yung ash I traveled over 1.5 hours to come here because I have a fascination with dead/dying malls and started a photography project around the subject. As I was walking around taking pictures, I ran into the sweetest guy who owns a few stores here. His name is Rob and he asked me what I’m doing and after explaining to him my fascination with dying malls, he told me all about the history of this mall and even shared some stories about the relationship that the shopkeeps have with each other and told me about their collaboration efforts to keep the mall running. Rob owns 3 stores in this mall, a candy store, a hot topic esque store, and Peggy’s, which is a coffee shop named after his mom. His energy was so delightful and he made my day, inspired me and left me with a warm fuzzy feeling. It’s nice to see humans coming together and supporting each other, keeping something alive that they have a passion about. Check it out, if you want to support small businesses with soul, this is the place to go.
