Don’t tear down City Place. Just turn it into Lofts. Think of 20 foot floor to ceiling windows overlooking Ellsworth, Colesville, and Fenton. I just wish I could afford one:|

RE: Sure just as long as they find some land in nearby and build a Upscale City Place Mall, I’m thinking further down Fenton Street between Wayne Avenue and Sligo Street, or along East-West Highway between Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue. If they can’t find another place in Downtown Silver Spring to build a New Upscale City Place Mall then they can not change the current existing City Place Mall except to have the Mall Upgraded with more Upscale Retail Stores Similar to Pentagon City Mall, and Ballston Commons.

I have been going to the Gold’s Gym for close to six years now. I buy my clothes for work at Burlington Coat Factory because I don’t feel like paying top dollar for business casual. I also love the new Steve and Barry’s. You can’t beat a place where everything is under $10 and designed by Sarah Jessica parker or Venus Williams. And they have the funniest collection of frat boy sex and beer-oriented t-shirts this side of ocean City. There is stuff for white people after all!

PS: I am curious how many of the city place detractors who have posted here drive Priuses with Obama stickers plastered on the back? And do they think that this makes them immune from being racist?

I agree with the folks who said that in the end the best approach might be to get rid of the mall all together. America is de-malling itself (thankfully!) so perhaps the space could be better used for some larger stores rather than trying to lure some anchor store into a strangely designed space to try to revitalize it

RE: If you really believe that BS “America is de-malling itself” then you really are lost touch of reality because I don’t see anyone Bad Mouthing the Malls in Northern Virginia(Pentagon City, Crystal City Undergroung, Springfield Mall, Ballston Commons, Tysons Corner I(Expanded to 300 Stores in ‘06) & II, Fair Oaks Mall, and Dulles Town Centre(built less than 10 years ago) or anyone making crazy suggestions of tearing down those Malls. But when it comes to discussing the Malls in Maryland it never fails that some miserible Smartarse wants to down talk the quality of the Malls and make thaughtless suggestions of tearing down shopping malls instead of being more possitive and making Intelligent suggestions of how to Improve the Quality of the Malls into Upscale Status.

How is it that the 3 Malls in the city/county of Arlington(Pentagon City, Crystal City Underground, and Ballsston Commons) can continue to retain Good Quality Stores, and attract people from different parts of the DC area Region but Silver Spring continues to have trouble attracting Upscale Retail to City Place to upgrade it to an Upscale Level?

The issue is that the so-called local concerend people are too da*m*n negative whenever there are plans to ugrade Silver Spring.

Back in the 1990’s when the Proposal to build an Entertainment Center in Silver Spring was displayed to the public, the so-called local citizens acted like the sky was going to fall with their complaints of the amount of Traffic and Enviromental Pollution(probably afraid that it will attract certain groups of people). Then the proposal to build the current town centre the so-called local citizens expected the town centre was going to resemble the sleepy mayberry like Old-Town Takoma Park and now they are unhappy because of the certain groups of people that it attracted and the amount of Chain Retail it attracted.

Tearing down Shopping Malls just to replace it with Out-Door Malls is Never a Solution to improve the quality of the area. Especially in this part of the Country where we have cold winters, not everyone wants to be shopping outdoors while there is snow on the ground most people prefer prefer to shop at indoor Malls during the cold season.

If they tear down City Place then it should be Mandatory to build a New Indoor Upscale Shopping Mall near Downtown Silver Spring and make it soo Upscale that it won’t entice the locals to go outside of Montgomery County to spend their money at the Malls in Northern Virginia.

Originally Posted By Level Headed@Danielle Meitiv -

You obviously didn’t get that the initial article was making a sacastic remark to the reasons why Malls like Wheaton with higer crimes and more of the so call “shitty stores” are thriving more so then City Place.

It truly is because of the mind set of people who think they are too good for the area.

No, I didn’t see the sarcasm because I am engaging in a thoughtful conversation with a group of people who care about DTSS area, not someone with a huge chip on his/her shoulder and the most amazing racial and ethnic stereotypes. “Drive all the blacks out of town and celebrate with tacos, etc.” Wow - that you can make the leap from all the folks saying “I’d like more upscale stores and less crime” to “Let’s get rid of the blacks, Latinos” etc says a lot more about your attitude than mine. So, let’s keep the attacks and assumptions out of it and get on with the more substantive dialog.

I agree with the folks who said that in the end the best approach might be to get rid of the mall all together. America is de-malling itself (thankfully!) so perhaps the space could be better used for some larger stores rather than trying to lure some anchor store into a strangely designed space to try to revitalize it

We live in complicated times.