CWCville Shopping Center



CWCville Shopping Center, sometimes called the CWCville Mall, located at the center of downtown CWCville, is the location of Chris's Mayoral Office and a temple to consumerism in CWCville. It also lies Chris's version of his beloved Charlottesville Fashion Square, where he is not banned but rather is welcomed and employed there.

Chris designed the mall as a CADD project in college, and since no good school project goes unrecycled and unpublished, went and put the design in the comics. The plans were in the Scrapbook of Fail, and Chris's original AutoCAD files were leaked.

Chris also built a rudimentary model of the mall with Lego. In 2014, the old Lego mall having been destroyed in the house fire, Chris dreamed of recreating it at a much grander scale, a "stud-to-stud replica." This was such a compelling vision that he started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $5000 for this project. Of course, nothing came of this.

Chris has said that the city of CWCville owns the mall, while most real-life malls (even ones that are close to dead) are owned by real estate companies such as Simon Property Group, former owners of Charlottesville Fashion Square. Furthermore, Chris has included several stores that either don't exist in real life, or used to exist but no longer do; the store placement, selection, size, and other fine details are all over the place. Among other things, the mall features a disproportionately large number of restaurants and even a Big Lots, an off-price retailer that almost never locates in malls.

Locating a mall in a downtown isn't entirely unfeasible; there is, however, no excuse for putting the fucking Mayor's office in the mall (except perhaps if the government's finances are in such a dreadful condition that they need to in order to save on rent). Chris may have done this as a reference to the Adult Swim show Tom Goes to the Mayor.



History
Between 2019 and 2020, CWCville Shopping Center presumably lost its original anchor tenants, other than The Pokémon Center: left Charlottesville in March 2019, followed by  in November 2020. It is unclear whether Chris found replacement anchor retailers.

Mall Stores
Take note of how many of the stores featured here have either been long since defunct or renamed.

Floor and orientation information are according to the archived CAD plans: for example, “1 W” means the western side of Floor 1, and “1+2 E” means the eastern side of Floors 1 and 2. Stores in bold also appears/appeared in the Charlottesville Fashion Square.


 * Anna Joy's (local bridal shop)
 * April's Sports (local sporting goods)
 * Big Lots
 * Blue Ridge Sports (defunct since 8 February 2016)
 * Cache [sic] (defunct since 2015)
 * Carlton Cards (American Greetings subsidiary; 2 separate ones)
 * Champ's [sic] Sports
 * Cinnamonster
 * Claire's Boutique (Known simply as Claire's)
 * Disney Store
 * Finish Line
 * F.Y.E.
 * GCN (? - second floor, he may have meant GNC)
 * Glamour Shots
 * Hat World (currently operating as Lids)
 * Journeys
 * LensCrafters (listed twice beside each other)
 * Limited (defunct since 2017)
 * Motherhood Maternity
 * Mrs. Field's [sic] Cookies
 * Paint & Play (exists, but no website for Virginia chain)
 * Pearl [sic] Vision Express
 * Ritz Camera (liquidated in 2012 and online-only now)
 * Rock Star Body Jewelry
 * Sam Goody (defunct since 2006)
 * Stride Rite
 * The Briar Patch (website is dead, presumably defunct)
 * The Happy Cook
 * Things Remembered
 * | Trade Secret
 * | Victoria's Art Gallery
 * Warner Bros. Store (only online since 2001)

Non-Store Facilities

 * Bank of America ATM
 * BB&T ATM
 * CWCville Mayoral Office
 * Mall Security/Customer Service
 * Restrooms [Multiple]
 * Wachovia ATM (Acquired and absorbed by Wells Fargo since 2008)