CWCville Shopping Center
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Chris designed the mall as a CADD project in PVCC, and since no good school project goes unrecycled and unpublished, is now using the design in the comics.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 almost spot-on for a modern 21st-century mall, and no doubt copied generously from Charlottesville Fashion Square. The most egregious departures from the norm are:
- The inclusion of a Big Lots. The chain is a noted recycler of abandoned retail buildings; as a result, any mall with a Big Lots is bound to be a dated, dumpy, dead one.
- And right next to it, a Dollar Tree store. See the reasoning above.
- The fact that he has included Burger King, McDonald's, Dairy Queen and Wendy's. Usually only one food court retailer gets the rights to offer a certain food (i.e. 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.
- Circuit City Express. This concept died off well before the Circuit City chain went under in 2009.
- 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. This store was bought out by TransWorld Entertainment (owners of the f.y.e. chain), and most remaining Sam Goody stores have either been converted to f.y.e. or closed because dedicated music stores are fading.
- 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 1990's because most people want to get in, get out, and pick up their prescriptions via the drive-thru.
- 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 or especially those stands with crafts and sports memorabilia offered during the holiday season.
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.
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
- April's Sports
- 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
- 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
- The Briar Patch
- The Happy Cook
- The Pokémon Center
- The Toy Place
- Things Remembered
- Tokyo Shogun
- 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.
