West Side Mall is a 452,000 sq. ft. strip mall located along Wyoming Avenue in Edwardsville, Pennsylvania. Its primary tenants are Price Chopper and A.J. Wright. Smaller tenants include Jo-Ann Fabrics, GNC, and two H&R Block locations.
History
Previously, West Side Mall was an indoor shopping center anchored by a Hills department store, which became an Ames in 1998. Its notable tenants included Waldenbooks, The Wall, Computer Garden, and a video arcade. As retailers left the mall, their storefronts were used by consignment shops in an attempt to keep the mall open until new tenants could be signed, but eventually, the indoor portion of the mall closed. The last store to close was Ames, which had closed its inside mall entrance years earlier because of the lack of retailers inside the mall.
In 2002, the first major new tenant arrived in years, when Price Chopper moved its Kingston location to a new facility at the mall. In 2003, the indoor portion of the mall was finally demolished. In 2005, plans were announced for a Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, which will occupy the former Ames site.
Revival Attempts
When the last of the indoor retailers closed, there were several attempts to revive the mall. As ownership changed hands, refurbishments and alterations were rumored, but nothing happened.
The most notable unsuccessful revival plan centered on the addition a new movie theater, a plan that almost came to fruition in 2004 after being rumored for nearly a decade. Marquee Cinemas, a West Virginia theater chain that operates a theater in Scranton, had agreed to bring a modern 14-screen theater to Edwardsville. Just before the deal was signed, however, they learned that a competing theater project in nearby downtown Wilkes-Barre was receiving public money for their project, and pulled out.
The announcement of a Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse may be a sign that the mall will once again be the site of significant new development.
History
Previously, West Side Mall was an indoor shopping center anchored by a Hills department store, which became an Ames in 1998. Its notable tenants included Waldenbooks, The Wall, Computer Garden, and a video arcade. As retailers left the mall, their storefronts were used by consignment shops in an attempt to keep the mall open until new tenants could be signed, but eventually, the indoor portion of the mall closed. The last store to close was Ames, which had closed its inside mall entrance years earlier because of the lack of retailers inside the mall.
In 2002, the first major new tenant arrived in years, when Price Chopper moved its Kingston location to a new facility at the mall. In 2003, the indoor portion of the mall was finally demolished. In 2005, plans were announced for a Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, which will occupy the former Ames site.
Revival Attempts
When the last of the indoor retailers closed, there were several attempts to revive the mall. As ownership changed hands, refurbishments and alterations were rumored, but nothing happened.
The most notable unsuccessful revival plan centered on the addition a new movie theater, a plan that almost came to fruition in 2004 after being rumored for nearly a decade. Marquee Cinemas, a West Virginia theater chain that operates a theater in Scranton, had agreed to bring a modern 14-screen theater to Edwardsville. Just before the deal was signed, however, they learned that a competing theater project in nearby downtown Wilkes-Barre was receiving public money for their project, and pulled out.
The announcement of a Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse may be a sign that the mall will once again be the site of significant new development.
Eastgate Consumer Mall was a shopping mall in Indianapolis, Indiana, located at Shadeland Avenue and East Washington Street. Built in 1957, the mall at one time had tenants including H. P. Wasson and Company, J.C. Penney and Sears. It was sold to the Simon Property Group in 1981. However, the mall faced competition from another Simon-owned center, Washington Square Mall (located approximately 4 miles to the east), and business suffered. Simon sold the property in 2002.
After the sale by Simon, most of the stores soon left. Burlington Coat Factory departed in 2004, and the mall's last tenant, optometrist Dr. Tavel (who had an office in the mall since 1957), moved out in 2006. As of early 2007, Eastgate still stands, vacant, with an uncertain future. The property, available for $3 million, is rumored to be under assessment by a developer as of mid 2007.
Former anchors
*Burlington Coat Factory
*F&M
*G.C. Murphy
*Hook’s Drug Stores
*H. P. Wasson and Company - later Burlington Coat Factory
*JCPenney
*Kittles Rooms Express
*L. Fish Furniture
*Phar-Mor
*Robert Hall
*Sears Appliance Center
*Standard Food - later Kittles Rooms Express
*Woolworth - later an auction center
After the sale by Simon, most of the stores soon left. Burlington Coat Factory departed in 2004, and the mall's last tenant, optometrist Dr. Tavel (who had an office in the mall since 1957), moved out in 2006. As of early 2007, Eastgate still stands, vacant, with an uncertain future. The property, available for $3 million, is rumored to be under assessment by a developer as of mid 2007.
Former anchors
*Burlington Coat Factory
*F&M
*G.C. Murphy
*Hook’s Drug Stores
*H. P. Wasson and Company - later Burlington Coat Factory
*JCPenney
*Kittles Rooms Express
*L. Fish Furniture
*Phar-Mor
*Robert Hall
*Sears Appliance Center
*Standard Food - later Kittles Rooms Express
*Woolworth - later an auction center
The Barn Owl restaurant is a training facility of Oldham College in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England.
Recently (October 2007) the restaurant hit the headlines after the College's decision to close it.
A petition has been started to enable the students, people of Oldham, and anyone else who cares about the restaurant, to sign up to state their disapproval at this decision.
The petition is available at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/BarnOwl1/petition.html
The Park Inn in Shaw, Oldham is fully supporting the reversal of the decision to close. Many of its' customers have signed the petition and the pubs website has a page dedicated to keeping customers up to date with the latest in the campaign to reverse the decision. See http://www.parkinnshaw.co.uk for more information.
The campaigners hope to get the backing of celebrity chefs Paul Rankin, Rick Stein, Gary Rhodes and Gordon Ramsay.
News item: http://www.oldhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/533290_anger_at_closure_of_barn_owl
Recently (October 2007) the restaurant hit the headlines after the College's decision to close it.
A petition has been started to enable the students, people of Oldham, and anyone else who cares about the restaurant, to sign up to state their disapproval at this decision.
The petition is available at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/BarnOwl1/petition.html
The Park Inn in Shaw, Oldham is fully supporting the reversal of the decision to close. Many of its' customers have signed the petition and the pubs website has a page dedicated to keeping customers up to date with the latest in the campaign to reverse the decision. See http://www.parkinnshaw.co.uk for more information.
The campaigners hope to get the backing of celebrity chefs Paul Rankin, Rick Stein, Gary Rhodes and Gordon Ramsay.
News item: http://www.oldhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/533290_anger_at_closure_of_barn_owl
bizSmart was one of the first virtual banks to be opened in Canada during the dot-com era. Its concept was to provide service through bank machines, Web and telephone service, and to provide a human presence by subletting space at retail stores such as Staples]. As the small business electronic banking offering through CIBC, it shares many of the CIBC's systems including the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) infrastructure.
Its model of customer interaction mostly though automated systems turned out make it difficult to provide efficient customer service through a call center, and thus strained its profitability, and it was absorbed back into CIBC's mainstream small business offering. bizSmart operated briefly, and stopped accepted new applications on November 7 2002.
Bizsmart provided no-fee business banking apparently intending to rely on over-draft interest charges to cover operating costs and profits. Low interest rates and the lack of service charges contributed to its lack of profitability. The bank cancelled all existing accounts effective November 30, 2006.
The idea that the Bizsmart banking system run by CIBC bank was unprofitable would not likely stand up to close scrutiny of its books. In fact many businesses had considerable balances in there accounts for extended periods of time, these considerable sums CIBC had use of for investment purposes yet paid no interest on this money to its customer base. Free money, excluding the small transaction costs associated with internet services provided. No human transactions within the bank were permitted with a Bizsmart account. The reason the accounts are being terminated is most likely due to CIBC seeing there chance to make a greater profit by getting these growing and profitable accounts back into the fold so to speak.
Its model of customer interaction mostly though automated systems turned out make it difficult to provide efficient customer service through a call center, and thus strained its profitability, and it was absorbed back into CIBC's mainstream small business offering. bizSmart operated briefly, and stopped accepted new applications on November 7 2002.
Bizsmart provided no-fee business banking apparently intending to rely on over-draft interest charges to cover operating costs and profits. Low interest rates and the lack of service charges contributed to its lack of profitability. The bank cancelled all existing accounts effective November 30, 2006.
The idea that the Bizsmart banking system run by CIBC bank was unprofitable would not likely stand up to close scrutiny of its books. In fact many businesses had considerable balances in there accounts for extended periods of time, these considerable sums CIBC had use of for investment purposes yet paid no interest on this money to its customer base. Free money, excluding the small transaction costs associated with internet services provided. No human transactions within the bank were permitted with a Bizsmart account. The reason the accounts are being terminated is most likely due to CIBC seeing there chance to make a greater profit by getting these growing and profitable accounts back into the fold so to speak.