CloverleafMall

Cloverleaf Mall is a former shopping mall in the SouthHarmony neighorhood of QueenCity, Centralia. The mall opened in 1966 and remained in operation for roughly three decades. After years of declining patronage in the late 1990s, Cloverleaf Mall was closed to the public on December 31, 2000. The structure has stood abandoned ever since.

Location

Cloverleaf Mall is located near the interchange of BubblegumBeltway (C-200) and the C-2/C-3 concurrency. The Cloverleaf Mall property is bounded by Salem Road to the north, Caldwell Road to the east, Mendenhall Road to the south, and Cloverleaf Square West to the west.

Known businesses

Cloverleaf Mall's floor plan accommodates three anchor stores, 17 smaller shops, and a food court.

Anchor Stores

• B.L. Zebub & Co. (south anchor, 2 stories) – closed 1997

• Chalmers (west anchor, 3 stories) – closed 1999

• Caroline's (north anchor, 3 stories) – closed 1990

Nearby businesses

• XS-Mart (across Caldwell Road) – operating

• Melody's Music (across Caldwell Road) – closed 1996

Princess Alice's "urban exploration"

Like any prominent abandoned building, the mysterious nature of the Cloverleaf Mall has captured the curiosity of the local schoolchildren, including rumors that the site is haunted.

The ever-inquisitive PrincessAlice took it upon herself to "investigate" the site. Unlike the many trespassers before her who took great care to hide their illicit activity, Princess Alice parked her extremely distinctive car in a prominent place outside the mall's main entrance and simply "blasted" a hole in the boarded-up doorway with her magic to enter the mall.

Ross, the underpaid community college student assigned to patrol the mall grounds as a security guard, heard the blast (because obviously he did, it was very loud) and contacted the Queen City Metropolitan Police. When Ross mentioned the pink Cadillac convertible parked outside the breached entrance, everyone at the police station immediately knew who was responsible. A brief argument ensued: Some officers insisted the call be considered low-priority: "It's just the Princess playing around again." Other officers countered that the call should be considered an emergency, positing that the Princess, left unsupervised, is herself a great threat to public safety. The argument continued until someone pointed out that they were spending more time arguing than it would take to just drive to the mall.

Eventually, Constable Jennifer Payne arrived at Cloverleaf Mall and confronted Princess Alice. Constable Payne politely asked the Princess to come with her, but the Princess refused. The details of what happened within the mall were never made public, though a bystander captured video of several police officers literally dragging Princess Alice out of the building kicking and screaming. Somehow she felt no shame or embarrassment about this. I don't really understand her sometimes. Also, the video went viral on TikTok.

When Princess Alice was returned to the PalaceOfSerenity, her handlers asked why she did not simply ask to organize a visit to the site--after all, as the ruler of Centralia, she would almost certainly have been able to easily obtain permission from the property owner. Princess Alice simply responded that she didn't want any adults to be involved because "grown-ups always ruin the fun."

Princess Alice subsequently lost her Nintendo DS privileges for two weeks.

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