Comments on: Kyova Tri-State Mall; Ashland, Kentucky

By: Julie Cvitkovich

Julie Cvitkovich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:49:15 +0000

A Target or Old Navy would be fabulous! Neither of these stores are within 30 minutes and are a lot better quality than Steve & Barry’s! I know a lot of people would drive out of downtown to shop at both!

By: Shelly

Shelly — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:28:44 +0000

I am currently a resident that lives about 10 min north of ashland. I remember when this mall was built, it never really was a busy mall except for maybe at xmas time and even then it wasn’t that busy. One thing we have to remember and consider about this mall is that it is in the county. Ashland Town Center is in the middle of downtown. There are lots of things around in downtown Ashland. Out there in the county where KYOVA mall is located there is hardly anything, Walmart is the best thing about it. All the other places are convienent stores, truck stops and maybe a couple small family owned restaurants. When you think about it, people drive away from the county to go somewhere, they don’t drive into the county. Always the way it’s been and always will be. This mall will never make it unless they put a Target or something in there that is affordable for peeps to be able to feel comfortable to go in and shop and actually think they can afford something. For the most part, all the residential areas are closer to downtown Ashland, people aren’t going to drive further away if they don’t have to. And the people that live in the county are just like the rest of us and can’t afford to shop at the places they put in there. The only reason Sears has lasted as long as it has is 1. Portrait Studio 2. Tire Sales 3. Craftsman tools. There are very few peeps around here that can actually afford to shop in these malls and the only reason JcPenny has done so well in downtown is that they have great sales. And they aren’t too expensive any other time. If you are looking for affordable name brand clothes Penny’s is really the only place you can afford to buy them. All these other stores are only there long enough for the very few peeps that actually have a comfortable income to get tired of shopping there. Pennys and Sears are the only ones that have lasted in these malls. All the other anchors have left and been replaced several times and it will continue to go that way. With that being said KYOVA mall will only continue to struggle and will eventually close.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:44:14 +0000

@Tim, Budget Signage, I believe…
Today there is an Electronic LED Display under it
With different “Specials” at what stores are there.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:42:33 +0000

@Bobby, It’s now “RJ Kahunas”

Supposedly Some other restaurant is being built on the other side of the Phoenix Theaters

By: Beau

Beau — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:23:12 +0000

@SEAN, Yes. Precisely my hopes for that place.

By: SEAN

SEAN — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:54:09 +0000

@Beau, Target?

By: Beau

Beau — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:11:19 +0000

Oh yes… I almost forgot:

About a mile down the road from this place is a Walmart Supercenter that, many years ago, was a Piggly-Wiggly grocery store. It’s actually quite busy, but then again, it is Walmart. This despite the fact there’s already a Supercenter in the actual city. The old Walmart in Ashland Town Center moved out a few years back and built a new property about a mile away on the top of a hill behind the mall. It (and a few smaller tenants it brought along) seem to be doing well too.

In other words, I agree with the above commenters. De-mall the place, and turn it into a power center. Walmart would have some competition then.

By: Beau

Beau — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:03:42 +0000

I’m a former resident of Ashland. I actually liked this mall… er, what it used to be, but I guess nobody else did. I remember going here as a kid with my family, our extended family and some people from our church, and just having a great time there.

I guess it just wasn’t to be.

Fun fact: This mall was built on the site of a popular golf course. The people that used to golf there STILL haven’t gotten over that.

By: JT

JT — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:46:38 +0000

This mall is why the failure rate of malls built after the mid-1980’s has been so high…very hospital-like, too shiny, eccentric but cheap architecture and hideous color schemes. The mall entrance looks like the entrance to the Dwarf House. A few 1990’s malls did survive, but by and large the success rate of early 1990’s shopping malls has been pretty poor. I think also it is that the market was flooded when these malls were built. What they did by that time was build new malls to compete with and attempt to bury the older mall. Sometimes they got buried instead such as the case with Savannah Mall, and now-demolished Riverbend Mall still haunts Mount Berry Square in Rome, GA with a near 50% vacancy rate that dogged it from the beginning (Riverbend was 100% successful prior to the anchors jumping ship in 1992 for Mount Berry). Also, think of Oak Ridge Mall (1987) and Bellevue Mall (1990) in Nashville.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:40:57 +0000

What’s up with the ugly mall logo/signage. I know that’s not why the mall isn’t successful, but it’s not helping…