The real solution to the mess that St. Mary's has become is that too many new shopping centers open, the stores move to the new ones and junk stores move in to old. Don't let new Shopping Centers be built, foorce owners of existing SC to keep them up so that they won't go and become havens of junk. Look at St. Mary's Square, now a junk store where Mamtoth Mart was, Grand Union had so many stores before Food Lion which seems to stay. McKay's wanted to build there, could not get permission from owners, so built a new one down the street.
Instead of a Kohls standalone they should have moved into rebuilt old centers like Millison Plazza and St. Mary's Square.