Retail sales go up in the surrounding areas.
Apparently this side of the master maller's story precedes Pyramid wherever it goes. And the next place Pyramid is going is Holyoke, in June. Holyoke Mayor Ernest Proulx thinks the new Pyramid Mall can only help his downtown business community. Mayor Ted Dimauro of Springfield believes the new mall will have minimum impact on his city. On the eve of Hampshire Mall's grand opening in Hadley last November, other Valley leaders said the same thing.