Time to wake the blog back up with something new. One of the least covered states by retail Youtube sites is Louisiana. Northwest Louisiana was covered on the blog several years ago, but we have not been back since. How is the area doing? What has become of the 3 remaining indoor malls in the Shreveport/Bossier City metro area? Kohan now owns Mall St. Vincent and Pierre Bossier Mall, so things are not looking good. The largest indoor mall in Shreveport, Southpark Mall closed and was converted into the Summer Grove Baptist Church complex nearly 20 years ago. Burlington Coat Factory still maintains a store at the former mall, but it is sealed off from everything else.
We will start with our first stop on the tour, the Pierremont Mall. Opened in 1964 this very tiny mall is anchored by Club 4 Fitness. Stein Mart was previously the main anchor tenant but closed during their 2020 bankruptcy. Unfortunately, Club 4 Fitness sealed off their mall entrance and the indoor portion of the mall is really struggling. Most of the West facing tenants have outside entrances. Here is the mall website if anyone wants to check it out, click here.
The wide view of the mall without the anchor showing.
A wide view of the entire mall.
There is also an art gallery that is not listed here.
Krush had a sidewalk sale going on. On a chilly, rainy day like this, having a covered mall corridor is an advantage.
Unfortunately, that is about the most action you will see inside of the mall.
The entrance to the former Stein Mart is covered up with this neat mural. The public restrooms are on the right.
Gotta love the old school skylights.
Not sure if the store on the right was still open, it may keep odd hours if it is.
The former toy store with the door open.
Didn't walk too far into the store, just enough to look around a bit.
The halfway point of the main mall corridor at the Casa Jimador restaurant.
Now for the other end of the mall. This is the entire main mall corridor. I bet Uncle Rico could throw a football from one end of the mall to the other, lol.
The South mall entrance.
Going back about halfway through the main mall corridor.
Casa Jimador has an outside mall entrance and sticks out into the mall corridor.
This is the whole main corridor view from the Club 4 Fitness side of the mall.
This is the view from Club 4 Fitness to the West mall entrance.
A view from the West mall entrance to the main mall corridor.
The West mall entrance with the iconic sign.
And that is all for this stop. A grand total of less than 10 minutes to document this mall. Up next will be Mall St. Vincent.
