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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go to Wheaton Mall on a weekend and tell me it’s less depressing than Springfield, Fair Oaks, or Pentagon City malls. It’s not just about crime, a lot of young people in MoCo are dressed in pajamas all the time and look like they’ve given up at life. There’s a certain sense of despair and ennui that exists among young people in MoCo, specifically in Silver Spring and points north and east, that doesn’t exist in the same percentages of young people in NoVA and DC.

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This is so weird.  The Wheaton Mall has Target and Costco.  It's very convenient.  You think that people dress differently at Target in Wheaton than they do in Fairfax? [/quote]

The Target in Wheaton is the most run down Target I’ve ever been to in my
life. Even the Target in Columbia Heights has less stuff thrown on the ground and is less of a general mess.

It’d be interesting for people who have experience going regularly between MoCo and NoVA have to say about this. I can’t be the only one to notice how depressing Wheaton and Silver Spring are compared to the rest of the region.[/quote]

I'm at the Wheaton Target fairly regularly, and that's not been my experience.[/quote]

I go there fairly regularly because it's convenient, but as Targets go, it's not that great.  Always a mess and out of basic things.  I only go to the Wheaton mall for Target and Costco, there's nothing else worthwhile.[/quote]
I go to the Wheaton Mall all the time. It's fine. It's not as lively or shiny as Montgomery Mall, but it's also manageable during the holidays whereas Montgomery Mall fills me with panic this time of year. And there is definitely more than Target and Costco though it's true the mall would be (and was before they came along) dying without those two stores. Some of the other stores I go to are:

DSW
Five Below
Macy's
The beer and wine place by Costco
Children's Place

I confess I have taken my child to the horrible Happy Bounce place that is cluttered and depressing. Do not recommend.[/quote]

Citing a DSW and a Five Below as reasons why Wheaton Mall is a destination? I can’t.

I’ll take Jacadi Paris, Restoration Hardware, and Lady M in Tysons Galleria please.

You’re kind of making people’s point about how MoCo is going downhill with your post.[/quote]

Yes let’s place a fashion mall in Wheaton instead, that’s guaranteed to turn it into a ghost town and attract what you don’t want. The mall works perfectly fine for the area - not every shopping center can be high-end, but doesn’t mean the area is ’going downhill’. [/quote]

+1. I've been shopping at Wheaton Plaza since there was a Montgomery Ward where the Target now is. It's never been high-end, and it wasn't intended to be.[/quote]

+2 if "going downhill" means I can shop at DSW and Target, sign me up[/quote]

+3. These are the stores where I shop. I have no idea that "Jacadi Paris" is, so I don't need or want one at my mall.[/quote]

Wheaton mall is trash and stop going there before it turns crazier. [/quote]

Wheaton mall is nice. Contrast it with pentagon city, which seems to require a huge police squad just to keep the crime at bay. And just to the south in Alexandria, the kids can’t even go to school in person and have to do remote learning because the kids don’t know how to behave. [/quote]

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