Ideas for last pad site at Penn Square

[BricktownGuy]

California Pizza Kitchen gets my vote.

[fromdust]

how about ruths chris?

[metro]

How about a Dave and Busters? It would be a good spot for it and they could connect it to the mall somehow. They'd definitely have to get to work on that second garage though.

[diesel]

http://www.wichcraftnyc.com/

'Wich Craft... sounds like a very unique upscale sandwich shop

[jbrown84]

Saltgrass
Pappadeaux
Buca di Beppo

[Bobby H]

How big is that last pad site?

Is it large enough for a movie theater?

The Penn Square Mall 10 inside the mall won't be able to compete with the new breed of cinemas now being built in various places around the country, including OKC. It doesn't have the high ceilings to support huge screens and large stadium seating risers.

Harkins' Bricktown 16 is a pretty decent multiplex (I was fairly impressed by the Cine Capris screen, although I feel it needs large format film projection). The Warren Theaters Moore 20 will raise the standards bar a pretty big notch once it opens.

Given the demographic to which Penn Square Mall caters, someone could actually open a high end movie theater with lush decoration, full bars and a lot of other luxury style services. Los Angeles has a few of these kinds of theaters. You pay a premium of around double or triple the price of a normal movie ticket. But you watch the movie in a very well decorated and technically superior environment. The rooms are smaller and more intimate -kind of like a private screening room.

[Patrick]

The remaining pad site is only large enough for a restaurant. And mall management has repeatedly told me they'd rather focus on upscale retail stores, than movie theaters, as they really don't want to have to face the teen problem that Quail Springs is facing. Also, that means arcades are out. After Moore 20 is built, the city as a whole is becoming oversaturated when it comes to movie theaters.