Pineshadow Outdoor Mall

"I'm not there yet!"
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## General Information

### Visitors

Evie
Opal
Anderson
Mya
Nita
Patrick
Amira
Braxton
Mikayla
Daniela
Benji
Winter
Edwin
Lorelei

## Media Information

### Appears

*The Adventures of Evie and Mya*
*Winter's Tales*

The **Pineshadow Outdoor Mall** is an upscale outdoor mall located in Pineshadow that appears in *The Adventures of Evie and Mya* and its sister series.

## Appearance

The Pineshadow Outdoor Mall is an outdoor mall and is a massive complex. Buildings are constructed of varying colors of brick, outside them gaslamps, hanging lights, and many trees planted in rock holders, arching over the streets to create awnings. In the middle of the mall is a leafy terrace with wooden awnings and a pure white marble fountain.

The mall is split into sections, with only two being named: Eatery Enclave and and Luxury Lane.

## History

### Season 1

#### *Dancing in the Dark*

Evie and Mya's parents discuss the developments at the mall, including the arrival of Forever 21 and how the construction of the Riverfront Complex might affect it.

#### *There's Something About Mya*

Mya remembers first meeting Benji at the mall.

### Season 3

#### *Rising Tensions*

Winter notes that her parents are out shopping at the mall.

### *Winter's Tales*

#### *Choosing Paths*

Winter visits the mall for the very first time, immediatelly falling in love with her surroundings as well as every store and eatery, making worthwhile memories when there and mentioning all the places she and her family would visit. She declares it a major focal point in her life, even hinting at its role in the next chapter of her life.

#### *Transformations*

Winter strays to Hot Topic on mall trips, but she is still denied access into the store by her father, who doesn't want any goth influence rubbing off on her, as he claims it is a violation of the Torah and its commandments. She later informs her mother of this incident. When chokers become popular, Winter and her family travel to the mall, and Winter pleads for her father to buy her one choker. However, he refuses, fighting with her and then Lorelei, much to Winter's embarrassment. Edwin's behavior soon worsens, and on mall trips, Winter is not allowed to comment on anything on display without receiving pushback. Later, Winter and her family eat dinner at Corner Bakery and then head to Barnes & Noble, where Winter discovers Varien music and *The Ancient & Arcane* for the first time. When Winter notes that she needs a haircut, she mentions that a salon is near the mall.

#### *Dawn Will Bring Us Death*

Winter and her mother take many trips to the mall, peering into many stores and playing around center court. One time, as she is alone with Lorelei, Winter is persuaded into going to Hot Topic, which she loves, and is elated when her mother purchases her a two-hundred dollar necklace. In the summer, they get ice cream at Häagen-Dazs, discussing happenings at the mall and making small talk. Later, after Lorelei's death, Winter and her father spend time together at the mall, watching movies and playing with the popcorn at the theater as well as play tag around the fountain. Eventually, on another trip, Edwin voluntarily asks Winter if she wants to go into Hot Topic, breaking away from his prior refusals to let her in. Soon, they get Starbucks and sit by the fountain.

#### *Soulmates*

Winter and Daniela frequent the mall on their adventures, with Daniela hoping Forever 21 will come someday. The place they visit the most is Häagen-Dazs, and they often get numerous flavors of ice cream and popsicles when there.

#### *Betrayal of Blood*

Winter and Daniela hang out at the mall, sitting by the fountain with sweet treats in hand.

### *Two-Sided*

#### *I Kick It*

Daniela confronts Evie and Mya's parents, and they are not fooled by her innocent pleas. They take her to the mall and make her sing carols to the elderly as a punishment for ruining everyone's Christmas.

### Specials

#### *Daniela Wrecks Christmas*

Mya is about to propose going to the mall for Christmas to Evie, but she gets cut off by Daniela. Later, Anderson remembers the time he took Evie to the mall around Christmas, where she almost tumbled into the fountain. Later, as part of her punishment for trying to ruin the Lys' Christmas, Daniela is forced to sing carols at the mall, and Evie, Mya, and Amira watch her from the fountain. By the end of the story, Mya wishes to go back to the mall for Christmas, and Winter believes she's trying to bait her into going there.

## Known Tenants

### Big-Box

* AMC Theatres (AMC Pineshadow 6 Dine-In)
* Barnes & Noble

### Retailers

* Abercrombie & Fitch
* Allen Edmonds
* American Eagle Outfitters
* Brookstone
* Chico's
* Crabtree & Evelyn
* Earthbound Trading Company
* Forever 21
* Francesca's
* Gymboree
* Hollister
* Hot Topic
* Journeys
* Lids
* Pandora
* Payless ShoeSource
* PotteryBarn
	+ PotteryBarn Kids
* Skechers
* Talbots
* The Children's Place
* Vineyard Vines
* Williams Sonoma
* Yankee Candle

### Eateries

* BJ's
* Blue Goose Cantina
* Buffalo Wild Wings
* Corner Bakery
* Häagen-Dazs
* Nestlé Toll House
* Starbucks

## Visitors

* Evie
* Opal
* Anderson
* Mya
* Nita
* Patrick
* Amira
* Braxton
* Mikayla
* Daniela
* Benji
* Winter
* Edwin
* Lorelei

## Trivia

* The mall is based off The Shops at Highland Village, Southlake Town Square, and Firewheel Town Center, three outdoor malls in Highland Village, Southlake, and Garland, Texas, respectively.
	+ The mall's architecture is inspired by Taubman malls and has the same upscale sheen as them. The notable Taubman property that inspired the mall was Stony Point Fashion Park in Richmond, Virginia.
* Av jokes that the mall is not owned by Simon Property Group, one of the biggest mall owners in the world.
	+ She personally imagines the mall being owned by Brookfield Properties, the company that also owns her childhood mall.
* The full theater name is AMC Pineshadow 6 Dine-In. The "6" in the name is a reference to Av first getting the idea for *Evie and Mya* back in sixth grade.
* The Barnes & Noble location written in the series is inspired by (and based off of) a former real location in Highland Village, TX, which was Av's childhood Barnes & Noble that she visited for years. It closed in June 2023 to be replaced with a Cheesecake Factory. While it maintains a similar layout to the Highland Village location, the Pineshadow Barnes & Noble has two stories, a Sale Annex, and a bigger layout.
* As the series takes place in the early 2010s (or, in the case of *Winter's Tales*, the 2000s), some retailers depicted at the mall fell victim to the retail apocalypse and went defunct:
	+ Brookstone went bankrupt in 2018 and closed all of its stores, with the single exception being its stores in airports.
	+ Both Gymboree and Payless went out of business in 2019, though Gymboree was eventually revived as a online store and a store-within-a-store concept by The Children's Place.
* The mall used to have splash pads, but they were uninstalled at some point in *Soulmates* due to a child contracting bacterial poisoning from them.
* Forever 21 did not come to the mall initially because the company did not get proper leasing permits.