Quite the opposite. I'm a very busy old hippie. I'm keeping the company that makes Viagra in business.
Yeah, I went to West Oaks mall about a year ago not knowing what happened to the place. Yeaaaaaaaah that mall is NOT what I remember it being back in the day. Used to be my go-to place late 90's - early 00's What. The. F. Happened?
With that said, my go-to malls were Memorial City. Like the OLD one with the fountains inside and Jungle Jim's Play Land. Still my number 1 go to mall to this day. First mall I remember going to regularly. Always went to Sears or Montgomery Wards and played the SNES or Sega kiosks for hours while my mom shopped around. Crazy how Visible Changes is still in the exact same location since the early 90's. West Oaks mall. I remember when I got my first pager from one of the stands inside. By pager, I mean a beeper to you youngins. Used to go to Electronics Boutique all the time back in the day,. Blockbuster Music as well. Awesome times Katy Mills when it opened. I used to work at the Old Navy store back in the early 2000's and it was an absolute blast. I thought it was the nicest mall in terms of appearance but the outlet theme didn't really do it for me. So many dates to Jillian's back in the day. I used to have sex with coworkers and Katy b****es in the back of my car parked in the parking lot while Sugar Ray or some other 2000's song was playing on the radio. Oh what it was like being 16-23 years old again. Great times.
Man when Champs started in the early '90s. Miller Outpost for jeans and Champs for everything else. I can't remember if that JC Penney had two or three indoor entrances but it seemed bigger than the other stores, I think the Lee College mall campus was near there too.
This is a lot of malls today. My local media has been running story after story about our failing mall in Macon GA (JCPenney leaving leaves only Macy's as a major store there). The Houston Mall (Houston County, GA) was my local mall as a kid, and is now 100% owned by our county hospital. The Mall (Galleria, not to be confused with your Galleria Mall) that replaced it feels dead. Thankfully the only JCPenney within 75 miles that is staying open is the one in my city. The department stores that have dominated Malls have really struggled for a long time.
that place was never really a "mall"... Just Sears and some technical school, and a few mom and pop shops.
same shiet as NW and Sharpstown... too many poor asses and ghetto young kids basically just wanna hang out there and window shop.
Still nice. Still seems to be thriving. They have built a Radisson Blu and JW Marriott on the property. IKEA across the street. We just moved our offices to a new office building that is attached to the mall. First spec building in the Twin Cities in a really long time. Light rail station nearby. Plans to make it even bigger.
It's doing fine but it did lose some of its high end retail which is a little unfortunate. The Galleria in comparison does much better as far as high end retail and shopping. But MoA is fine and it's still a great mall (and unlike the Galleria, it's organized and planned correctly). The reality is that the Twin Cities lost all of its high end department stores (RIP downtown Dayton's/Macys, its depressing to walk through that corpse now) during the recession and went from an above average city as far as shopping to average if not below average in terms of high end shopping. Not really an indictment of MoA as much as the city and state as a whole.
My wife is helping to keep Nordstroms in business. MOA still has 3 of the original anchor tenants with Bloomingdales the lone defector. They closed the theaters but they will be replaced with......theaters. As long as the downtown Macys keeps the skyway portion open (they are supposed to), I'm OK.
Baybrook is a regional mall. People from Dickinson, League City, Alvin, even Pearland, and as far away as even Freeport, shop at Baybrook mall.
