Outside the mall - looks like all the businesses, like flowers, are drying up and blowing away. Inside the mall - Totally different story. I went on a week day, after the lunch rush but before folks would be getting out of work. Typically this is the slowest part of the day. This place was doing some steady business. I hit like 5 different stores and was never the only one in them. There were folks walking around everywhere. Their food court was even almost 1/2 filled.
And I don't know if they just recently finished some make over work or something - but it actually looked really nice in here. The ceilings were a bit lower than they would make them in new malls, but not so low it was oppressive or anything. You could just tell it was a bit older.
The door I walked in even had a really nice tree shaded seating area outside. Not bad at all.
So while this is a little out of the way for me to go on a totally regular basis - I'm acutally curious to go again when I can spend some more time checking the place out. I was definately pleasently surprised.