5/04/2020 9:48 AM The hotel was Hotel Westcourt and the bar/restaurant was called Trumps, no connection to POTUS 45.My late father worked on the dirt work of this mall when it was being built. The first mall in Phoenix was Park Central Mall, which opened at the corner of Central and Osborn Road in 1957. The mall I grew up going to, Metro Center, is closing on June 30. They got me hooked on the warm cream cheese as a dipping side.I think it was Round The Corner Burger. Used to love it when my Mom would take us there to eat.The Walmart development in Metrocenter mall will hasten the trashing of neighborhoods to south of the mall. We knew it was the place to meet.”The mall is closing because shoppers hadn’t been turning out like they used to, the recent shutdowns due to the COVID-19 outbreak sealed its fate.

It was an entirely different store, but for the life of me, I can't remember the name.I did the early 70s till now I still try to shop their ,if not its a good place for remembering when I was a young teen having the time of my life skating ring ,movies below ground level ,then at one time later their was a small intertainment with rides.and on ground leavel their was farrals where you could buy the biggest jawbreakers,and their came the time when a big jet plane you could walk in to that was a bar . Tracy Smith grew up near 23rd Avenue and Cactus Road, not too far from the mall. I remember the days when their were thing for the children to do ,when things get taken away the children will find their own excitement and a lot of it is not the good kindThere was an amazing pretzel shop here (maybe privately owned or franchised ) in the late 90’s. It wasn’t pretzel time or auntie Anne’s. Does anyone remember the name of it?I used to shop at Lotions & Potions in that little Alley in the mall back in the early 80's. I loved their Apricot lotion! In its heyday Metrocenter generated an incredible amount of traffic.

It was a popular place back then . Now it's a Mall full of memories. “But with Metrocenter closing we had to go one last time.” From 6 p.m. until about 9:45, they plan to see old friends, reminisce and say goodbye to a place that meant so much to them.The June 30 cruise-in originally was planned for later in the evening, but Smith said the mall management asked if the gathering could begin at 6 p.m. so the cruisers could be included in a final aerial photograph of Metrocenter.“Growing up around here there wasn’t a lot to do,” Smith said Monday. Metrocenter Mall in Phoenix to close for good after 47 years due to coronavirus pandemic. With about 80% of its Store's closed down . Metrocenter Mall has entered its last ten days of business, according to a letter posted outside the shopping center and shared widely on social media. It was still a really cool place back then.There was a place called “Headshots” that took glamour photos if that’s what you mean.Thank you so much for this blog, it's great to read everyone's comments! So sad!I really appreciate the outward-in approach to development currently happening at metrocenter. A little side story about the architect and my father. Because of this job my father was able to go into business for himself because it gave him a great reputation in his line of work.The mall will be missed. I have lived in the neighborhood for over 37 years. She took ownership of the property on Dec. 31, according to Scott Overby, with Overby Inc.A video Sanders posted to Facebook Thursday has gone viral. Many said it couldn't be done safely. My father who supervised the dirt work said it could be done. In the late 70s and early 80s traffic flow along 29th Avenue was unrestricted and the neighborhood was nearly inaccessible from Thanksgiving until after Christmas with shoppers trying to get to Metrocenter on surface streets. The rejuvenation of the outer mall loop and shops and restaurants along Peoria have really changed my outlook on the area. It floored me how many people responded.”Many of the group's members gathered at the mall for a cruise-in on Saturday night.

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