Just a friendly warning to those who work in or want to frequent the College Mall in the mornings this week. If you use the entrance next to Applebee's (between Smith's and Sears) they have the doors locked until just after 9 a.m. everyday. The Mall doesn't officially open during the week until 10 a.m. anyway, but for those that have to work in the mall and are expected there before 9 a.m. good luck with that.
The construction mess is behind Applebee's in the alley near Old Navy's back doors. It is a complete mess, brought on by the construction of the new food court. If you are unfortunate enough to have or work for business along that corridor, sorry about your luck. Your back doors are almost completely blocked, rendering delivery of goods from shipping companies difficult at best. If you arrive to work before 9 a.m. for get about it. You won't be able to get to your backdoor without scaling a barricade and shuffling around the great crater they have created, and you won't have access to your front door until after 9 a.m..
We are not aware if other Mall entrances are open, common sense would say yes. Then again that has not been verified and no one has ever accused the mall planners of having a great deal of common sense when it comes to making things accessible and customer friendly. Just look to the bottle neck created at the entry road in front of TGI Fridays and you will see that planning for traffic flow and customer access isn't been a well thought priority. Add that to the amount of empty spots around and you have an increasingly less useful shopping resource. In our opinion it just thank goodness for destination stores like Dick's Sporting Goods, Target, Smith's Sport'N Shoe, K&S Menswear, and Sears keeping customers coming in at all. Otherwise, the new and long overdue food court would be a moot point.
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You have summed it up perfectly! Try working in that area of the mall. Today it feels like we are sitting on top of the jack hammer and yes couldn't get into the mall from Applebees this morning and had to climb a wooden 'fence' to get to the backdoor. Poor UPS man had to cart a couple dozen cases in around the fence too. Can't wait till this is done.
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