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Truly all of your comments lack imagination. You have an entire town with historic architecture and a train into dc and you guys ask about a mall? Ridiculous. It is this mentality of major corporate consumerism that is Killing our country. Open a bakery. Coffee shops bookstores, something people will love to come to and clean up your city. Stop asking what corporations can do for you and what you can buy and start Asking what can you do for your community! Sheesh. In a place so cheap anything is possible. Use your imagination. Sheesh, i live in tysons corner around the corner from the biggest luxury mall in dc and it is a nightmare.
Yet when I was growing up it was a great place to visit. Great memories of Christmas in the original mall and working there as a teen. It's the people that ruin it not the area per say and hate to say it but it will happen in Jefferson County too. Hopefully after I am long gone.
Ridiculous. It is this mentality of major corporate consumerism that is Killing our country. Open a bakery. Coffee shops bookstores, something people will love to come to and clean up your city.
So far this is my only complaint about the EP. Many of the locals are extremely enthusiastic about the main-stream corporate food culture.
I'd like to put them all on a bus and send them to Portland Oregon so they can see/understand the true value of highly innovative, cutting edge, sole proprietorships and people-powered co-ops.
I was actually hoping that the Wall Street meltdown back in 2008 would lead to the physical destruction of all these malls---bulldoze them--and a resurgence of your classic downtowns/business/shopping districts.
I'd like to see the City of Martinsburg award matching facade grants to downtown shopkeepers/restauranteurs, and limit the amount of new, big-box corporate-themed eateries.
Frankly until something is done to either slow down the traffic around the mall I will shop elsewhere. I have no problem getting into/out of the Martin's across the street, but I feel like I take my life in my hands whenever I leave the mall as traffic flies along the border road.
Making the former Sears store part of the interior of the mall will not revitalize Martinsburg Mall. I will say it again. If the mall owners want to revitalize that mall, they need to give shoppers an experience they can not receive in Hagerstown or Winchester- make the residents of those areas specifically want to come to Martinsburg Mall to shop.
How to do that? Another anchor needs to occupy the former Sears location. Such as a BASSPRO SHOP, BJ's WHOLESALE CLUB or a WEGMANS SUPERMARKET. Land one of those as a tenant then the turn-around of the mall can start.
Making the former Sears store part of the interior of the mall will not revitalize Martinsburg Mall. I will say it again. If the mall owners want to revitalize that mall, they need to give shoppers an experience they can not receive in Hagerstown or Winchester- make the residents of those areas specifically want to come to Martinsburg Mall to shop.
How to do that? Another anchor needs to occupy the former Sears location. Such as a BASSPRO SHOP, BJ's WHOLESALE CLUB or a WEGMANS SUPERMARKET. Land one of those as a tenant then the turn-around of the mall can start.
Another anchor needs to occupy the former Sears location. Such as a BASSPRO SHOP, BJ's WHOLESALE CLUB or a WEGMANS SUPERMARKET. Land one of those as a tenant then the turn-around of the mall can start.
With Dick's just on the other side of the interstate I don't see a BassPro moving in. As was pointed out, Wegman's has no plans to move in.
OTOH if a BJ's, Costco, or SAM's club moved in even I could be convinced to fight the traffic.
So far this is my only complaint about the EP. Many of the locals are extremely enthusiastic about the main-stream corporate food culture............I'd like to see the City of Martinsburg award matching facade grants to downtown shopkeepers/restauranteurs, and limit the amount of new, big-box corporate-themed eateries.
Anyways.....great post.
Your only complaint? Seriously?
As a soon-to-be resident of M-burg and coming from a city where independently-owned restaurants, cafes and boutique specialty shops abound, I am in complete agreement with you on this one, At-Chilles. I have been baffled as to why there do not seem to be any good non-chain restaurants in M-burg, or have I just not found one yet? I've asked around of the few people I've come into contact with there, but everyone always says "Have you been to Shepherdstown yet?" ***sigh***
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Bulldoze the malls
