Intact Former Mall Corridor Storefront
WEEK 51 – Barnes & Noble Ole Miss Relocation Revisited (I)
Hope y’all got all that, haha! And as if that wasn’t enough backstory, I probably should fill you in quickly on the mall situation again, too. The Oxford Mall used to be a two-anchor deal, with JCPenney and Wal-Mart… except when Wal-Mart built a new Supercenter down the road, well, that was the beginning of the end for the mall. Some plans to renovate it were thrown out there, and in an attempt to bring those to life the middle of the mall was demolished and turned into a new Malco Theatre, but ultimately the mall stayed in a stasis and Ole Miss purchased the property to use for extra square footage and – most importantly – parking. Currently, only the right half of the mall has been converted into offshoot campus space, but with JCPenney's departure in July 2017, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before the left half of the mall is touched, too.
The only retail space that Ole Miss has left intact at the mall – now christened the “Jackson Avenue Center” – is this space at the very front of the right-side mall entry corridor, originally home to Ole South Cafeteria and, more notably, Campus Book Mart, which opened here in 1995 and lasted until 2015, when it relocated to a separate location down the street. Likely, CBM’s relocation was a result of landlord Ole Miss kicking them out, so that they could put their own university bookstore in this space during the Student Union remodel. But that’s just conjecture.
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Intact Former Mall Corridor Storefront
WEEK 51 – Barnes & Noble Ole Miss Relocation Revisited (I)
Hope y’all got all that, haha! And as if that wasn’t enough backstory, I probably should fill you in quickly on the mall situation again, too. The Oxford Mall used to be a two-anchor deal, with JCPenney and Wal-Mart… except when Wal-Mart built a new Supercenter down the road, well, that was the beginning of the end for the mall. Some plans to renovate it were thrown out there, and in an attempt to bring those to life the middle of the mall was demolished and turned into a new Malco Theatre, but ultimately the mall stayed in a stasis and Ole Miss purchased the property to use for extra square footage and – most importantly – parking. Currently, only the right half of the mall has been converted into offshoot campus space, but with JCPenney's departure in July 2017, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before the left half of the mall is touched, too.
The only retail space that Ole Miss has left intact at the mall – now christened the “Jackson Avenue Center” – is this space at the very front of the right-side mall entry corridor, originally home to Ole South Cafeteria and, more notably, Campus Book Mart, which opened here in 1995 and lasted until 2015, when it relocated to a separate location down the street. Likely, CBM’s relocation was a result of landlord Ole Miss kicking them out, so that they could put their own university bookstore in this space during the Student Union remodel. But that’s just conjecture.
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)