Mall management announced plans for redevelopment the beginning of this year to turn the mall from a shopping center to more of a mixed use entertainment facility for the mall that straddles Fairfield in Butler County and Forest Park in Hamilton County.
“Community support and buy-in on this center is what’s going to help us or break us,” Ellsworth said. “We’ve had tons of support from a lot of people.”
Metropolis Nightclub, 125 Cincinnati Mills Drive, closed June 21, according to its website, www.cincymetropolis.com. Ellsworth said after the club’s long-term lease expired in January, the property owners and the club reached a short-term lease agreement that expired July 1.
A message on the club’s website reads, “The ownership and management of Metropolis Nightclub would like to thank the more than 5.5 million customers who came to party with us over the past 11 years and the hundreds of dedicated employees who helped host the best party in town.”
The owners of Metropolis opened Pulse Nightclub earlier this year in Longworth Hall, 700 W. Pete Rose Way, Cincinnati.
The newest owners of Cincinnati Mall, World Properties LLC of New York, unveiled its redevelopment plans Jan. 27 to Fairfield and Forest Park officials.
The mall has more than 1.5 million-square-feet, more than half of which is currently empty.
Negotiations are going on now for a new larger tenant about which Ellsworth couldn’t disclose more information.
Meanwhile, she said Sept. 1 a dance studio is opening called The Pyramid. One of the mall’s current anchor tenants, Kohl’s, is undergoing $750,000 in exterior and interior improvements, according to the city of Fairfield.
“In this economy, everything takes so much longer,” Ellsworth said. “There is that interest there.”
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