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Old 08-05-2009, 07:14 AM
 
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It looks like Zales Jewelers and now The Finish Line annouced today that they will be closing as well. Thats two more stores in the Steamtown Mall and the GroundRound closing now. The mall is starting to look like a bunch of Dominos toppling....
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Old 08-05-2009, 07:16 AM
 
Location: NE PA
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Steamtown Mall should be headed to this site soon: deadmalls DOT com
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Old 08-05-2009, 07:44 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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I'll stand by my own personal recommendation to "open" up the mall to resemble a two-story lifestyle center with an elevated exterior catwalk to access second-story storefronts with ground-level entrances facing Lackawanna Avenue for the front half of the existing mall with the rear half being reserved for office/professional usage (along perhaps with a rail/trolley-themed niche restaurant for tourists). I agree with others too---tear down that overpass!
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Old 08-06-2009, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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That won't help either. There is still nothing to attract people downtown. The vision of downtown Scranton could have been better if they planned it better, 10-15 years ago. Now, it's a mess and only getting worse. This is the hard, cold reality and saying to be positive and say nice things about it isn't going to help.
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Old 08-06-2009, 03:59 PM
 
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I happen to like parts of downtown Scranton. I'm not saying it to be nice. I'm saying it because that is how I and my husband + the kids feel. We love going to the mall there and we love going to the Steamtown Museum.

NYR, what WOULD attract you to the downtown?
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Old 08-06-2009, 04:51 PM
 
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I'll stand by my own personal recommendation to "open" up the mall to resemble a two-story lifestyle center with an elevated exterior catwalk to access second-story storefronts with ground-level entrances facing Lackawanna Avenue for the front half of the existing mall with the rear half being reserved for office/professional usage (along perhaps with a rail/trolley-themed niche restaurant for tourists). I agree with others too---tear down that overpass!
Hey, don't steal my ideas lol
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Old 08-07-2009, 03:09 PM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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I happen to like parts of downtown Scranton. I'm not saying it to be nice. I'm saying it because that is how I and my husband + the kids feel. We love going to the mall there and we love going to the Steamtown Museum.

NYR, what WOULD attract you to the downtown?
Some stores that I would actually shop in. A Barnes and Noble, like we mentioned before. Maybe a cool music store and sporting goods store like Modells in NY. First of all, fix the roads downtown. I hate going there because of that. Some of the streets look like bombed out Beirut.
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Old 08-07-2009, 08:39 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Hey, don't steal my ideas lol
(Gasp!) Would that make me as low as a certain Cruela DeVil-like city councilwoman?!
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Old 12-24-2009, 08:46 AM
 
Location: NE PA
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I think the writing is on the wall for the Steamtown Mall....I was there last night and it was pretty much dead, considering it was 2 days before Christmas. It was busier than usual, but that's not saying much.

Although I did get to see the Scranton police and mall security questioning some shady looking characters.
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Old 12-24-2009, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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I think the writing is on the wall for the Steamtown Mall....I was there last night and it was pretty much dead, considering it was 2 days before Christmas. It was busier than usual, but that's not saying much.

Although I did get to see the Scranton police and mall security questioning some shady looking characters.
That mall should be torn down and something else put up in it's place. There is really no need for it except for being a hangout for lowlifes and shady ghetto types. It can't bring any real economic dollars the city.
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