The "Nice Mall" vs. the "Yucky Mall"

[KillarneyRose]

Do you all have the nice mall and the yucky mall in your area? Our nice malls around here are the Annapolis Mall, Columbia Mall and, that outlet mecca, Arundel Mills Mall. They have stores like Hechts, Nordstrom, Bailey Banks and Biddle, Yankee Candle, Bebe, Banana Republic, etc.

The yucky malls, Harundale, Marley Station and Glen Burnie, have things like Dollar General, Rave, Glamour Shots, Payless, Value City, Sears, lots of boarded up storefronts and more mullets that you've seen since 1985.

It's kind of sad, because I understand that the yucky malls were once nice malls. Guess you never can tell what's gonna happen!

[Thrillhouse]

Yeah that mall in Glen Burnie is poo. Its only about half full now I think as opposed to 10 years ago when it was nearly full. I love the Anapolis mall even though traffic there is always crowded. I don't like malls much though, I like the stores that I can drive up to and run in to grab something

[LeslieAGD]

Troy has two malls: Oakland and Sommerset...Oakland is the ghetto mall and Sommerset is the rich people mall. Sommerset has a North and South building with a skywalk built over the main road to connect them. (stores include Neiman's, Tiffany's, Sak's, Armani, FAO Shwartz, The White House/Black Market, Kenneth Cole, J Crew, and Nordstroms, to name a few).

[juniorgrrl]

Baton Rouge definitely has "A tale of 2 malls" going on.

In its day, Cortana was awesome. Its HUGE. But its definitely gotten more ghetto since Mall of Louisiana opened up. Mall of LA has stuff like Abercrombie, B.Rep, Ann Taylor, etc (which, unfortunately, is upscale for this town). The clientele is what makes the difference. Cortana is in a scary neighborhood and at night, it looks like there are lots of gangs there. Mall of LA just feels safer.

[ZTAngel]

The Coral Springs/Boca Raton area has two malls.
One is in Coral Springs and it is called the Coral Square mall. All the little middle school wannabe gangsters hang out front. Many stores have been abandoned and replaced by crappy stores. Payless, Sears, and no name stores are there.
The Boca Town Center has stores such as Bebe, Louis Vuitton, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, Banana Republic, etc. are there and people come to the mall wearing something that they would wear to a Beverly Hills Oscar party.

[33girl]

ha ha you know this one Tracy.

Nice: Ross Park
Yucky: Northway

Nice: South Hills
Yucky: Century III (although it is appearing less yucky lately)

Around here we more have outdoor plazas or town centers which are more downmarket and then the enclosed malls have the nicer stores. I don't consider a plaza a mall. Although that's changing with the Waterfront development - it is located where the largest steel mill around here used to be. You do feel sort of weird, for lack of a better word, when you first see it and see some of the old steel works around it, but you get used to it - the jobs might not be paying the same $$$ but it's a hell of a lot less depressing than driving by the empty steel mill.

[newbie]

Luckily, all the malls in San Fran are absolutely gorgeous and have all the best stores . Here, there are malls of boutiques, and malls of more popular stores and big department stores.

But, there is one mall in the Bay Area that I don't particularly like -- Serramonte Mall in Colma (Daly City, CA -- about 30 min from SF). That one isn't the best.

[dzsaigirl]

Yes!

In my area of Houston there is Almeda (the yucky mall) and Baybrook (the kick ass mall). The only mall I like better than Baybrook is the Galleria, but it's farther away.

[AchtungBaby80]

Yep, on one end of town we've got Fayette Mall, which is lovely and is supposedly the biggest mall in this area...then on the other end of town, we've got Lexington Mall with decor left over from the 70s and about two shops.

[DZTUBAGIRL]

Killarney, Ha ha that is so funny!! I have always said that Marley Station is a nasty mall and no one ever listens to me. I won't go in it for anything. And don't forget about Laurel Mall, it is pretty bad too! Annapolis is awsome!! I do all my shopping there. I worked at Hechts this summer...great discount!

AchtungBaby, I came all the way from Morehead to Lexington to go to the Lexington mall and got there and saw that there was no mall!! I was so mad! But Fayette mall is pretty good. I want to go to the mall in Ashland and see what they have there.

Anne Marie

[shopgirl]

Can anyone tell me about the malls in Tampa/St. Pete?
Which are the biggest/best?

Thanks!!!

[Betarulz!]

Yep that's definetly the way it is in Suburban Kansas City.

We have Oak Park Mall, which has to be one of the best malls ever with a Nordstroms, 2 Dillards, JC Penny's, the Jones' Store, Eddie Bauer, 2 Abercrombies, Hollister, American Eagle, Disney Store, Gap, and a bunch of other good stores too. People here in Nebraska will ask me about it when I say where I'm from.

On the Yucky side however we have Metcalf South (but no Metcalf North...interesting) and also The Great Mall of The Great Plains. Metcalf South is absolutely vacant, it has a Sears, but the Jones' Store is leaving their location there for Oak Park. My dad said that MS Mall is going to be torn down by 2004 or something like that, but it's old and vacant so no big loss. The Great Mall is an entirely different story. It's in a town called Olathe (another suburb) and it was O-towns first mall, and it opened my HS Freshmen year to a load of fanfare. The gross intake for the mall in it's first two weekends was something ungodly like 75 million dollars or something just absolutly Huge. They said that every resident of Olathe went to the mall in those first two weeks, and with a town population nearing a hundred thou, that's pretty impressive. I think total number of visits was close to half a million in the first month, you could barely walk the halls of the place. This was huge news!!! Fast forward just two and half years later and it became the mall with the greatest number of shoe stores you could ever imagine! Now, you go there, even on a weekend and it's pretty empty. A couple of nice stores, like an OffSaks 5th Avenue, but the decor is horrible, and the rest of the stores suck. Go there on a weekday afternoon, and you find that the stay at home moms have discovered that the long straight halls are perfect for letting bands of 2 and 3 year olds just run away all their energy. I think the last time I was there I saw no less than 5 "gangs" of stroller moms...all with about 6 toddlers just running, and a couple of infants in the strollers. It was kinda amusing b/c there was always one little kid in each group who had fallen down or something yelling at the others to slow down.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

I'm not really a mall shopper since we have many of the nice mall stores separately on the street of New York City. There are a lot of malls on Long Island, but not too many in the city. Or maybe those are the 'Yucky Malls.'

[PM_Mama00]

Originally posted by LeslieAGD
Troy has two malls: Oakland and Sommerset...Oakland is the ghetto mall and Sommerset is the rich people mall. Sommerset has a North and South building with a skywalk built over the main road to connect them. (stores include Neiman's, Tiffany's, Sak's, Armani, FAO Shwartz, The White House/Black Market, Kenneth Cole, J Crew, and Nordstroms, to name a few).

Ahh yes! Somerset Mall. I feel extremely uncomfortable walking through there! The malls Downriver include the ghettofied Southland Mall which contains a few shoe stores, a bunch of stores like American Eagle and Forever 21, some cell phone booths, and some other stuff. Other than that, it's a 2 minute drive from my house, and has my fave store so I'm good with it!
The other mall is Fairlane Mall. It too is ghettofied to the highest degree, yet has variety.

[prospectiverushee]

Yucky Mall New Orleans- The Plaza of Lake Forrest
Nice Malls- Lakeside and Esplande

Here in North Dallas where I live, there are about 7 or 8 different malls near me. I've been to about 5 of them

Here are my rankings:

Nice Malls:

Galleria( cause it has Sacks,Norstroms,Ann Taylors)

Stonebriar-fairly new mall has Eddie Bauer,J Crew,Talbots

Shops of Willow Bend- I've never actually been there,but it's in Plano and Plano is a very rich section of North Dallas

Middle Tier:

Vista Ridge, Valley View

Kind of Yucky:
Collin Creek, Richardson Square