County Fair Mall: Target out, Burlington Coat Factory in
Burlington Coat Factory is expected to finalize the necessary "paperwork" next week in anticipation of moving into the County Fair Mall. A timeline to move in is not yet available, however the department store will be locating in the space Target now occupies.
According to their Web site (click the title of this story), here is what they will offer Woodland shoppers:
At Burlington Coat Factory, you’ll find a large assortment of current, high-quality, designer and name-brand merchandise at up to 60% less than other department stores. Choose from a large selection of coats, clothing, and shoes for the entire family. And don’t forget our great assortment of linens and home décor, PLUS everything you need for baby, from onesies to cribs! Burlington Coat Factory -- a convenient one stop shopping experience with the labels you love, at prices you’ll love even more!
Store Offerings Include:
* Coats for the entire family
* Ladies’ dresses and suits
* Ladies’ career and casual collections and separates
* Lingerie and accessories
* Men’s clothing and furnishings
* Men’s sportswear and activewear
* Children’s clothing, newborn to pre-teen
* Shoes for men, women, and children
* Everything you want and need for baby
* Linens and home décor
36 comments:
Is there any information when the new Target near Costco will open?
I think B.C.F will be a good addition to the Mall.
Heck I thought Burlington Coat Factory only sold coats. I am glad they have chosen Woodland to locate a store here. Now if the Mall could just work on getting rid of that flea market image they have then just maybe the mall could turn around.
Uh, I am not sure if the two of you have EVER been to a burlington Coat Factory??!! I hate to say it, Woodland already has TWO of these type stores it is basically a Marshalls, or Ross. They sell the merchandise that is damaged, imperfect, or otherwise wouldn't sell in ANY other store. the "flea market" image you speak of...will only get worse, only now it will be more like a swap meet!! I can't wait until someone is sitting out in the main concourse trying to sell me a new axle for my pick-up truck.
I think this is a terrible turn for the Mall. They should just tear it down.
Yes, Woodland's charge to become bargain basement retailer to the world continues full speed...led by that beautiful, well-planned, Rite-Aid that will go at the corner of Main and East St. Just what we want as the introduction to our historic downtown, a Rite-Aid. Then again some council candidates can't wait to serve Mr. Petrovich...
Council members cannot tell a developer what kinds of stores to place on their property. They can only zone property.
Uh, Chris,
YOU do not have to shop at these types of stores. You may also take your dollars outside of our community if you like. That is YOUR choice.
If the demographics dictates the types of retail that comes to an area, isn't it a smart business decision to support those demographics?
Try shopping at the Grocery outlet, Suzies deals, Marshalls, or Ross. You will see a packed floor nearly at all times.
All that said, I do agree that we could handle a few more up-scale shops, dining, and entertainment in Woodland.
BCF is a great replacement for the Target at the County Fair Mall. Malls attract a specific customer. If you, Chris, could be in charge at the Mall, what would you put in that large whole left from the outgoing Target?
Red
Does anyone know when the Mall will do anything to upgrade the condition of the Medians on Gibson and East Streets? Talk about lack of curb appeal.....
Ahahaha!! I love the Woodland Journal.
Is the city TRYING to maintain its trashy image?
Why don't you just erect a couple of guns & ammo shops, a wolf shirt factory and a Mullets-Are-Us and get it over with, will you?
Thanks for loving The Woodland Journal.
I don't believe city officials negotiated with Burlington Coat Factory.
Not sure to whom the last question is directed. Are you just trying to be funny?
I am sure the Mall took whoever they could get. I doubt stores were knocking down their door to get in. It is simple economics, if the people do not want certain types of stores, then they will not survive. If you want an upper class store, then start one up. It is not like the City can make a certain type of business appear. We will never get a main anchor restaurant on Main street because their corporate signage does not conform.
The Woodland Joint Unified School District and Yolo County Mental Health could jointly use the building.
The mall is dying. The only thing left is to see whether the mall owner or the govt. will sense this emergency and take action with lower rent, tax incentives, free improvements, etc. Otherwise it will definitely die. No mall I've seen is as depressed as this one.
As the traditional mall slowly dies, the city needs to seriously think about recycling the mall site starting in about 5 years to a mix of retail, high-density residential (gotta build something inside our urban limit line), and office (walk to work from your apartment). Get rid of the acres of unused parking lots and some of the dead stores, and build taller buildings with retail on the first floor or two and other stuff upstairs. Bill Marcus
It's the old catch 22
Back in 1985 people were concerned about what would happen to the downtown when the mall opened. Well in 1986 when the mall opened, a few of the downtown shops relocated to the mall; others did not. Those that stayed downtown either survived, reinevented themselves, moved to another downtown location or simply closed down. I would have a clue as to the statistics of who did what, but I do remember the uproar that the mall caused over what would happen to the downtown. 20+ years on and we find the mall suffering (has been for quite some time I know this) and the downtown trying to sort out what they will do because the city planning has put in some retail sprawl on the fringes of the city limits. I personally think that there are enough consumers out there to make all retailers happy....you just need to know what your market.
Woodland needs to have the high end range to the bargain basement retailers. The only way that this can happen with any flow is for the city planner to take their respective blinders off and make things happen. Woodland shoppers would most likely prefer to shop in Woodland, but they will go elsewhere if the city doesn't figure out how to make the masses happy.
WitLDU
6:25 AM
What do you think a conditional use permit does? What do you think zoning does? In addition, a council can very well tell a developer what type of retail to put on a site. Wake up.
8:27
The way I understood 6:25 was that council does not pick and choose particular retailers. Yes, this council and previous councils may have devised zoning policies that limit areas to types of businesses, but they can't dictate whether a Burlington Coat Factory or a Macy's locates within that zone.
Market forces dictate that. Obviously, Macy's would not locate in the mall (even though that would be nice for many of us) because of a lot of reasons. Burlington Coat Factory evidently sees profit at the mall location. You can probably take that as a snapshot of our town - the truth is difficult to accept sometimes. We have lots of discount stores which means we have lots of people who need them.
Bill,
I like the creative thinking. You know.. when the mall was recently sold, a real-estate friend of mine pointed out that the price-per-square-foot was below residential land. He light-heartedly said that the new owner could conceivably make a better profit if the whole mall site was redeveloped into a residential area.
Creative thought like yours doesn't cost a thing... but if the city utilized it, there could be more exciting things happen in town (and they could get done faster). Right now... poorly developed ideas take forever so it is like slow, torturous death.
How about a Saks Fifth Avenue next to Jim's Store on Main....eh? ROTFLMAO!
4:20 Rolling
Brilliant! That would "fit in" (often-used criterion of the planning commission) with the "Taj Majal" that people believe we have at the south of town!
With Walmart and Costco, I was never as afraid of what would happen to downtown as much as I was afraid we'd have a dead County Fair Mall and dead strip malls on West Main Street - because those are the businesses who can't survive big box competition. I don't like strip malls much, but the one thing worse than a live strip mall is a dead strip mall. We need to start some far-sighted planning to reincarnate these spaces as they die - urban limit line means we can't sprawl all over the place, so we need better infill planning - both higher density housing and jobs/office, with some retail on site. Bill Marcus
8:27
Dino, yes a council can. Number one, by creating restrictive conditional use permits, etc. a council or city can virtually ensure that a retailer will be placed in a specific location or not. Secondly, developers often disclose to council members, city planning directors and city managers who they are courting in advance of land use decisions. This eliminates surprises and lets a developer know that he/she won't encounter problems. So, is that the City deciding which retailer goes where? Yes, it can mean exactly that.
Although the council members currently seeking seats would like everyone to forget it, their original deal with Petrovich forbade him from raiding existing Woodland retailers (in other words they were telling him who he could NOT bring to his site), another example of the degree to which city govt. can exercise strong, specific choices over the future of their community. In this case it was to prevent Petro from exercising what he is doing now which is to commit commercial cannabalism and simply recruit existing retailers to move to his location, leaving an empty site in their wake and greatly reducing the positive economic impact on the community. Hence we now have a Rite-Aid going in on the Corner of East and Main. Unfortunately, the Council soon forgot about the "no-raid" provision of their contract with Petro and the rest is history.
9:50
Well, you went on and on and then shot your own foot with your own argument. I agree with you on one thing, there are too many surprises by the time planning issues get to council... that's why we get into the kind of circumstances that you outlined.
Getting back to the topic, I seriously doubt that council recruited Burlington Coat Factory and prevented other retailers to fill that spot instead.
Needed some work cloths. Went to the dept. stores in the mall. More vacancies than ever. Just a bunch of flea market shops on the inside.
Rumor mill has it that the Mall manager was fired. Not enough businesses in the mall to warrant a manager.
Bill Marcus has some good re-use iseas for the mall space. Bobby Harris has some good re-use ideas for the Fair grounds. Can the City come up with any better ideas? The new Community Center is further out on East. Wouldn't that be a good starting place for updating that section of our City?
i love how there are re-use ideas for the fairgrounds when it isn't even going to move anytime in the near future. Bobby Harris is full of it.
Do you think it's wise to plan for beyond the near future?
Dino: I doubt it as well. This council is on auto pilot. They would never exercise the strong direction that we have had in the past.
The mall's manager quit. He did NOT get fired! The current owner has now driven out two successive mall managers. He just doesn't get it.
Planning for beyond the near future is fine. I don't see the fairgrounds moving within the next 10-15 years. So, if you need affordable housing now (Bobby) then I don't see how you can state that the fairgrounds is a viable option.
Whoever planned the mall back in 1985 didn't plan very well. This mall could have been great. It could have been a mini ArdenFair. If they planned well for the Woodland weather, then you would have undercover parking out of the rain and the heat. You would have much more retail space and could have gotten better stores in the mall. If memory serves, most of the retailers that have left have done so because of the increase in lease prices. The current owner is trying, but if he has lost 2 managers, then something is amiss.
I think it's sad that this mall has been dying a slow death since about 1997. It was only 11 years old when things started turing sour. The community was so excited when it opened. I guess the strip malls in Natomas will be biting their nails in about 6 years or so. That seems to be the timing of keeping the consumers' interest.
Sad.
Basically, the County Fair Mall is hurting...period. The last thing this city needs is another discount clothing store. We already have Ross, Marshalls, Gotschalks, JC Penney, Mervyn's, etc. What we need is a major tenant that will draw traffic to the mall, thus new retail shops to go into the mall, thus a new mall experience. The place is half empty, and most of the shops there are embarassing.
To give credit where it's due...the new owner has done a great job improving the outside. It's just too bad that a Sports Chalet, Pier 1 Imports, Crate & Barrel, and one nice restaurant are not moving in. A great restaurant for that area would be a Fresh Choice, BJ's Brewery, or anything other than another mexican restaurant.
Maybe "Fresca Elección".....
All this speculation about "Moving the Fairgrounds"....tsk, tsk!!!
Be practical!!! Just WHO(m) should foot the bill for such a move ??
Cost of Land elsewhere, New Buildings, Landscaping, acres of tree lined parking lots. Infrastructure, etc.
This was considered years ago !! The conclusions were...that rhe
FAIR would be left with a monstrous debt of about 50
(yes, FIFTY) Million Dollars, even AFTER selling the present land.
Are any of those pounding the table to "MOVE THE fAIRGROUNDS", ready to donate that kind of money ?? If so, step to the head of the line and "make it happen". At least stop tossing out Wishful and Empty-headed ideas.
I have just walked the woodland mall and noticed eleven coming soon signs and a new food court and a new cafe they lured from the east coast. I heard the owner hired two new people who are experts in turning malls around and also heard they have stuck it to petrovic by grabbing some of the tenants he tried to grab from the mall. good! petrovic is an ---hole who pushes people in this town around and gets what he wants. he's going to get stuck with a big empty building.
go woodland mall!!!
what normal citizen would write this? how would a normal citizen know it was the mall's responsibility to do the median?
who wrote this? Petrovic? or his toadie the mayor?
"Does anyone know when the Mall will do anything to upgrade the condition of the Medians on Gibson and East Streets? Talk about lack of curb appeal....."
those two people the owner hired are husband and wife from Ohio who have a lot of experience in malls business they turned around 30 malls and the city likes them and hates petrovic and they hate petrovic, so I like them. please bring macey's and victoria secrets to mall.
This is totally unfair. I am a third generation woodland citizen, mother of three and a Residential Real Estate Broker. I know a little about commercial properties. My two sons are grown and had left Woodland. My youngest daughter worked part time in County Fair Fashion Mall for one of the stores and since she had no way of transportation, I gave her a ride to work everyday. Over time, we both noticed that for the last three years the Mall has undergone a complete renovation, from its parking lot, to landscaping to a brand new and state of the art monument signage. The interior of the mall has also been through extreme remodeling; a free new play area for children, beautiful and clean public Rest Rooms, new flooring and chandeliers. It seems to me that the new owners have spent millions of dollars and lots of effort on this mall and are working very hard to bring in new local and national tenants. I sincerely thank them for everything they have done for our community.
Bravo to Real Estate Agent.
I 2nd her opinion and regret that I haven’t been in the Mall for almost a year. It does look beautiful. Two weeks ago I went to County Fair Fashion Mall to purchase some tennis shoes at the Foot Locker. I noticed some new stores have opened: Rainbow, Pacific Sun, some new and fashion clothing stores, The Galleria and a remodeled Food Court. Looks like new tenants are coming in. The Real Estate Agent is right. Bringing National Department Stores to small farming Community of Woodland is not easy. I don’t know the owners, but they have probably paid a whole lot of money to bring in Burlington Coat Factory to the Mall. I am proud; you guys did repair the median on State Street and Gibson Road. Honestly, I wouldn’t. This is the City’s job who is collecting taxes from the Tax Payers as well as the Mall. I think Burlington is 10 times better than Target for the Mall. Target is really a 99¢ Store. I am proud of your work and thank you for your investment in our City.
Mall Owners, keep up the good work and congratulations.
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J.R.
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