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I can’t think of a worse place to spend time than a mall.
Typical male shopper, eh?
I guess. Maybe that’s why malls are dying.
It’s no accident that Chick-Fil-A is opening freestanding stores in downtown and Greenwood, very nearby their mall locations, and appears to have already made the move near Castleton and Glendale. The writing is on the wall.
Joe, I actually have some insight into Chick-Fil-A’s local situation. I would definitely expect the mall locations at Castleton and Greenwood to remain open for a while.
I suspect that Circle Center is in trouble – the new proposed store downtown has a second kitchen just for catering orders. Circle Center’s CFA out-performed Castleton Square financially largely due to catering. Without catering, I am not sure if Circle Center is viable anymore.
Thank you, Robert. In that way, that’s no different than Starbucks which has location both inside and outside the mall. That Greenwood location has been there for literal decades.
Downtown location – https://www.ibj.com/blogs/property-lines/chick-fil-a-planning-new-downtown-location
“Occupancy rates in the third quarter were about 87% at malls—meaning roughly one in every eight storefronts was empty—compared with about 92% at off-mall locations”. I guess math is not part of the journalism curriculum. 87% occupancy (rounded) means one in every TEN (not eight) storefronts is empty. 92% occupancy (rounded) means that one in every TEN storefronts is also empty. Surely an issue that the malls will want to address, but a 5% occupancy difference doesn’t seem to indicate the end of malls. (Disclosure: I have no connection to the real estate business at all – just a consumer).
1/8 =.125 = 12.5%
100%-12.5% = 87.5%
So actually a little more than one out of every eight mall storefronts is vacant.
So what does this do to Simon Property Group or have they seen this coming and have diversified so as not to be hurt by this shift?
I haven’t been in a mall in years, but I am that typical male shopper as mentioned above. Of course my wife doesn’t go either or I’d have been drug in there by now! We used to go regularly and had fun doing it, but we are more price conscience these days then when we were younger.
I have not been in the Castleton Mall for at least 10 years. I have been in the Fashion mall, but only because of the Apple Store. If Apple does a free stand, then my mall trips will be a historic memory. FYI, typical male non shopper.
Most Indy malls are dreadful relics. In general, they are unattractive, uninspiring, disorganized and mediocre in design. But, that reflects the minimalist and cheapest-is-best mentality that has long served the mantra of Indiana legislators — long-term vision and respect for local control is lacking at the statehouse.
Shamefully and shockingly, the Circle Centre which should be a flagship location of Simon properties, is unremarkable at best, tired at the worst. Of course, downtown conventions will prop up lackluster performance. However, a solid base of central city population with income characteristics to support Circle Centre as well as other business, restaurants and entertainment locales is key.
Indy has tried but has not yet been stellar in attracting and maintaining a significant enough base of mid to higher-income central city residents as has been achieved in Denver, Portland, Seattle, Columbus and Kansas City. Perhaps the regressive interference by the statehouse with ridiculous transportation, transit and housing legislation is part of the conundrum. Also, the City Council needs to focus on key aspects such as quality schools; quality infrastructure for roadway, sidewalks, street lights, parks and waterways; quality transit; and trees! A better tree canopy would improve visual quality of neighborhoods and roadways and cost effectively improve air quality.
What on earth would mall design have to do with Indiana legislators? Circle Centre may look dated now, but it was stylish when it was built. And the city/state partnership with the private sector had more to do with property interests and the protection of historic buildings, which is what made Circle Centre a clever concept in 1992 or whenever it was built. I can’t imagine Simon and the other private companies would have been very interested in taking Indiana legislators’ advice on interior design. And the legislature had zero influence on the design other malls in the Indy area. What a strange analysis.
While I’d imagine the neighborhoods ringing Columbus are better than Indy’s, the downtown sure isn’t. Never has been. Kansas City still seems dead as a doornail from my last visit–its thriving downtown is that County Club Plaza area. Denver, Portland, Seattle are indeed vibrant in good times; these are not good times. Have you visited any of these places? They’re basically being held hostage by homeless drug addicts and political radicals, two categories which largely overlap. Not an enviable position. But one that some of the ideologues on this site seem to hope that Indy might someday achieve. SMDH