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Re:Mall landlords struggling to find takers at a price they’... by foobarian on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:56AM (#17293811)
A local mall in Natick MA recently lost one of their anchor stores (JCPenney) and replaced it with a Wegman's, which the first I saw a supermarket as an anchor store. I would love to know how desperate they must have been or how sweet of a deal they gave Wegman's to make this happen.
Re:Mall landlords struggling to find takers at a price they’... by wlesieutre on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:05AM (#17293906)
If I had a Wegman's I'd go to the mall. They're in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, but seem to have something against Connecticut. :(

On the malls note, the Chapel Square Mall in downtown New Haven got turned into apartments before I moved here. It's weird and seriously depressing looking, though I haven't seen the interior courtyard area myself. There has to be a better way to do it than this:

https://betweentworocks.com/welcome-new-havens-strangest-apa...

If anyone's curious to see the location on google maps/satellite, this is just behind the Omni New Haven hotel, the row of skylights is easy to pick out.

Re:Mall landlords struggling to find takers at a price they’... by heartbreak on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:56AM (#17294516)
Wegman's are further south as well. There are multiple in Virginia (NoVa, Richmond, Charlottesville).
Re:Mall landlords struggling to find takers at a price they’... by wlesieutre on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:02PM (#17294592)
Yeah, I listed just the nearby states. Connecticut + Rhode Island are a hole in the middle of PA/MA/NY/NJ. They're even expanding to multiple locations in North Carolina, but nothing around here.

I think my closest one is >2 hours away in Woodbridge, NJ. Used to live in PA and had a Wegmans, so it bums me out. Stop 'n Shop isn't the same.

Re:Mall landlords struggling to find takers at a price they’... by emodendroket on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:52PM (#17295158)
Wegman's attracts a pretty affluent type of shopper, doesn't it? The one in Taunton has Round One, a massive bowling alley/billiards area/video game arcade/karaoke center as its anchor. Which is a lot of fun but probably would have been considered an undesirable tenant a while ago (although I guess in Natick you guys did have Game Underground for a while).

The Taunton mall is actually kind of fun. The run-down nature means that there are funky little stores you wouldn't see in a more upscale mall. But on the other hand it's also half-shuttered.

Re:Mall landlords struggling to find takers at a price they’... by rjsw on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:05PM (#17294613)
Having a supermarket as the anchor in a mall is fairly common in Europe.