Big news about local retail seems like a bit of misdirection . . .
Halls plans massive new department store at Crown Center
A Plaza mainstay (Hall's), there since 1965, is picking up and moving to Crown Center. Click inside to find out who's moving and when.
Halls to close Plaza location next summer, move to Crown Center
Now, computer modeling is great . . .
But let's look at the facts:
- TKC TIPSTERS Confirmed - A lot of old school businesses are own their way out . . .
- Doesn't this really just mean they couldn't or didn't want to play Plaza rent for an empty store?!?!
- Back on their home turf . . . Like it or not, we're watching the Hallmark empire shrink. Amid the digital era.
Photobabe: Candice Swanepoel
I have often wondered why this store wasn't at Crown Center many years ago.
ReplyDeleteThere is a Hall's at Crown Center, but it's amazingly expensive.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised that someone hasn't said it yet. All of the mobs of kids on the weekend on the Plaza are now causing stores to move out. We knew that this was coming. Hall's is just the first one. Bye-Bye Plaza. K.C.Mo. is pissing away another shopping area.
ReplyDeleteTeen Flash Mob is the reason there were no gas main's replaced at the Plaza for the past 70 years.
ReplyDeleteNobody wants a store front full of rich grannies when there's a gas main leak.. just sayin'?
Put down the bong.
ReplyDeleteJust some more white flight from the ruins of the Plaza. Can you blame them?? Over here now, just get in line...
ReplyDeleteLike Crown Center is any better when it comes to urban youths?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the employees at the last great buggy whip manufacturer felt in their final years -- that must be how Hallmark Cards employees feel in today's world.