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Natick Mall: A Full Walkthrough of New England's Largest Mall! It's Huge! Natick, Massachusetts
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2023
- Join me as I take a look at the Natick Mall in Natick, Massachusetts. This is currently New England's largest mall. Is it a dead mall? No, I don't think so. Not yet, anyway.
This video was filmed in January 2023 on a Sunday around 2:00pm.
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I live in Massachusetts and go to this mall very frequently. They actually have escalators specifically designed for shopping carts. It’s actually convenient having a grocery store in a mall so we can get our shopping trip over with while we are at the mall. I forget if you said this or not but they have 5 parking garages which is convenient as supposed to some other malls where there’s just one parking lot.
Oh. OK. I've never seen an escalator designed for a shopping cart. I'll have to check it out sometime. I was impressed with the parking garages too. They were free and plentiful, unlike many other malls.
That escalator for shopping carts is just in the Wegmans super market within the mall, which is closing soon, unfortunately.
@@Pheer777 Albany NY has the largest Walmart, 2 floors, has those cart escalators.
@ms.herrera681 Same! Wegmans was amazing!
Anne and Hope had carriage carrier back in the 70s
That two story Wegman's is already closed.
Good to know at least some malls are still thriving.
I remember when the mall used to be just one floor and we'd either go here or to the old shoppers world.
Wish I could find old video of the mall before it's first remodeling.
I think that the malls that are thriving are in upscale neighborhoods,generally........My opinion of course.....
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I remember the old natick mall too! Remember that circular fountain? I thought that as pretty cool ;)
Wow this brings back memories. Used to go here as a kid in the 90s. My siblings and I would go to Aladdin's Castle (arcade) to play Mortal Kombat 3. It was located in the corner of the food court. Good ol' days...
I love this mall. It’s probably my favorite
Macy’s was where Wegmans was, and JCP before that. When Macy’s bought Filene’s they eventually converted all the Filene’s into Macy’s, so Macy’s moved into their current location, which was Filene’s. I worked at Filene’s when the old mall was torn down and the new one was built. I helped open the Design’s For Levi’s store(long gone), where I believe Pottery Barn For Kids is now? In that general area. Haven’t been to that mall in years so it was interesting to see all the stores that are gone from when I worked there.
There are signs of trouble near the closed anchors with the reduced foot traffic but the mall still looks somewhat healthy.
I agree. Overall, it seems to be doing fine. But, as they say, it only takes one bad apple to spoil the lot.
I'm actually surprised you didn't bring up the condos earlier. They are a big reason for the 2007 renovation, and why there are so many upscale stores. And why there is a grocery store. And a very fancy underground parking lot. There's actually access from the interior of the mall to the condos on the second level.
Natick Mall had a beautiful glass elevator before the new wing was added, right at the junction where the new wing now joins the main path.
I live down the street from this mall. The empty store you asked about was a burger restaurant that closed during COVID. Shame that the Wegmans closed too :(.
The new section of the mall was the infamous hostess bakery featured on family guy. There was an Aladdin’s castle arcade in the food court
Why was the bakery "infamous"?? I used to go the Hostess bakery in Natick as a kid and young adult. It was great. The aroma just being in the vicinity of it was fantastic.
I used to love going there as a teen and going to the movies there. It was a lot different back then. There was a Jordan Marsh that was always nice for Christmas. There were cool stores to buy records, posters and a crystal shop. I go there now too.
Jordan Marsh & the movie theater were at the original Shoppers World in Framingham.
I’m an adult American Girl doll collector along with my mom (I got her into collecting) and we miss the American Girl Boutique and Bistro that used to be here. It closed down in 2019.
So glad Natick Mall is still busy, I’ve been going there since I was a young kid and still do!
Thanks for the video. I will have to visit on my next trip to Boston.
I used to live in PA and there is a Tesla store in the King of Prussia mall and a Wegman’s in the Montgomery mall.
Crazy nice mall!
Yeah, the new section is probably one of the nicest malls I have seen, other than the SoNo Collection.
Unfortunately, the new section of the mall opened right as the Great Recession hit. Those empty store fronts had high-end, designer stores in them such as Michael Kors, Betsey Johnson, Dior, etc. Most of these stores let their leases run out and there are still several vacant store fronts. There were some great restaurants and even an American Girl store--all gone now. I don't know if it will ever reach it's full potential as a hig-end mall.
Also, there is very little parking. Sears is gone, Filene's closed and Macy took over that space. Wegman's moved into the old Macy's spot. Wegman's had a nice Mexican restaurant, Blue Agave, which closed. Maybe now that the housing prices in and around Natick have been soaring, it will bring in the money necessary to revitalize the mall.
Betsey Johnson is so NOT a high end label! & there’s never been an actual Betsy Johnson store front location anywhere in Massachusetts.
@@HarrisonHanson-hy7or She had a storefront near Nordstrom's in the Natick Collection. Google it.
Great video! I'm always amazed that many of the malls you've covered have a parking deck attached. Out here in Ohio we don't see parking decks attached to malls all that often. Our malls are usually surrounded by acres of parking lots. Thanks for the video!
Interesting. I'm guessing there are more parking garages in New England because generally the malls are in more urban locations, so there is less room for expansive parking lots. That's not always the cause of course, but it often is.
I remember the Macy’s was originally in the Jordon Marsh after they closed. Then after the federated merger, Filene’s became Macy’s! Naturally, the old location was closed and became JCPenney after.
I think the mall still is pretty important as it’s in a great location and it’s one of the better Boston area malls. I think that the empty Neiman Marcus building is being eyed for a research and lab facility. The lower level of the former Sears is still vacant but that is probably going to hopefully change soon. Dave and Buster’s occupies the upper level! Lord and Taylor was shoppers find but I don’t think that’s permanent…
Thanks for the info and thanks for watching!
I look at the food court as an indicator of whether a mall is healthy or not.
The original Natick Mall was only one level. Filene's was an anchor store & had 2 levels (I worked there in highschool). When the original mall was demolished in '94 & new mall built Macy's became the anchor store in its place. Jordan Marsh was only at Shoppers World in Framingham.
Back in the 70s Anne and Hope had a cart carrier. It was so cool to watch. I work in Sherborn Ma , never been to the Mall. I’m going to have to check it out.
I used to work at certain stores in the Natick Mall 22 years ago. I worked at Suncoast, The Warner Brothers Store and Auntie Anne's. I kept going as a consumer until 2012. When FYE left, there was nothing for me, but I remember the condos being built and the price was $1,000,000 . I occassionally went to Newbury Comics to buy a Blu Ray, but their selection was lousy and I doubt that they carry Blu Rays anymore.
This is one mall that I never visited. Good to see it here. ty
This has always been my go-to childhood mall. It's a nice mall, but I'm finding it increasingly pointless to go to malls in general, despite my nostalgia for them. I only really have free time on the weekends, which are (obviously) the days this mall is the most busy and also the days where you're going to have to dodge 13 year olds with Broccoli hair at every corner, that will try to bully you as you walk by for the sake of their TikTok.
Neiman Marcus never was _that_ busy at the Natick Mall. It had some people, of course, and the spaces around were perhaps a little less dead, but it was not so busy. At least, that was how I remember it. Nobody should have been surprised that this Neiman Marcus closed.
The Natick Mall , long time ago had a family and community feeling, not any longer. I live five minutes from it, and I stay away from it. I drive to New Hampshire to shop when needed. 🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼✝️
Just say its too expensive for u
I live in NH. We usually go to the Holyoke Mall (once in awhile we might go to Mall of New Hampshire). We did go to Natick several times when they had an American Girl Boutique and Bistro. I got a few of my dolls from there.
I haven't been there since it opened. I took my four-year-old nephew there only a few days after opening. I used to be a regular at the old Natick Mall.
The storefront by Nordstrom was a restaurant called Sel De La Terre, I believe. It closed probably in 2014.
Wegmans closed the Natick store, but their other 2 story store is 30 minutes away in Burlington, Mass and is a fantastic store in a great area ( very close to the Burlington, Mall.
Grow up going to the going to natck mall. Birch trees were in the orginal Natick mall too . I was there the 1st day the new mall opened in 94 too 🎉
In 1992, the Homart development company purchased the Natick Mall and the adjacent Shopper's World.. The owners wanted to build the new mall where shoppers world currently is and put something similar to shoppers world where the mall currently is. Due to Filene's renovating and adding on to their store in 1991 they would spend more money to build a new store. So the old Natick mall and old Sears were demolished & rebuilt into the 1994 Natick mall while Filene's stayed open. Jordan Marsh moved from its Shopper's world location to the Natick location. It was actually one of the last jordan marsh to be built and opened as Jordan Marsh before they all became Macys in 1996.
Interesting. Thanks for the info!
Shopper's World was my pre-teen and teenage go-to since Mom and Gramma both adored it. Thanks for the fond memories.
This mall used to have a Gucci store in it. I walked in there once and it felt so high end and rich it was almost intimidating
Hello ! I'll be back to watch. ty
Reminds me of Phipps Plaza in Atlanta, but without the criminal element.
Good video. Thanks.
Miss having Wegmans. Publix is very good for subs, but the amount of good prepared foods at Wegmans is awesome. We tell people about Wegmans and they don’t believe it…
I've never been to a Wegmans, other than walking past this one. What makes it so good?
They're supposed to open a Wegmans soon here on LI NY, but, it was announce a year aqo already, and no info. yet on when it will open, and it's going to be out east
in Lake Grove, which doesn't help me at all since it's a 90 min. drive from home. We need at least two Wegmans, one out east, one here in Nassau. it's rather dumb.
They have one in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn at the Navy Yard, which I hear is great. I used to live around the corner in the late 90s and our nabe had zero food shopping, a
total food desert. I'm hoping Wegmans gets on the stick and opens a few on LI.
The Wegmans grocery store is great!
Yup... moved from Watertown to Boca Raton and Wegmans was better than anything here.
Was. 😢
I actually thought that mall closed a long time ago. I went to get tires for my car at the Sears behind the mall around 20 years ago or so and had to kill some time so I walked though the mall. It was at that time I realized why I don't frequent malls. lol Had a good lunch but was happy to leave when my tires were done. I believe that was the last time I traveled that far east in MA.
Lmao
Yes strange to have a grocery store in a mall in the US, but a great way of attracting shoppers to the mall. Not only supermarkets, but butchers, greengrocers, liquor stores, barbers, bakeries, delicatessens, travel.agents, banks, shoe repairs, phone repairs along with general retail and awesome food court offerings and cafes, that is the standard offering in Australian malls. People with grocery carts mixing it with all the other shoppers and the numbers speak for themselves. Weekends difficult to get a car park in many centres. Why oh why is not how a mall in the US is set-up?????
While the grocery store did open into the mall, I'm fairly certain they would not let you bring the cart into the mall itself. From what I could see, they had a special exit to the parking garage for the grocery store customers. I think they don't have this in many US malls is that most Americans would just find it unusual. We're just not used to it.
@@fleabittenadventures this is my local, shopping trolleys coming out of Woolworths supermarket.
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@@fleabittenadventures we actually have 3 supermarkets at the mall. 2 Woolworths and an Aldi.
Not really the same thing but the South Shore mall in Braintree has a Target attached to the mall and I think that gives the mall a ton of foot traffic.
I worked in the old Natick mall in 85 - 86.
Oh, yeah. This is the best mall in MA. Sometimes I'd see some of my high school friends here.
Im pretty sure that space across Nordstrom was a french restaurant called Sel De La Terre. They started closing a lot of locations years ago.
Came here in 2018 on a Saturday. Was quite impressed. Neiman-Marcus was incredible. Above my tax bracket.
In 1994, this was the last Jordan Marsh store ever built. In 1996 Macy's parent company merged with Jordan Marsh's parent company, I believe was Federated Department Stores. All Jordan Marsh stores became Macy's. Macy's was in that location from 1996 to 2007, when Macy's parent company took over the May Co. the owner of Filene's. All of the Filene's Stores became Macy's. If a mall already had a Macy's when the May Co. merger took place, the current Macy's moved into the Filene's location and left the old Macy's vacant. Filene's ceased to exist, hence the Macy's at the Natick Mall is now in the old Filene's location.
Great info! Thanks for sharing and for watching!
Last time in Natick mall before covid not much stores before it expanded look great and food court not not there that time and the glass ceiling look good football and baseball stadiums like domes should do that at fenway park ❤
I had to do fire extinguisher replacement in the stores there. You can get lost in that place very easily 😅😅😅
Losing the L&T and the Neiman Marcus obviously was a tough blow, but the mall seems to be doing well nonetheless. Louis Vuitton is expensive but also sort of ghetto.
Yes, it seems to be doing pretty well. I'm not a fan of those high-end stores though. That's just not my thing, but it's cool to have those types of stores.
South Shore Plaza in Braintree is listed at 2.16 million sq feet of retail space, making it bigger.
Depends on how you measure the mall I guess. Some sites measure based on square footage, others on number of stores, etc. But I have found sites that say this is the biggest mall and others say South Shore, so I'm not sure.
I used to work at Ford across the road and miss being there after over 40 years.
I remember when there used to be A johnney rockets in that mall i havnt been to that mall since 2017 its to expensive
The wegmans just announced its closing 😢
I know, kinda sad, but at least the other anchors should be ok. And knowing the Natick Mall they'll probably find someone to go into the old Wegmans space.
The Wegman’s just closed down July 2023
I know the Valley View Mall in La Crosse WI does have a Hy Vee but it's only one story. Grocery stores in malls in the US are very very rare. Now Australia on the other hand is another story.
Yeah, this was the first one I have seen in a mall. It just feels weird.... Thanks for watching!
@@fleabittenadventures You should have filmed inside the grocery store I wonder if there is some kind of moving ramp that gets carts from the upper and lower level and vice vera. Kind of like what my local Menards has. If you don't know what a Menards is it's a midwest home improvement store like Home Depot.
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Yes, Wegmans has that set up.
Having a food store and several dead anchor stores, and one anchor as a supermarket is a sign the mall might be on it's way out.
Lord & Taylor was also a May Co. department store. It was the only store that Macy's didn't acquire when the merger took place. I don't know the reason for this. Lord & Taylor survived for several more years as an independent department store until it fell into bankruptcy due to mismanagement I believe.
Thanks for the info and thanks for watching!
COVID hit L & T hard
I've seen a two floor Wegman's in Boston.
I think u need to stop with the escalators being down. I was the director of security at Natick in the mid 90s and they always had problems with the escalators. I don't think it is sign of a mall dying (at least in this case) it is more of sign they are heavily used and wear & tear brings them down
I'll take your word for it. Thanks for watching.
I also view escalators being out of service as a bad sign, especially more than one at a time. This seems to be a recurring issue with the mall.
@@fleabittenadventuresand let's face it, their maintenance guys aren't like Scotty from Star Trek. Not a miracle worker.
Sorry if I asked already, but what are you filming with? Thanks.
My mall videos and flea market videos are usually shot with my GoPro Hero 8 strapped to my chest. I find it is a lot less conspicuous than walking around with a DSLR. The video quality is great in bright areas, but it is #$#% in low light, and it overheats and shuts down in the summer heat. Other than that it's great.
There used to be a cool restaurant on the lower level floor where the food would go around on a conveyor belt but now it's gone.
Really? Was it a sushi restaurant? That's the only type of restaurant where I have seen a conveyor belt system. Thanks for watching!
@Fleabitten Adventures it was a conveyor belt sushi restaurant called Wasabi. I used to go there on my birthday sometimes.
I go to the Natick Mall all the time!
Actually, the South Shore Plaza in Braintree is the largest mall in New England.
South Shore Plaza - 2,165,000 sq feet
Natick Mall - 1,860,000 sq feet
The parking lot at SSP is also bigger
NOPE - total retail space of SSP is only 1,586,446 sq ft. Natick has 1,695,884 square feet.
At 10:50 was it just me or was that escalator missing some steps?😮
I work at one of the businesses here and it and Solomon pond are my childhood malls
Thats what they need to do to save the Fox Run Mall in Portsmouth NH, refurbish it into a higher end shopping center to reflect demographic of the area.
This mall is still in decent shape I do see some stores vacant thought recently when i was there
Ohh no are stores gonna be in there I’m scared
2:37 there was an au bon pain and some sort of store that sold purses there
I was pretty sure that the older 1994 section of the entire place would've had a Toys 'R' Us store, pretty sure that the current Macy's there has a Toys R Us portion in it like the Woodland Mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan does, but I could be wrong.
Toys R Us was in Shoppers World, not the old Natick Mall. Unfortunately, it closed and was replaced by a Hobby Lobby.
Wegmans just announced they are closing.
They just lost Wegmans and now have only 2 Anchor spaces. They have a 10% to 15% rolling vacancy rate up from 5% in 2008. That space was a met bar. High end is moving slowly to Chestnut Hill. That mall once had 5 Anchors. Still doing ok. You have to understand that Metro West Boston is one of the highest income areas in the US. However that mall is dying and will eventually go the way of all brick and mortar retail.
I look at the food court as an indicator of how healthy a mall is. I personally don’t like malls with skylights that have the sun directly beating down on people. I see it as unpleasant.
There's always room in a mall for a Lovesac.
Please show the restaurants at the food courts you visit.
Too bad there are no videos of Shopper's World next door in Framingham. It was one of the first malls in the country. It had outdoor walkways that overlooked a beautifully maintained courtyard. It was torn down in the nineties and replaced with a random collection of big box stores. Place has no curb appeal at all.
Looks more like a parking garage entrance to a nice casino.
Yes, by far the nicest parking garage entrance I've ever seen.
I loved to go with Wegmans and also Dave and busters too it long ride there and no 🚗
Wegmans is a gonner.
Can you make a video on just endangered hobbies in the mall
What do you mean? Hobby shops? If so, I rarely see hobby shops. The only one I can think of is the one at Galleria Mall in White Plains, but now that's gone too. Thanks for watching!
they're not in Natick anymore but a google search shows they have a place in Westboro now
Natick Mall had five anchor stores close permanently: Sears, Lord & Taylor, JC Penney, Neiman Marcus and now Wegmans. Not a good look.
Those companies went out of business nationally...do ur research...lmao
Yes, many retailers have been going out of business, and even the better malls are hurting. The outlook is not great.
Im so scared this mall will die ughh
@@jimmyjay689
Wegmans didn't go out of business.
😟I miss the Paul French Bakery Café.
The Lord & Taylor is being converted into biotech lab space. There are 3 Lord & Taylor stores in this area being turned into lab space.
I guess it's good that something is moving in, but a biotech lab space doesn't really seem to fit into a mall. If too many businesses like that move in, it goes from being a mall to an office building.
Before the original mall was torn down I remember meeting macho man randy savage in maybe 91 there
People seem to prefer burlington. Natick is pretty high end and sucks to drive to..
Wegmans is closing
You must get a lot of exercise!!! lol I am tried from watching. This is the only mall other than Providence Place that we go to anymore.
Laced still there ?
Westfarms, Buckland Hills and Ingleside Malls combined...
Sears closed and the space became a vaccination place during the pandemic.
south shore plaza larger
New Nike store is coming soon so I don’t think it is a dead mall
Dave and Buster's !
Hello I live in natick
We are going tomorrow has anything changed since the video
I’m actually going soon, how was ur visit?
Lovesac...lovesac
Seems like an odd name to me.
it looks like an airport.
This Neiman Marcus did not have a cafe. It was a two-level department store, more expensive than the other anchors.
Xbox One in the Natick Mall
Kind of an ugly looking mall. Also, for a Sunday it doesn’t look like it’s all that packed. It looks more like a weekday type of crowd. But if they have a few major retailers exiting, then that’s a bad sign for the mall’s future.
I thought that the new section of the mall (the part I entered at the beginning) was kind of an interesting design. The old section just looks like a hundred other malls. I would say that this mall might be in the early stages of going down hill, but that's just my opinion.
@@fleabittenadventures hello. Why did you feel like the mall will go down hill? What were the reasons?
You wouldn't want to ride any of the mall elevators anyway. They look really nice, but they ride very badly.
What! No LV or Tesla buying??? Come on man!😂
No way! I have my personal assistant shop for me.
It isn’t a Perfect mall. Its like Roosevelt Field and Green Acres and in comparison they look good and Natick Mall ᴀs them.
There are no people at this mall
Another dying mall. Let's be honest.