Newbury Comics stores are also gradually shifting from strip centers to mall locations.

But the modern structure now rising over borough roofs is scheduled to open next April regardless, and the mall location will be abandoned.

Since then, Forever 21 has been running specialty stores in major mall locations nationwide.

In 2006, Walmart closed down their mall location and built a new store in a strip mall just northeast.

It was also the first mall location.

Nonetheless, the downtown store would coexist with the mall location for a few years until its closure in 1985.

"If this one works, we have several other mall locations to roll out," he said.

Sears declined, as it already operated a mall location in nearby Beloit Plaza.

The library reopened on February 19th at the mall location.

Many of the current stores are in the downtown and smaller mall locations inherited when Spiegel bought the company in 1988 for $23 million, he said.