No, Regency Square is NOT the Best Shopping Mall in Richmond, Virginia

When I first went to Richmond, Virginia 9 years ago, my daughter and I called a taxi and asked him to take us to the absolute best shopping mall in Richmond. We were in the mood to shop and we didn't care where that mall happened to be. He took us to Regency Square. Several folks we inquired to on the same thing came up with the same answer. Bah! This is nowhere close to Richmond's best mall. It's OK, but it ain't all that.

Regency is on the corner of Parham and Quioccosin. A fairly uppity part of town. As such, I think Richmonders have long made the connection that since it was in the uppity part of town, it must be the best mall. Ha I say! Oh, it has some higher end merchants, but that isn't always what you want.

This is a two-level mall, and appears bigger from the outside than it actually is. The parking can be a bit confusing as it was put in rather slip-shod. It's really hard to tell where you are in the mall scheme of things, so I park at the Food Court entrance, which is buried down below and hard to find if you aren't familiar with the layout.

Regency is a very clean shopping mall though. The management does take very good care of it. You won't find any graffiti here or trash on the floor. Even the bathrooms are kept up pretty well.

As far as shopping, there really aren't that many stores inside here. The two anchor stores are JC Penney and Sears. Nothing special there. I will point out that the prices are higher at these two stores than they are at their other malls in town. How rank is that? Boo Hiss. You really expect places like Penney's to have uniform prices at every location. I was kinda teed off to find one night that a pair of shoes I wanted were a full 10 bucks higher at Regency's location than at Chesterfield Towne Centre. That's just crap. Luckily, the sales lady did us right by that since we had come there due to Chesterfield not having the correct size.

Crabtree & Evelyns is the only reason I go to Regency Square when I'm in Richmond.

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