With the people mover system losing approximately $1 million between 1994–95 due to increasing operating costs and dwindling ridership from the closure of the Shops of Harbour Island, Beneficial Corporation sought to sell the system to HART (Hillsborough Area Regional Transport) for only $1. However, since the system was losing substantial amounts of money, HART declined to purchase it from Beneficial.

In mid-1986, Beneficial fired Lincoln Properties as manager of the Marketplace, which was then 27% empty. After seven years of dwindling business, Beneficial announced in 1995 that the shops would be converted to office space. It was renamed Knights Point , in honor of Tampa native son Charles Lafayette Knight, II.

" You showed up at a deserted station and had to convert your quarters to tokens to legitimately cross an unmonitored turnstile that was far easier to just climb over. Then you would be hurtled by this rickety rubber-wheeled box over a channel, hoping to you didn't hit the other empty car hurtling the other way (they passed on a siding in the middle.) Then finally, your reward was a stroll around a vast, dark. empty shopping mall, until you got bored enough to return to your car on the same people mover. Despite the 'air conditioner,' the inside of that thing was a sauna in the summer. "