Twenty Ninth Street Mall

 

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Carrie O.

Boulder, CO

Twenty Ninth is a nice place to be! I'm not a big fan of a lot of the stores there (they are mostly chains), but I'm glad we have a Sephora (so I can buy my beloved Bare Escentuals products) and Muttropolis (which is such a great place!) In my opinion, the best thing about 29th is that they allow dogs! Even all the stores (minus restaurants, of course, but most have outdoor areas you can sit) at 29th allow dogs inside, so it's easy to shop with your favorite pup! The Pearl Street Pedestrian Mall does NOT allow dogs, which really sucks! I'm also really glad we finally have a nice theatre and some new restaurants in Boulder. All in all, I'm definitely a fan. I wish there were more interesting stores there, but then I'd only spend more money... so maybe it's better this way? Ha.

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Elite '08

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Hubert H.

Cambridge, MA

These outdoor malls I think are West Coast imports, so when I first looked around 29th St. Mall it looked like a lowscale version of the Stanford Shopping Center. For me it is a little bothersome that all the chains are national chains. But it's easy to navigate, there are some restaurants, etc. Probably East Pearl St. and some of the cool places (read, Indian Food store on 28th) are more my type of thing. Hey Longmont, fix Twin Peaks to match up with Boulder!

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Elite '08

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Mona O.

Fremont, CA

During the summer, they have free outdoor concerts on Friday nights.  The small concert is set up in the plaza area between Borders and Laudisio's restaurant.  If you don't like the music playing on a particular night, you can go shopping (like we did)!  Nice shops.  Some are on the high end and others are the standard, but nice, stores you typically see at other malls.

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Dustin G.

Denver, CO

The new open air 29th street mall of Boulder may at first seem a bit American-gaudy, but when you put it into perspective, it is a vast improvement.

The perspective is this: the previous Crossroads Mall...SUCKED. I mean hard...I mean waste of space.

So now that they have totally renovated the baby, even connecting Canyon to 30th and having 28th once again be a meaningful street, this place gets my whole-hearted support.

Oh, and they have a Chipotle...!

The 29th street mall is just starting up, as can be seen by the mainly empty 2nd floor. Still, it seems a viable alternative to Pearl Street, in that it is also pretty nice and you can actually find parking and more useful (less window shopping) stores in it.

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Jordan W.

Denver, CO

I am not rating any particular business there, just the mall itself.
I guess I am glad something at all replaced that worthless eyesore of a mall.  I am just surprised after all those years of bickering and fighting they designed something that pedestrian-unfriendly for Boulder.  I am the last one to complain about having to walk extra distances, but I really hate crossing that awful ugly street.   It forces me to actually have to plan my shopping so that I won't have to zig-zag through the mall.  I eventually get sick of it and won't go into certain stores, though I otherwise would have.  
I do like most most of the stores, and there are plenty of restaurants to choose from.  I am not one of those "keep Boulder pure" people, so I am not bothered that majority of the businesses are national chains.  
And what's with the most anticlimactic name ever?  Especially after all the contests!  It's like when Homer Simpson found out that his middle initial of "J" stands for Jay!
Oh, one good thing is that there is plenty of parking--left over from the old mall.  That underground structure is always empty.

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