"On the Strip in Selinsgrove" (Bath, Monroe: rental, shops)

[WonderingWanderer]

Originally Posted by ki0eh

Panera's a good place to get a good $5 lunch for $15.

That's too funny ! And absolutely true...

[SakiSake]

I saw some action at the old REX building this past weekend. I think the sign read "Spirit" which I think is a temporary Halloween/Costume store for the fall season. I also think it said Opening in Sept. Hey... at least it is one less vacancy that is temporarily filled for the area. A store of this caliber opened at Bloomsburg this time last year... It wasn't too bad for selection and worked well for us to supply some last minute costume needs for the shows we direct at two local high schools.

[rps85]

I just looked at the website for "Spirit" and it shows no location on the strip, but one "coming soon" for the SV Mall...

There's quite a few of these halloween stores who knows what this one is called

[LeeMar]

Originally Posted by rps85

I just looked at the website for "Spirit" and it shows no location on the strip, but one "coming soon" for the SV Mall...

There's quite a few of these halloween stores who knows what this one is called

Spirit Halloween of course One going in around the old Walmart in Lewisburg toooooooooo

[judd2401]

Looks like 2 stores went out in the mall, including Walden books. Guess people aren't buying books anymore. Also don't see any activity at the previous Ruby Tuesday Restaurant despite all the rumors about Panera Bread and others. Store clerk in Target said they thought the whole complex was going down including Target, the Bed & Bath store and Kohls. The set up there is so poorly done, you can't really walk from store to store which is a huge detractor for people who want to get some air and walk around. Dollar Tree is looking good, believe Big Lots would have a place on the strip too. Costco was looking but threatened by Walmart's threat to put in a Sams Club, and the anticipated by-pass which will hurt business through Shamokin Dam. Is that bypass happening or not? Anybody know?

[numberman]

If they can get the funding in place, the bypass will happen. But who knows when that will happen? As for hurting business along the strip, I know a lot of people who don't shop along that stretch due to all the traffic. The bypass should help get the excess thru traffic off and help make it easier to shop there. And if the thru traffic needs to make a stop there, they just have to take the offramp.

Waldenbooks was owned by Borders, which went under entirely. Borders missed the boat on e-commerce about ten years ago, and more recently, the e-book craze.

[Alyx_Vance]

I always felt like the Monroe Marketplace was ill-placed. You can't really see it from the road and so people don't really bother with it. The mindset of people also doesn't help matters, I would tell my grandmother of Target or Kohls and she would always say, "That place is really expensive, Wal-Mart is cheaper". I just... I just don't know. Do we want to live in a world where one store dominates? It was so nice to have choices, but it seems that's going down the tube, well hell, everything else pretty much is these days isn't it?

[numberman]

It looks like Books-A-Million is coming to the mall, so the bookstore absence there will be short-lived.

[Dawne]

It's official per the Daily Item. Panera Bread will be building a new building on the Ruby Tuesday lot and a medical (medicine/pharmacy?) place will be renovating the current Ruby Tuesday building.

[SusqueHappy]

Originally Posted by Dawne

It's official per the Daily Item. Panera Bread will be building a new building on the Ruby Tuesday lot and a medical (medicine/pharmacy?) place will be renovating the current Ruby Tuesday building.

Thanks, didn't see that story