CWCville Shopping Center

Early appearance on a Yu-Gi-Oh! card.

Aerial view

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Chris designed the mall as a CADD project in college, and since no good school project goes unrecycled and unpublished, went and put the design in the comics.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.

The Mall, as accurately depicted by Spazkid28 in Sonichu: The Animated Series.

Lego version of the Shopping center.

The CADD mall blueprints.

History

Between 2019 and 2020, CWCville Shopping Center presumably lost its original anchor tenants, other than The Pokémon Center: Sears left Charlottesville in March 2019, followed by JCPenney 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.

Store	Floor	Status	Notes
Abercrombie & Fitch	1 W	Extant	Even after this.
Aeropastale [sic]	2 W	Extant
American Eagle Outfitters	1 NE	Extant
Arcade World (Video Games)	1 SW		That is not a typo. Chris wrote 'Video Games' beside it, despite arcades not usually having that.
Bath & Body Works	1 W	Extant
Books-a-Million	1 W	Extant	abbreviated as BAM!
Burger King	1 W	Extant
Cellular One	2 W	Defunct	Merged into Verizon in 2005. Presumed to be closed, because there is a separate Verizon location in the Mall.
Chick-fil-A	1 SW	Extant
Christopher & Banks	2 W	Defunct	Dissolved in January 2021.
Christopher's Pizza	2 NE
Circuit City Express	1 NE	Defunct	Dissolved on 8 March 2009, but revived as an online-only retailer since 2018.
Coffee Beanery	1 NE	Extant
Collector’s Heaven	2 SW	Extant
Comic, Game & Hobby Place	2 W
Country Cookin	1 SW	Defunct	Dissolved on 18 October 2020.
Create-A-Critter	2 SW	Extant	A brand of Build-A-Bear Workshop.
Cutco Outlet	2 SE	Extant
CVS	2 NE	Extant
Dairy Queen	1 SW	Extant
Dollar Tree	1 NE	Extant
Foot Locker	1 SE	Extant
Footaction USA	1 NE	Extant	A brand of Foot Locker: the Fashion Square Mall did have separate locations for Foot Locker brands.
GameStop	1 W	Extant
Gap	1 NE	Extant
Gap Kids	1 W	Extant
Great American Cookie [sic]	2 SE	Extant
Hallmark	1 NW	Extant
Hot Topic	1 W	Extant
JCPenny [sic]	1+2 NW	Defunct	Left the Fashion Square in November 2020.
Kay Jewlers [sic]	1 W	Extant	Subsidiary of Sterling Jewelers.
KB Toys	1 SE	Defunct	Dissolved on 9 February 2009.
Kohr Bros. Frozen Yougurt] [sic]	1 W	Extant	Presently at the Woodbrook Shopping Village.
Lady Foot Locker	2 NE	Extant	A brand of Foot Locker.
Lego Outlet	1 NE	Extant
Limited Too	1 W	Defunct	Merged into Justice in June 2010, before closing on 17 December 2020.
MasterCuts	1 SW	Extant	Subsidiary of Signature Style.
McDonald's	1 SW	Extant
Pacific Sunwear	1 W	Extant	Currently trading as PacSun.
Payless Shoe Source	2 W	Defunct	Dissolved in May 2019, but revived as Payless, an online-only retailer.
The Pokémon Center	1+2 NE		Unsurprisingly, this is given two floors and roughly 14 times the retail space of most of the other stores.
RadioShack	1 W	Defunct	No longer in Charlottesville: mainly online-only since 2017.
Red Robin	1 NE	Extant
Sbarro	1 SW	Extant
Sears	1+2 E	Defunct	Left the Fashion Square in March 2019, although an appliance repair office still exists.
Spencer Gifts	1 NE	Extant	Currently trading as Spencer's.
Starbucks	1 SE	Extant
Suncoast	1 W	Defunct	No longer operates in Virginia.
T&C Nails	1 SW	Extant	A real nail salon in the Fashion Square.
Taco Bell	1 W	Extant
Tokyo Shogun	1 W		Virginia-based Japanese mall cuisine.
The Toy Place	2 W
Verizon	2 SE	Extant
victoria's [sic] Secret	1 SE	Extant
Waldenbooks	1 SE	Defunct	Dissolved on 18 July 2011.
Wendy's	1 W	Extant
Western Sizzlin'	1 SE	Extant
YesAsia.com Outlet Store	1 W		YesAsia is an online-only retail company: they later opened an outlet store called YesStyle in San Francisco, but it did not last long.
Zales Jewelry	1 SE	Extant
Zany-Brainy	1 NE	Defunct	Dissolved in 2001.

• 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
• [Secret]
• [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)

See also

• Charlottesville Fashion Square - The IRL version of the CWCville mall.

External links

• Kickstarter page
• Plans, Floor 1
• Plans, Floor 2
• Plans, Mayor's Office

Locations in the CWCverse

CWCville: Main sights (map): CWCville City | CWCville Park | CWCville Mall (CWCville Mayoral Office | Full list of stores) | Jungle/Mountain Areas (Chameleon Cult Jungle Dojo | Wild Sonichu's Treehouse) | Subdivision Areas (14 Brunchville Lane) | Target Mini-Marts | Walmart Mini-Marts Other places of note: Billy Mays Tower | Bolyn High | CWC-Cola Bottling Company | CWCee Dees | CWCville Beach (Pier 969) | CWCville Baptist Church | CWCville General Hospital | CWCville Studios | CWCville University | Cwick-Circuit City | Cwick City Gym | Double-CWC Hotel | KCWC | Layla's Apartment | Local Coffee Shop | Pokemon Center | Samuel Memorial United Christian Church | Sarah's Apartment Complex | Simonla Rosechu's Rabbit Hole | True Blue St. (CWCville Police Dept. 11th Precinct) Environs (map): Giovanni's Gym/Base | Kel's House | Pallet Town | Sonic's House | Station Square | Zapbud Fields The Axis of Slaweel: Clarksville, Tennessee (4-cent_garbage.com HQ) | Cly's Mansion | Dark Mirror Hole | Doctor Robotnik's Base | Get-Tar Region | Giovanni's Gym/Base | Mal-Wart Region (M-C-Dville) | The Moon | Private Villa of Corrupted Citizens (High School District) | Sho-Mall Region (Fa-Square) | Viridian City Other places: Destiny Cave | Mysterious Rainbow Island | Mysterious Mountain | Nabe's Dojo-Shin | New Island | The Ocean | Parodyse Isle | RuleCWC | Time Void