^Masonville?
After a visit to the
NEW TARGET I ventured into Westmount for the first time in several years last weekend and boy was it sad. While the lower level still has pretty good foot traffic and little vacancy, it's basically just a glorified Cherryhill Mall now that the bottom section linking
TARGET and Sears is basically all that's left. Walking around the place for the first time in quite a while just brought back a lot of memories. Used to visit the mall regularly with my grandparents when I was younger, and I was always impressed with how nice the place was with its fountains, skylights, and best of all...underground parking! It truly was the best mall in London, and it makes me shudder to think of how shitty White Oaks Mall is in comparison. I'm glad that the upper level is at least being used as offices, and that dying malls in London generally seem to get repurposed rather than left to rot, but the covered up storefronts on the top floor sure are such a sharp contrast to what used to be there. Guess I just never quite realized how much the mall had changed until last weekend. I always knew that it was slowly losing tenants, but it really hit home for me how bad it is now. Regardless, the mall began dying for me the day that Music World left.
Anyways, sorry for the long rant. It's just sad what has become of such a nice mall. The closing of Metro has just added insult to injury.
And I did not enjoy my experience at
TARGET. It was too clean, too bright, too busy, and it seemed over-staffed with overly helpful people. Basically it was the opposite of Zellers. And what's with the Starbucks inside? It isn't Chapters. Who the hell walks into a bargain department store and thinks, "You know, I could really go for a Grande Cappuccino while I walk around looking for deals!" I for one bemoan the growing ubiquity of Starbucks, but that's another rant.
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