Penn Central Mall — Local services in Oskaloosa

Fun arcade with games and dessert on one side and across the hall has axe throwing, mini bowling, golf simulation, and a small bar. A good Mexican restaurant. A dollar general. I wanted to try the newly opened Italian restaurant called Pronto but they weren't open yet when I was there. Sounds delicious and authentic, though! There's a so shop called Shag that's an alternative type shop- a hemp lover's dream, lots of water pipes, and random items, clothes, games and more. Muse Music Store has their 2nd location where they do lessons and you can book the recording studio. There's an on-site radio station- KIIC that's always neat to see in action. Maurices clothing store has lots of trendy fashion. A nail salon, hair studio, jeweler, hearing aid store and likely other little shops (or big) that I'm forgetting. It has a huge open Court in the middle of the mall as well. My class just had their reunion there. Everyone met up in the court and then went to the arcade and axe throwing since we had a smaller turn out this year. Definitely recommend for all ages on the arcade side- not sure about ages for axe throwing. I know you have to sign a waiver so if under 18 a parent must be present to...

We were here for a craft show from extreme Southwest Iowa. The mall itself was fine. Parking on the other hand was nightmarish. When we arrived, we were able to find a handicapped parking spot for my wife right near the main entrance. Once we had unloaded and set up, a gentleman came to out booth and reminded us about parking limitations and told us where we needed to park. I tried to find out where he had directed us to park but never did find the place. I'll bet I drove around for 30 minutes. I finally decided on a 3 hour space, checked on the time and tool pictures in case my car got towed. I went out about 2 1/2 hours later to move it and moved it to another spot. A couple hours later I went out to move it again and found another handicapped spot right up front with about an hour to go in the show, so I'll admit...I took it. Now there was a lot of construction going on around the mall so that...

Like most malls in the Country practically a deadmall. Most of the businesses inside are just space fillers that help pay the mall bills, but don't attract much customers. Betting none of the businesses are an original mall business. The spot that now holds a Hy-vee was probably a JCPenny + they walled off the anchor space along with walling off both sides of the hallway that probably used to hold businesses. Only approx. 15 spaces filled with a few being used as offices. The mall back then probably had as many as 30 business spaces before combining adjoining spaces & walling off sections. Got this huge open area in the center that I suspect was a fountain area...