Usually I find reviews on Yelp to be pretty good, but every once in a while I find some reviews that make me scratch my head. Why do people rate Park Central as if it is still a mall?
On my recent lunch trip to Park Central I didn't see any signage indicting a mall, in fact the landmark sign on Central from the 1950s has been gone for 15 years. I checked out their website before writing this review, and found no mention of it being a mall there either. The management company advertises it as a corporate park, and in fact when I was there I actually found it to be filled with many corporate offices.
Park Central doesn't appear to be trying to compete with Kierland or the Biltmore as another reviewer put it, in fact they don't even appear to be competing with poor old Christown Mall. Why? Because Park Central isn't a mall!
Writing a review complaining about a lack of stores at Park Central is like writing a bad review about Maryvale mall because it doesn't have any stores and the food tastes like it came from a school cafeteria. Maryvale Mall is now an elementary / middle school, not a mall, and neither is Park Central.
I gave Park Central 4 out of 5 stars because in the 15 years that it has not been a mall, it seems to has done a good at keeping itself filled with corporate tenants who are conveniently surrounded by many restaurants that don't even require you to get into your car to eat at.