"The Metrocenter property is up for sale. He said the future of his business will be mostly online. I knew where I’d go: There was no place in the neighborhood with more gorgeous backgrounds than Metrocenter. "When we say how much it means to them, they say it’s a second home to them.
"I think a lot of them are feeling apprehensive of where, when we’ll be able to get back together," Nixon said of her students. "With the reopening, we lost a good amount of tenants, almost on a weekly basis giving us notice of closure," said Kim Ramirez, general manager of Metrocenter.
"With the reopening, we lost a good amount of tenants, almost on a weekly basis giving us notice of closure," said Kim Ramirez, general manager of Metrocenter. "I could still see some retail there," she said. I had my first proper cocktail at age 16 in the Metroport Lounge, a saloon shaped like a jet airliner whose waitresses wore teeny stewardess costumes.
It’s crap!”©2020 Phoenix New Times, LLC. "I would tell neighborhoods if you want a mall, you have to support a mall," he said. I would pose the Chess Club on the sloping sides of the conversation pit by Foxmoor Casuals, the Mat Maids on the red enameled op-art sculpture just beyond Heddy’s House of Wigs. Tuesday will be his last day. "I think a lot of them are feeling apprehensive of where, when we’ll be able to get back together," Nixon said of her students. The businesses that remain have until July 15 to move out, about two weeks after the mall's closure.PHOENIX — After 47 years, the adventure at Phoenix's Metrocenter mall is nearly over.
Long-time customers remember the indoor skating rink, the skate park, and the arcade that made the shopping center a unique spot to hang out.John Kaphing's business makes and sells custom license plates. He had been part of the mall since 1988 -- 32 years. Moms weren’t thinking about sexual predators when they dropped us off at Metro on a Saturday morning; we’d spend the day playing tag in front of Rosenzweig’s, grab a free lunch of cheese and sausage samples at Swiss Colony, then go make out in the photo booths in the patchouli-scented, hippie-dippy Alley.I like to tell people I had sex for the first time at Metrocenter, but technically it was in Metro Parkway, in the office of the owner of the Mexican-themed supper club where I had my first job, first as a busboy and later as maître d’.Or sign in with a social account:Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more.The Phoenix New Times may earn a portion of sales from products & services purchased through links on our site from our affiliate partners.All my favorite rites of passage took place at Metro.
Tuesday will be his last day. Metrocenter has been a staple in the community since it was built back in 1973. I bought my first grown-up, three-piece suit (made entirely of spun petroleum) at a Metro store called Topps and Trowsers, and I still own record albums I shoplifted from Diamond’s department store.Stewart called my bluff and made me photography editor of both the yearbook and newspaper. (I’m not proud that I ordered a White Russian, a sickly-sweet concoction I’d seen Paul Henreid drink in a spy thriller not long before.) "I've been working with them for probably 10 years. "Getting businesses in there, redevelopment," she said was the goal.