MASON CITY – It was confirmed on Friday that vandals destroyed a brick wall near Southbridge Mall this week.
According to Mason City Operations and Maintenance Director Bill Stangler, a brick wall directly south of the pedestrian bridge south of the mall was pulled down by vandals earlier this week. Stangler had city staff erect an orange mesh fence temporarily in its place until a new wall can be built.
“It was vandals,” Stangler said Friday, “probably Monday or Tuesday.”
He was not sure of the cost to replace the wall, but said the city’s insurance policy will not likely cover the cost. “It’s not enough,” of a project to turn in for insurance, he said.
The wall was in very poor shape prior to the vandalism. The top row of bricks was pulled of and some of them were on the ground.
The mall should be turned into an outlet mall. People go to Medford to shop, maybe having an outlet mall here would entice people to shop here.
There’s a wall down there? I guess you’d have to actually shop at Southbridge or go downtown to realize that. Haven’t gone into Southbridege in months since there’s nothing worth going in for.
Funny how falling bricks were used as an excuse to demolish the buildings that once stood where Southbridge Mall is now. Can you say deja vu?
Why did the city staff have to fix it, why didn’t the Mall hire someone?
@Marshal Dillon-The mall is broke. When you have zero tenants you have zero income. I can’t believe they stay open. If it wasn’t for Yonkers and Penny’s they would have closed long ago.
who owns the mall anyway?
I have an idea that would work. make all the bars in town move into the mall. open up strip clubs and only allow them on the mall. dirty book stores, pure pleasure, and smoke shops as well, only in the mall. people from chicago who just want to hang out could rent a space. food courts could be allowed too. all under one roof. close to down town for the mayor and his friends to check it out. Police would have no excuses as it would easier to police if all held under one roof. Hell, I might even stop in for a look. What ya think? Remember everyone wants to clean up the north side. heres my idea. got anything better?
@50 miles-some investment company from out of state bought it at auction for only 8 million dollars. I believe that was the number. They will probably shut it down and use it for a tax write off. They sure aren’t putting any money in it. As far as bars, there are only 3 left in the North End and one of those is LD’s which is mostly a resturant. Most of the bars are in what I consider the downtown area and the bar/resturants are mostly on the west side.
To expect our law enforcement idiots to solve this (police and sheriff) is like buying a lottery ticket and then leaving it on the counter of the place you bought it. No chance of winning, no chance of being solved.
thwe wall was in poor shape i remeber seening it going on walks.The wall was cracked and could not been leaned up against anymore.
It looks like whoever did it, did a service to the community. It you can push it over by hand, it was a danger and should have been addressed earlier. I applaud the Vandals! The Vandals mean’t no harm.
The Barbarians from the East have struck again. Romes walls are falling and the emperor is impotent.
not familiar with the wall, but if it was that bad of shape, was it a safety hazard? not to say the vandals were innocent.
I think Peter should write an op-ed on this. Somehow/someway this is Bookmeyer’s fault.
Hope they find those vandals – You know Monday and Tuesday = Get sergeant Friday on the case !