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A late, Bristol-engined FLF Lodekka of the Bristol Omnibus Co. fleet seen in the Centre on Friday 29th August 1980. Unlike most of the Bristol city services at this date, the 79 had remained cross-city, so this vehicle must be awaiting a crew change. "The Centre" has always been an informal term; for bus crew relief purposes this was CA(W) ...Colston Avenue (West). The canteen and cash facilities were in the pink building in the right distance, once the Company's head office. I didn't altogether approve of the recently applied pastel colour-scheme, but this was one of the best-known groups of buildings in the city. Within a few years it had been demolished, probably condemned by the withering epithet "mock tudor" (though it was overlooked that the Victorian frontage concealed a genuinely old building) and rebuilt in the fraudulent retro manner on a steel frame with modern mass-produced bricks. The Company's activities transferred across the road to the Colston Centre.
I'm damned if I can remember where the other terminus of the 79 was ...i.e. where this bus had come from. Had it replaced one end of the old 12 or 42? Following the closure of Hanham Depot the route number was transferred to the Keynsham-Filton service, which we operated from Marlborough Street. The absence of Cave-Brown-Cave heating from these last BOC Lodekkas has vacated space for London-style advertisements on either side of the destination box. The Carrefour "hypermarket" at Cribbs Causeway was considered one of Bristol's wonders when it first opened. Its size and range are unremarkable today. It passed into Safeway ownership and is now an Asda-Walmart.
The sharp-eyed among you will have spotted the Robirch pie van, no doubt freighted with gristle-rich wares destined to spend the next few days, still cellophane-wrapped, under a warmer on the counter of the buffet at Temple Meads Station.
Komtar Walk is a small sheltered mall in George Town, Penang. It is located in front of Komtar, on what was previously Maxwell Road. The mall stretches a distance of 155 meters, parallel to Jalan Dr Lim Chwee Leong and is being developed by Pacific Hypermarkets.
Komtar Walk is occupied by 19 upmarket food & beverage outlets underneath an open-air lightweight roof providing opening air dining.
Northwestern exit from the city. Road E60, Cluj - Oradea - Bors, Romania - (Hungarian Border 150km) - Ártánd - Budapest, Hungary 420km - Wien, Austria 670km.
A very important road to most of us, the road that leads to the west, towards the free world (or at least so we were thinking back then), and towards Central European civilisation.
To the right there's the Cora hypermarket, one of my food sources, conveniently placed. Then there are freshwater lakes, well-guarded as they stand for one of the city's water reserves, with the river Somes (or Szamos in Hungarian) behind them.
On the left side, there's Autoworld, a Volkswagen dealer, Arabesque and Praktiker, two building materials and home improvement megastores. Then there is Metro, another wholesale-style hypermarket, and Polus Center, one of our two great shopping malls. (The other one is Iulius Mall, on the other side of the city, and then there's a third one coming soon as well.)
This is a typical cloverleaf interchange with two main roads, and eight collector / distributor (you can see 4 of them here) roads linking them in each possible direction. I'm standing on the upper road, which is ring-type road that runs around the western edge of the city.
So behind me there's this road with the bridge I'm standing on, and the main road that corsses underneath, and goes straight towards the heart of the city. You could say that Cluj is a city built around the European road E60.
I would have loved many more lights and stripes, but there was not much traffic, as it was around 23:00 PM on a Saturday night. I might redo this on a weekday right after dusk, and then you'll see the difference. ;)
I'm taking most of my shots in the evenings these days, and as darkness falls after 17-18 PM, there will be many long exposures, until spring will come.
Sometimes, in the summertime, you can see prostitutes on this bridge, close to where I stand. Police is chasing them away, but they return every now and then. Right now, with the January cold, there was no sign of them. I wouldn't have stopped near this road anyway, if there was anyone there.
15 seconds long exposure, tripod of course, from the upper road bridge above the leaf exit.
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From Wikipedia:
European route E 60 is a highway running from Brest, France (on the Atlantic coast), to Irkeshtam, Kyrgyzstan (on the border with People's Republic of China). The road crosses:
* France (Brest, Lorient, Vannes, Nantes, Angers, Tours, Orléans, Montargis, Auxerre, Beaune, Dole, Besançon, Belfort and Mulhouse),
* Switzerland (Basel, Zürich, Winterthur, St. Gallen and St. Margrethen),
* Austria (Bregenz, Lauterach, Feldkirch, Landeck, Telfs, Innsbruck),
* Germany (Rosenheim, Bad Reichenhall/Piding),
* Austria (Salzburg, Sattledt, Linz, Sankt Pölten, Vienna and Nickelsdorf),
* Hungary (Mosonmagyaróvár and Püspökladány),
* Romania (Oradea, Cluj-Napoca, Turda, Târgu-Mureş, Sighişoara, Braşov, Ploieşti, Bucharest, Urziceni, Slobozia, Constanţa, Agigea)
* Georgia (Poti, Samtredia, Khashuri, Tbilisi),
* Azerbaijan (Ganja, Yevlakh, Baku),
* Turkmenistan (Türkmenbaşy, Serdar (Gyzylarbat), Ashgabat, Tejen, Mary, Türkmenabat (Chardzhou))
* Uzbekistan (Qorako‘l, Bukhara, Qarshi, G‘uzor, Sherobod, Termez),
* Tajikistan (Dushanbe, Jirgatol) and
* Kyrgyzstan (Sary-Tash and Irkeshtam).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_route_E60
*from Romania to Georgia I assume it's ferryboat east across the Black Sea, as we have no common borders, not even close.
Store ID: 3279
Address: 1600 California St
One other look inside the target, this is to show how bright and nice it was with the atrium style windows on the one side.
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1st Avenue Mall Penang is a multi-level shopping mall in the heart of George Town, Penang.
The name "1st Avenue" is derived from Magazine Road, which is known as the first avenue or street in the Seven Streets Precinct of George Town.
Commercial space at 1st Avenue Mall is spread over seven levels.
The eighth floor, billed Cloud Eight, has an open viewpoint of the city of George Town.
At time of opening, the mall had Parkson Department Store as the anchor tenant. And there is a Carrefour Hypermarket as well now.
This Meijer hypermarket (aka Supercenter) store opened in late 2009. This store is 192,000 square feet. Menards was supposed to build next door to this Meijer but postponed plans for their 162,000 square foot store in 2009 and officially cancelled the project in 2012. A nearby Walmart Supercenter opened earlier in 2009 and closed in January 2016.
I believe the big box retailers were overly ambitious when they built up at the intesection of U.S. 23 and Highland Road. Due to the recession, a lot of developement due to happen around this intesection never happened. Target doesn't seem to be doing that well either here. Meijer is the only store that looked like it was doing well in the area. Then again, the Meijer locations around here seem distributed weirdly. There are three Meijer stores on Highland Road within 20 miles of each other yet Fenton (a decent sized city to the north) does not have a Meijer. Both Walmart and Target have stores in Fenton though, so I wonder how many people come from Fenton to go to the Hartland Meijer.
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360 degrees Kuwait is a truly unique destination coming up at the intersection o King Faisal Highway and the 6th ring Road, amidst a busy and growing residential area. With a retail area of over 75,000 square meters, the mall will offer one of the most engaging shopping and leisure experience in Kuwait. Superb Architerture will showcase the best of international, regional and local retailers to create a delightful experience for visitors. A hypermarket, two department stores and fabulous leisure and entertainment arenas will be just some of its major attraction.
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Former Super Kmart / Kmart store #3784 (1825 North State Route 19) in Fremont, Ohio
>175,035 square feet
>opened as Super Kmart Center in 1993
>converted to regular Kmart in 2011
>closed July 2016
I am going to take a break from posting the rest of the Pittsburgh pictures for a while. I have to finish a post on the Century III Mall for Dead & Dying Retail and I generally don't post pictures used in posts on Flickr until after the post is published. I also don't want to spend too much time posting pictures from the same area or backlogged photos I took nearly a year ago. For the time being, I will be posting some more recent pictures from smaller trips I have taken.
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Rozzano area south of Milan
take a walk looking here and there
inside the hypermarket
Life scenes
SDC-5570
The Komtar Tower or Menara Komtar Complex is Penang's tallest building and the sixth tallest building in Malaysia located in the heart of George Town, dominating the island's skyline. KOMTAR is an acronym for Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak. When the skyscraper topped out it was the second tallest building in Asia after Sunshine 60 in Tokyo. Komtar was still Malaysia's tallest building for 3 years before it was surpassed by Menara Maybank in Kuala Lumpur in 1988.
Komtar is a multipurpose complex consisting of retail outlets, transportation hub and administrative offices for the Penang State Government. An acronym for Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak, KOMTAR was named after Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, the second prime minister of Malaysia, who officiated in the piling of Phase 1 on 1 January 1974. It bears the same name as Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak in Johor Bahru, built about the same time but on a smaller scale. The Johor Bahru KOMTAR only has 25 storeys.
The 65-storey tower is a 232 m (761 ft) 12-sided geometric block atop a 4-storey podium. The complex comprises office and retail commercial space as well as public and recreational facilities. It was designed by Architects Team 3 (AT3) of Singapore.[5] and designed and constructed with local expertise, also a geodesic dome of Buckminster Fuller's design. The architect involved in the design of the building was Lim Chong Keat, the younger brother of Dr Lim Chong Eu.
Last time I was at Komtar I couldn't help but notice how run down it all appeared - it looked pretty ramshackle and shabby. But some improvements are made…. Shoppers in Komtar no longer have to cross busy streets to get to 1st Avenue, Prangin Mall, ICT Digital Mall, the Traders Hotel, Pacific Hypermarket or the central bus terminal and taxi stands.
And …..the iconic Komtar tower in Penang is set to undergo a 30-month long renovation.
An unidentified ex-Etat 140C 2-8-0 stands on shed at Verdun in the snow. The site of the depot today is occupied by a Leclerc hypermarket and car park.
southern Milan - Rozzano area
Hypermarket and surroundings
four steps
desire for flowers,
life scenes
SGC-7112
This Meijer hypermarket store was opened in 1988 and closed in June 2016. The inside signs appear to date to the 1990s while the varying ceilings in different parts of the store are original. Newer and remodeled Meijer stores have an open ceiling storewide. I wish I had more interior photos of the store and I sadly missed the grocery section completely. The store is being converted into offices for Huntington Bank.
Here are some older pictures I took of the exterior of this store. www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=71978807%40N03&sort=da...
Former Meijer - Cleveland Avenue - Columbus, Ohio
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This Sunday, our teaser photo for our next major store tour quite clearly shows us a Kroger fuel center, so I don’t think it’s any question what chain we’ll be exploring… so the question now becomes, which location are we headed to? I’ll give you a hint: it’s one we’ve seen before, and nothing has changed… egad, that’s actually two hints! I’ll leave the rest up to you. If you’d like to play along, please leave your guess(es) in the comments below!
Also, just to plug: if you haven’t seen them yet, please check out my two blog posts from last week, one on the history of Kmart’s Jackson, MS, American Fare store (a hypermarket), and the other on Kroger’s short-lived “Welcome” store concept (a superwarehouse). Oh, and enjoy these music recommendations, too!
1. A Horse With No Name – America
2. Send My Love (To Your New Lover) – Adele
3. Nocturnal – Eve 6
4. Just a Girl – No Doubt
5. Jolene – Dolly Parton
6. Novocaine – Fall Out Boy
7. Bad Girlfriend – Theory of a Deadman 🔥
8. Adult Education – Hall and Oates
9. How’s It Going To Be – Third Eye Blind 🔥
10. Luck Down – Cold War Kids
11. The Golden Floor – Snow Patrol
12. Criticize – Adelitas Way
13. Counting Blue Cars – Dishwalla
Kroger Fuel Center // 2013 University Avenue, Oxford, MS 38655
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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 :)
1st Avenue Mall Penang is a multi-level shopping mall in the heart of George Town, Penang.
The name "1st Avenue" is derived from Magazine Road, which is known as the first avenue or street in the Seven Streets Precinct of George Town.
Commercial space at 1st Avenue Mall is spread over seven levels.
The eighth floor, billed Cloud Eight, has an open viewpoint of the city of George Town.
At time of opening, the mall had Parkson Department Store as the anchor tenant. And there is a Carrefour Hypermarket as well now.
I didn't have masses of luck finding new Norev releases on my latest trip to France. I certainly didn't find any of their new classic mix though did strike gold at my nearest and definitely most bountiful E.Leclerc hypermarket.
Still very reasonably priced when you consider these are pretty much collector grade models. Authentic down to the individual alloy wheel designs and highly sculptured interiors plus extremely on point front and rear tampo detailing.
Mint and boxed.
The Forest Fair Mall was opened in 1989 and originally featured Bigg's Hypermarket, Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, Elder-Beerman, Parisian, and Sakowitz as anchor stores. By the early 2000s, all of the anchor stores original to the mall had closed except for Bigg's Hypermarket.
The mall underwent two major renovations since its debut. One was done in the early 1990s to make the mall more of a discount-based mall and cost $8 Million. Mills later took over the mall and spent nearly $70 million renovating the struggling mall into Cincinnati Mills, which opened in 2004. Bass Pro Shops, Showcase Cinemas, Kohl's, and Burlington Coat Factory later moved into the mall to replace the original anchor stores. Mills was later taken over by Simon Malls. After struggling to keep the mall filled, Simon sold the mall off. The name was changed to Cincinnati Mall in 2009. The mall reportedly changed its name to Forest Fair Village in 2013 but never officially changed any of the exterior or interior signs saying "Cincinnati Mall".
This mall is very modern for a dead mall. I guess it goes to show that some malls just can't be saved no matter how much money is poured into them. There are two other major malls within several miles of this one that were built earlier with more stable (in the long run) anchor stores like Sears and JCPenney. This mall was also built off an exit that didn't get nearly the development as around the area's other malls. The mall still seems most commonly refered to as Cincinnati Mills. Today, this nearly 2,000,000 square foot mall has only Kohl's, Bass Pro Shops (leaving later in 2015), and Babies R Us as anchor stores. The interior of the mall is (by my estimate) about 95% empty.
Forest Fair Mall / Cincinnati Mills / Cincinnati Mall - Cincinnati Mills Drive - Forest Park, Ohio
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RM 1.50 is $ 0.50 about Eurocent 0.40 - and I still can't identify what they taste like, not like orange.... they look nice though, the pandan ones on the left are much nicer :)
I just love pandan anything :)
A Meijer store in Livonia, Michigan that was built in the early 2000s.
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Store ID: 3279
Address: 1600 California St
Finally, a quick return trip to check out the downtown Denver target store. The store's main entry is on the 16th Street Mall. This location opened around 2018 and is located in what was previously a smaller downtown oriented indoor shopping mall space known as California Mall.
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The Swift was the number one choice for Blackpool for it's single-deck work and were supplied in various batches. New in 05/1974, this one is seen here leaving the town's draughty and dingy Blackpool Bus Station, on Talbot Road, heading for some nondescript Hypermarket. Sister bus, 570, lives on in preservation. Although the car park remains on top, this area has since been totally re-developed. The buses stopped using the bus station back in 2002.
The camera being a Praktica MTL3.
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A Meijer store in Livonia, Michigan that was built in the early 2000s.
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Newer sign put up in November 2013!
This approximately 200,000 square foot Super Kmart had its grand opening on October 27, 1993 and continues operating as of December 2014. This makes it the longest continuously operating supercenter (superstore, megastore, hypermarket, or whatever you want to call it!) in Northeastern Ohio. This store is closing in September 2016.
Super Kmart Center - Leavitt Road and Cooper Foster Park Road - Lorain, Ohio
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This 55,500 sq. ft. former Food Basics store in North Bergen, NJ is one of 5 stores which were acquired by Brooklyn-based Food Bazaar Supermarkets during A&P's bankruptcy in 2015.
This store opened as Waldbaums in early 90's and was built on property that once housed a giant 2-level Two Guys hypermarket which had lay vacant for 8 years. A&P opened the new Waldbaums here as part of a 4-store push of the brand into urban New Jersey which fizzled. Soon after, the store was converted into an A&P Food Market, and it became a Food Basics in 2002. The store has a unique design due to the fact that it is built into the side of a cliff. As you can see in this picture, loading docks are located in the front, to the right of the entrance. As for parking, there is a small parking lot in the front, as well as a full underground parking deck with giant elevators which bring shoppers into the supermarket.
The store closed in November, 2015, was completely gutted, and is currently being converted to the Food Bazaar brand. This store will be one of 5 Food Bazaar stores to operate in New Jersey.
Food Bazaar, or Bogopa, as it is officially called, is a Brooklyn-based self-distributed grocer currently operating 19 supermarkets in the New York Metro area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut). The company has taken over a number of stores from other operators and targets diverse neighborhoods with its deep Latin and Korean selections. Their roots are serving the many independent Korean markets in Brooklyn and Queens, and it still distributes to these markets, in addition to its own Food Bazaar markets.
The company uses the "Hy-Top" brand from Federated Group as its primary house label, and also markets certain products under its own "Bogopa" house label. With its rapid growth, it has recently been introducing more and more products under the Bogopa label.
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Luminoso de centro comercial
Serie - Foto Verano 2009 Asturias
Recuedos del Verano, Luminoso de centro comercial
Series - Photo Summer 2009 Asturias
Summer recollections, Luminous of supermarket.
A Meijer store in Livonia, Michigan that was built in the early 2000s.
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A Meijer store in Livonia, Michigan that was built in the early 2000s.
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Former Super Kmart / Kmart store #3784 (1825 North State Route 19) in Fremont, Ohio
>175,035 square feet
>opened as Super Kmart Center in 1993
>converted to regular Kmart in 2011
>closed July 2016
I am going to take a break from posting the rest of the Pittsburgh pictures for a while. I have to finish a post on the Century III Mall for Dead & Dying Retail and I generally don't post pictures used in posts on Flickr until after the post is published. I also don't want to spend too much time posting pictures from the same area or backlogged photos I took nearly a year ago. For the time being, I will be posting some more recent pictures from smaller trips I have taken.
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Former Super Kmart / Kmart store #3784 (1825 North State Route 19) in Fremont, Ohio
>175,035 square feet
>opened as Super Kmart Center in 1993
>converted to regular Kmart in 2011
>closed July 2016
I am going to take a break from posting the rest of the Pittsburgh pictures for a while. I have to finish a post on the Century III Mall for Dead & Dying Retail and I generally don't post pictures used in posts on Flickr until after the post is published. I also don't want to spend too much time posting pictures from the same area or backlogged photos I took nearly a year ago. For the time being, I will be posting some more recent pictures from smaller trips I have taken.
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A former shoe store, abandoned for almost 30 years . The place surprises with its size (about 4000 m2) , which could be compareable to a hypermarket. Many decisions have been (unsuccessfully) taken by authorities since 2002 to force the owner to arrange the site, but the old shopping complex continues to degrade over time…
Un ancien magasin de chaussures, laissé à l'abandon depuis bientôt 30 ans. Le lieu surprend par sa superficie (environ 4000 m2), comparable à celle d'un hypermarché. Bien que de nombreuses mesures ont été prises (en vain) par les autorités depuis 2002 pour contraindre le propriétaire à arranger le site, l'ancien complexe commercial continue à se dégrader au fil du temps…
This was a Ruby Tuesday location and later a mexican restaurant called Margaritas
The Forest Fair Mall was opened in 1989 and originally featured Bigg's Hypermarket, Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, Elder-Beerman, Parisian, and Sakowitz as anchor stores. By the early 2000s, all of the anchor stores original to the mall had closed except for Bigg's Hypermarket.
The mall underwent two major renovations since its debut. One was done in the early 1990s to make the mall more of a discount-based mall and cost $8 Million. Mills later took over the mall and spent nearly $70 million renovating the struggling mall into Cincinnati Mills, which opened in 2004. Bass Pro Shops, Showcase Cinemas, Kohl's, and Burlington Coat Factory later moved into the mall to replace the original anchor stores. Mills was later taken over by Simon Malls. After struggling to keep the mall filled, Simon sold the mall off. The name was changed to Cincinnati Mall in 2009. The mall reportedly changed its name to Forest Fair Village in 2013 but never officially changed any of the exterior or interior signs saying "Cincinnati Mall".
This mall is very modern for a dead mall. I guess it goes to show that some malls just can't be saved no matter how much money is poured into them. There are two other major malls within several miles of this one that were built earlier with more stable (in the long run) anchor stores like Sears and JCPenney. This mall was also built off an exit that didn't get nearly the development as around the area's other malls. The mall still seems most commonly refered to as Cincinnati Mills. Today, this nearly 2,000,000 square foot mall has only Kohl's, Bass Pro Shops (leaving later in 2015), and Babies R Us as anchor stores. The interior of the mall is (by my estimate) about 95% empty.
Forest Fair Mall / Cincinnati Mills / Cincinnati Mall - Cincinnati Mills Drive - Forest Park, Ohio
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Half-dead Walmart Supercenter in Forest Park, Ohio. This Walmart store was opened in 2006. The store was 220,000 square feet when it first opened. Despite its large size for a Walmart, it was outdone with a 245,000 Bigg's hypermarket and a 230,000 square foot Meijer store at the same interchange. Bigg's hypermarket closed in 2008. Also, in 2008 this location was not performing up to Walmart's standards so a 93,000 square foot section of the store was shuttered, making the store only 127,000 square feet. The auto center and garden center were completely closed while the other departments were downsized to fit into the shrunken store. Both the general merchandise and garden entrances were shut down and reworked to look a little less Walmart-like. The store is only open from 6 am to midnight.
This was a Walmart test during their early "Project Impact" days. Since Walmart was building stores around 150,000 square feet they wanted to downsize a decent number of the 200,000+ square foot stores into the smaller format in a similar fashion to this. This test must not have worked out the way Walmart wanted it to since only one other store (Kennesaw, Georgia) has ever undergone Walmart's downsizing plan. Also, neither the Forest Park nor the Kennesaw stores have been successful at leasing out the closed sections.
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This side was all open into the Bigg's store when it was open. Bigg's Hypermarket was 245,000 square feet; well larger than most Walmart Supercenter or Meijer stores. The only access to the Bigg's store was through the mall and the store was open 24 hours. It closed in 2008. There are some pictures of the Bigg's store open on another photostream - www.flickr.com/photos/25145296@N03
The single-story Bigg's wing of the mall.
The Forest Fair Mall was opened in 1989 and originally featured Bigg's Hypermarket, Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, Elder-Beerman, Parisian, and Sakowitz as anchor stores. By the early 2000s, all of the anchor stores original to the mall had closed except for Bigg's Hypermarket.
The mall underwent two major renovations since its debut. One was done in the early 1990s to make the mall more of a discount-based mall and cost $8 Million. Mills later took over the mall and spent nearly $70 million renovating the struggling mall into Cincinnati Mills, which opened in 2004. Bass Pro Shops, Showcase Cinemas, Kohl's, and Burlington Coat Factory later moved into the mall to replace the original anchor stores. Mills was later taken over by Simon Malls. After struggling to keep the mall filled, Simon sold the mall off. The name was changed to Cincinnati Mall in 2009. The mall reportedly changed its name to Forest Fair Village in 2013 but never officially changed any of the exterior or interior signs saying "Cincinnati Mall".
This mall is very modern for a dead mall. I guess it goes to show that some malls just can't be saved no matter how much money is poured into them. There are two other major malls within several miles of this one that were built earlier with more stable (in the long run) anchor stores like Sears and JCPenney. This mall was also built off an exit that didn't get nearly the development as around the area's other malls. The mall still seems most commonly refered to as Cincinnati Mills. Today, this nearly 2,000,000 square foot mall has only Kohl's, Bass Pro Shops (leaving later in 2015), and Babies R Us as anchor stores. The interior of the mall is (by my estimate) about 95% empty.
Forest Fair Mall / Cincinnati Mills / Cincinnati Mall - Cincinnati Mills Drive - Forest Park, Ohio
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Thank you to Jonathan Lawton for the heads up on this move, which I wouldn't have noticed. The quite stunning Hexham station on the Tyne Valley line sees 5S08, the 0800 Doncaster West Yard to Kilmarnock (Barclay sidings) trundle through, with EMU No. 321404 in tow.... Bah lad, it was dark today! Other than the appearance of that ridiculous hypermarket above the EMU's front coach, and the HE3 colour light signal (which was a high mounted semaphore), not much has changed over the years.
Yes, all of these places are out of business. A few of these places still appear occupied (closed for the day) but are no longer listed on the store locator (meaning they closed).
The Forest Fair Mall was opened in 1989 and originally featured Bigg's Hypermarket, Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, Elder-Beerman, Parisian, and Sakowitz as anchor stores. By the early 2000s, all of the anchor stores original to the mall had closed except for Bigg's Hypermarket.
The mall underwent two major renovations since its debut. One was done in the early 1990s to make the mall more of a discount-based mall and cost $8 Million. Mills later took over the mall and spent nearly $70 million renovating the struggling mall into Cincinnati Mills, which opened in 2004. Bass Pro Shops, Showcase Cinemas, Kohl's, and Burlington Coat Factory later moved into the mall to replace the original anchor stores. Mills was later taken over by Simon Malls. After struggling to keep the mall filled, Simon sold the mall off. The name was changed to Cincinnati Mall in 2009. The mall reportedly changed its name to Forest Fair Village in 2013 but never officially changed any of the exterior or interior signs saying "Cincinnati Mall".
This mall is very modern for a dead mall. I guess it goes to show that some malls just can't be saved no matter how much money is poured into them. There are two other major malls within several miles of this one that were built earlier with more stable (in the long run) anchor stores like Sears and JCPenney. This mall was also built off an exit that didn't get nearly the development as around the area's other malls. The mall still seems most commonly refered to as Cincinnati Mills. Today, this nearly 2,000,000 square foot mall has only Kohl's, Bass Pro Shops (leaving later in 2015), and Babies R Us as anchor stores. The interior of the mall is (by my estimate) about 95% empty.
Forest Fair Mall / Cincinnati Mills / Cincinnati Mall - Cincinnati Mills Drive - Forest Park, Ohio
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The picture shows of a Kmart located in San Mateo, Mexico. Kmart launched their supercenters in 1994 and were sold to the Commercial Mexicana in 1997 (Owner of the mexican hypermarket Mega). The sign looks exactly the same from their US Super Kmart center stores. it looks like to be taken around 1995. This looks like at the time when they were putting the sign up.
The locations that had Super Kmarts in Mexico are
Cuautitlán Izcalli (Still operates as Mega)
San Mateo (Still operates as Mega)
Cuernavaca (Still Operates as Mega)
Tlalnepantla (torn down replaced by Costco Wholesale)
Puebla (Was supposed to open in 1997 but never finished construction when the sale occurred and Mega finished the construction)
Former Elder-Beerman / Steve & Barry's store
The Forest Fair Mall was opened in 1989 and originally featured Bigg's Hypermarket, Bonwit Teller, B. Altman, Elder-Beerman, Parisian, and Sakowitz as anchor stores. By the early 2000s, all of the anchor stores original to the mall had closed except for Bigg's Hypermarket.
The mall underwent two major renovations since its debut. One was done in the early 1990s to make the mall more of a discount-based mall and cost $8 Million. Mills later took over the mall and spent nearly $70 million renovating the struggling mall into Cincinnati Mills, which opened in 2004. Bass Pro Shops, Showcase Cinemas, Kohl's, and Burlington Coat Factory later moved into the mall to replace the original anchor stores. Mills was later taken over by Simon Malls. After struggling to keep the mall filled, Simon sold the mall off. The name was changed to Cincinnati Mall in 2009. The mall reportedly changed its name to Forest Fair Village in 2013 but never officially changed any of the exterior or interior signs saying "Cincinnati Mall".
This mall is very modern for a dead mall. I guess it goes to show that some malls just can't be saved no matter how much money is poured into them. There are two other major malls within several miles of this one that were built earlier with more stable (in the long run) anchor stores like Sears and JCPenney. This mall was also built off an exit that didn't get nearly the development as around the area's other malls. The mall still seems most commonly refered to as Cincinnati Mills. Today, this nearly 2,000,000 square foot mall has only Kohl's, Bass Pro Shops (leaving later in 2015), and Babies R Us as anchor stores. The interior of the mall is (by my estimate) about 95% empty.
Forest Fair Mall / Cincinnati Mills / Cincinnati Mall - Cincinnati Mills Drive - Forest Park, Ohio
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A Meijer store in Livonia, Michigan that was built in the early 2000s.
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