The reviews for the mall are all outdated (2 in 2015, 1 in 2020, none aside those 3 that I can see) and of course during 2020 the mall was dying from lockdown restrictions and such.
However, as of the past couple of years the mall has been thriving probably more than it did before I ever moved out here. It has loads of new stores and new ones keep coming in, some close down and then they get replaced very quickly with yet another local business trying to succeed and have their chance - and some become staples of the neighborhood like the new bakery which seems to be doing fantastic and in my experience deserves to, everything I've gotten there has been delicious. They also have a brand new theater with some of the best newest technology and heated large lounge chairs for every single seat and really low prices of admittance. The food court needs some people who understand economics as they all charge insane amounts for low quality food - I mean a grilled cheese for almost 20 dollars? It costs under a buck to make that yourself, and better...no surprise they closed down in like 6 months but now they're replaced by some guy selling 20 dollar hot dogs. While I have no way to do so now, I like the location and the growth so much I've even been thinking about several years from now, if I'm lucky enough to have the money and sensible plans to, opening a business of my own in it.
They even have events like a small convention, every few months a vendors fair you can join to sell your own things, and a regular card show/trading thing. I think more stuff like this would be fantastic for the mall, even just small holiday events would bring in a lot more families.
The only thing I dislike about this mall is the lack of bathrooms (the only ones aside if you are a paying theater customer are way in the back by the theater and are extremely small and kind of really disgusting), the 'arcade' area needs to look in to having a real arcade put in instead even if it's just replacing what they have now with a few modern games, and one of the businesses just doesn't sit right with me though I respect their freedom to run it I just don't think it belongs in a family facility like a mall and I had to include it being there in my overall rating (along with the bathrooms and lack of entertainment to be here aside specifically shopping).
Oh, also, some of the stores are just NOT CONNECTED to the mall while being IN THE SAME BUILDING? It's very strange, but without leaving the mall, walking around the entire building, and entering a store directly connected to the mall, you can't access a couple of the places in the mall. It's irritating and damages business both to the mall itself and to those businesses - a terribly stupid decision by the management and seems almost like it's nitpicking for extra dollars (my assumption is that they don't pay enough rent to have mall-access and so they were blocked off, you can even physically see the fake walls in place - though maybe the stores asked to be blocked off for some stupid reason?).
Overall though, the mall is absolutely growing and doing much better than it seems to have done even since 2015. read more