I visited Atlas Park on Saturday & was not impressed. There were few shoppers & acordding to the information office the number of vacancies were growing, six since christmas.

The center is not as close to highways as the map would have you believe. the area is about a half mile south of Woodhaven & Queens Boulevards in a neighborhood of mid-century garden apartment complexes. You will find plenty of local shopping along the way on 80th Street. Queens Center on the other hand was totally crazy durring & after lunch. QC semes to be really holding it’s own. I guess location has a lot to do with that, especially with the subway stop a block away & continuous bus service from all over Queens, I’de imagine that would be the case.

A word of caution Atlas Park is dog friendly & people at times DON’T follow rules on how to control there pets. If you don’t like dogs around when you shop, this is not the place for you.

Outside of Regal Cinemas, CPK, Borders, Cold Water Creek, Chilli’s Grill &Bar there very few national retailers there, making it hard to make any statements reguarding success or failure at this point.

The circular atrium was what made the place unique, although I recall feeling somewhat claustrophobic. I have not been in the place since long before the expansion, but the area across 92nd street on which the addition was built used to be a huge commuter parking lot, for the Woodhaven Blvd. subway station. I wonder where those people park now?

By the way, one of the photos you have posted — the lower left corner under 2007 — does not show the mall, but the white office building across the street, also fronting on Queens Blvd., which predates the mall by at least 10 years.