The Humane Society of Southern Arizona recently moved its thrift store to a new, temporary location at Park Place Mall. The new store serves as more of a boutique than their previous location, but continues to fund the Humane Society’s goal of helping Tucson’s homeless cats and dogs.
Humane Society Chief Development Officer Diana Cannon said the recent grand opening was a huge success, with a line of people waiting to get into the store.
“It’s exciting because now people who are just in the mall shopping stop in to see what we have,” Cannon said. “It’s increasing our exposure to people who may have never known about our store.”
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Clockwise from top left: Brookfield’s Crossroads Center in Minnesota, Mall St. Matthews in Kentucky, Park Place Mall in Arizona and North Point Mall in Georgia. (Credit: Crossroads Center, Mall St. Matthews, Park Place, North Point)
It was a gamble when Brookfield Property Partners paid over $9 billion in cash for GGP’s 125-mall portfolio, but the company had a plan. Shortly after the deal closed in August 2018, Brookfield said it would “future proof” most of those malls, turning moribund properties into mixed-use “mini cities” by adding residential and office space.
The future, it turns out, had other plans.
HSSA to open thrift store at Park Place Mall on Jan. 15 HSSA will open its new thrift store location at Park Place Mall this weekend. (Source: HSSA) By KOLD News 13 Staff | January 14, 2021 at 4:09 PM MST - Updated January 18 at 5:34 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - The Humane Society of Southern Arizona will be opening a new thrift store at Park Place Mall this weekend.
The thrift store, previously located on Speedway Boulevard, will open on Friday, Jan. 15 in the former “New York and Company” storefront on the east side of the mall.
In celebration of the grand opening, HSSA is offering a 15% discount on already-discounted furniture for the entire opening weekend.
A young mother glances up from her phone screen for her child, moved by some internal awareness and a too-quiet pall, and leans to scan around the kiosk of body lotions and Christmas bows and its bored, stool-perched employee, for her kid. But the dark-haired boy is around, in his Spider-Man pandemic mask, hiding behind a giant Kusama-looking tree ornament three times his size. The few milling shoppers here, braving the worst days of the pandemic so far, show diversity and color, they are thick and thin, holding hands or pushing a wheelchair. An up-to-the-moment barker, a kind of shopping-mall goddess, offers chocolate to lure a shopper into a jeweler.