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Show Specialty Mini Mall preparing for opening By CHER1E HL'BFR A new mini-mall is opening in Layton that will include more than si shops and a delicatessen. The mall, located at 300 E. Gentile, will be called the Specialty Mini-Mall. yraig Abbott from Stone Mountain, Moun-tain, Georgia, will be the general manager of the project while Tom Winegar is the developer and CEO This is the 12th mall Craig has been associated with. He gained much of his experience from what is called cal-led the "arts and crafts circuit" of the southeastern United States. Tom Winegar will also be involved in-volved in the operation of the deli which will be an extension of the deli at his Thriftway in Layton. At the deli you will be able to build your own sandwiches. Soup, a salad bar, pasta specials and dinners din-ners will also be on the menu. The deli hopes to not only provide a service to shoppers in the mall but to also draw people in from the surrounding sur-rounding area for lunch and dinner. According to Craig Abbott the mall is already almost 70 percent full. Among the shops already preparing pre-paring to open in the mall are gift shops, craft boutiques, a liquid wallpaper system, an old book store, Celebration Signs, a candy and nut shop, West Side Baskets, Nails, Etc., Eagle Shield, a glass blower, and Watkins products. Francis Arthur's Distinctive Gifts is relocating from Kaysville to the mall. Other unusual shops included in the mall will be a novelty and magician magi-cian supply shop, Creative Silks, Elana's Infant Outlet with clothes for the newborn, and Stained Glass Overlay. "We are interested in hosting arts, crafts, gift boutiques, decorative decora-tive home improvements, one of a kind products and services and collectibles. col-lectibles. We are not interested in attracting 'flea market type' vendors ven-dors or buyers," Mr. Abbott said. Mr. Abbott said that the mall was especially interested in small or start-up businesses who want to expand into the Layton area. "We are not in competition with Layton Hills Mall," he explained. "Instead we will concentrate on goods and services not available elsewhere. We have had excellent support from the community." The building that houses the mall was a grocery store beginning in 1951. After Tom Winegar moved ift-'VA i If i I V- m ' - !Qj.4iijwMWWIlWi.--'..1 if -TT Ai-'f r-i""nwifnwwiaiinw 'WTiiitfiT n tm iwrfWWHTTTHrrrrrTltrr n (t 'm ..,., -r , i-imniWuiILg, i Sllllillfii) - : . ' - 'v Miniature houses are only one of the many hard-to-find items that will be included in Layton's Mini Mall. his store to the new Thriftway location, loca-tion, the building was leased for a short time to Samons. The building was unused until the mall moved in. One of the pluses for the tenants is that Command Protection Services Ser-vices have their regional office in the mall building. Shop owners will have 24 hour security service. "It will be about as secure as Ft. Knox," Craig says. Shop owners lease space from the mall and then inside their leased area the shop owners can arrange their store to suit themselves. them-selves. Leases are for six months or one year. Average size of the I shops is about 150 to 200 square i feet. "About 60 percent of the shops will be in that ball park," Craig says. Upstairs will be office space, a secretarial service for mall tenants, an answering service, mail room and conference suites. The mall is planning to open on March 1 with a special grand opening open-ing celebration planned for later in April. |