The Gallery Shopping Mall. My wife used to work as a cashier at that Dollar store. Though it didn't even pay minimum wage, she actually liked the job. As happens with many workers these days, she wasn't fired outright but simply given fewer and fewer hours, then finally nothing, without any explanation. Bosses do that so they don't have to give these low end employees raises. Plus, retail businesses are flooded with so many job applications.
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This mall looks pretty empty. Were you taking these photos at an "off" hour? Or is the mall on the way out, like of a number of other inner city malls in the US? --Gordon in Nebraska.
Wait, there is a Dollar Store in a Swanky Mall? Is that an oxymoron? Dollar stores in my town are all "South of the Tracks". --Gordon again
Hi Gordon,
This mall is far from swank. After losing tenants for years, it evicted most of the remaining in the last couple months. The rationale given is that it's going to renovate and become an upper scale mall, but I seriously doubt they can pull this off, and even if they can, it will be a commercial disaster. The mall's owners haven't given a straight answer to the press about its plan or schedule for reopening. In fact, the malls didn't even tell its evicted tenants that they would have to leave until just before it happened.
As is, this is a zombie mall, one of many across this country.
As for the Dollar Store being in a mall, I've seen several, including one in Scranton, PA. In Delaware, I saw a storefornt church in a mall. Losing momey, many malls will take any tenant and will knock down rent to attract them.
In the Taylor Postcard, I wrote, "The dying mall has attracted some odd tenants, such as a satellite branch of the public library and an office of the State Attorney General’s Child Predator Unit. As malls die across the country, we’ll see many creative repurposing. Already, there are churches and casinos inside half-dead malls, so why not massage parlors, detox centers, transient hotels, haunted houses, prisons, petting zoos or putt-putt golf courses (covering the entire mall)?"
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