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Nordstrom, Saks, Lord & Taylor, Parisian? LOL, definately wishful thinking on my part. I'd be nice if we got a Macy's at Westgate. Then I could stop driving to Greenville.

I've heard that Hooters was building in the Best Buy/Lowes Shopping Center.

If Ruby Tuesday wasn't outside the mall already, that would have been a great location. Haywood Mall seems to be having some success with their Ruby Tuesday. Whatever they replace it with, I hope it's a national chain or at least a recongnizable regional chain.

Garfield's in a mall? What do you think this is Westgate?

Dutch Square probably won't be going anywhere. It's a great central location with good stores. Unlike Richland Mall, which is surrounded by rich old money, Dutch Square is surrounded by apartment complexes and homes of mostly middle class. These people are I bet, at least 60-70% of mall shoppers.

It's not just you. I stay in Forest Acres, and to drive to Sandhill is pretty far.

Haywood before its massive renovation reminds me a lot of what Columbia Place was in the late 90's. It was a mall for the middle class. Not too expensive, not too cheap. Now that Haywood has the chance to move a little more upscale, they're taking advantage of it. I say good for them. I shop there often because I like Macy's Columbiana luckily doesn't have anything to worry about. Opposite end of town and no competition from Columbia Place or Dutch Square. No need to mention Richland Sad, but so true. Here at USC Upstate, I see people wear sandles and shorts in the winter.

What would you say about Bass Pro Shops ? Dick's isn't upscale, but it's not exactly low end. You can put a Dick's Sporting Goods just about anywhere with a good population and it'll do fairly well. Our DSG in Spartanburg does fairly well.

Honestly, there's nothing premier about Columbiana Centre. Sure it's the nicest mall in town, but it's not a premier mall. They don't even have a Coach store We have 1 soon to be 2 in the Upstate. Columbiana has a long way to go before they decide to completely move upscale. Anyway, if I were the leasing manager at Columbiana Centre, I would have gotten Macy's or a Nordstrom instead of JCP.

I've heard this on here, as well as from some people in Columbia, so it must be true. Well at least it'll be a really nice JCP.

I'm not a big fan of the Saxon Project. It's only a matter of time before it turns into what it once was 7 years ago. A crime invested, urban disaster. If they do with Saxon what they did with Jaggers on Barmhamville Road, then they'll have a success story on their hands.

Is that the Atlanta Bread Company(formerly Kress) to the right? If so, where's Duck In?

One thing that escapes me is that if Columbiana and Village is supposed to be so "Upscale" compared to Columbia Place, then why are they missing some of the key upscale stores? Hell we even have a Coach Store in the Upstate at Prime Outlets! I always thought a Coach store would make a great addition to Columbiana Centre, even with the anchors selling coach apparel.

***Officially OT, For now*** I wear some Ecko and RocaWear, but there's nothing like my Shuttle Girbaud Jeans. ***Back to topic at hand*** Columbia Place should really take up the urban mall image. Urban fads and fashion will always be around. When the market changes, you change with it, and consumer will continue to shop with you. This is a problem that some anchor stores have. It's been the same crap for 20 years seems like. It was already bad enough that the mall looked like it was stuck in the 70's for all those years. It finally got that much needed make over, and now all it needs it to identify itself. Those cheesy commericals they had a few years ago. Sing with me if you remember the jingle: "It's a great shopping place!" doesn't fit the demographic, especially in that area.

Now that I think about it, they really don't need another anchor store at Columbia Place, because there are already too many anchor stores in Columbia. With roughly 120k people in the city limits, there's no need for so many anchors, especially when hardly any are at capacity for shopping. Belk's at Dutch Square Belk's at Columbiana Belk coming soon to the Village Dillards at Columbia Place Dillard's at Columbiana Sears at Columbia Place Sears at Columbiana JCP at the Village Macy's at Columbia Place Parisian at Richland Mall This is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many anchor stores for a metro our size. I'm not sure what they should do with the JCP space, but if it's another anchor, it shouldn't be one already listed above. If I had a couple of million to play around with, i'd invest in an urban anchor store that would feature enough urban brands to pull all the 15-28 crowd right on in. Girbaud, Roca Wear, Ecko, etc. It could work or... Let's close Phoenix again, and turn JCP into an Imax. Now that's a great idea All BS aside, I think tha would really do big things for Columbia Place. Columbia doesn't have an Imax yet, so why not beat Sandhill to the punch?