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Originally Posted by DyAm00394
Some unfortunate news for McAllister Place. Some more (new) closures happening apparently. (This is in addition to Le Chateau and Naturalizer).
Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1690...8050933094266/
- KFC has closed for good.
- Call It Spring (shoe store) will be closing.
- And there is rumors/chatter that Tim Hortons might be closing too.
Hopefully things will turn around soon. I really hope these spaces can get filled again fairly quick. It's sad to see business close up shop .
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There's a phrase that's used on a U.S. sports talk show called 'Undisputed', which stars NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe and sports journalist/commentator Skip Bayless. It's spoken by Skip, and goes like this, when he talks about a certain 6-time Super Bowl Champion and former New England Patroit who wore No. 12.
It's 'There's one man I NEVER bet against when the money is on the table. And that is Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr.!'
Well, DyAm00394, I'd like to change that up a bit when it comes to that mall. I say 'There's one mall in Saint John, N.B. that I NEVER bet against when it comes to it's ability to change and survive in any circumstance. It is McAllister Place!'.
There is a reason why McAllister Place has been the leader of the larger McAllister Regional Retail Centre since 1989...it's willingness to evolve. And the mall will survive the loss of those retailers, and might even somehow thrive in spite of them. It's why they've been open for 42 1/6 years now.
If this were Parkway Mall we'd be talking about, Parkway would be flattened out to a bare wasteland, because the ones who've owned that place over the years haven't cared. MP's owners(Triton, then Cadillac Fairview, and now Primaris) have to the point of desperation. That mall is a grinder, it's seasoned, and is still shining to this day.
Never bet against MP.
And speaking of Parkway, I think that SmartCentres, who owns the Walmart Plaza right behind Parkway, should buy that mall, join the 2 properties together, and expand the Walmart Plaza, with the Parkway property becoming what the Walmart Plaza is.
So...yeah.
=P