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By: Four Seasons Mall: Plymouth, MN « Dumpy Strip Malls

Four Seasons Mall: Plymouth, MN « Dumpy Strip Malls — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:04:23 +0000

[...] noted before, even Money Magazine’s best place to live has a few eyesores. Plymouth Center being one of them and the Four Seasons Mall being another. If you’ve driven on Highway 169 in [...]

By: Olga

Olga — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:25:33 +0000

I drive by this place every day on my way from work to daycare. It’s is so depressing!!!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:40:38 +0000

I grew up about a mile from this strip mall. In the late 80s it was a very busy place, with a Janssons’s IGA supermarket (put out of business by the opening of a Rainbow Foods on 55 in 1991), a Hardware Hank, a coffee shop, a barber, Latuffs (perhaps the best pizza joint on the planet), and others. But yes, everything is gone now and the place is in decay. The lot currently gets used by random people parking cars for sale facing the highway.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:01:20 +0000

Just an FYI – the Seattle Sutton space is a distribution office for the “healthy eating” plan’s food – yes, it’s pre-made meals though not frozen and yes some people use it as a diet. Customers pick up meals twice a week in the afternoons – that’s the only time the office is actually open. A couple weeks ago when I drove by on a Thursday night the lights were on. I bet they stay until the mall is demolished since they have a specific customer base. Their main office is somewhere in New Hope. I used them for about 6 months in 2007 because I hated to cook in the place I was renting.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:36:53 +0000

Hey, is that Famous Dave’s in the background an old Red Barn hamburger joint?

By: DeKay

DeKay — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:26:43 +0000

Funny, I just drove by there two days ago and felt it was awfully pathetic.

WTF is Seattle Sutton’s anyway? I knew that franchise was a born loser.

Anyway, great site, I found it looking up Krispy Kreme. As an unemployed HVAC guy I have been on quite a few of these mall roofs. I wondered how they survived when the economy was thriving. It look as though just barely.

By: Twigz

Twigz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:20:49 +0000

Plymouth Center is indeed doomed for destruction. Like the Mr Gas before it, it will soon be leveled.

I’m glad that LaTuffs moved. While in this strip mall it seemed to have pretty poor business. I never saw many cars in front of it. It moved across to the old building that was once the Hunan Buffet and now its parking lot is always full during dinner hours. Good for them!

With the slow economy, I imagine that it will be a while before a new building is created and filled with new stores. I almost think that retail is not the best thing to have there. Im sure there are other businesses that are not consumer-based that could do well there. It’s just not a prime location anymore.

By: Wayzata Dave

Wayzata Dave — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:01:59 +0000

This “Mall” was abandoned a couple of years ago for “redevelopment”. Forrester Meats was a good butcher shop – if you’re into decaying flesh for food. They had a pretty decent client base judging from the parking lot.

Anyway – back to the redevelopment – Since the 1990′s the city has been studying how to straighten out CR-73 and redevelop this area. They paid a couple of hundred grand for a study that showed they would need to buy like 20 parcels of land and the mall to do what they wanted… The reason that the number of parcels is so high is that they were afraid neighboring land values would decline due to the construction of a new road next to them.

After all the money was sunk on the study in like 1999 or 2000 the council voted to table the issue and then come back to it later… Later turned out to be 2007 – right before the recession. I believe that they had found a developer who bought the mall and was going to start demo as soon as all stores were out. Lattuff’s was the last one out in 2009. So hopefully this will meet the wrecking ball soon. But given the number of vacant retail store fronts I don’t have much hope for this…

Problem is that as one council member put it in 2000 – “There isn’t a long list of people or businesses that want to be in that location!”

Wayzata Dave

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:27:51 +0000

I grew up not far from here and it has been like this FOREVER. The only reason it is still there is that there was an awesome pizza place- Latuff’s- in here until earlier this summer when they moved across highway 55. I would guess it’s coming down soon…..

Oh- and this is located by South Shore Drive and Medicine Lake.

This site cracks me up, BTW.

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:54:13 +0000

I’m curious if this is located at the corner of 55 and 101? If so, I can tell you stories about it. (which might be boring to you, but entertaining for me. LOL)