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A Mall is Born; Construction is not always pretty...
Topic Started: Oct 14 2006, 05:59 PM (174 Views)
Steve Miller
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This new shopping mall is being built near San Diego in a new area called "Otay Mesa". It's another one of those outdoor jobs, only much larger than usual. Pretty fancy, too.

Like all malls, this one has to be done before Thanksgiving or the merchants are going to miss their primary selling season. Like all malls, this one is also woefully behind schedule. It's supposed to open November 3 and there are probably 2000 men trying to make that happen.

Crowded jobsite, but well managed by the mall general:
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A parade of contractors in my rearview mirror:
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The kid in the red hat mooned me right after I took this picture:
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Main street - will it get paved in time?
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I'd like to buy an ampersand...
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The grand entrance:
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This is the store we are working on - Limited too. Framers had some trouble with that circular eyebrow roof and now we're behind schedule, too.
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It's a fairly complex deal:
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Jobsite is a bit of a mess - Super is not too big on tidyness:
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This is my foreman on the job - Eddie. He looks kinda goofy in the picture, but make no mistake - you give him a set of plans, a cell phone and a crew and he'll get the job done - every time. His new Cheyenne shirt got all dirty when they were pulling in the mains to the suite:
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I love this stuff...

Wag more
Bark less
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BeeLady
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Steve, interesting that shopping centers/malls are going in so much your way. Is retail growing that much or is this replacement for old outdated centers? ( I used)to live minutes from Del Amo in Torrance) We are a bit behind here and it seems that strip malls are up weekly, something I remember when living in S. CA 15 years ago....

The latest local development issue is a long dead mall is about to become a Home Depot. There is much controversey as it is in the middle of a typical New England center of town....Lumber trucks, traffic and little in the way of book stores, coffee shops etc...So little to slow life down, have towns folk visit with each other....Modern life is the box store, I guess. :(

Here it seems that all they build are small local banks, credit unions and drug stores. Just had this chat today at a local plaza. A new Walgreen's is going up just down the street from a CVS and a NEW Brooks pharmacy..... :confused:

Sad really, as a "main street" of unique, local business that is condusive to strolling, shopping, visiting is lacking around here.
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interesting Steve

KC just tore down - totally levelled a 25 yr. old mall... thought that pretty wasteful but a big huge office complex is taking its place.
it behooves me to behold
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The 89th Key
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Steve, great pictures (and captions)!

Keep us updated...its looking awesome.
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George K
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"Otay!"

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Seriously, Steve, thanks for the photos. You always have such interesting things to show about a world that I have no knowledge of. Keep it up!
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Apple, are you familiar with the Zona Rosa complex in KC?
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Jack Frost
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Steve,

We are going gangbusters here with the big boxes and chain restaurants. We had Home Depot and Walmart and now we have Lowes, Kohls, Best Buy, TGIFridays, Longhorn Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesday with ru,ors of more.

All useless.

Great pix. You have a great eye with that camera of yours.

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These outdoor "Town Centers" are going crazy in Northern VA. There are currently three more ready to start construction in my immediate area.
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