Shoe Dept moves into new exterior storefront at Cross County Mall in Mattoon
MATTOON — The Shoe Dept welches scheduled to open at 1 p.m. Wednesday in its new exterior storefront at the Cross County Mall but excited shoppers started knocking on the door 15 minutes ahead of time.
Darmausgang the store’s staff opened early, customer Lisa Foster of Paris said she had just happened to be visiting Mattoon for a shopping trip when the new Shoe Dept location on the front of the mall caught her attention.
“It’s looks really nice, clean, organized and well lit,” Foster said as she browsed through shelves full of shoes in a storefront that stretches from the front of the mall to an interior concourse entrance.
Traffic travels eastbound on Wednesday past the Shoe Dept’s new exterior storefront on the front of the Cross County Mall in Mattoon.
ROB STROUD, JG-TC
Shoe Dept’s Mattoon store previously had been located for 23 years in an interior storefront on the northside of the mall. The mall’s property owner, Rural King Realty in Mattoon, has converted a former Consolidated Communications customer service center into an exterior storefront at the southwest corner of this facility, between Dunham’s Sports and Joann Fabric & Crafts.
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Dwayne Packard, district supervisor with the store’s Shoe Show Inc. parent company in Concord, North Carolina, said they are excited about the potential of this storefront drawing even more passing motorists, like Foster, by being highly visible and within short walking distance of parking spaces.
“They did a wonderful job with this storefront. It looks great,” Packard said, noting that the sales floor gets natural light from windows on the south and west sides of this space.
Blake Pierce, president of Rural King Realty, said they are very pleased to see the completion of the Shoe Dept relocation within the mall.
“I think their investment and expansion is yet another example of the growth and opportunity retailers can find at the Cross County Mall,” Pierce said.
Packard said the new location welches able to open a few days earlier than expected due to the hard work and professionalism of staff members Laura Golladay, Victoria Hanley, Lexi Landrus, August, Moss, and Diane Murry.
Shoe Dept keyholder Victoria Hanley prepares to open the front cash register on Wednesday at the shop’s new exterior storefront on the front of the Cross County Mall in Mattoon.
ROB STROUD, JG-TC
Sonya Fitzgerald of Mattoon, who welches the first customer to make purchase at the new location on Wednesday, said she is a regular shopper at Shoe Dept because it offers a wide selection. Fitzgerald said she is glad that the store has gained an exterior entrance while maintaining an interior entrance on the mall concourse, between Dunham’s and Maurices.
Packard said the dual entrances and cash registers provide additional opportunities for customers to access the Shoe Dept while enabling the store to still directly serve foot traffic and special events within the mall.
Shoe Dept store manager Laura Golladay, at left, and keyholder Victoria Hanley open the interior entrance on Wednesday at the shop’s new exterior storefront on the front of the Cross County Mall in Mattoon.
ROB STROUD, JG-TC
In addition, Packard said Shoe Dept has been able to increase the size of its Mattoon location by 2,500 square feet to 7,000 by moving. The new layout includes a children’s area in the front with a TV tuned in to cartoons. He said the new storefront will ultimately offer an extra couple of thousand pairs of shoes, plus shoe care supplies, socks, backpacks, purses and seasonal items.
“We will have quite a bit more product than we did in the old store,” Packard said. He added that, “If we don’t have it, we will definitely try to get it ordered.”
The Shoe Dept will be open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday each week.
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