Comments on: The Maine Mall; South Portland, Maine

By: B2263

B2263 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:19:12 +0000

@Dan, Not Sonic.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:17:10 +0000

@B2263, Can you be a little more specific? I hope the fast food place your talking about is a Sonic! =)

By: B2263

B2263 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:59:52 +0000

I’ve heard rumors of a couple of new additions to the mall after the holidays – one that ladies will enjoy, and another a very entertaining fast food place. Will have to wait and see……

By: JF

JF — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:13:41 +0000

Maybe it’s the malls owned by GGP, but in other cities with malls owned by other companies, the new stores seem to be moving in. I guess I don’t understand the retail business, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why there are so many temp stores here when there are scores of mid-range stores that I have HEARD in the past that would love to locate here. I would just like to know if the lack of new stores stems from our remote Maine location, or if it’s bankrupt GGP, or if it’s our manager who is interested only in temporary stores. While I think that GOODWILL coming to the old CIRCUIT CITY, and MARDEN’S moving into the old WAL-MART are much more sensible than the high-end waste at the NATICK COLLECTION, the Maine Mall could be a very nice location for mid-range stores such as j jill, J CREW, SEPHORA, HOLLISTER, RESTORATION HARDWARE,and restaurants like CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN, or CHEESECAKE FACTORY. Are these retailers adding locations anywhere else? Or is it just Maine that’s being left out? It would also be nice to have a decent SEARS, or a JCPenney with departments found in other JCPenney stores. We really lack a lot of what other malls; many of which are in smaller markets in Portland, have had for years.

By: CE

CE — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:46 +0000

@Gary, Barnes & Noble is supposed to be a tenant for the postponed Maine Mall Commons. MMC is across the street from the mall on GGP owned property. A seven screen cinema used to be there. There is a Borders in the mall parking lot however, it is on land owned by Macy’s.

The Borders Express would be a temporary store. The Waldenbooks was closed rather than converted.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:34:12 +0000

@JF, so the Borders Express store is part of the wave of closures across the country? Maybe they should kick out Gobeil’s and bring in a Barnes & Noble to fill in the former Linens n Things space since the nearest one is about an hour away.

By: JF

JF — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:38:00 +0000

There’s a nice little BORDERS EXPRESS in the mall until after Christmas. It would have been nice if they had replaced WALDENBOOKS but at the time WALDENBOOKS closed, the intent was apparently to subdivide its space and put a couple of new stores. But maybe BORDERS would consider a slightly larger EXPRESS location if this one is successful. The ZALES location has a lovely temporary store called THE GALLERY. The exciting works of art there are about three steps lower than the dogs playing cards or velvet Elvis. Just loving those temporary stores – and speaking of WALDENBOOKS, their location is now CHRISTMAS MAGIC. So much for magic.

By: GL

GL — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:05:07 +0000

Cracker Barrel is going to be coming in 2010 behind the Wyndham Hotel adjacent to Toys R Us.

Go to Malonecb.com and search 363 Maine Mall Rd

By: JF

JF — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:42:08 +0000

The mall has not looked this old, tired, or UGLY in years. Gobeil’s still has its furniture, nice that it is, but we need the space for something better, at Linens n Things. The temporary stores are probably permanent as of now. Sears still has its garage sale out in the main corridor, with barely anyone down there to notice. Since early summer, nothing new has been added, and there’s not any signs up indicating anything coming. This is what holiday shoppers have to look forward to?I can’t for the life of me understand why GGP has plans to renovate so many of its other malls, but allows ours to rot into the ground, especially since they paid so much for it, and STILL maintain that this is one of their top dollar malls. On a positive note, it’s easy to walk for exercise, because you rarely encounter people to slow you down. Aside from Amato’s, there’s not even one single place to get fresh, healthy food. Tried the new place called Asian Garden, that replaced the wonderful Ginger Pad? You’ve been warned.

By: JF

JF — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:34:37 +0000

@Jutty, I was just being sarcastic. And even though I’m growing impatient with all the empty spaces at the mall, I am quite sure the management is working on filling them with highly respectable tenants. I was simply commenting on the SLOWNESS it takes GGP to fill them.