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What you should know about EP Center
Submitted by Rotary Rooter on January 9, 2007 - 11:53am.
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When you are involved in Rotary, you learn a lot about your community.
Today I learned that Eden Prairie Shopping Center is becoming the economic engine that local officials hoped it would when its owner, General Growth Properties, remodeled the regional shopping mall several years ago.
The mall’s general manager, Nancy Litwin, told the Eden Prairie (A.M.) Rotary Club that Eden Prairie Center has grown to be the third-largest mall in the metro area, behind only the Mall of America and Southdale Mall.
She said that collectively Eden Prairie Center employs more than 1,500 persons, and that by using economic impact multipliers one can estimate that its payroll has an annual impact on the community of more than $40 million.
The mall has an occupancy rate of 98 percent, and its growth is exemplified not only by the new stores added in 2006 but the pending arrival of JC Penney as a major anchor. JC Penney will open its store in the former Mervyn’s space in March, according to Litwin.
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To Eden Prairie residents who have witnessed the mall’s struggles since its construction in the mid-1970s, these recent successes are nothing less than remarkable.
(Rotary Rooter focuses on the activities of the Eden Prairie A.M. Rotary Club, which meets at 7:30 a.m. Tuesdays at the Biaggi's restaurant at Eden Prairie Shopping Center. Guests are welcome. You can learn more about the club by visiting www.epamrotary.)
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Wow, third largest mall in...
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Back to page topAccording to Kevin Smith's Web site, a screening of the movie "Mallrats," filmed at Eden Prairie Center, is planned this summer at Eden Prairie Center. More info here.
It's part of the Netflix Rolling Roadshow, which screens movies at the locations they made famous. Last year, the roadshow screened "Jaws" at Martha's Vineyard, and "Escape from Alcatraz" from the cellblock.
It will be interesting if it actually happens.
(Karla Wennerstrom is the editor of the Eden Prairie News. She can be reached at editor@edenprairienews.com.)
Interesting. I played a...
Back to page topInteresting. I played a security guard in that movie. Part of "Team Lafours". Kevin Smith had said something about coming back to the mall on the 10 year anniversary (2005) but that never happened.
When I told a friend that I...
Back to page topWhen I told a friend that I worked in EP, the first thing he noted was that they filmed "Mall Rats" here.
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