Mall St. Vincent is an enclosed

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located off

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at 1133 St. Vincent Avenue in

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, United States. It opened in February 1977 on the 100-acre site of the original St. Vincent's Academy, a Catholic girls' school built by the

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, from which it gets its name. The mall's main

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. The Sears anchor store closed in 2018 as a result of filing for

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. In 2014, the city government voted for a tax-payer funded proposal of $16.5 million US into Mall St Vincent, but the long-term fate of the retail mall remains in doubt. An outdoor fountain included in the remodeling project was by 2017 crumbling and without water, with plants surrounding the structure having died. In 2017,

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and Gymboree closed their Mall St. Vincent operations; a local news article noted that online shopping and changing consumer habits have affected shopping malls; with as many as one in four closing within the next five years. On June 6, 2018, it was announced that

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would be closing in September 2018. After declaring bankruptcy, New York & Co. closed all stores including its Mall St. Vincent storefront in 2020, while Auntie Anne's closed its doors in 2021.

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