IMAX! Lets put in an IMAX we'd HAVE THE ONLY ONE! Thats enough for someone to travel to MWC!

Hopefully it (and Crossroads) won't end up like Dixie Square Mall....most famous for the location where The Blues Brothers mall chase scene was shot, it is still upright and has been abandoned for over 30 years.

Here is an article about malls, citing Dixie Square as an example and why the development business is driven by the financiers doing the same thing over and over precipitating the decline of one kind of developing since you can't get the money.
Fast Company - How Much Longer Can Shopping Malls Survive? (http://www.fastcompany.com/1557242/dead-malls)

Right now, Towne Square is the hotspot, and that's fine(maybe not for AAFES)...but, the area around Heritage Mall is good real estate. There has been new places to replace old places, but the effects are not the same. The owner of Heritage caused its demise (by constantly raising the the rental fees). The strip mall scenario is better in terms of revenue-to-square-footage. Now, if you head east on Reno-other than the old Crest, the rest is a ghost town. Target moved;Wal-Mart moved ; Albertson closed; now, Hollywood Video is closing(Blockbuster will soon). Everything happens in cycles, and as time past, things will come around to make these areas 'hot' again.

Well yet again, I'll have to remind you that TARGET IS OWNED BY THE HOSPITAL! For umpteen billionth time, that's why Target and Westlake were vacated from their buiding. It's Phase 3 of the hospital expansion, which won't begin construction for at least a few more years.

Other than that, we have 1 corner with 3 structures on it that are empty. Again, that's a ghost town how? I get so tired of hearing people say that. MWC should consider itself lucky that those 2 big box stores are all that are empty (or without plans for them). We could have 4 with K-Mart and Target...but Anthony's and the glass place moved in K-Mart and as I said, Target already has plans...look up the post about the hospital in the main forum, there are even renderings. So we've got an old grocery store and a wally world. Whoopie. Hollywood is nothing but a plan box building....anything can move in there.

Bomber I agreee with you about people saying things like that about MWC. I for one would like to see a multiscreen theater go in that corner by tearing down wal-mart, albertson's, and hollywood.

Imax!

Crossroads was dying well before GM closed. As many of us, me included, have said and tried to drill into the people wearing blinders, the biggest reasons are lack of updating and gang activity. Most people do not want to be near known gang areas. Plus, some freeway construction near Crossroads (widening of I-35) killed traffic. Heritage Park? Probably similar reasons. Plus that area (also Crossroads) are now for the most part, dumps.

quail springs is doing good, and its right next to edmond..a city reknown for rampant auto burglaries. just ask glenda chu of the epd.

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Anyway, Quail hasn't been doing as well as you think. It's surviving, but it's not exactlly busting at it's seams either. Being near Edmond doesn't make it well off. There aren't many stores in Quail that you can't find at any mall in America. Putting the theater in there was probably the best thing they could do to try and keep that place alive.

I guarantee if that theater wasn't attached, that mall would be closed.

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ANYWAYS Quail hasn't been doing as well as you think. It's surviving, but it's not exactlly busting at ITS seams either. Being near Edmond doesn't make it well off. There aren't many stores in Quail that you can't find at any mall in America. Putting the theater in there was probably the best thing they could do to try TO keep that place alive.

I guarantee if that theater wasn't attached, that mall would be closed.

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(corrections made for you in CAPS)

no one is perfect, so dont tout perfection.

Those of you that think the area around Heritage is a "dump", you obviously haven't driven in the area and don't know what you're talking about. You can't be a dump if you have several new neighborhoods built 1/2 mile away. There's only 1 empty building anywhere near the mall (Pep Boys).

How does that qualify as a dump?

along Reno Ave, from Sooner Road until Midwest Blvd echoes of a shopper's ghost town.

Theres a slew of businesses that was either once there and occupied by something less attractive, or just not occupied at all.

Venture Stores, became Kmart, then Anthony's TV & Appilance

Captain D's burned down

Pep Boys closed

Circuit City became Goodwill (before CC's bankruptcy)

Winchell's Donuts is now a florist

Wilco became Walmart then became Max Saver Foods then became Hastings and is now Aaron's

Beachler's IGA is now Office Depot

Heritage Park Mall is dead

Godfather's Pizza is now a laundromat

Target relocated to S.E. 29th

The Walmart on Reno & Midwest Blvd is now relocated at Sooner and 15th street in Del City

Hollywood Video has went bankrupt

So for the umpteen billionth time someone posts something like this without knowing the facts.

Captain D's was replaced by a much nicer insurance agent's office.

Pep Boys went bankrupt, has nothing to do with that store's performance.

Target moved BECAUSE THE HOSPITAL BOUGHT THE BUILDING. I'm so tired of saying that.

So i don't really see why a repurposed building is bad. You'd rather have Beachler's than Office Depot? Really? And you don't think the florist makes more tax revenue than Winchells? That reasoning would mean the Del Rancho remade to Popeys remade to Basil is a bad transition. The logic is flawed.

And yet again, we have how many buildings that are actually empty? 2 plus a mall (target doesnt count because it's already been timelined for years for when it will begin construction...and it's not this year either).

I don't see a ghost town