[binionrat]

This from a LV newsletter I receive:

BOULEVARD MALL: Huge shopping center located on MarylandParkway between Twain Avenue and Desert Inn Road is repossessed by lenders andwith Dillard's Department Store gone, is up for sale. Price is "best offer".

I previously referred a poster to this mall as it was close to the Strip and had cheap prices...Now we know why everything was so much cheaper than Strip malls like the Fashion Show.

[Kitchen Witch]

So sad, really. This was THE place to go back years ago.

It's a high crime area nowadays

[binionrat]

I liked this mall a lot...I just locked my car...Odds of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and having a robbery in the mall was pretty good odds I wouldn't be involved in a crime there. Prices were awesome and the same ladies clothing items were usually 50% cheaper there than even stores at the outlets...at least the brands I was comparing with the South Outlet Mall stores.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by binionrat

This from a LV newsletter I receive:

BOULEVARD MALL: Huge shopping center located on MarylandParkway between Twain Avenue and Desert Inn Road is repossessed by lenders andwith Dillard's Department Store gone, is up for sale. Price is "best offer".

I previously referred a poster to this mall as it was close to the Strip and had cheap prices...Now we know why everything was so much cheaper than Strip malls like the Fashion Show.

I believe I read on Facebook that the Boulevard Mall was sold. It's not closing. It is changing hands.

That area of town has become one the highest crime areas. The clientele of the Boulevard has gone from upscale to lower class. I hate to use that term since I come from a family of predominantly po people. But my family knew the difference between right and wrong, and class and no class. We didn't join gangs and rob anyone.

Even before I retired from DETR and worked at the NV JobConnect across the street, over eight years ago, I wasn't comfortable going in there. It's full of teenagers that look like gangbangers most of the time, and the stores are marketed to attract them. The Meadows Mall is the same way now. There are at least ten stores in the Meadows that sell Vans. Nothing wrong with Vans except for being too expensive, but they are designed for skateboarders, not business attire. Try to find business attire in the Meadows or the Boulevard.

Within a couple of blocks of the Boulevard I saw, every single workday for eight years, people being handcuffed by the cops. And at least once a week there was a murder in the area. The Boulevard Mall was our first fully enclosed mall. It destroyed downtown like malls everywhere have done. Now it is nearly 50 years old and the people that get all the attention in that area have gone from wealthy big time entertainers to drug dealers, pimps, ho's, and murderers.

[MSchu]

I heard that also... NOT CLOSING.

[pimit2]

Sad.

Was at the Boulevard Mall during their Grand Opening in 1968 (the year we moved to Las Vegas). It was the first enclosed mall I had ever been in, and it was awesome. Shopped there many a day.

Sad to hear of its problems....


pimit2 (Bob)

[MSchu]

sad... sold not closing.

[ScoopLV]

I'm sure all the kids with their pants down to their knees appreciate that Meadows isn't closing.

[FML157]

Should be turned into an indoor swap meet, I think this will attract more tenants (cheaper rent) and provide more of the services needed/wanted by the are demographic (money transfers, check cashing, lower priced consumer goods, ethnic foods etc....)

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by FML157

Should be turned into an indoor swap meet, I think this will attract more tenants (cheaper rent) and provide more of the services needed/wanted by the are demographic (money transfers, check cashing, lower priced consumer goods, ethnic foods etc....)

Sounds like we're giving up on that area.

I think it would be a fine idea if homeowners in the area had veto-power for business permits. Nobody wants gun stores, check cashing stores and payday loan companies in their immediate vicinity. Surely there can be a productive aspect of NIMBYism.