Will a hole through a hill save a Mohave center?

In the Mohave Valley of Arizona, a town has punched a hole through a hill to unite a challenged shopping center with the local mall to improve traffic.



Kmart will close its store in the City Square shopping center in Bullhead City, across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, leaving it without the anchor that was its prime draw. In fact, few locals even knew the name of the center, referring to it just as Kmart, according to the Mohave Valley Daily News.



The center has lined up an Ashley HomeStore to take up part of the space vacated by a Food City market, but the town itself is spearheading an effort to save the center, excavating the linkage to the nearby Riverview Mall. Owners of the center, meanwhile, have upgraded signage in the hopes of giving City Square a new identity.



“We’ve been working on reconditioning it, making it a more attractive center, in the best location in town, we feel,” said property manager Anne Alba.



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