Regency Square Mall Thread

[I-10east]

Thanks for the update DD.

[thelakelander]

Hmm....sounds like the Gateway renovation effort in the mid-1980s. Fill the shopping center with non-traditional retail tenants.

Meanwhile the West Mall, from Belk to Sears, is open, although the leasing focus is on nontraditional retailers, Kramer said. For example, he said Torch Bearers Church should open about Aug. 1 in 15,000 square feet next to the Dillard's clearance center.

What happens with Belk in a few months will go a long way to determining Regency's ultimate future. In Gateway's case, the strategy kept their head above water until the anchors decided to split, once better opportunities came along.

[KenFSU]

When did Tilt close? I thought it was still there the last time I was at Regency (it's been awhile).

[I-10east]

^^^I can't remember when the last time it was there LOL. It's been a very long time, like over a decade.

[coredumped]

Tilt has been gone a LOOONG time, i'd say at least 2 years.

[I-10east]

^^^My bad, I was thinking about the old school Tilt (way back when the RSM area had three arcades), before the mentioned Tilt that they built in the remodeled food court.

[IrvAdams]

Thanks for posting this DuvalDude. Looks like things are turning around there. I go to sears often (too often if you ask my wife:) ) but I might have to venture into the mall.

I'm excited about:

• A sports bar and restaurant should open about Aug. 1 in the former Tilt game center near the food court, with interior and exterior entrances, allowing it to remain open till midnight seven days a week.
• A comedy club, which would open near the front entrance in the former Boaters World location. It would have a separate outside entrance.

Comedy clubs are a large void in Jax - nearest one I know if is way down in Mandarin so this would be really good.

Guys night out - hit the bar for some food, comedy club for laughs and drinks, then spend whatevers left at the poker room!

Isn't there a comedy club on Beach Blvd. somewhere?

[KenFSU]

^ No problem. Thanks for the info. I remember dropping by the food court for lunch, probably was over two years ago, looking into the empty Tilt arcade, and wondering who exactly would be playing Mortal Kombat II or Area 51 at 1:30 in the afternoon on a week day. It was like a relic from the past.

[Buforddawg]

Great info on the RSM.  Nice to see the management company is trying to get the engine going again.

[02roadking]

Thanks for posting this DuvalDude. Looks like things are turning around there. I go to sears often (too often if you ask my wife:) ) but I might have to venture into the mall.

I'm excited about:

• A sports bar and restaurant should open about Aug. 1 in the former Tilt game center near the food court, with interior and exterior entrances, allowing it to remain open till midnight seven days a week.
• A comedy club, which would open near the front entrance in the former Boaters World location. It would have a separate outside entrance.

Comedy clubs are a large void in Jax - nearest one I know if is way down in Mandarin so this would be really good.

Guys night out - hit the bar for some food, comedy club for laughs and drinks, then spend whatevers left at the poker room!

Isn't there a comedy club on Beach Blvd. somewhere?

There is...   https://www.jacksonvillecomedy.com/

[tufsu1]

btw....Sports Mania at the SJTC closed a few weeks back.....in part because the owner got a great deal to open a store in Regency Square....that store either opened this week or is opening next week.

[IrvAdams]

^^Really? Cool. Isn't that where they started? Or maybe it was The Landing.

Thanks for the info.

[KenFSU]

Via the Daily Record:

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=543831

Regency Square bids for Citizens Property operations center
By Karen Brune Mathis, Managing Editor

Six property owners, including a representative for Regency Square Mall, bid in the latest round to land a consolidated Jacksonville operations center for Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

The state government corporation provides insurance protection to Florida property owners and seeks about 226,400 square feet of space for the operations center.... Citizens Property intends to consolidate its Jacksonville operations, which have 800 employees, and move another 148 IT jobs into one large office.

[thelakelander]

Hmm. Going the route of Eastgate Town Center in Knoxville or Philips Mall at Philips and Emerson...

http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/eastgate_mall.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastgate_Mall_(Chattanooga)

So much for it being a major retail center...

[spuwho]

Now we know what will go into Belk.