Slog commenter Hernandez hasn’t forgotten what Bellevue Square owner Kemper Freeman once said when comparing his higher-end mall to Tukwilla’s Southcenter Mall:
When you walk through the [Southcenter] mall, the way the customer dresses just to shop there—the light blue and pink hair curlers, the shoes that flop, flop, flop along—it’s a completely different customer.
And so Hernandez proposes a celebration in 2023, when the Freeman-opposed light rail line to Bellevue (just approved by that city’s council) opens.
Can’t wait to take the light rail over to Bellevue Square… I’ll be wearing my rattiest flip-flops, and I’ll make sure the Mrs. has some curlers in her hair.
If anyone can keep this idea in mind for the next 12 years, it could be a fun ride.
freeman has made such an ass of himself during the last year or so that i purposefully avoid spending any money in bellevue at all, let alone at any of his properties.
i bet he’d rather have crocs wearing customers than no customers.
Only thing is…Kemper Freeman will probably not be around for the satire. Or maybe he will. Mean, selfish, evil people seem to live a very long life
I’ll be in NYC. Public Transit (that works!!!) for decades.
I’ll wear blue curlers, because I’m a boy.
Well, he did succeed in keeping the one and only CBD station six long blocks away from his Bell Square.
why wait?
why not prove that flip flop wearing, curler donning shoppers can drive to Bellevue, just like they can to Southcenter
Against all odds I found myself at Southcenter last weekend. Having been mistakenly at Bellevue Square just a bit ago I can tell you the crowd was a million billion times better dressed, handsomer, prettier, and livelier than Bellevue Square’s toffeenosed wrinklebags and plasticines. And if there was a bit of trailer trash here and there, it only added spice. The mall itself was better laid out and more nicely finished than tired-ass Bellevue Square has been in decades.
Count me in.
Maybe some El-wire in the curlers?
why do we have to wait 12 years. there are buses right now. i’m willing to disgust his “classy” customers with a stained wife beater and VERY short jean shorts.
SlatternWalk Bellevue! I’m so there.
I think it was late 90’s, but Opie and Anthony hired a bus, filled it with homeless people and gave them each $100 to go Christmas shopping at NJ’s ritziest mall in Cherry Hill.
Not too much hilarity ensued, but the mall called the cops, the homeless people actually were quite nice and had touching stories, and in the end they didn’t care that they were being used as pawns between some rich assholes and some other rich assholes with a radio show since they had a nice afternoon in New Jersey and got $100.
I second @6