Great video, Brandon! This mall had to compete with Northgate Mall, Tri-County Mall, Kenwood Towne Center, Eastgate Mall and Florence Mall and never could pull in a strong enough customer base to do so. I ended up working in this mall after it rebranded as Cincinnati Mills Mall. I was the Store Manager of the GameStop in 2006 in space C-227 (4 spaces down from Bigg's).
I Love this video and the work you do with Instagram/youtube Dead Malls. Real estate has made me a wealthy young man (only in america can you profit so easily from collapse) and the financial collapse of 2008 has so many malls as its victims,let me add some points! 1. People walking in a nice empty mall, always wearing walking shoes, why go to a park when you have a empty air conditioned space! Kudos to them! 2.You can easily and (a very fun discussion) correlate the huge blow up in real estate development of malls, to the 90s and early 2000 (Banker caused) Booms of investment capital. You see it everywhere and you Brandon might know more as you look into each mall owner. When Bankers were allowed to package up and sell a loan within seconds of writing it, They did not bother to say, A 1.6 million square foot high class mall in a Ohio subburb with almost no chance of sustained success? sure! I absolutely LOVE to see these collossal buildings and complete "In the Now" business decisions that show how in the moment business practices end up in some collosall failures. The trends of our generation, our spending habits, the economical factors making entertainment value of staying home 100x more valuable then a experience centered aroudn shopping. Our generation pays top dollar for experiences (shows, events, etc etc) not to walk around a place asking us to spend on marked up overpriced items ~ The age of price competition online has ended a stroll thru a marked up shopping mall because we do not want to "Pay" for the experience of staring at some decent architecture and watching everyone around with bags of stuff. LOVE YOUR DEAD MALLS CHANNEL! Makes me think so much!
My husband and I explored this mall around the time the movie "It Follows" came out. Needless to say, I was terrified!!!!!!! I think it would be great for Halloween to play the theme song from that movie ;0) Great job on the video. It was interesting and informative. I am old enough to remember this mall as a child. I used to ride the carousel. My mom took my siblings and I to Bigg's to get discounted book bags during back-to-school shopping. In 5th grade, my BFF & I would save our money and get dropped off here. Claire's Accessories was a hit store. It's fascinating to watch this and imagine everyone in their 90's garb roaming around...aimlessly consuming.
Nice job! If you ever get up to Chicago, check out Charlestowne Mall(erm now The Quad, but everyone still says Charlestowne, and signage still says Charlestowne there) west of the city, in Saint Charles, IL. The company who developed that mall also built a carbon copy mall called Irondequoit Mall(later Medley Center), in the Rochester, NY area. Irondequoit is dead, unlike Charlestowne though. It's down to only having Von Maur, Carson's, and an 18 screen movie theater. The Von Maur here used to be JCPenney, so Charlestowne's owner got super lucky in attracting very upscale department store Von Maur here! In summer 2016, it was one of only something like 15-20 stores that Kohl's closed down, for having low sales. There also used to be a Sears there, but it closed around 2009-11 give or take. From what I've seen in newer videos, the east wing of that mall(leading to Carson's, and the former Kohl's) was walled off, since allegedly they were going to redevelop this mall into a mixed use development. With a smaller mall portion, interestingly enough.
This looks like a Nickelodeon styled mall because all of it is very colorful. I don’t know what the owner was trying to do to this mall when it opened. But he clearly tried to picture it off of something to make it this colorful. I am surprised it is still opened, I want to visits it super badly. Great Video 😃
It really is sad such a pretty mall has been treated this way, It really is amazing! I'm actually building this mall in minecraft and I have to say its the coolest mall I have ever seen, Not far from where I live they just spent 300M renovating the mall and its vary nice but in comparison it's boring. I hope some day I can visit it IrL that is if it doesn't close first... Some day maybe, some day...
Do Tri County Mall next? Many people that I Heard that this Mall have teen restricted policy, lack of lower level , fewer food court, water fountain since the mall started open and removed in favor of the playground whoa, Dillard's vacant since 2015, Macy's open , and surviving Sears open and facing competition such as Kenwood and Liberty Center. I haven't been Tri County since 2007 when the mall was their prime and i realize I saw recently pic and reviews and this mall needs to rebuild or else i am worry that the mall will hurt the worse if Sears decided to close Tri County location without a replace with new store.
It's closed on every Monday. According to Arcade Legacy owner there is no plan the mall closed for good . It will be weird Tri County Mall will closed first before Forest Fair in the future if Sears decided to closed Tri County location. I hope not.
It's weird having a child going around an 80s dead mall when he wasn't born until decades later ! He's had know life experience and didn't grow up in that generation so this subject of dead Malls has no relevance to this kid and I have no connection with this kid and leaves this video cold ! Mark UK
Mark Johnston just because he is young makes the content he provided irrelevant?? I think the fact that someone this young would have the interest and motivation to provide the information and history of a mall like this is a positive thing. I can't imagine many teens capturing video and editing content to show a slice of changing American culture and economics.
actually most malls where still doing pretty well in the 2000s, it wasn't until the early 2010s that things started going bust. So i'm not sure what your talking about because most kids from the early 2000s would have been old enough to understand that malls were not always this way because they would have seen thriving malls as children. In this case the mall was renovated in 2004 so even though it was originally build in the late 80's it has more of a 2000s look there for suggesting that this kid wouldn't understand the 80's architecture is incorrect because it's more 2000s architecture. further more I don't see what's wrong with enjoying something retro, there are far worse things kids do these days.
Always loved how this mall looks like a '90s Nickeledeon game show set :D
Ya it’s colorful
Very entertaining video. Hope you do more. Loved the architecture. Good footage.
Great video, Brandon! This mall had to compete with Northgate Mall, Tri-County Mall, Kenwood Towne Center, Eastgate Mall and Florence Mall and never could pull in a strong enough customer base to do so.
I ended up working in this mall after it rebranded as Cincinnati Mills Mall. I was the Store Manager of the GameStop in 2006 in space C-227 (4 spaces down from Bigg's).
Mike Wilson Thank you! Must've been awesome working there, and it definitely had a lot of competition
Nice tour and information Brandon. Your enthusiasm makes it even more interesting. Good job man.
WoodshavenPatriot thanks
I Love this video and the work you do with Instagram/youtube Dead Malls. Real estate has made me a wealthy young man (only in america can you profit so easily from collapse) and the financial collapse of 2008 has so many malls as its victims,let me add some points!
1. People walking in a nice empty mall, always wearing walking shoes, why go to a park when you have a empty air conditioned space! Kudos to them!
2.You can easily and (a very fun discussion) correlate the huge blow up in real estate development of malls, to the 90s and early 2000 (Banker caused) Booms of investment capital. You see it everywhere and you Brandon might know more as you look into each mall owner. When Bankers were allowed to package up and sell a loan within seconds of writing it, They did not bother to say, A 1.6 million square foot high class mall in a Ohio subburb with almost no chance of sustained success? sure!
I absolutely LOVE to see these collossal buildings and complete "In the Now" business decisions that show how in the moment business practices end up in some collosall failures.
The trends of our generation, our spending habits, the economical factors making entertainment value of staying home 100x more valuable then a experience centered aroudn shopping.
Our generation pays top dollar for experiences (shows, events, etc etc) not to walk around a place asking us to spend on marked up overpriced items ~ The age of price competition online has ended a stroll thru a marked up shopping mall because we do not want to "Pay" for the experience of staring at some decent architecture and watching everyone around with bags of stuff.
LOVE YOUR DEAD MALLS CHANNEL! Makes me think so much!
My husband and I explored this mall around the time the movie "It Follows" came out. Needless to say, I was terrified!!!!!!! I think it would be great for Halloween to play the theme song from that movie ;0) Great job on the video. It was interesting and informative. I am old enough to remember this mall as a child. I used to ride the carousel. My mom took my siblings and I to Bigg's to get discounted book bags during back-to-school shopping. In 5th grade, my BFF & I would save our money and get dropped off here. Claire's Accessories was a hit store. It's fascinating to watch this and imagine everyone in their 90's garb roaming around...aimlessly consuming.
Nice job! If you ever get up to Chicago, check out Charlestowne Mall(erm now The Quad, but everyone still says Charlestowne, and signage still says Charlestowne there) west of the city, in Saint Charles, IL. The company who developed that mall also built a carbon copy mall called Irondequoit Mall(later Medley Center), in the Rochester, NY area. Irondequoit is dead, unlike Charlestowne though. It's down to only having Von Maur, Carson's, and an 18 screen movie theater. The Von Maur here used to be JCPenney, so Charlestowne's owner got super lucky in attracting very upscale department store Von Maur here! In summer 2016, it was one of only something like 15-20 stores that Kohl's closed down, for having low sales. There also used to be a Sears there, but it closed around 2009-11 give or take.
From what I've seen in newer videos, the east wing of that mall(leading to Carson's, and the former Kohl's) was walled off, since allegedly they were going to redevelop this mall into a mixed use development. With a smaller mall portion, interestingly enough.
What a beautiful mall it's sickening what a waste it is with no stores and all that money making it nice wasted.. Great video!!
This looks like a Nickelodeon styled mall because all of it is very colorful. I don’t know what the owner was trying to do to this mall when it opened. But he clearly tried to picture it off of something to make it this colorful. I am surprised it is still opened, I want to visits it super badly. Great Video 😃
It really is sad such a pretty mall has been treated this way, It really is amazing! I'm actually building this mall in minecraft and I have to say its the coolest mall I have ever seen, Not far from where I live they just spent 300M renovating the mall and its vary nice but in comparison it's boring. I hope some day I can visit it IrL that is if it doesn't close first... Some day maybe, some day...
Do Tri County Mall next?
Many people that I Heard that this Mall have teen restricted policy, lack of lower level , fewer food court, water fountain since the mall started open and removed in favor of the playground whoa, Dillard's vacant since 2015, Macy's open , and surviving Sears open and facing competition such as Kenwood and Liberty Center.
I haven't been Tri County since 2007 when the mall was their prime and i realize I saw recently pic and reviews and this mall needs to rebuild or else i am worry that the mall will hurt the worse if Sears decided to close Tri County location without a replace with new store.
I will look into it, thanks.
Someday somebody will buy the mall that be awesome if a target opened up at that mall that would bring the mall back to life
I agree, It would be great if they opened a location there!!
the deadness is insane. there can be none more dead, it's insane........
These songs are my JAM
Anyone know if there is video of when the mall was doing well? Just curious.
Lee Langer ruclips.net/video/nGv370oQ4mw/видео.html this is the day they reopened after the renovation in the early 2000s
I can tell you in the 90s this was THE place to be, it used to be packed all the time!
I hear the arcade finally shut down awhile back, also it can't be called abandoned because it is clearly still open
H.H. foxaddict no, it was open when I was there.
It's closed on every Monday.
According to Arcade Legacy owner there is no plan the mall closed for good .
It will be weird Tri County Mall will closed first before Forest Fair in the future if Sears decided to closed Tri County location. I hope not.
I asked them that and they gave me the same answer to it.
Please tell me you gave the arcade owner some business.
I'd be a regular there lol
I am a regular there believe it or not, it's awesome in there dude. I beat the Mortal Kombat 3 arcade in there for the first time
If I can get photos to u can we do a collab of a few malls
It's weird having a child going around an 80s dead mall when he wasn't born until decades later ! He's had know life experience and didn't grow up in that generation so this subject of dead Malls has no relevance to this kid and I have no connection with this kid and leaves this video cold ! Mark UK
Mark Johnston just because he is young makes the content he provided irrelevant?? I think the fact that someone this young would have the interest and motivation to provide the information and history of a mall like this is a positive thing. I can't imagine many teens capturing video and editing content to show a slice of changing American culture and economics.
actually most malls where still doing pretty well in the 2000s, it wasn't until the early 2010s that things started going bust. So i'm not sure what your talking about because most kids from the early 2000s would have been old enough to understand that malls were not always this way because they would have seen thriving malls as children. In this case the mall was renovated in 2004 so even though it was originally build in the late 80's it has more of a 2000s look there for suggesting that this kid wouldn't understand the 80's architecture is incorrect because it's more 2000s architecture. further more I don't see what's wrong with enjoying something retro, there are far worse things kids do these days.
Zionism is to blame.