View articles courtesy of your local library It looks like the perfect site for a power center,' said Earle Conklin, cq vice president with The Prudential Realty Group in San Francisco, which took possession of the property in May.Ĭonklin said Prudential hopes to have a sale completed this fall, with the new owner opening stores perhaps as early as next summer. 'We're speculating that a buyer will want to demolish Birdcage Walk as it is now and then rebuild it. July 14-The retail ghost town that is Birdcage Walk in Citrus Heights appears destined for a razing and subsequent resurrection as a power center, according to officials looking to sell the shopping complex. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News| July 14, 1995 New Owners Likely to Rebuild 'Power Center' in Citrus Heights, Calif.(Originated from The Sacramento Bee, Calif.) The total irony of that philosophy is, if they'd left it alone it would've probably caught up been successful now, lol. At the time maybe more people probably went to the mall, so it didn't do as well as they expected. I found a piece of an article from '95 (so this must've happened right after I left) but can only read the first few parts without having to buy it.Ĭorrect me if I'm wrong, but my best guess is that it might've been actually quite ahead of its time (outdoor power centers are more the rage today).

That building on the south end became a Target by 1998, and by '02 a piece of it was reconfigured (projecting outwards now).

I can see some divergence in the google earth poctures over the years too. In another thread I said about how I was bummed to discover the Birdcage theatre was demolished, since I went there as a kid lots of times.

Fireside bowling alley citrus heights