[NPMUG] Cranberry Twp User Group meeting for the NPMUG - Wed Feb 4, 2009

[Scott Baret]

This is really nothing new with Simon Malls. They will regularly do  
this and force tenants to leave. I'm a Ross Park shopper and remember  
when this happened to Cheryl & Co (the cookie store) in 1997. I was  
not the only one upset by the departure and still feel as though they  
made this move in part to move a different store (Gymboree and part of  
a jewelry store) into that space. I believe they did the same thing  
when longtime tenants such as Radio Shack and Ritz Camera left in  
favor of the new high-end stores that have opened there recently.

My thought is that Simon is going to push for some big-name restaurant  
to come and fill the space if they truly "forced out" the Roxy. They  
have a famous chain at Ross Park, which they seem to want SHV to  
compete against. Why not fill the vacant Boscov's with a Von Maur  
while we're at it?

The reason I feel Simon is to blame for doing this is because the  
problem of "forced out by big-time rent increase" was never an issue  
at Ross Park until 1996-1997 when Simon took it over.

Hopefully they don't force out our Apple Store of South Hills (I doubt  
they will though). However, if they do, Ross Park sure could use one...

Scott

On Feb 2, 2009, at 9:58 PM, Bruce Wells wrote:

> My father in law who lives in near the Village said  that the Roxy
> quit after the mall raised their rent.  Simon says: more-money.
> Probably cause they got put off by Penn-Dot in Cranberry.
>
> CuZinBruce
> On Feb 2, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Dave Sevick wrote:
>
>> Topics:
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>> iLife '09
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>> iWork '09
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>> Open Q & A ...
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>> Nightcap at Primanti's  to follow .... and yes, they are still in
>> business.  Not like the Roxy in SHVillage who quits on us   :-)
>>
>>
>> See you Wed night.
>>
>> Dave
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