I think that it will be interesting to take a periodic look at Springfield Mall's store roster. I have tried to not include seasonal kiosks (See's, Hickory Farms, Day by Day Calendar, etc.)

Here's an overview of the store closures and openings during the past couple of years. In subsequent posts, I'd like to see people post crime stats and noteworthy events. I will follow up with a more or less current store list and solicit comments on its accuracy.

- - - - - - - - -
Period of May 2009 - April 2010
CLOSURES
Aéropostale
Body Basics
Borders Express
Cajun Gourmet
Cerro Grande
Cingular Wireless
f.y.e.
Fan Club
Frizzles Unisex Haircutters
Jackson Hewitt Tax Service
Jewel Sensation
Justice
Kenese Hair Salon
Lady Foot Locker
Lids
LVL X
Men's Wearhouse
Modern Image
Mr. Watchband and Dr. Battery
Optometrist (Dr L)
Optometrist (Drs.P & N)
Pizzarella
Portables
Rave
Salon Prive
Select Comfort
Sports Authority
Sports Zone
Subway
The Children's Place
Top Nail
Up Against the Wall
OPENINGS
Giani Hair Salon
Salon Dyjo

- - - - - - - - -
Period of April 2010 - December 2010
CLOSURES
Chevy Chase Bank
DMV Express
Hollywood Shot
Lucaya
Motherhood Maternity
Simply Wireless
OPENINGS
Eyebrow Designer 21
Melrose
OPENED AND CLOSED WITHIN PERIOD
Aquatic Treasures Royal Koi
Clear
Patita / Patita
Snuggly Pets
Toys R Us Express

- - - - - - - - -
Period of December 2010 - July 2011
CLOSURES
2 Excess
AT&T Wireless
Bigg Head Hat Co.
Cartoon Cuts
DC Diamond Company
Diamond Concept
Fashion Mechanics
Fashion Mechanics
Gymboree Play and Music Center
Mayuree Thai Food Express
Popeye's Famous Fried Chicken
Shaw's Jewelers
Silver Dolphin
Sprint Express
Taco Bell
VN Cafe
Waldin Jewelers
OPENINGS
Crepeaway

Store Roster at the end of Summer 2011
Roughly 85 Stores Remaining
American Eagle Outfitters
Amour Spa & Nails
Arby's
Artfolio
Auntie Anne's Pretzel
Barber Shop & Co.
Bath & Body Works
Beauty Center & Salon
Camille la Vie
Candy City
Charlotte Russe
Chocolate Clothing
Claire's
Cobbler's Bench Shoe Repair
Crepeaway
Cuppy's Coffee
Dairy Queen
Dollar Stop
Easy Spirit
Everything Yogurt
Express
Eyebrow Designer 21
Fashion Time
Finish Line
Foot Locker
Footaction USA
Forever 21
Game Stop
Giani Hair Salon
GNC
Gordon's Jewelers
Grill Kabob
Gymboree
Hair Cuttery
Han Jewelry Repair
Healthwise
Hot Topic
Hour Eyes
JCPenney
Jewel Box
Journeys
Kay Jewelers
Kids Foot Locker
Kim's Custom Tailoring
Kim's Karate
LensCrafters
Macy's
Manchu Wok
Melrose
Milano Menswear
Modell's Sporting Goods
Mrs. Field's Cookies / TCBY
New York & Company
New York Steaks
O2ZoneWireless Accessories
Oxford Jewelers
Payless ShoeSource
Picture People
Piercing Pagoda
Radio Shack
Saliou's Boutique
Salon Dyjo
Sarku Japan
Sbarro
Sentiments Hallmark
Silver Dolphin
Spencer's
Sports Zone
Sprint
Stride Rite
Sunglass Hut
Target
The Limited
The Shoe Dept.
Things Remembered
Time Out
T-Mobile
Trends
Va Art Expo
VA Bag / Luggage
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret Beauty Co.
Virage Hair Salon
WJ Colt & Co Outfitters
Zales


If any of these have closed, please let us know. This will form a baseline as we track future closings and the rare opening.

I think the Aquatic Treasures Royal Koi is still there. $30 moray eels for sale yesterday.

Discrepency Wrote:
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> I think the Aquatic Treasures Royal Koi is still
> there. $30 moray eels for sale yesterday.

Is that place for fish tanks or for eating?

Discrepency Wrote:
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> I think the Aquatic Treasures Royal Koi is still
> there. $30 moray eels for sale yesterday.

Thanks for the information.

Interesting, as Aquatic Treasures Royal Koi dropped off of Springfield Mall's directory.

I'll have to look into this and update this thread.

If they're still open, I bet that they and tenants must feel great that the mall management isn't keeping potential shoppers up to date on what is actually available at the mall.

Another fact for this thread: Springfield Mall's web site doesn't reflect reality. My hunch is that this fact is telling.

Popeyes closed? I don't get it. Colored's and beaners love dat chicken fm Popeyes.

When did the American Cafe /Mozzarella's close?

Dead Malls Wrote:
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> Discrepency Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I think the Aquatic Treasures Royal Koi is
> still
> > there. $30 moray eels for sale yesterday.
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> Interesting, as Aquatic Treasures Royal Koi
> dropped off of Springfield Mall's directory.
>
> I'll have to look into this and update this
> thread.
>
> If they're still open, I bet that they and tenants
> must feel great that the mall management isn't
> keeping potential shoppers up to date on what is
> actually available at the mall.
>
> Another fact for this thread: Springfield Mall's
> web site doesn't reflect reality. My hunch is that
> this fact is telling.


Not sure of the name, but there's a fish store on the Food court wing, was there a couple of days ago. So it's still open.

Clueless1 Wrote:
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> When did the American Cafe /Mozzarella's close?

Several years ago.

Time Out still exists as a company?

Arcade Gamer Wrote:
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> Time Out still exists as a company?

Maybe.
Attachments:

1/29/10 from FB death of a mall - springfield mall
Attachments:

Arcade Gamer Wrote:
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> Time Out still exists as a company?

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that all Time-Out Arcades are operated under the umbrella of Namco/Bandai.

Thank you for the great pictures, as they brought back so many good memories, especially from when Springfield Mall had something useful there. Now its just wannabe gang bangers, and no stores. That shooting from a few years back, effectively ended any chances of this mall coming back to "respectability." It is now going the Skyline Mall Route, and the Target will be the only thing left.


Truly though, thanks for the pics, they at least showed Time Out, where many tokens and much time was wasted. Although in a good way!

Cuppy's Coffee is still open? I thought the company went under, from what I've seen at a few places, but meh whatever. And I though the watch place across from the barber shop was closing?

Video Gamer 2 Wrote:
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> That
> shooting from a few years back, effectively ended
> any chances of this mall coming back to
> "respectability." It is now going the Skyline Mall
> Route, and the Target will be the only thing
> left.

That shooting/murder outside Cerro Grande.

Plus:

The multiple stabbings.

The abduction which ended in a fatal car crash.

Don't forget the beatings and robberies!

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/police/news-releases/2008/072808fourteensarrestedhtm.htm

Here are some nice photographs.



Does anybody have photos of Springfield Mall in its better days?

So, are they really going to revamp the mall or is that merely a rumor? I seem to recall it being slated as the new Tyson's.

Those last pics are the true definition of "an image being worth a million words." Damn that is a shithole now.

it sounds like they are basically going into run off mode and allowing the leases to expire and not letting them rollover. once they get all the leases expiring they will probably tear it down or do something else with it

We've been evaluating our options. We even brought in an outside retail consulting agency. After extensive analysis, our best option appears to be to nuke the site from orbit. If we can take out greater Springfield as well, I think that the rest of the County will agree that it's a win-win.

Stay tuned. We'll have flyers.

Wow, there's 85 stores still left?

Don't know how I remember but in the first picture 6X posted that's a "Disco Fever" pinball machine:

http://pinball.flippers.info/discofever.asp

Here's the mall from the Blues Brothers, Dixie Square Mall. They eventually tore it down.

http://abandonedgary.com/content/dsm/index.html

Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> Here's the mall from the Blues Brothers, Dixie
> Square Mall. They eventually tore it down.
>
> http://abandonedgary.com/content/dsm/index.html


ruins are still there as of June 2011, according to the Sun-Times:

http://www.suntimes.com/business/roeder/5826748-417/four-prospective-chicago-casino-sites.html

snowdenscold Wrote:
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> Wow, there's 85 stores still left?

Yes, I was surprised by that amount, too. Going into this, I figured that there were no more than 40 store remaining.

Somebody correct this figure if incorrect, but the Mall used to have 250 stores just a few years ago.

My favorite Springfield Mall stores:

Garfinckel's
Raleigh's
Britches Great Outdoors
Britches for Women
Wicks n Sticks
Herman's World of Sports
Korvettes
Farrells Ice Cream
Spa Lady

Athletic Attic
Suzies Casuals
Brooks
misc
Jean Nicole
Montgomery Ward
Bennigans
Units

Orange Julius
Hong Kong
Hahns Shoes

"It’s probably the most dangerous commercial ruin in the Chicago area"

I was wondering if it was because of crime or because the building is collapsing until I read this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Square_Mall

Now I'm certain the answer is yes.

Too bad about the asbestos.

Landmark is here, but Springfield hasn't made the list yet. I wonder why.

http://deadmalls.com/features.html#VA

rickafterburner Wrote:
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> Landmark is here, but Springfield hasn't made the
> list yet. I wonder why.
>
> http://deadmalls.com/features.html#VA


Deadmalls.com has a page to submit recommendations:

http://deadmalls.com/message.shtml

Petition Deadmalls.com to include Springfield Mall.

A great headline over at Patch.com: "McKay: Springfield Mall is Safe for Shoppers"

http://annandale.patch.com/articles/mckay-springfield-mall-is-safe-for-shoppers

And a related article at: http://rosehill.patch.com/articles/springfield-mall-is-safe-for-shopping-district-supervisor-says#

Some great, inconsistent quotes from McKay:

"Right now, when people are in Springfield Mall, they’re scared because it’s so desolate."

"I think the biggest way to make people feel safer at the mall is to get people back to the mall, and the only way you’re going to do that is with a complete transformation. . . The mall has been through a few new coats of paint, and it doesn’t get people to come back."

“They have to recapture people who had bad experiences there in the past."

"Getting people back into the mall, mentally, just makes people feel safer. . . You feel like everybody is watching out for everyone else."

"Our police were at the table when they redesigned [the mall]."

"[ I ]t is eerie to be in there."

When a politician has to go to lengths to make it sound like a location is safe, yet stresses that police are helping to redesign the space and that attracting shoppers depends upon the illusion of mutually-ensured shopper security... you know you're being fed a line of b.s.

This is what you get when your board of supervisors invite illegals to overrun the county by offering them free/subsized luxury housing, free medical care, and free education, no questions asked.

the mall is a used up whore, good back in the day but not anymore. too many gangs hanging out, the food court looks like something from a third world city.

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chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Hell, dig up Til Hazel and get him to represent
> the county in the condemnation hearings. The king
> of sprawl can consider it penance for all the
> other shit he's perpetrated in this county.

When did that bastard die?

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PredictableOutcome Wrote:
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> This is what you get when your board of
> supervisors invite illegals to overrun the county
> by offering them free/subsized luxury housing,
> free medical care, and free education, no
> questions asked.


Include the U.S. Congress and I would agree with you whole heartedly, we should be ashamed of our selves for allowing this to happen not only to the county but the whole country

chuckhoffmann Wrote:
> He hasn't: he's 81 years old and still going
> strong. I was speaking metaphorically rather than
> literally.

Dang. When he does kick the bucket, I hope somebody paves over his cemetery plot.

Not just dead malls but also check when you go food shopping how certain things you used to find easy is now hard.

My advice is for everyone to start hoarding.

I bet 100% that a economic collaps is going to happen so fucking hard to the world and shit will go down and the rodney king beatig out rage will appear like the good ole days that we all wished we had.


Who to blame?
bankers and end time cults(evangelicals) and neocons and speculators.
There are people bettign and hoping for a major economic crash and that will be one of the motivating indicators of things to come.

Most of this started when evangelicals started voting in neocons into govt positions of the USA govt.

THe modus operandai starts with some verses of the Bible and they think the bible verses deal with American specifically with such passages like:

Your slaves will be your masters--not verbatim but close.

But economic collapse is what evangelicals want because they want to whore out USA because they still think USA is teh richest nation on earth and USA does not need all that money. So they want to screw over middle class by exporting jobs killing middle class tax base. Then by raising taxes and putting it on the shoulders of the rich and on companies since jobs were exported so now companies are pissed off at 30% tax rate and so they export the company so they do not have to pay those taxes so now USA is suffering a double whammy. GOVT and the rich dont care and still act like $1,200 a paycheck is dam good (typical greedy rich think that)

notjustdead Wrote:
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> Not just dead malls but also check when you go
> food shopping how certain things you used to find
> easy is now hard.
>
> My advice is for everyone to start hoarding.
>
> I bet 100% that a economic collaps is going to
> happen so fucking hard to the world and shit will
> go down and the rodney king beatig out rage will
> appear like the good ole days that we all wished
> we had.
>
>
> Who to blame?
> bankers and end time cults(evangelicals) and
> neocons and speculators.
> There are people bettign and hoping for a major
> economic crash and that will be one of the
> motivating indicators of things to come.
>
> Most of this started when evangelicals started
> voting in neocons into govt positions of the USA
> govt.
>
> THe modus operandai starts with some verses of the
> Bible and they think the bible verses deal with
> American specifically with such passages like:
>
> Your slaves will be your masters--not verbatim but
> close.
>
> But economic collapse is what evangelicals want
> because they want to whore out USA because they
> still think USA is teh richest nation on earth and
> USA does not need all that money. So they want
> to screw over middle class by exporting jobs
> killing middle class tax base. Then by raising
> taxes and putting it on the shoulders of the rich
> and on companies since jobs were exported so now
> companies are pissed off at 30% tax rate and so
> they export the company so they do not have to pay
> those taxes so now USA is suffering a double
> whammy. GOVT and the rich dont care and still act
> like $1,200 a paycheck is dam good (typical greedy
> rich think that)



uh... yeah. I miss "Merry Go Round" and "JW" too. That *was* your point right?

White Flint Mall is almost dead.

Some say White Flint Mall will close within 2-5 years but I think that
LakeForestMall is on par with White Flint Mall.

Would be nice just to have one major mall.
Only thing that would suck about that would be traffic and crime but more sexy booty comes around for the taking.

Very illuminating comments Chuck...all I know is that When Sarku closes, I'm gone...it was bad enough when Taco Bueno and Orange Julius closed. That hurt. And Farrells, and The American Cafe, for that matter...At least Mr. Le got a new job at the Mancuttery next to the Cowboy store...speaking of which how in God's name does that place stay in business? I think a lot of folks are sad cuz Springfield Mall was where we all went as youngsters back when it rocked. Now it's a rain-leaking ghost town full of brown people...and that was just yesterday.

Who remembers the short-lived skate park that used to be over next to the mall?

Am I remembering correctly that there used to be a driving range on the land where the Sheehy Ford is now? I think this was late 70's-early 80's...

Lakeforest Mall is on loan default risk:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/analysts-say-lakeforest-mall-owners-at-risk-of-loan-default/2011/08/26/gIQA1Y5LjJ_story.html

King of Kings Park Wrote:
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> Am I remembering correctly that there used to be a
> driving range on the land where the Sheehy Ford is
> now? I think this was late 70's-early 80's...

Sheehy Ford's been there since I got here in 83. The land where the apartments are at is where the driving lane was at, and a putt-putt. I don't think it was ever open during my time, but was definately closed by 86.

What dos the creapaway store sells?

Hebrew Hammer Wrote:
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> King of Kings Park Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Am I remembering correctly that there used to be
> a
> > driving range on the land where the Sheehy Ford
> is
> > now? I think this was late 70's-early 80's...
>
> Sheehy Ford's been there since I got here in 83.
> The land where the apartments are at is where the
> driving lane was at, and a putt-putt. I don't
> think it was ever open during my time, but was
> definately closed by 86.

Thanks for the straight non-flame answer, Hammer. :)

Wait, I thought Vornado owned the entire Springfield Mall site...it doesn't? Who owns what there then? How did JC Penney even have 12 acres in the middle of the site to sell?

Farrell's is finding new life in urban lifestyle centers.

http://www.farrellsusa.com/brea/

mcdowell Wrote:
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> Farrell's is finding new life in urban lifestyle
> centers.
>
> http://www.farrellsusa.com/brea/

I loved Farrell's.

But WHAT THE FUCK IS AN "URBAN LIFESTYLE CENTER?"

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Interesting. Does anybody know the status of the Silver Diner? Is their parcel technically part of the mall? It would be a shame to lose the diner if somehow its future is tied to the mall's.

Sounds like Wrote:
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> it sounds like they are basically going into run
> off mode and allowing the leases to expire and not
> letting them rollover. once they get all the
> leases expiring they will probably tear it down or
> do something else with it

But they've been doing that for years, and still the place limps along. And some of the places are thriving. JC Penny just remodeled. Target seems to be doing fine. The Karate place seems well-attended. Stride Rite, Bath and Bodyworks, Hot Topic, Auntie Anne's, GNC, the salons, and Gamestop are all okay. Heck the barbershop moved after the slow death began, remodeling the old A&W site and they appear to be doing well.

So if the theory is starve 'em out, it's not working on everyone. And some are relocating so that they can perform better.

So what's the deal?

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mindless marketing lingo alert! Wrote:
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> mcdowell Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Farrell's is finding new life in urban
> lifestyle
> > centers.
> >
> > http://www.farrellsusa.com/brea/
>
> I loved Farrell's.
>
> But WHAT THE FUCK IS AN "URBAN LIFESTYLE CENTER?"

An upscale faux-town.

mcdowell Wrote:
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> mindless marketing lingo alert! Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > mcdowell Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Farrell's is finding new life in urban
> > lifestyle
> > > centers.
> > >
> > > http://www.farrellsusa.com/brea/
> >
> > I loved Farrell's.
> >
> > But WHAT THE FUCK IS AN "URBAN LIFESTYLE
> CENTER?"
>
> An upscale faux-town.

In other words an outdoor shopping plaza or strip center, but with a flashier facade?

Anyone remember that place called...Coffee Cavern? I think that is what it was called.

mindless marketing lingo alert! Wrote:
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> mcdowell Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > mindless marketing lingo alert! Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > mcdowell Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > Farrell's is finding new life in urban
> > > lifestyle
> > > > centers.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.farrellsusa.com/brea/
> > >
> > > I loved Farrell's.
> > >
> > > But WHAT THE FUCK IS AN "URBAN LIFESTYLE
> > CENTER?"
> >
> > An upscale faux-town.
>
> In other words an outdoor shopping plaza or strip
> center, but with a flashier facade?

Basically, yes. Dumb,huh? It's what the young twenty something's think they want. In another ten yrs they'll be bitching about not having any closed in malls.

Interesting to note in the map above, it is an orginal map from "Arlen of Virginia"....they owned Korvettes Department store (out of business 1980 and an early anchor at the Mall) now its owned by Vornado which started out as "Two Guys" another Discount store. What does this mean?

Basically the mall has been owned since the 80's by Carpetbaggers from New York, with no interest in anything other than the land appreciating.

Vornado went to the county and Springfield rpoper with alot of promises in exchange for favorable zoning and tax incentives....and they basically screwed everyone. It will sit as a hulk for the next 5 to 10 years......

At the recent DC Foo Fighters concert, local boy Dave Grohl made some choice comments about his recent visit to Springfield Mall:


"I went to my beloved Springfield Mall. That shit is fucked up right now! What the fuck? It's like that movie 28 Days [Later], it's so fucked. What happened to my beloved Springfield Mall... That shit is gone man."

"I went back to Springfield and it made me kind of sad sort of."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqaNMYp39V8



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From the Franconia District Police blotter, a robbery at gunpoint at Springfield Mall was reported in February:

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/police/stations/franconia/crimesummaries/20120205crimesummary.htm

http://rosehill.patch.com/articles/police-report-robbery-at-gunpoint-at-springfield-mall

Other fun events at the mall during the week of 2/5:

- Purse snatching
- Multiple cases of shoplifting
- Some drunk causing a disturbance

Here are a few of Springfield Mall's greatest hits! Please add your own!


1987: Sicilian Mafia cocaine ring being run from the mall

1996: 3 carjackings by gunpoint

1997: Murder-suicide

2001: 2 of the 9/11 hijackers illegally obtain state driver's licenses from the mall's DMV. At least one of them lived across the street in the condos.

2002: Fatal gang shooting

2003: Two child abduction cases

2005: Carjacking, mall security fired upon, at least three gang stabbing incidents including one in the food court

2006: Stabbing in the mall

2007: Two separate and fatal gang shootings in one evening! December 2,

2008: Illegal aliens busted for running unlicsensed "massage parlor" in the mall; Armed robbery, the fatal carjacking+abduction

2009: Attempted carjacking, muggings in the parking lot

2010: Muggings

2011: No violent crimes that I'm aware of, but plenty of fun with store break-ins, vehicle theft, and drug busts

2012? Starting off in great Springfield Mall fashion with!

1985: white boy scores some pills, a Judas Priest shirt, and a chick with feathered hair. He goes to Farrells for a sundae before hopping into his muscle car. Later he kicks some faggots ass.

Forever 21 is now closed

Spencers is gone too.

Forever 21 and Spencers are both gone? Did anything take their place?

Has anyone eaten in the food court lately? I was there last month and the trays in use seriously look as though they haven't been cleaned in years.

Maybe it's old news, but a hair stylist at one of the salons said that all businesses (except for Target, JC Penney and Macy's) must close and vacate by June 30, 2012. It seems they're going to gut the mall or even tear down the inner spaces between the anchor stores. It's supposed to take two years.

The mall is so empty these days that gang members don't even hang out there any more.

Dead Malls Wrote:
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OPENINGS
Giani Hair Salon


Technically this is not a new hair salon but rather Kenese moved its location and renamed itself (new ownership I think)

lava lamps and dildos Wrote:
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> Spencers is gone too.


No! NOOOOO!!!!

When is Springfield, VA going to turn it's self into Springfield Towne Center? Heard not too long ago that more apartments, shops and other businesses will open...

What is the update? Is this really going to happen in the next 20 years?

WOW 2 SPRINGFIELD Wrote:
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> When is Springfield, VA going to turn it's self
> into Springfield Towne Center? Heard not too long
> ago that more apartments, shops and other
> businesses will open...
>
> What is the update? Is this really going to happen
> in the next 20 years?

They are waithing to see if the FBI HQ moves to the GSA warehouses. If they do , it is a game changer on what they want to do with the property, ie more offices, hotels vrs shopping. If they don't, back to abortion mill.

Anyone remember that place called...Coffee Cavern? I think that is what it was called.

I remember Pizza Delight and Pizza Delight Jr.

We used to ride dirt bikes where the mall was early 70,s I can see the steel going up in my minds eye. It was a huge exciteing place back then. I remember Montgomery Wards. JC Pennys is going down the drain, they have nothing in the stores like they used to back then. My favorite was the taco place by Wards, Taco Larado I think, I always had to stop there. Herman Atlas was there and they sold handguns back then and had lots of business it was once a great sporting goods store..Then in 73 the 3 day wait was started for handguns and they got rid of the handguns and went down the tubes. Funny how all the places that once sold guns have all gone out of business or are hanging on by their nails like Sports Authority.

JoJo Simpson Wrote:
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> Anyone remember that place called...Coffee Cavern?
> I think that is what it was called.

I remember it. Anyone got pics of it?

Dead Malls Wrote:
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> Here are a few of Springfield Mall's greatest
> hits! Please add your own!
>
>
> 1987: Sicilian Mafia cocaine ring being run from
> the mall

More information on this please!

Pizza Delight!
They had 2 locations within the mall.

I was actually in the Fairfax County Jail with one of the Owners who was waiting trial for the cocaine conspiracy. Mine was just driving on suspended...