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*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. | *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. | ||
*Circuit City Express. This concept died off well before the Circuit City chain went under in 2009. | *Circuit City Express. This concept died off well before the Circuit City chain went under in 2009. | ||
*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. | *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. | *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. | ||
Revision as of 22:43, 24 March 2010
CWCville Shopping Center (alternatively known as CWCville Mall), located at the center of downtown CWCville, he is the location of Chris's 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Chris designed the mall as a CADD project in PVCC, and since no good school project goes unrecycled and unpublished, is now using the design in the comics.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.
Chris has said that the City of CWCville owns the mall,[1] 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.
Locating a mall in a downtown isn't entirely unfeasible, either. Although many attempts to bring malls downtown usually result in failure, there are occasional bouts of success with this approach. Charleston Town Center in downtown Charleston, West Virginia is but one example.
There is, however, no excuse for putting the fucking mayor's office in the mall.
Stores
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 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.)
- 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.
- Circuit City Express. This concept died off well before the Circuit City chain went under in 2009.
- 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 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.
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.
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.
Featured briefly in Episode 3 of Sonichu 0.
Mall Stores
- Abercrombie & Fitch
- Arcade World (Video Games) [Yes, he's written 'Video Games' beside it, as if arcades didn't have them usually.]
- American Eagle Outfitters
- Anna Joy's (local bridal shop)
- April's Sports (local sporting goods)
- Aeropastale [sic]
- Bath & Body Works
- Big Lots
- Blue Ridge Sports
- Books-a-Million
- Burger King
- Cache [sic]
- Carlton Cards [One on each floor for some reason.]
- Cellular One
- Champ's [sic] Sports
- Chick-fil-A
- Christopher & Banks
- Christopher's Pizza
- Cinnamonster
- Circuit City Express
- Claire's Boutique
- Coffee Beanery
- Comic, Game & Hobby Place
- Country Cookin
- Create-A-Critter
- Cutco Outlet
- CVS
- Dairy Queen
- Disney Store
- Dollar Tree
- Finish Line
- Footaction USA
- F.Y.E.
- GameStop
- Gap
- GCN [? - second floor, he may have meant GNC]
- Glamour Shots
- Great American Cookie
- Hat World
- Hallmark
- Hot Topic
- JCPenny [sic]
- Journeys
- Kay Jewlers [sic]
- KB Toys
- Kohr Bros. Frozen Yougurt [sic]
- Lady Foot Locker
- Lego Outlet
- LensCrafters [Listed twice beside each other.]
- Limited
- Limited Too
- MasterCuts
- McDonald's
- Motherhood Maternity
- Mrs. Field's [sic] Cookies
- Pacific Sunwear
- Paint & Play (exists, but no website for Virginia chain)
- Payless Shoe Source
- Pearl [sic] Vision Express
- Radio Shack
- Red Robin
- Ritz Camera
- Rock Star Body Jewelry
- Sam Goody
- Sbarro
- Sears
- Spencer Gifts
- Starbucks
- Stride Rite
- Suncoast
- Taco Bell
- T&C Nails (no website, likely Chris's view of an average nail salon)
- The Briar Patch
- The Happy Cook
- The Pokémon Center
- The Toy Place
- Things Remembered
- Tokyo Shogun (Virginia-based Japanese mall cuisine; no website)
- Trade Secret
- Verizon
- Victoria's Art Gallery
- victoria's [sic] Secret
- Waldenbooks
- Warner Bros. Store
- Wendy's
- Western Sizzlin'
- YesAsia.com Outlet Store
- Zales Jewelry
- Zany-Brainy
Non-Store Facilities
- Bank of America ATM
- BB&T ATM
- CWCville Mayoral Office
- Mall Security/Customer Service
- Restrooms [Multiple]
- Wachovia ATM
Sauces
See also
- Charlottesville Fashion Square - The IRL version of the CWCville mall.
