AI-assisted summary
Hutchinson Mall area roads and parking lots are in disrepair, frustrating shoppers.
Multiple owners control different sections, complicating repair efforts.
Temporary pothole fixes are inadequate and a more permanent solution is needed.
It's easy and largely justified to get frustrated and upset trying to navigate the bomb-crater potholes often found on the Hutchinson Mall ring-road, Walmart access road and parking.
Then there's the ever treacherous 17th Street entrance road that a Wichita developer, not the mall, Walmart or the city is responsible for, which may have been sold to another developer and we can only hope he takes repairs more seriously. That's the road leading to Chili's and other popular restaurants.
Having three separate owners with jurisdiction o