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Welcome to the Rolling Acres, Akron website. This site is currently under development.
Eventually this site will be all-inclusive about the Rolling Acres area of Akron including a searchable store database from 1975 to the present, mall and neighborhood maps, and so on.
For now, the main area of the site is the image gallery, which features pics of Rolling Acres Mall, stores, and ads from the past and present, user submitted photos, fan photos, and photos from other local malls of interest.
We are always looking for image submissions, so if you have any scannable photos or ads or other items of interest, please login or sign up for an account (it's free) and then upload your files to the submissions gallery. If it includes pics of people you'd rather not have shown publicly, feel free to remove the faces in any fashion you'd like.
Otherwise, keep checking back here or on the MySpace page for updates.
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Tuesday 28 November 2006 | UPDATE: Newspaper/Photo Shoot/Friend Requests/etc. | | | |
|     Quick update guys.
First, sorry about the delayed (or no) response on comments, e-mails, messages, and the like. Things have been busy around here what with all this sales business. Gotta look pretty for the potential buyers.
Second, sorry to all the people who have pending friend requests. Ditto on the busy-ness.
Third, my pal Dave Giffels had some - interesting - things to say about the ol' website and MySpace page last Sunday (I told you I was busy!). Whenever a mall is compared to Borat you know you're a phenomenon. Check it out: Mall keeps rolling in our minds. P.S.: Someone get this man some flowers - it's refreshing to see media interest in ol' Rolling Acres that moves beyond the standard rigamarole.
Fourth, R.A. fan Kafka did a fantastic photo shoot inside me (I'm a mall, that's not nasty!) for her designer clothing she ... designed. Check it out at her blog here: [DREI] new reset[COUTURE] photoshoot.
I also threw up a few more pics on the site but we'll worry about that later.
Dress to the Nines, Spend to the Fives,
Rolling Acres
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Monday 13 November 2006 | Vintage 1991 article : How did it happen? | | | |
| This is a good read for those of you that have an attention span beyond 30 seconds. It predicts, in a vague way, what has happened in retail since it was written back in 1991. It also refers to most of the local malls in the area.
One can't help but see Cindy Williams' (at the time, Rolling Acres Marketing Director) logic about Romig Road not being oversaturated with retail. Unfortunately, that was the wrong assumption!
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A HYBRID CHALLENGES THE MALLS ' POWER CENTERS' ARRIVE
Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
February 4, 1991
Author: Yalinda Rhoden, Beacon Journal business writer
When Summit Mall opened in 1965 as the Akron area's first enclosed
shopping center, it was hailed as a futuristic concept allowing consumers to
buy almost anything under one roof.
During the next decade, four other malls were built in the Akron-Canton
area. It wasn't long before observers began to wonder if the malls would kill or substantially depress their much smaller, less glitzy forebears -- the
strip shopping centers like Akron Square and Wooster-Hawkins Plaza.
But what goes around comes around. Now the dominance of the malls appears to be challenged by the newest retail concept, the so-called `power centers,' which combine the well-known anchor stores of malls with the convenience of
strip centers.
Are the mall operators nervous? Is there enough business to go around?
[ Read the rest... ]
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Sunday 22 October 2006 | I Was in the Beacon - if you haven't seen it already | | | |
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I'm sure anybody that was going to see the article has already seen it, so for the benefit of you that haven't seen it I'll post the link. My friend at the Beacon, Dave Giffels, had some nice things to say about your favorite mall and the MySpace page and website. Feel free to check out the article at When it comes to Akron, MySpace is virtually fake. And just for your information, Dave still hasn't brought me any water yet. You might want to e-mail him and berate him for that, and tell him that I still want it. And make it Dasani.
Dress to the Nines, Spend to the Fives,
Rolling Acres
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