Northbridge Mall — Local services in Albert Lea

Attended railroad train show. Unfortunately a lot of businesses are closed, but I was there for the railroad show. The show has railroad layouts and plenty of vendors selling model trains. It is always the first full weekend in December on Saturday and Sunday. One thing about it being in early December, Mr and Mrs Santa Claus are there to cheer up the kids. I always look forward to this train show and since it is early December and I live approximately 90 miles away, I have only been burned once with a show storm where it was too much snow that it was unsafe to travel to it. It usually is a sunny day and clean dry roads to get there. I always have fun...

I really don't know how to rate the Northbridge Mall..I really don't spend time or money there but being a towns folk, I notice the decline in it. The only place I purchase a thing here is @ the Pizza Ranch and I haven't eaten there in over a year(Great chicken &pizza BTW!). I have utilized Manpowers resources but found their "cut" from paychecks to be "overkill" to say the least. Otherwise, with Shopko leaving and going out of business a year after Herbergers, this Quote on quote "mall" like the town itself is moving towards becoming a ghost town. Like I said, I may not know how to rate this mall but sure have...

It's kept clean, as far as I can tell, and accessibility isn't an issue. A lot of the businesses here are relatively small (minus maybe the theater). There are enough food places that you could come here one day a week and still feel like you're not beating the same thing over and over.

Parking is relatively easy to find, as they have a gigantic parking lot for the amount of businesses that are actually open inside. And I was interested in opening a business in the mall, and the cost to operate here seems higher than it should be... Overall, it's...