Hmmmm...I didn't even check.

I know they have some good sweat shirts there.

At a presentation today, a member of the OKC Police Gang Task Force, identified " LA Gear" or "LA Wear", "LA Something" as a store that carries and caters to gang members in the OKC area. It was in front of said store, that the shooting occured last year, where a gang member was killed by a police officer. The dead gang dude had just shot another gang member and was about to finish him off. Maybe everybody already knew about this, but I sure didn't. I will absolutely stay clear of Crossroads from now on. Never really went much except at Christmas time anyway.

I think some of this is a reflection of the economy. Another part the I-35 road construction a few years ago screwed up traffic to the mall. But the biggest part is the neighborhood. Stores like Burger King, the strip mall have remained vacant for years. With Macy's, Steve & Barry's, and JCPenney gone the mall is going under.

Ok, First off the Burger King is currently being remodled and is reopening, It was posted in News ok .com today that STeve and Barry's is closeing the Enid store only and they are keeping the only store in OKC open which is at Crossroads. Crossroads Mall is safe to go to. It looks like the area is starting to make a slow comeback..

The area may end up making a comeback, but Crossroads won't.

I hope Steve & Barry's sticks around.

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I'm glad Steve and Barry's is staying open in OKC. I love the fact I can get OU clothes for $8.98.

Today I went and noticed the arcade was closed at Crossroads. I'm sad, but at least I had made it by a few times recently before it closed. It will be sorely missed.

Does anyone know the name of that DDR game or have any recent pictures? I may take or post a picture or two if anyone's interested.

Yeah, only wear them for one football season.

I noticed that there is an awful lot of dead space throughout Steve & Barry's. If they continue to stay in OKC, I think they will relocate to a space that better fit's thier needs. Such as a store front space in Walnut Square, Southern Hills or 240 Penn Park. The utility bill for that size of space has to be outrageous. I am willing to bet Crossroads is leasing that space to them for a bargain basement price.

The mall management could have very easily saved that mall if they would have called up Sears and said "Make as an offer we are willing to negotiate."

Sears would have probably closed the South Western and MWC store and moved in a matter of a couple of months. Now the auto center is a Gymnastics studio and the garden center will probably take too much money to renovate.

Maerich missed the bus, the boat, the plane... you name it they screwed up big time. Now the mall is on a down hillslide to closure. The only thing that will save it now is redevelopment. I think it would make an excellent space for a new hospital the size of Baptist, a community college, a retirement village.

Better yet, something like this..... Stapleton

AMEN- brother, I have some of the sweatshirts from 4 years ago.

No.

THe story I was told was that Sears and Macerich were in works to make such a deal, but the bankruptcy of the Wards chain (who, apparently owned rather than leased the space, or if they leased it, the lease became entangled in the bankruptcy proceedings) legally blocked any disposition of the Wards space for something on the order of a year. By the time the legal issues were resolved, Sears had lost interest.

I've asked a few folks at Sears every once in a while about their future plans, any moves or closures ahead, and they tell me there aren't...but that store, to me, is in a shambles.

The mall won't close immediately, because there are too many "interior" (non-anchor) tenants, and those leases will expire at different times. The glow-in-the-dark miniature golf couse on the first floor was literally going out of business while we were there - beng dismantled. I figure that they lost the summer kid crowd to school, so they were done.

Some are determined to make a go of it out there, because the Sbarro's reopened as a generic pizza place. We were there this last weekend to take advantage of the Dillard's third-floor sale, and unfortunately the "deals" aren't as good as we'd hoped. Yes, some things are 20% off, but the problem is some of the items are higher than you'd find them at other places to begin with. They're also getting rid of the furniture; only a few assorted items remain. Saleslady told me that as soon as the merchandise is gone, the third floor will be closed off.

BTW, the place felt as safe as ever. I think I got a little caught up in some of the gangbanger hysteria that tends to go on here; we were there Sunday afternoon, the mall was surprisingly busy. That said, the west end first-floor of the mall is all-but vacant now...that's a little bit spooky, and I wouldn't opt to hang around there in the later evening. It is very sad to look at space after space and see nothing but empty after empty.....

Thanks for posting about the Dillard's deals. I wanted to go there tonight and check them out--hoping for an excellent deal, but maybe I'll stay away. I would love to see some pics of the empty areas, because I usually don't venture around the actual mall itself.

Fittin' the stereotype, lol.

Toysrus is probably going to close its doors at crossroads, they are building a new toysrus and babies rus in moore on 19th...

Really, is there something in writing saying these 2 stores are being built in Moore?

I havent been to crossroads in maybe 6 years what major stores are left there?

American Eagle
Hot Topic
Pac Sun
Avenue
Chick-Fil-A
Victoria's Secret
Frederick's of Hollywood
Taco Mayo
Sonic
5-7-9
Moto Photo
Steve & Barry's
Christopher & Banks
Foot Action
Auntie Ann's
Orange Julius

Isn't Spencer's still there?

Yes. Couldn't think of everything off the top of my head.

People that are afraid to go into Crossroads don't know what they're missing.

I go there all the time, and I've never, not once, had anything even remotely close to any sort of problem with a soul in there.

Guess we need to go there this weekend to check them back out again.

The way some of the threads were reading I figured only mom and pop shops were left.

I don't think American Eagle is there anymore...

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