Posted Jun 13, 2023, 1:05 AM
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Originally Posted by SpongeG
I go to Bellingham once or twice a month and stock up Trader Joes and get some stuff at Target. Bellis Fair Mall is really dead, it still has stores but feels so empty and the stores that are still there other than the anchors have stores here in Canada, like Journeys, Bath & Body Works, Hot Topic, etc. so no real appeal to go to inside the mall.
This article is about the loss of Chinese and Korean Canadian busses that would go down bringing hundreds of shoppers to places like Bellis Fair Mall.
Does anyone here go down regularly again? The lineups are much shorter now than pre-covid, if its longer than 20 minutes its because the US only has two lanes open.
U.S. border towns still wait on buyers from B.C., as Vancouver shopping buses vanish
Cross-border shopping buses filled with Chinese and Korean Canadian consumers were once ubiquitous outside Washington state malls, but they have all-but disappeared from the commercial landscape, dealing a heavy blow to border-town businesses.
Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press
https://www.newwestrecord.ca/nationa...vanish-7128163 |
Brookfield defaulted on their $77 million loan last year as well.
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/new...#storylink=cpy
This Florida company bought it at auction for $44 million
https://4d-properties.com/909-2/
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