated and fun club house.Well, I am not a real estate broker, and I am not selling anything...but my husband and I indeed have invested in our unit. And I felt the need to stand up for our area. I hope when you visite WPB again you hear good news about what the "not-so-good" area turned out to be...a good area to go, a good place to live, a good area to hanging out with your friends and family, like it used to be. Have a good week.

[Rcraft]

Well, our building was built in 2005...It is really new and safe as long as we owners and resident care for.As for PB Mall never got a face lift, I never felt scared to go there...but you always could see security driving or walking inside and out there...did I prefer to go to other places to shop? Sure, why not?They closed everything! I used to go there for Macy's, sometimes Dillard's...easy shopping...

[precisio]

ComSense I don't fault you for your feeling uncomfortable or for expressing it. I think its brave on a public forum. I just wanted to share my reaction to you....how you felt that day is how many black people, especially middle class, feel almost everyday at work, school, nice restaurants etc. For sure there are places here in Florida that I wouldn't go, but mostly I recognize it as a difference in economics and education rather than race. Not your fault, but I hope you take away something from that experience other than just feeling 'out of place'.

[Rcraft]

I highly I agreed with you "precisio"...

[Reedsmit]

This thread has turned to not shopping in the PB Mall because a person felt uncomfortable due to the lack of other white people. I think people stopped shopping in the mall because of the stores that moved in to the mall.
If Ikea built a store on that location, I guarantee it would be packed all the time.
During the Black Friday sales; crowds of people are lined up outside the Best Buy and Brandsmart which is in the same neighborhood as the mall.
If the new purchaser brought in new popular stores, nice restaurants, the mall would come back to life. The image needs to be changed.
I live in Jupiter, am getting close to retirement age, the stores of the Gardens Mall are too high end for me, the Wellington Mall is 30 miles from my home, so I shop Walmart, Target, Costco, Sam's and discounters such as Ross, Home Goods, Stein Mart and the internet.
I would love to see the PB Mall brought back to life. And YES I would shop there.

[Rcraft]

Target across the street had the same issue as the PBmall...however,they just have redone the Target again, and is always full again!