Cape Kennedy Retail

 Welcome to another episode of mall updates, this time on Merritt Square Mall, the other major (but sadly more dead) mall in Brevard County Spirit Halloween is gearing up to move into Sears, which finally closed in early 2021. The light's gone out on Yankee Candle, which was unfortunately always one of the more popular stores I thought. But these days, chain stores are slowly dropping more and more every month. A new tenant! Though not exactly an A+ chain. But hey, cool socks are cool. FYE has permanently closed, as I suspected a few months ago. It's sad, but all together not surprising. It was in competition with a BAM thats next door, and FYE still has a store in Melbourne relatively nearby. Combine that with Merritt Square being fairly dead, and its more of a shock it didn't close earlier. A tenant is already lined up though; Gregg's Marketplace, a sort of antique mall-style rent-a-booth store as far as I can tell. There's one at Melbourne Square already, so I gu...

 Welcome to our first post! I have a lot of different little "series" planned, and this is one of them. Melbourne Square Mall is my local mall, decently thriving, and I've grown into a habit of trying to keep up on the closures and openings of stores there. Archives can be found at my  Flickr  , but future posts will go here so I can give more context. These photos come from a quiet Tuesday when I stopped in Mr & Mrs Crab has been in the works for a little while, taking over the fairly long vacant space last occupied by TooJay's Deli. Mr & Mrs Crab is a local chain, which has really sprung up in the past few years. Frankly I'm a little concerned with how long they'll last, since their expansion doesn't seem very selective. This space, which I believe was last "BeMe Natural", is now God's Love Apparel. I'd love to know what this storefront was originally. Go Green CBD has opened in the former Gamestop, and Wooden Spoon is coming to...