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The store I work at we see around 30 - 35 people Monday - Thursday, Friday and Sunday we see 60 people, and Saturday around 120 people. These numbers are always consistant. Now we make $200 - $250 Monday - Thursday, Friday and Sunday $400 and Saturday $1000. I want to know how in the world we can afford a $7000 rent, pay for all our supplies which is $4500 a month and employee paychecks $3200 a month. I think we are in the red most of the year. So tell me how are we still in business?

Its more a shot in the leg (shot in the leg will kill you eventually), only because they are the main street stores not a side stores. Bebe will be the next to close.

Eddy Bauer is closing that now makes I think 7 vacant spots. They better not fill them with temps, they better put something there that will make people want to come to this mall. Also a rumor that Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory may be leaving to. I don't know on that its just a rumor.

Does anyone know if the lower food stores near dillards like Dip n Dots, Great American Cookie Factory, Auntie Anns and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, how they are doing and if any of them may be leaving anytime soon?

There has been a rumor going around that a Apple store might be coming northlake mall. Can anyone say if this is true or not?

Of course its going to be busy on a holiday. Try coming on a weekday and no holiday. I've worked in the mall for 5 years, foot traffic has decreased very much over the years. Mainly Fridays though after 5pm when the teen law kicks in, this mall looks like a regular weekday.

Well Black Friday weekend was a bust. Sales dropped really low this year. Our store dropped 45%

I still don't believe Northlake mall is doing good. I mean pineville and southpark and concord mills all have a higher customer traffic in the mall.

Its going to be very interesting when a lot of these 5 yr leases end from the stores that were with the mall since the start. Personally I think the mall will be coming to a end after that happens.

Ok well to find out just call Susan Bullock (hope its the leasing person) she will tell you how much it and the mall number is on the website so just call her and you shall know the truth. I'm pretty sure its $110 per sq ft and I'd even place money on that answer to be correct.

Yea it is low considering that on state average mall space per sq ft is $203.30. Now if you think I'm lying check out this website http://www.statemaster.com/graph/lif_sho_m...per-square-feet , shows the states by rank of how high everyone charges and NC just so happens to be #50 in price per sq ft and I think this info was back in 2005 but still you can check their source to see if its been updated since then. I'm 100% sure northlake charges $110 per sq ft because thats how much Ag 47 is paying when they decided to move.

I do believe sales per sq ft is $110. I've talked to the people at coach on the upsale part and they told me they were doing ok, but over all to me it seems urban is beating the upscale part, only because teens do tend to buy a lot of clothes where the older crowd is a bit more reserved with their money.

Well I just found this out today. The store I work at in Northlake mall will be closing probably early October. I hate job hunting....

Arden B is now closed and soon to be closed is Caryle and Co. the jewelry store across from The Childrens Place.

This mall is dying and fast, with the new youth law in effect after 5pm Friday and Saturday its dead and looks like a weekday morning, someone better do something fast cause if they don't they could lose all the department stores and 50% of the other stores.

Ok so its been about 2 weekends since the mall curfew has been issued and it really doesn't start until this weekend but I've already seen a difference, there are less teens hanging out so the word seems to be catching on fast. As far as sales for the store I work at, I can't really tell its either really up or really down some days. I can give yall a better detail by the end of the month, however as for may we were about 5% down for the month of May. No bad considering March was 28% down. Note that this is for a individual store and not the whole mall. However most store managers around me tell me a similar story that they are also down. On a similar topic just note that the mall charges the same amount of rent everytime they collect it, so the mall management people are paid pretty good for what little work they do.

How is Dick's Sporting Goods surviving? They have to be in some form of going bankrupt I mean I know the one at Northlake is doing really bad. The employees don't stay long with exception to a few of them and at a starting pay of $8.50 something has to be bad to pay them that much just to get them to stay.

I'm responding to where I get my information from. Ok I've been working in this mall almost as long as its been open. Every weekend I work and it has been different from year to year and weekends are getting worse. Ever since Eastland went down we have had their problems with teenagers and gangs and the sad part is mall security doesn't seem to care that much and even the real police people that are here are getting ice cream, and watching tv, and to me thats just not taking security seriously. I've even had customers say to me that they don't feel safe here and this was at the 9pm closing time so I had to call security for them to escort them to their car. Oh and someone please tell me if they have heard any advertisements about northlake mall because they said they were doing a 19 week advertisement campaign in magazines and radio and some other stuff I can't remember.

You can't come to the mall one day and say if its doing bad or good, you need to come over a period of time to observe. You did come while it was CMS spring break and yes I'll agree with you it was busy and a few stores have changed their name. It just a matter of time before a lot more stores go out of this mall.