re: Demolition of Cortana Mall already underway

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Amazon is talking 3500+ and they definitely pay more than $12/hour.

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2800 or so, plus a truck drivers that likely earn much more than the $15/hour that the warehouse workers will get.

Much bigger economic impact than anyone thought that Mall property could ever be again.

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4 total $12/hr retail mall jobs replaced with hundreds or thousands of $12/hr warehouse jobs.


You're a half empty kinda guy aren't you?

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I saw the most miserable Instacart shopper this morning at the grocery store, so I'm in a "hate on these 'new economy' jobs" mood today.

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Mall of LA isn't what it once was either. It's still fine to go to but the store selection is a lot crappier than it used to be.

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Lakeside is doing what MoL won’t. Lakeside doesn’t put up with using the mall as a babysitter. MoL does.

I remember the MoL used to be the it place during Christmas. They would do a big todo when Santa arrived, decorations and stuff. None of that really happens anymore.

I miss the malls of my childhood most around the holidays. There was nothing better than the sights, sounds, and smells. Stopping at KB Toys to do my Santa perusing.

I hate that my kids will likely never know going to the mall with friends.

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What’s crazy is how random Katrina was. Esplanade flooded. Lakeside didn’t. Lakeside is booming and has expanded. Esplanade is in the death spiral of nail salons and discount shoe stores. People just never came back after it reopened.

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That's part of it, but the bigger reasons are...

1) Kenner's demographics have gone to shite post-Katrina

2) Lakeside pulls from a larger area, not to mention, easy to access from the NS

3) Lakeside had far better management.

I wonder where the concrete rubble is being disposed at?

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I wonder where the concrete rubble is being disposed at?

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probably will end up being riprap breakers for the river.

Circle Bowl closing 4/1 too (across street)

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I remember the MoL used to be the it place during Christmas. They would do a big todo when Santa arrived, decorations and stuff. None of that really happens anymore.

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First few years of MofL were great. You had Spencers, music store, book store, sports store, World of Science, good pizza place, Chik fil A, Cinnabon, Radio Shack. And I remember the Christmas stuff...they would have school choirs there, etc. and decorated very nice. Now it's a shell of its former self.

Cortana had a lot of good memories, too from the 80's and early 90's.

Don’t cry for Cortana and your teenage nostalgia. Amazon will build VR malls for you soon enough.

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How many jobs were there at the mall? 100?

Amazon is talking 3500+ and they definitely pay more than $12/hour.

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I agree with the rest of your post but when that mall was completely open and in it's prime it provided at least 3500 jobs with all of the stores included. Goudchaux's alone had over 500 just in the Cortana store. You add 5 anchor stores, interior stores and restaurants and then add exterior perimeter car care centers that most department stores had that adds up to a lot of bodies.