The Beginning of the End for Regency and Arlington.

[coredumped]

I have "heard" about lowes closing, but nothing official. I never heard about compusa closing.

[Charles Hunter]

cd - note that stephen's was a repost from 2008; CompuUSA did close, to have the name taken over by TigerDirect; and I think Lowe's closed some stores around the country, but not the Regency (or any other Jax) store.

[cline]

CompUSA was purchased by TigerDirect- it never closed.  It moved the old CompUSA from the Southside to the SJTC.

[duvaldude08]

CompUSA was purchased by TigerDirect- it never closed.  It moved the old CompUSA from the Southside to the SJTC.

Yeah thats right. The one on southside Blvd closed.

[fsujax]

Not surprising. I wonder how they will use the space?

[PeeJayEss]

CompUSA was purchased by TigerDirect- it never closed.  It moved the old CompUSA from the Southside to the SJTC.

Yeah thats right. The one on southside Blvd closed.

Not sure if "Southside" is referring to the one by Regency (on Arlington Expressway), but that one is also still open. CompUSA under Tiger Direct is an improvement over the previous CompUSA, and far and away better than Best Buy, especially where know-how is concerned.

[cline]

CompUSA was purchased by TigerDirect- it never closed.  It moved the old CompUSA from the Southside to the SJTC.

Yeah thats right. The one on southside Blvd closed.

Not sure if "Southside" is referring to the one by Regency (on Arlington Expressway), but that one is also still open. CompUSA under Tiger Direct is an improvement over the previous CompUSA, and far and away better than Best Buy, especially where know-how is concerned.

I was referring to the one that was on Southside Boulevard next to the Target.  Same shopping center that Circuit City used to be in. 

Now a Circle K Furniture has gone into that location.

[FSBA]

Any updates on if/when the western portion of the mall might be demolished?

[coredumped]

Any updates on if/when the western portion of the mall might be demolished?

Their site still has both sides of the mall listed, but only a few remain on the west side.

The sooner they can demo that side and give the place a refresh the better. The east side is doing OK it seems.

[JayBird]

^ being that its currently marketed for sale, any old design/construction plans would most likely be completely done over by a new investor/buyer

[coredumped]

Their facebook/twitter account is fairly active. I would have thought they would update their map. But perhaps you're right.

[JayBird]

I believe that map is right ... At least from when i was there about a month ago. Did someone say it wasn't?

[thelakelander]

More bad news. The Sports Authority across the street from Regency is also closing:

http://members.jacksonville.com/business/2013-12-01/story/sunday-notebook-sports-authority-arlington-expressway-close

[FSBA]

That is the concerning thing for Regency. At first the dieoff was just limited to the mall. But now all of the outlying areas are losing anchors as well. When was the last major new development in the area before Best Bet?

[thelakelander]

Development is just moving down the street. Academy Sports' (basically the replacement for Sports Authority) new store in that section of town is three miles east at Sleiman's shopping center at Atlantic and Kernan.  It will soon be joined by a new Belk, which will most likely result in Regency's Belk shutting down.