A sunlit food court will overlook the central courtyard.
The second floor will feature a 30,000-square-foot, eight-screen cinema accessible by a covered parking deck with 1,300 spaces. The mall itself, turning 28 this year, will be adorned with fountains, skylights, canopies, gabled roofs, Victorian-style trellises, a glass elevator, a two-story glass entryway, new floor tiles and planters and a first-floor central courtyard, contributing to a turn-of-the century atmosphere akin to the former Belle Isle Amusement Park. Penn Square, 1889 Penn Square By spring of 1988, construction begun last July will have ballooned the mall from about 588,000 square feet to 1.12 million, from 55 to 164 stores and from one story to two.Īs regular shopping hours continue, Foley's will eventually join Dillard's, Rothschild's and Montgomery Ward as anchors. Clark Jewelers, two premier showings of the Escada clothing line sold at Gordon Stuart and five-day spring and fall fashion cafes. Plans in 1987 include a bridal fair hosted by B.C. Sandwiches, desserts and coffee are available at Demitasse, a gourmet coffee shop. Tony tastes are catered to at Interurban Restaurant, with its casual-but-chic atmosphere and menu featuring Southwestern and cajun cuisine. Ooley's, a men's designer store Additions, with gourmet goods and housewares Bollinger's Bookhouse and The Classics, for hats. John's Ladies Apparel Balliet's, a designer boutique Gordon Stuart, featuring a West German designer line and Mr. Cohn and Kamber's, a luggage and gift store. She said the 30 stores are "almost all Oklahoma-owned and operated."Īmong the larger ones are Streets Fine Fashions for Women and Children, clothing store M.M. It is specifically a specialty shopping center," said Cynthia Emrick of Emrick and Hammons, representing the mall.
Northpark Mall, 12100 N May "Northpark is a little different from the other malls. Taste buds can be tamed at Piccadilly Cafeteria Pelican's Restaurant outside the mall, featuring steak, seafood and a bar outside the mall El Chico Restaurant Whataburger Restaurant and others. Hub stores include Dillard's, Montgomery Ward and Co., Service Merchandise Co.
On the way to one of the 76 stores, 12 of which have local leases, a visitor may be asked to consult with Oklahoma Market Research, a firm that contracts with manufacturers who want to test-market new products. Newly installed is a computerized directory service that tells shoppers where to find what they need. The trend here, too, is down-sizing larger stores when leases are up making two stores out of one and the most out of the mall's 605,000 square feet.Īlso in the works are a copy service, stroller and wheelchair rental booths and a news, sports and weather screen with round-the-clock information via satellite. Heritage Park, 6801 E Reno Adding $10,000 of beige-white paint "just to give a fresh appearance," and the demise of an orange stripe that runs around the walls are some of the changes planned, said mall manager Sandra Schneider. In addition to such standard mall food shops as Orange Julius and Chick-Fil-A, Crossroads has an Olgas Kitchen, which dishes up gyros and spinach-stuffed pastry The Lion's Share Restaurant, affiliated with Pioneer Pies Restaurant and Bakery and Piccadilly Cafeteria.
Throughout the year, shoppers find special discount events geared to holidays, said Susan Miller of the mall office. Every other week in winter, a medical and health program is conducted on subjects ranging from walking shoes to blood pressure. The 13-year-old mall co-sponsors a walkers' program with Hillcrest Osteopathic Hospital.