CWCville Shopping Center
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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Chris designed the mall as a CADD project in college, and since no good school project goes unrecycled and unpublished, went and put the design in the comics.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,[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, owner 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 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 tha : Sears left Charlottesville in March 2019, followed by JCPenney in November 2020. It is unclear whether Chris found replacement retailers.
Mall Stores
Take note of how many of the stores featured here have either been long since defunct or renamed.
Floor and location information are according to the archived CAD plans.
| Store | Floor | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Books-a-Million | 1 W | Extant (abbreviated as BAM!) |
| Burger King | 1 W | Extant |
| Cellular One | 2 W | Extant (but merged into Verizon in 2005)[3] |
| Chick-fil-A | 1 SW | Extant |
| Christopher & Banks | 2 W | Defunct (since January 2021) |
| Christopher's Pizza | 2 NE | |
| Circuit City Express | 1 NE | Defunct (since 8 March 2009, online-only since 2018) |
| Coffee Beanery | 1 NE | Extant |
| Comic, Game & Hobby Place | 2 W | |
| Country Cookin | 1 SW | Defunct (since 18 October 2020) |
| Cutco Outlet | 2 SE | |
| 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) |
| GameStop | 1 W | Extant |
| Gap | 1 NE | Extant |
| Great American Cookie [sic] | 2 SE | |
| Hallmark | 1 NW | Extant |
| Hot Topic | 1 W | Extant |
| JCPenny [sic] | 1+2 NW | Defunct (left Fashion Square in November 2020) |
| KB Toys | 1 SE | Defunct (since 9 February 2009) |
| Lady Foot Locker | 2 NE | Extant |
| Lego Outlet | 1 NE | |
| 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)[4] |
| McDonald's | 1 SW | Extant |
| Pacific Sunwear (PacSun) | 1 W | Extant |
| 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. |
| Red Robin | 1 NE | Extant |
| Sbarro | 1 SW | Extant |
| Sears | 1+2 E | Defunct (left Fashion Square in March 2019) |
| Spencer Gifts | 1 NE | Extant (trading as Spencer's) |
| Starbucks | 1 SE | Extant |
| T&C Nails | 1 SW | Extant (real nail salon in Charlottesville Fashion Square)[5] |
| Taco Bell | 1 W | Extant |
| The Toy Place | 2 W | |
| Verizon | 2 SE | Extant |
| victoria's [sic] Secret | 1 SE | Extant |
| Waldenbooks | 1 SE | Liquidated in 2011 |
| Wendy's | 1 W | Extant |
| Western Sizzlin' | 1 SE | Extant |
| YesAsia.com Outlet Store | 1 W | Extant (as a online retail company) |
| Zales Jewelry | 1 SE | Extant |
| Zany-Brainy | 1 NE | Defunct (since 2001) |
- Anna Joy's (local bridal shop)
- April's Sports (local sporting goods)
- Bath & Body Works
- Big Lots
- Blue Ridge Sports
- 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)
- Create-A-Critter
- Disney Store
- Finish Line
- F.Y.E.
- GCN (? - second floor, he may have meant GNC)
- Glamour Shots
- Hat World (currently operating as Lids)
- Journeys
- Kay Jewlers [sic]
- Kohr Bros. Frozen Yougurt [sic]
- 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)
- Payless Shoe Source (liquidated in 2019)
- Pearl [sic] Vision Express
- RadioShack (mostly online-only since 2017)
- Ritz Camera (liquidated in 2012 and online-only now)
- Rock Star Body Jewelry
- Sam Goody (defunct since 2006)
- Stride Rite
- Suncoast (only 4 stores still operate)
- The Briar Patch (website is dead, presumably defunct)
- The Happy Cook
- Things Remembered
- Tokyo Shogun (Virginia-based Japanese mall cuisine; no website)
- 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)
Sources
- ↑ Blanca E-mails, 20 August 2008 5:27 AM
- ↑ Mailbag 13
- ↑ In 2020, Cellular One operated in Louisiana and Texas, as well as in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and New York.
- ↑ Official website of Signature Style, accessed 31 January 2021.
- ↑ Google Maps entry
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
Original project files(dead link as of Jun 2014)
