{"id":172350,"date":"2018-02-09T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=172350"},"modified":"2018-02-09T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:14:58","slug":"renovations-at-kirkwood-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/172350\/renovations-at-kirkwood-mall","title":{"rendered":"Renovations at Kirkwood Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkwood Mall will be undergoing some renovations this year. The mall announced the renovations during a media event on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, the project &#8220;will impact the entire common area space of the 848,102-square-foot property.&#8221; It\u00a0also includes a makeover of its south entrance and restrooms.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic change, the common flooring will contain only 30% carpeting. The other 70% will be porcelain tile. Unique to shopping center, Kirkwood has featured carpeted common areas since inception.<\/p>\n<p>New furniture will also be installed.<\/p>\n<p>Work commences February 21st and will conclude this fall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4155\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wiki\/timeline-1970s\/kirkwood08162009-1-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4155\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4155\" src=\"https:\/\/d2w3ygkvuq5sxd.cloudfront.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/kirkwood08162009-1-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"Kirkwood Mall North Entrance\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkwood Mall North Entrance<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The project continues to redefine the state&#8217;s second-largest shopping center, which upgraded its exterior in 2016 with new signage and parking lot improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Woolworth was the first store to open at, originally, Kirkwood Plaza in March 1970. The mall held a grand opening celebration in May 1971 with its namesake, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wiki\/robert-kirkwood\">Robert Kirkwood<\/a>, in attendance. The mall doubled in size in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>People can track the progress through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KirkwoodMall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirkwood&#8217;s Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkwood Mall will be undergoing some renovations this year. The mall announced the renovations during a media event on Thursday. According to a press release, the project &#8220;will impact the entire common area space of the 848,102-square-foot property.&#8221; It\u00a0also includes a makeover of its south entrance and restrooms. In a dramatic change, the common flooring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,2409,216],"tags":[2234],"class_list":["post-172350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-business-news","category-featured","tag-kirkwood-mall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}