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[[Image:ChrisCWCMall.jpg|thumb|Sonichu and Chris raping the fourth wall in front of the mall (seen here to be called "CWCville Mall" despite other indications of it being called the "CWCville Shopping Center"]]
[[File:157-CityOfCwcville.jpg|thumb|Early appearance on a ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card.]]
[[Image:CWCMallSpaz.jpg|thumb|The Mall, as accurately depicted by [[Spazkid28]] in ''Sonichu: The Animated Series''.]]
[[File:Mall.PNG|thumb|Aerial view]]
'''CWCville Shopping Center''' (alternatively known as '''CWCville Mall'''), located at the center of downtown [[CWCville]], he is the location of Chris's [[CWCville Mayoral Office|Mayoral Office]] and a temple to the rampant consumerism in CWCville. Also, Chris's version of his beloved [[Charlottesville Fashion Square]], where he is not banned but rather is welcomed and works there.


Chris designed the mall as a [[CADD]] project in PVCC, and since [[Hotel Ricky Ricardo|no good school project goes unrecycled and unpublished]], is now using the design in the comics. The plans were in [[Scrapbook of Fail]], and Chris's original AutoCAD files were leaked.
'''CWCville Shopping Center''', sometimes called the '''CWCville Mall''', located at the center of downtown [[CWCville]], is the location of Chris's [[CWCville Mayoral Office|Mayoral Office]] and a temple to consumerism in CWCville. It also lies in Chris's version of his beloved [[Charlottesville Fashion Square]], where he is [[Chris and coping|not banned but rather is welcomed and employed there]].


Chris has said that the City of CWCville owns the mall,<ref>[[Mailbag 13]]</ref> which in real life doesn't usually happen until a mall is closed off and condemned. Most existing malls, even ones that are close to dead, are owned by real estate investment trusts.
Chris designed the mall as a [[CADD]] project in [[PVCC|college]], and since [[Hotel Ricky Ricardo|no good school project goes unrecycled and unpublished]], went and put the design in the comics. The plans were in the [[Scrapbook of Fail]],<ref>[[Blanca_E-mails#Chris_does_not_waste_any_time_in_hinting_at_a_relationship|Blanca E-mails]], 20 [[August 2008]] 5:27 AM</ref> and Chris's original AutoCAD files were leaked.


Locating a mall in a downtown isn't entirely unfeasible, either. Although many attempts to bring malls downtown usually result in [[fail]]ure, there are occasional bouts of success with this approach. Charleston Town Center in downtown Charleston, West Virginia is but one example.
Chris also built a rudimentary model of the mall with [[Lego]]. In 2014, the old Lego mall having been destroyed in the [[Destruction Of Chris's House|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.


There is, however, no excuse for putting the fucking ''mayor's office'' in the mall.
Chris has said that the city of CWCville owns the mall,<ref>[[Mailbag 13]]</ref> 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.


==Stores==
Placing a mall 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 ''[[Wikipedia:Tom Goes to the Mayor|Tom Goes to the Mayor]]''.
[[Image:CWCvilleMall.jpg|thumb|As you can see, The CWCville Mall can be quite crowded on weekends.]]
The tenant roster is somewhat accurate for a modern 21st-century mall, and no doubt copied generously from Charlottesville Fashion Square. However, a closer inspection would show a great deal of inaccuracy:


*The inclusion of a Big Lots. The chain is a noted [[recycling|recycler]] of abandoned retail buildings, and never builds from scratch; as a result, any mall with a Big Lots is bound to be a dated, dumpy, dead one. (Dollar Tree recycles buildings as well, but it has a fairly large number of mall-based stores.)
[[Image:CWCMallSpaz.jpg|thumb|The Mall, as accurately depicted by Spazkid28 in ''[[Sonichu the Animated Series|Sonichu: The Animated Series]]''.]]
*The fact that he has included Burger King, McDonald's ''and'' Wendy's. Usually only one food court retailer gets the rights to offer a certain food (for example, Panda Express can offer Chinese, Subway offers subs, Chick-fil-A chicken items, Sbarro has pizza, etc.), thus the variety of choices in restaurants in most food courts. However, it would not be unheard of for one burger place to be in the food court and one further away at the other end.
[[File:0869-Cwcville18.JPG|thumb|Lego version of the Shopping center.]]
*Circuit City Express. This concept died off well before the Circuit City chain went under in 2009.
[[File:Kickstarter 5.jpg|thumb|The CADD mall blueprints.]]
*K-B Toys bit the dust as well.
*Inclusion of some one-offs that wouldn't exist in real life, such as Pokémon Center, Cutco Outlet, etc. These could be justified in that the mall exists in a fantasy world where such stores would exist.
*Warner Bros. Store, another concept store which died off several years ago, and in any halfway well-planned mall would not be right next to the Disney Store for very obvious reasons.
*The inclusion of Sam Goody. The chain was bought out by TransWorld Entertainment (owners of the f.y.e. chain), and most remaining stores have either been converted to f.y.e. or closed because dedicated music stores are fading. Sam Goody's sister chain Suncoast (a video and DVD store) is all but extinct as well.
*[[LEGO]] Outlet stores are usually located in...outlet malls. As with all outlet mall stores.
*YesAsia.com has a large store dedicated to it. The entire point of Internet stores is to avoid the hassles and costs associated with a brick-and-mortar store.
*CVS/pharmacy (as with most national pharmacy chains) has not located many stores in malls since at least the 1990s because most people want to get in, get out, and pick up their prescriptions via the drive-thru. CVS does operate variety stores in certain malls, but even these are becoming fewer in number as the chain focuses more on its pharmacies.
*A complete lack of kiosk shops anywhere in the mall hallway, which would likely leave a sense of emptiness throughout the entire structure without the occasional jewelry stand, cell phone kiosk, Starbucks kiosk or especially those stands with crafts and sports memorabilia offered during the holiday season.
*Multiple ATMs by different banks. Most malls only have one dedicated ATM provider; like the reasoning of multiple fast food restaurants, only one bank would get the rights to provide money.
*The inclusion of Western Sizzlin', [[Country Cookin]] and Red Robin. While it's not unheard of for a mall to have more than one sit-down restaurant (most commonly in "destination" malls such as [[Wikipedia:Gurnee Mills|Gurnee Mills]], which is more oriented toward outlet/discount stores and destination stores such as Bass Pro Shops), they are most commonly buffet restaurants such as Ruby Tuesday, small specialty restaurants such as Panera Bread, or (mostly in the South) cafeteria-style establishments such as Piccadilly. Country Cookin, in particular, is a local chain which would be very unlikely ever to locate in a mall.
*Limited Too has been renamed Justice.


Some of the outdated stores could be just delusions of grandeur, in that they represent stores that Chris wishes were still around, or is just too clueless to realize are no longer in existence.
== History ==


The proportions are also very, very full of fail. In particular, the center concourse has far too much open space, although this may not necessarily be an example of failure; many early malls tended to have wider-open concourses, but as mentioned above, Chris neglected to put any kiosk stores at all in the concourse, so the lower level would have a vast expanse of nothingness.
Between 2019 and 2020, CWCville Shopping Center presumably lost its original anchor tenants, other than The Pokémon Center: {{w|Sears}} left Charlottesville in March 2019, followed by {{w|JCPenney}} in November 2020. It is unclear whether Chris found replacement anchor retailers.


A few of the stores are also disporportionate: clothing stores tend to be fairly large in comparison to, say, jewelery stores or food court slots, but Christopher & Banks and Aéropostale are about twice as big as they should be, and Limited Too and Champs Sports are barely half the size of what they should be. Payless ShoeSource is also given a very undersized slot, while Stride Rite is given far too big of one. Even if the mall did somehow score a Big Lots, it would certainly be much larger than the slot portrayed here.
== Mall Stores ==


Featured briefly in Episode 3 of [[Sonichu 0]].
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 [[#External links|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.
 
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Store
! {{abbr|Floor|Floor and orientation}}
! Status
! Notes
|-
| {{w|Abercrombie & Fitch}}
| 1 W
| Extant
| Even after {{w|Abercrombie & Fitch#Jeffries' 2006 target demographic quote|this}}.
|-
| {{w|Aéropostale (clothing)|Aeropastale}} [sic]
| 2 W
| Extant
|
|-
| '''{{w|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.
|-
| '''{{w|Bath & Body Works}}'''
| 1 W
| Extant
| <ref name="directory">[https://web.archive.org/web/20210322130700/https://charlottesvillefashion.com/directory/ Fashion Square Directory], archived 22 March 2021.</ref>
|-
| [[Chris's resume|Books-a-Million]]
| 1 W
| Extant
| abbreviated as ''BAM!''
|-
| [[Burger King]]
| 1 W
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Cellular One}}
| 2 W
| Defunct
| Merged into Verizon in 2005.<ref>In 2020, Cellular One operated in Louisiana and Texas, as well as in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and New York.</ref> Presumed to be closed, because there is a separate Verizon location in the Mall.
|-
| '''[[Chick-fil-A]]'''
| 1 SW
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Christopher & Banks}}
| 2 W
| Extant
|
|-
| [[Chris and ego|Christopher's Pizza]]
| 2 NE
|
|
|-
| {{w|Circuit City|Circuit City Express}}
| 1 NE
| Defunct
| Dissolved on 8 March 2009, but revived as an online-only retailer since 2018.
|-
| {{w|Coffee Beanery}}
| 1 NE
| Extant
|
|-
| '''Collector’s Heaven'''
| 2 SW
| Defunct
| Defunct since circa 2020.<ref>[https://goo.gl/maps/6reZjztZxEEqdnmZ9 Google Maps] entry, accessed 1 February 2021.</ref>
|-
| [[The GAMe PLACe|Comic, Game & Hobby Place]]
| 2 W
| Defunct
| Closed in 2014.
|
|-
| [[Country Cookin]]
| 1 SW
| Defunct
| Dissolved on 18 October 2020.
|-
| '''[[Li'l Chris|Create-A-Critter]]'''
| 2 SW
| Extant
| A brand of {{w|Build-A-Bear Workshop}}.
|-
| [[Cutco]] Outlet
| 2 SE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|CVS Pharmacy|CVS}}
| 2 NE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Dairy Queen}}
| 1 SW
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Dollar Tree}}
| 1 NE
| Extant
|
|-
| '''{{w|Foot Locker}}'''
| 1 SE
| Extant
|
|-
| '''{{w|Foot Locker|Footaction USA}}'''
| 1 NE
| Extant
| A brand of Foot Locker: the Fashion Square Mall did have separate locations for Foot Locker brands.<ref name="directory"/>
|-
| '''[[GameStop]]'''
| 1 W
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Gap (clothing retailer)|Gap}}
| 1 NE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Gap (clothing retailer)|Gap Kids}}
| 1 W
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Great American Cookies|Great American Cookie}} [sic]
| 2 SE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Hallmark Cards|Hallmark}}
| 1 NW
| Extant
|
|-
| [[Megan Schroeder|Hot Topic]]
| 1 W
| {{w|Hot topic|Extant}}
|
|-
| '''{{w|JCPenney|JCPenny}}''' [sic]
| 1+2 NW
| Defunct
| Still around as a company, but left the Fashion Square in November 2020.
|-
| '''{{w|Sterling_Jewelers|Kay Jewlers}}''' [sic]
| 1 W
| Extant
| Subsidiary of Sterling Jewelers.<ref name="directory"/>
|-
| [[Sonic Watch and Win Sweepstakes|KB Toys]]
| 1 SE
| Defunct
| Dissolved on 9 February 2009.
|-
| Kohr Bros. Frozen Yougurt] [sic]
| 1 W
| Extant
| Presently at the Woodbrook Shopping Village.<ref>[http://www.kohrbros.com/va.html Location list] at the Kohr Bros. website, accessed 2 June 2021.</ref>
|-
| {{w|Foot Locker|Lady Foot Locker}}
| 2 NE
| Extant
| A brand of Foot Locker.
|-
| [[Lego]] Outlet
| 1 NE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Limited Too}}
| 1 W
| Defunct
| Merged into {{w|Justice (store)|Justice}} in June 2010, before closing on 17 December 2020. Now online-only.
|-
| MasterCuts
| 1 SW
| Extant
| Subsidiary of Signature Style.<ref>[https://www.signaturestyle.com/brands/mastercuts.html Official website] of Signature Style, accessed 31 January 2021.</ref>
|-
| [[McDonald's]]
| 1 SW
| Extant
|
|-
| '''[[The Tale Of The Crazy Pacer|Pacific Sunwear]]'''
| 1 W
| Extant
| Currently trading as {{w|PacSun}}.
|-
| {{w|Payless ShoeSource|Payless Shoe Source}}
| 2 W
| Defunct
| Dissolved in May 2019, but revived as Payless, an online-only retailer.
|-
| data-sort-value="Pokémon Center, The" | [[Pokémon|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.
|-
| {{w|RadioShack}}
| 1 W
| Defunct
| No longer in Charlottesville: mainly online-only since 2017.
|-
| {{w|Red Robin}}
| 1 NE
| Extant
|
|-
| '''{{w|Sbarro}}'''
| 1 SW
| Extant
|
|-
| '''{{w|Sears}}'''
| 1+2 E
| Defunct
| Left the Fashion Square in March 2019, although an appliance repair office still exists.<ref>[https://goo.gl/maps/7ZaiJErnCT5mozhY8 Google Maps] entry for Sears Home Services (one of the remnants of {{w|Sears}}), accessed 1 February 2021.</ref>
|-
| {{w|Spencer Gifts}}
| 1 NE
| Extant
| Currently trading as Spencer's.
|-
| [[Hanna|Starbucks]]
| 1 SE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Suncoast Motion Picture Company|Suncoast}}
| 1 W
| Extant
| Only three stores remaining in Ohio, Texas and North Carolina.
|-
| data-sort-value="T C Nails" | T&C Nails
| 1 SW
| Extant
| A real nail salon in the Fashion Square.<ref>[https://g.page/tandcnailsllc?share Google Maps] entry</ref>
|-
| [[Chris's Sonichu IRC Chloe Introduction|Taco Bell]]
| 1 W
| Extant
|
|-
| Tokyo Shogun
| 1 W
|
| Virginia-based Japanese mall cuisine. Likely refers to a restaurant of the same name located within the Chesterfield Towne Centre, which closed ca. 2006.
|-
| data-sort-value="Toy Place, The" | [[The GAMe PLACe|The Toy Place]]
| 2 W
|
|
|-
| {{w|Verizon}}
| 2 SE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Victoria's Secret|victoria's [sic] Secret}}
| 1 SE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Waldenbooks}}
| 1 SE
| Defunct
| Dissolved on 18 July 2011.
|-
| [[Wendy's]]
| 1 W
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Western Sizzlin'}}
| 1 SE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|YesAsia|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.<ref>[https://goo.gl/maps/j7TPAgUzawEspwiB9 Google Maps] entry.</ref>
|-
| {{w|Zale Corporation|Zales Jewelry}}
| 1 SE
| Extant
|
|-
| {{w|Zany Brainy|Zany-Brainy}}
| 1 NE
| Defunct
| Dissolved in 2001.
|}


==Mall Stores==
* [[Wikipedia:Abercrombie & Fitch|Abercrombie & Fitch]]
* Arcade World (Video Games) [Yes, he's written 'Video Games' beside it, as if arcades didn't have them usually.]
* [[Wikipedia:American Eagle Outfitters|American Eagle Outfitters]]
* [http://www.annajoys.com/ Anna Joy's] (local bridal shop)
* [http://www.annajoys.com/ Anna Joy's] (local bridal shop)
* April's Sports (local sporting goods)
* April's Sports (local sporting goods)
* [[Wikipedia:Aéropostale (clothing)|Aeropastale [sic]]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bath & Body Works|Bath & Body Works]]
* [[Wikipedia:Big Lots|Big Lots]]
* [[Wikipedia:Big Lots|Big Lots]]
* [http://www.brmsstore.com/ Blue Ridge Sports]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901010232/http://www.brmsstore.com/ Blue Ridge Sports] (defunct since 8 February 2016)
* [[Chris's resume|Books-a-Million]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050331094929/http://www.cache.com/ Cache] [sic] (defunct since 2015)
* [[Wikipedia:Burger King|Burger King]]
* [[Wikipedia:Carlton Cards|Carlton Cards]] ([[wikipedia:American Greetings|American Greetings]] subsidiary; 2 separate ones)
* [http://www.cache.com/cache/control/main Cache] [sic]
* [[Wikipedia:Champs_Sports|Champ's [sic]]] Sports
* [[Wikipedia:Carlton Cards|Carlton Cards]] [One on each floor for some reason.]
* [[Wikipedia:Cellular One|Cellular One]]
* [[Crass and Champ|Champ's [sic]]] Sports
* [[Chick-fil-A]]
* [[Wikipedia:Christopher & Banks|Christopher & Banks]]
* [[Chris and ego|Christopher's Pizza]]
* [http://www.cinnamonster.com Cinnamonster]
* [http://www.cinnamonster.com Cinnamonster]
* [[Wikipedia:Circuit City|Circuit City]] Express
* [[Wikipedia:Claire's|Claire's Boutique]] (Known simply as Claire's)
* [[Wikipedia:Claire's|Claire's Boutique]]
* [[Wikipedia:Coffee Beanery|Coffee Beanery]]
* [[The GAMe PLACe|Comic, Game & Hobby Place]]
* [[Country Cookin]]
* [[Li'l Chris|Create-A-Critter]]
* [[Cutco]] Outlet
* [[Wikipedia:CVS/pharmacy|CVS]]
* [[Wikipedia:Dairy Queen|Dairy Queen]]
* [[Wikipedia:Disney Store|Disney Store]]
* [[Wikipedia:Disney Store|Disney Store]]
* [[Wikipedia:Dollar Tree|Dollar Tree]]
* [[Wikipedia:Finish Line, Inc.|Finish Line]]
* [[Wikipedia:Finish Line, Inc.|Finish Line]]
* [[Wikipedia:Foot Locker|Footaction USA]]
* [[Wikipedia:FYE_(retailer)|F.Y.E.]]
* [[Wikipedia:Trans_World_Entertainment#f.y.e.|F.Y.E.]]
* [[Nintendo|GCN]] (? - second floor, he may have meant [[Wikipedia:GNC (store)|GNC]])
* [[GameStop]]
* [[Wikipedia:Gap (clothing retailer)|Gap]]
* GCN [? - second floor, he may have meant [[Wikipedia:General Nutrition Centers|GNC]]]
* [http://www.glamourshots.com Glamour Shots]
* [http://www.glamourshots.com Glamour Shots]
* [[Wikipedia:NexCen Brands|Great American Cookie]]
* [[Wikipedia:Hat World|Hat World]] (currently operating as Lids)
* [[Wikipedia:Hat World|Hat World]]
* [[Wikipedia:Journeys (company)|Journeys]]
* [[Wikipedia:Hallmark|Hallmark]]
* [[Wikipedia:LensCrafters|LensCrafters]] (listed twice beside each other)
* [[Megan|Hot Topic]]
* [[Wikipedia:The Limited|Limited]] (defunct since 2017; currently exclusive to [[Charlottesville Fashion Square|Belk]])
* [[Wikipedia:J. C. Penney|JCPenny [sic]]]
* [[Wikipedia:Genesco|Journeys]]
* [[Wikipedia:Sterling_Jewelers#Kay_Jewelers|Kay Jewlers]] [sic]
* [[Sonic Watch and Win Sweepstakes|KB Toys]]
* [http://www.kohrbros.com/ Kohr Bros. Frozen Yougurt] [sic]
* [[Wikipedia:Foot Locker|Lady Foot Locker]]
* [[Lego]] Outlet
* [[Wikipedia:LensCrafters|LensCrafters]] [Listed twice beside each other.]
* [[Wikipedia:Limited Brands|Limited]]
* [[Wikipedia:Limited Brands|Limited Too]]
* [http://www.mastercuts.com/ MasterCuts]
* [[McDonald's]]
* [[Wikipedia:Destination Maternity|Motherhood Maternity]]
* [[Wikipedia:Destination Maternity|Motherhood Maternity]]
* [[Wikipedia:Mrs. Fields|Mrs. Field's [sic] Cookies]]
* [[Wikipedia:Mrs. Fields|Mrs. Field's [sic] Cookies]]
* [[The Tale Of The Crazy Pacer|Pacific Sunwear]]
* Paint & Play (exists, but no website for Virginia chain)
* Paint & Play (exists, but no website for Virginia chain)
* [[Wikipedia:Payless ShoeSource|Payless Shoe Source]]
* [[Wikipedia:Pearle Vision|Pearl [sic] Vision Express]]
* [[Wikipedia:Pearle Vision|Pearl [sic] Vision Express]]
* [[Wikipedia:Radio Shack|Radio Shack]]
* [[Wikipedia:Ritz Camera|Ritz Camera]] (liquidated in [[2012]] and online-only now)
* [[Wikipedia:Red Robin|Red Robin]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090326065232/http://www.rockstarbodyjewelry.com/ Rock Star Body Jewelry]
* [[Wikipedia:Ritz Camera|Ritz Camera]]
* [[Wikipedia:Sam Goody|Sam Goody]] (defunct since 2006)
* [http://www.rockstarbodyjewelry.com/ Rock Star Body Jewelry]
* [[Wikipedia:Sam Goody|Sam Goody]]
* [[Wikipedia:Sbarro|Sbarro]]
* [[Wikipedia:Sears|Sears]]
* [[Wikipedia:Spencer Gifts|Spencer Gifts]]
* [[Hannah|Starbucks]]
* [[Wikipedia:Stride Rite Corporation|Stride Rite]]
* [[Wikipedia:Stride Rite Corporation|Stride Rite]]
* [[Wikipedia:Suncoast Motion Picture Company|Suncoast]]
* The Briar Patch ([http://www.shopbriarpatch.com/ website] is dead, presumably defunct)
* [[Chris's Sonichu IRC Chloe Introduction|Taco Bell]]
* T&C Nails (no website, likely [[Punchy Sonichu|Chris's view]] [[Chris and race#Asians|of an average nail salon]])
* [http://www.shopbriarpatch.com/ The Briar Patch]
* [http://www.thehappycook.com/ The Happy Cook]
* [http://www.thehappycook.com/ The Happy Cook]
* The [[Pokémon]] Center
* [http://www.thingsremembered.com/ Things Remembered] (closed in 2022, online-only since 2013)
* [[The GAMe PLACe|The Toy Place]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100316015436/http://www.tradesecret.com/home.aspx| Trade Secret] (defunct since 2010; no relation to the {{w|Trade Secret (Australian company)|Aussie company}})
* [http://www.thingsremembered.com/ Things Remembered]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101102185938/http://www.victoriasgallery.com/| Victoria's Art Gallery]
* Tokyo Shogun (Virginia-based Japanese mall cuisine; no website)
* [[Wikipedia:Warner Bros. Studio Store|Warner Bros. Store]] (only online since 2001)
* [http://www.tradesecret.com/ Trade Secret]
* [[Wikipedia:Verizon|Verizon]]
* [http://www.victoriasgallery.com/ Victoria's Art Gallery]
* [[Wikipedia:Victoria's Secret|victoria's [sic] Secret]]
* [[Wikipedia:Waldenbooks|Waldenbooks]]
* [[Wikipedia:Warner Bros. Studio Store|Warner Bros. Store]]
* [[Wendy's]]
* [http://www.western-sizzlin.com/sitemap.html Western Sizzlin']
* [[Wikipedia:YesAsia|YesAsia.com]] Outlet Store
* [[Wikipedia:Zale Corporation|Zales Jewelry]]
* [[Wikipedia:Zany Brainy|Zany-Brainy]]


==Non-Store Facilities==
==Non-Store Facilities==
* [[Wikipedia:Bank of America|Bank of America]] ATM
* [[Wikipedia:Bank of America|Bank of America]] ATM
* [[Wikipedia:BB&T|BB&T]] ATM
* [[Wikipedia:BB&T|BB&T]] ATM (Merged into Suntrust in 2019, now Truist)
* [[CWCville Mayoral Office]]
* [[CWCville Mayoral Office]]
* [[Jerkop|Mall Security]]/Customer Service
* [[Jerkop|Mall Security]]/Customer Service
* [[Dirty Crapped Briefs|Restrooms]] [Multiple]
* [[DIRTY, CRAPPED BRIEFS|Restrooms]] [Multiple]
* [[Wikipedia:Wachovia|Wachovia]] ATM
* [[Wikipedia:Wachovia|Wachovia]] ATM (Acquired and absorbed by [[Wikipedia:Wells Fargo|Wells Fargo]] since 2008)


==Sauces==
== Sources ==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://theinterwebs.googlepages.com/CwcvilleShoppingCenterFloorOne.pdf Plans, Floor 1]
* [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1419446823/lego-cwcville-shopping-center-with-mayor-office Kickstarter page]
* [http://theinterwebs.googlepages.com/CwcvilleShoppingCenterFloor2.pdf Plans, Floor 2]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190404085345if_/https://ac1d9f88-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/theinterwebs/CwcvilleShoppingCenterFloorOne.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7crGKZoec-WrE3Fi3Y5Rtiu4md3b1qQOdtami4PIPTAhMIVnD9BDeWXuWsGoLkTRps55k1ei6VcyMtkVd3Okv6iJFPsC7z-GWOk05ew3LnFNLYkdy9ge-aM23w17pHIYu3tFZfTkMVvI-0K6OUCIUsZzgC3Byv5g7LBPU6ZDJeo9Tx9OlgI0kK8GU8_RIZ95UQy1rFCodnB8ABxtelk8-PdRiuQHUAoYH44j-AhFrfeB-suF6m4%3D&attredirects=0 Plans, Floor 1]
* [http://theinterwebs.googlepages.com/MayorsOfficeModel1.pdf Plans, Mayor's Office]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190404085349if_/https://ac1d9f88-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/theinterwebs/CwcvilleShoppingCenterFloor2.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cp4bf1mV1gIyxwH0kYzFQRSwxh1PNoaIzv4d7i5flkKNu7xq6r27ooKVsLvV_8bucm32DZkkvya3SkmoE4BhBi2FiLJWtx9AYNuLuV_pvKqyOjKq7c2bnSKUuk1g4opRcykxror9G1hTUDCIKUbkO1kBo9qi0A3CSN1hF0njfHJKr-Q9dawCuHkg7ANA6PypVUne_ZSyhtest35JjM1MYfNzYEjnWQ6mK8dSYdN3XJ3dpBUnZw%3D&attredirects=0 Plans, Floor 2]
* [http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?we0oddnzwnk Original Project Files]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190404085351if_/https://ac1d9f88-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/theinterwebs/MayorsOfficeModel1.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7crf_awUoH_dcpkjVoGSu6ajf3651nZZLOUYdybQjLN8uicqCcPZG7Y6a3wOWu70KuQMcGBj-UMKHiJzDOqp0mIejJ9SHrBdmRdzXEGunm3lPnl_kzW717ipTGaRgKS_KXUy3vcJ1pFGZpmBBNCQcx1gmprAuEWrX5aqSb6dyu5VqVZIRuJjzCrvH-I3HVOr_JY_k4Dc7Lp2i02nN3Zk-uTWvKhQgwRrOfp8rHlu-xbxT5tsccE%3D&attredirects=0 Plans, Mayor's Office]


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Latest revision as of 16:04, 28 August 2024

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 in 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,[1] 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,[2] 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.

Placing a mall 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 [3]
Books-a-Million 1 W Extant abbreviated as BAM!
Burger King 1 W Extant
Cellular One 2 W Defunct Merged into Verizon in 2005.[4] Presumed to be closed, because there is a separate Verizon location in the Mall.
Chick-fil-A 1 SW Extant
Christopher & Banks 2 W Extant
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 Defunct Defunct since circa 2020.[5]
Comic, Game & Hobby Place 2 W Defunct Closed in 2014.
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.[3]
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 Still around as a company, but left the Fashion Square in November 2020.
Kay Jewlers [sic] 1 W Extant Subsidiary of Sterling Jewelers.[3]
KB Toys 1 SE Defunct Dissolved on 9 February 2009.
Kohr Bros. Frozen Yougurt] [sic] 1 W Extant Presently at the Woodbrook Shopping Village.[6]
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. Now online-only.
MasterCuts 1 SW Extant Subsidiary of Signature Style.[7]
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.[8]
Spencer Gifts 1 NE Extant Currently trading as Spencer's.
Starbucks 1 SE Extant
Suncoast 1 W Extant Only three stores remaining in Ohio, Texas and North Carolina.
T&C Nails 1 SW Extant A real nail salon in the Fashion Square.[9]
Taco Bell 1 W Extant
Tokyo Shogun 1 W Virginia-based Japanese mall cuisine. Likely refers to a restaurant of the same name located within the Chesterfield Towne Centre, which closed ca. 2006.
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.[10]
Zales Jewelry 1 SE Extant
Zany-Brainy 1 NE Defunct Dissolved in 2001.

Non-Store Facilities

Sources

  1. ↑ Blanca E-mails, 20 August 2008 5:27 AM
  2. ↑ Mailbag 13
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Fashion Square Directory, archived 22 March 2021.
  4. ↑ In 2020, Cellular One operated in Louisiana and Texas, as well as in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and New York.
  5. ↑ Google Maps entry, accessed 1 February 2021.
  6. ↑ Location list at the Kohr Bros. website, accessed 2 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Official website of Signature Style, accessed 31 January 2021.
  8. ↑ Google Maps entry for Sears Home Services (one of the remnants of Sears), accessed 1 February 2021.
  9. ↑ Google Maps entry
  10. ↑ Google Maps entry.

See also

External links

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

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