Victoria’s Secret, Lakes Mall and CBL Properties: More updating

By: Chris Johnson

Personal note:

Yesterday I gave an update on Victoria’s Secret, General Growth Properties and the Rivertown Crossings Mall (Grandville, MI).

Today, I am providing another update on Victoria’s Secret, CBL Properties & Associates – owner of 84 properties (out of Chattanooga, TN) and Lakes Mall, (Muskegon, MI).

Regarding CBL Associates & Properties, upon making multiple requests that Victoria’s Secret take down particularly pornographic black and white displays from their windows and getting no response, we mailed packets to each store in the mall urging them to express concern to the mall management.

We included in the packets pictures of the displays and let the individual store managers know that if Victoria’s Secret and the mall did not take down those pictures we were going to call for a boycott the day after Thanksgiving – the kickoff of the largest shopping season of the year. In the letter, we made it clear that we would be calling for a boycott of not just Victoria’s Secret but the entire mall.

Within a couple of days, we received a letter from a law office representing the mall, that in the future we were not to send letters to the mall but only to Victoria’s Secret itself and/or to their law offices.

Within a couple of months, the black and white displays were removed.

That’s a good thing, but the images currently displayed are not appropriate for a family shopping center.

Disclaimer:

I provide a link below. These are posted (below) to give evidence of how Victoria’s Secret and Lakes Mall – CBL Associates & Properties headquartered in Chattanooga, TN are displaying lingerie in a public shopping mall.
https://americandecency.org/main.php?f=updates_new/2008/November/11.18a.08

I’m also providing contact information for you to urge the Lakes Mall Manager and the owner of the mall to tone down their displays.

Contact information:

CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.
Charles Lebovitz – Chairman and CEO
2030 Hamilton Place Blvd., Ste. 500
Chattanooga, TN 37421-6000
Phone: 423-855-0001
Fax: 423-490-8390
Toll Free: 800-333-7310
Email: info@cblproperties.com

Lakes Mall
Mr. Michael Hage, Lakes Mall Manager
5600 Harvey St
Muskegon, MI 49444
(231) 798-7154
michael_hagen@cblproperties.com

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It’s an extension of a match challenge that we were not able to meet earlier in the year.

Quoting: “I will match all new (from anyone who has not given to ADA in 2007 or 2008) gifts received from June 1- August 31 up to a total of $15,000. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for all you do to uphold purity and holiness.”

This match challenge had already run for three months. Here are the results through that time frame. There were 88 gifts totaling $5,911.00.

So our anonymous donor graciously sent us a check for $6,000 and proceeded to yet challenge us again. Stating: “We will give you $6,000 now and we would like to extend the offer for an additional $10,000 for new money collected by 12/31/08. Keep up the fight…”

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American Decency Association
Bill Johnson, President
P.O. Box 202
Fremont, MI 49412
ph: 231-924-4050
https://americandecency.org

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