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Chris designed the mall as a CADD project in college, and since no good school project goes unrecycled and unpublished, went and put the design in the comics.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.
Mall Stores
Take note of how many of the stores featured here have either been long since defunct or renamed.
- Abercrombie & Fitch (yes, even after this)
- Arcade World (Video Games) [That is not a typo. 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] (defunct since 2015)
- Carlton Cards (American Greetings subsidiary; 2 separate ones)
- Cellular One
- Champ's [sic] Sports
- Chick-fil-A
- Christopher & Banks
- Christopher's Pizza
- Cinnamonster
- Circuit City Express (defunct since 2009, online-only since 2018)
- Claire's Boutique (Known simply as Claire's)
- Coffee Beanery
- Comic, Game & Hobby Place
- Country Cookin
- Create-A-Critter
- Cutco Outlet
- CVS
- Dairy Queen
- Disney Store
- Dollar Tree
- Finish Line
- Footaction USA (better known as Foot Locker)
- F.Y.E.
- GameStop
- Gap
- GCN (? - second floor, he may have meant GNC)
- Glamour Shots
- Great American Cookie
- Hat World (currently operating as Lids)
- Hallmark
- Hot Topic
- JCPenny [sic] (declining since the 2010s)
- Journeys
- Kay Jewlers [sic]
- KB Toys (defunct since 2009)
- Kohr Bros. Frozen Yougurt [sic]
- Lady Foot Locker
- Lego Outlet
- LensCrafters (listed twice beside each other)
- Limited (defunct since 2017)
- Limited Too (currently known as Justice)
- MasterCuts
- McDonald's
- Motherhood Maternity
- Mrs. Field's [sic] Cookies
- Pacific Sunwear
- 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)
- Red Robin
- Ritz Camera (liquidated in 2012 and online-only now)
- Rock Star Body Jewelry
- Sam Goody (defunct since 2006)
- Saberro [sic]
- Sears (declining heavily since the 2010s)
- Spencer Gifts
- Starbucks
- Stride Rite
- Suncoast (only 4 stores still operate)
- Taco Bell
- T&C Nails (a real nail salon in Charlottesville Fashion Square)
- The Briar Patch (website is dead, presumably defunct)
- The Happy Cook
- The Pokémon Center [Unsurprisingly, this is given two floors and roughly 14 times the retail space of most of the other stores]
- 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 (liquidated in 2011)
- Warner Bros. Store (only online since 2001)
- Wendy's
- Western Sizzlin'
- YesAsia.com Outlet Store
- Zales Jewelry
- Zany-Brainy (Defunct 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
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)
