the Town Center on the Eastern Boulevard at the end of June. The Towne Center is a new looking, well-kept strip of stores, well-lit with a well-paved parking area. Yet it has already lost a movie theatre, A Circuit City, a Just For Feet and some smaller retailers. It may look new, but with Barnes and Noble gone, it will also look like the Montgomery Mall: empty. There's a lot of traffic on the roads at the major intersection of Highway 231 and the Eastern Bypass. I understand why stores close: not enough profit. But it's a mystery to me why shoppers didn't patronize the stores there. It's as if The Montgomery Mall were ground zero, and concentric circles reach out from it, killing any retail establishment within its reach.
Apr 23, 2009
Gone, Baby, Gone
The Montgomery Mall, not too long ago a major retail center in the Capitol City, is now empty except for a single tenant...the restaurant operated by students at Trenholm Tech culinary school. Now a big retailer is leaving another nearby shopping center...Barnes and Noble will close its only Montgomery location in 
the Town Center on the Eastern Boulevard at the end of June. The Towne Center is a new looking, well-kept strip of stores, well-lit with a well-paved parking area. Yet it has already lost a movie theatre, A Circuit City, a Just For Feet and some smaller retailers. It may look new, but with Barnes and Noble gone, it will also look like the Montgomery Mall: empty. There's a lot of traffic on the roads at the major intersection of Highway 231 and the Eastern Bypass. I understand why stores close: not enough profit. But it's a mystery to me why shoppers didn't patronize the stores there. It's as if The Montgomery Mall were ground zero, and concentric circles reach out from it, killing any retail establishment within its reach.
the Town Center on the Eastern Boulevard at the end of June. The Towne Center is a new looking, well-kept strip of stores, well-lit with a well-paved parking area. Yet it has already lost a movie theatre, A Circuit City, a Just For Feet and some smaller retailers. It may look new, but with Barnes and Noble gone, it will also look like the Montgomery Mall: empty. There's a lot of traffic on the roads at the major intersection of Highway 231 and the Eastern Bypass. I understand why stores close: not enough profit. But it's a mystery to me why shoppers didn't patronize the stores there. It's as if The Montgomery Mall were ground zero, and concentric circles reach out from it, killing any retail establishment within its reach.
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