Sure its ok to highjack your own thread! You must be talking about the Bannister mall. I haven't been down around Peculiar for years, must be really something if you won't go unarmed! Remember The Paseo Boulevard?
I drove from KCI down The Paseo about two years ago. It looks like a completely different planet from when I was a kid.
I still didn't go as slow as the speed limit but wow, what a difference.