BULLHEAD CITY, Arizona -- In the Mohave Valley of Arizona, Bullhead City has punched a hole through a hill to unite a challenged shopping center with the local mall to improve traffic.
Before that it was known as Bullhead Square, but better known by locals by its main tenant, Kmart, it’s being rebranded as City Square. 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.
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.
Property manager of the center Anne Alba said the announced closure, which had been rumored for several months, didn’t come as a surprise.
“We’ve been anticipating the possibility of it happening,” she said. “We’ve been working on reconditioning it, making it a more attractive center, in the best location in town, we feel,” said Alba.
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