mediamongrel

Finally, someone who had a similar experience as me at Eastland. I'm not trying to get everyone on this message board angry with me by saying I felt unsafe there, but I guess I already did. At least I have one person who agreed with my original point before someone else brought race into the issue. (Which wasn't my original point anyway.)

Great...more traffic near Carolina Place

The mall itself is nice, but the crime, loitering, and the feeling of being totally unsafe are three reasons not to go there. Go after 7pm some night and see for yourself. The atmosphere isn't much better during daytime hours. As far as design and structure though, it is a decent mall.

It wasn't for certain, but the reason it might be affected is because there is another Ice Rink opening up in Indian Trail next to Bi-Lo.

I heard that a lot of the events that now take place at Eastland's ice rink will be moved to the Cricket Arena since the Checkers are moving to the Charlotte Arena. So with less funding for the Eastland rink, I can't see it staying there too much longer. It sounds reminiscent to the Carolina Circle ice rink syndrome of the early 80-90's. It takes a lot of work and money to keep that ice rink going and I don't know if the owner is willing to keep it up for much longer now that the Cricket Arena would have a nicer venue for smaller events with the abscence of the Checkers.

Haven't heard much news about the mall, the proposed removal of the ice rink, or the closing of any of the stores. If anyone has any comments, please post!

Contrary to what some are saying, I wasn't originally saying that we should close it down because it is in a black/hispanic area because in all reality the rich snobs at South Park irritate me the most. I was only saying that the stores in that area have all been moving out on their own accord, so they must know that it is not a growing area. Eastland Mall is not the clientel for a Macy's whoever said that in the previous posting. I think a Wal Mart supercenter would do good at the Eastland Mall. That is the perfect clientel. They could shut down the HT there, and shut down the Wal Mart on Wendover. Then all those people could go to an Eastland Wal Mart Supercenter. Just a thought. Belk and Dillard's and Sear's could all close there too because no one really shops at those stores even at the upper scale malls except for at Christmas. Look what JC Penney did, they moved out of the Eastland Mall years ago.

actually no i am not, but it seems a lot of the people in Charlotte are from new york. I think the people in the mountains have it right with Ingles. There is virtually no competition between food lion ingle's and bi-lo in the mountain areas. and harris teeter cant survive in the mountains. they already tried and closed two stores in the tennessee mountians and two in the nc mountains. face it the rich people are in charlotte and the newer parts of raleigh (which is coincidentally where the most HTs are). I'm not saying that's bad, all my original point was is that they make it look like they cater to community schools and all this garbage when in reality the schools that are linked through HT's VIC link program are mostly upper class schools. Harris Teeter does have clean stores and friendly people, but you definitely do pay for it. Personally my grocery bill dropped $28 when I switched from HT to Wal Mart one week. Now, like everybody, I just cherry pick the grocery stores.

Yeah, I understand about the Monroe people but most of them shop at Carolina Place. You go to the Monroe Mall on a Saturday and there's about 50 people. The rest of the people in Monroe are at Carolina Place, Wal-Mart or K-Mart. They're not at the 1000 sq. ft JC Penney or the pretzel place.

Been to the old Eastland Mall lately? Rumor has it they are closing the ice rink sometime this spring. Might as well close the mall while they are at it. I got a kick out of the ads they recently put on the radio for the Burlington Coat Factory at Eastland Mall. Yeah, that's currently on the top of my priority list to drive to Reddman Rd. to get a coat. Whatever. It's about time this mall shuts down. The area sort of reminds me of the situation and demographics which are surrounding the old Carolina Circle Mall in Greensboro. Only thing that makes money in that plaza is the Harris Teeter (that HT actually does better than the Mint Hill HT). Besides the abandoned Hannaford's and the Upton's across Albemarle, the area looks more like Brooklyn. Also, is the Freedom Mall still in business? Last time I was there, all there was remaining was a Peeble's. While on the subject, somebody close the Monroe Mall as well, that's probably the most pathetic out of all of them.