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| - Once upon a time, this was the Belz Outlet Mall. Then it became the Outlet Center. Belz was cool, the Outlet Center was lame.
Now, it's become the Premium Outlets of Las Vegas-South. Let me tell you, it is quite the impovement.
The outside looks almost the same as the original Premium Outlets. Now the way it looks inside is still rather....stale. They need to work on that. That said, they do have a much better selection of stores now, with the already existing stores being vastly improved. The Niketown here is far better than the one at the North outlets in my opinion. This is also the area with the highest concentration of Dunkin' Donuts locations in Vegas, with two inside the mall and one in the parking lot. :D (There really aren't enough locations of those here). I'm really upset they closed the music store (Music 4 Less) though, one of the best music stores ever. Then again, they brought down the carousel that used to be at the Meadows Mall, so I suppose that's an improvement.
The biggest problem with this mall is still there however: The layout. It's essentially a 0.5 mile long strip of a building. The thing that sucks most about this is parking at one end, having to go to a specific store, looking at the map and then realizing it's all the way at the OTHER end. At least it's an air-conditioned building you have to walk through but still. Thankfully, an expansion is being planned, hopefully they'll change up the layout in the process of the expansion so walking from one end to the other won't take 30 minutes.
So after years of being lame in every possible way it's finally worthwhile to shop in this mall again. I can't wait to see what other changes are in store for it.
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