Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Indoor Shopping Mall
View Single Post
 
Old 07-16-2023, 07:21 AM
Marmaduke Marmaduke is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2019
Posts: 353
Thanks: 581
Thanked 294 Times in 166 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Windguy View Post
If you are just looking for a conditioned space to walk and don’t care about the stores, then the Leesburg and Ocala malls will do. I think they are generally safe. I love the AMC theater in Leesburg and have left movies late in the evening and had no altercations.
I know Ocala very well and the Paddock Mall is safe, but feels exactly like a Ghost Town because it's obsolete, so it needs to be reconfigured to apartments like many malls. It's safe, but feels dreary.
Other than Belk's, few shop there and everyone enters directly from the parking lot and gets v in and out. Covid putv the final nail in the coffin of malls.

We all love the Heath Brook outdoor mall in mid-town Ocala, that is thriving!

Love it! Check it out!