Dead Malls Season 2 Episode 2 - Mid Rivers Mall
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- This enormous shopping complex while still pristine and clean is starting to show signs of its death. With little to no shoppers this mall is currently challenged with doing something and coming back or doing nothing and fading away. Today join me as we tour Mid Rivers Mall.
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Music Used
Africa - Toto VAPORWAVE
Mall Musak
Resonance - Home
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Sit Next to Me - Foster the People
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I think this mall is slowly getting bigger again; the last few times i’ve been there’s been so many people and it seems like more stores are opening! I really hope it stays open for a long time because it’s the only mall close to me.
I actually still frequently shop at this mall. Granted, I only really go to V-Stock and Slackers, but I do still see people frequently stopping in the other stores...pre-pandemic anyway. It's the only mall in the area I enjoy going to since the others don't really have shops I care about (Galleria just has GameStop and the Mills is basically crime-town USA with almost everything having left there years ago).
It’s an amazing mall with a lot of character, that good that you still shop there and I’m glad that it’s still alive!
This makes me so sad because I remember as a kid coming here and it was packed!! Picking up girls. Hanging out with friends. Meeting people. Vlogging. Filming pranks. It was fun af! Now it just is depressing there. 🥺🥺🥺
It is really sad.. But I’m glad you were able to have good memories at this beautiful mall. Thanks for commenting!
Dang- we were thinking this one and west county center were the only two that weren’t dead. The last time we went to the galleria lots of stores had security guards and merchandise chained down. I remember when I first got my license feeling so cool coming to this mall. Rip mid rivers.
Mid Rivers is *NOT* a dead mall, it's got an 80+% occupancy rate. You'd know that if you lived in St Louis.
Dead malls is just the name of the series, it doesn’t necessarily mean that mid rivers is dead. And I was with a St. Louis native the whole time and he was telling me the mall was nowhere near what it was a few years back
Your comment is from 10 months ago. Many of the stores (while some were still temporarily closed due to the pandemic) in this video are gone.
I visited with a friend on October 11th, 2023. It was very lively for a Wednesday evening. A lot of stores were still open but also a fair amount were closed. The food court, V-stock, Dick's Sporting Goods, Marcus Cinema, Macy's, Dillard's and JC Penny's were all still open. From what I understand, some of the stores are rented out during different seasons. I dont think this mall is closing anytime soon.
These videos just keep on getting better and better. Please keep up the great work.
Thank you! I will!
The layout of this mall reminds me a lot of the Marketplace at Steamtown in Scranton PA. That's become a mixed use facility with the food court turned into a smaller marketplace, and one anchor turned into a college annex and a medical clinic.
As a person a person who lives in ofallon Illinois (metro east of St. Louis) there’s a st Clair mall in Fairview heights and it’s pretty small but I’m surprised it’s actually alive and is very packed because this mall was old all though it lost Sears still is doing good compared to this mall and also the fact it’s in the metro east in small towns
Sears stores with the 2004 logo are very rare, the only one I have seen in real life with one is in Mesquite (surprisingly still open)
Interesting! I though sears closed all their mall locations. I would love to see one open lol!
NorthCdogg22 that Sears is very rare, it actually looks renovated and is pretty big, however the store is empty yet Sears decided to close 2 of the last 3 remaining in the DFW metroplex, even though they were busier
Their mistake was replacing half the food court with h&m. Now all you have a choice of to eat in the food court is Sandwich or panda. Or I guess pretzels.
yes. this was massive mistake. with only two places (not including pretzels) to get an actual meal, the lines for panda express and charlie's sandwiches can get so long on the weekends that i think people just leave the mall.
@6:25...IDK whether that map should be presented in the context of "look at all the malls in this area"; of the 13 malls shown, only the Galleria, Plaza Frontenac, West County Center, South County Center, and (I guess) Mid Rivers are still viable. Chesterfield Mall is totally dead, thanks to the 2 new outlet malls that opened nearby. St Louis Mills and Jamestown Mall are abandoned properties. Union Station isn't a mall anymore, it's been repurposed and is now "St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station". Northland, Northwest Plaza, River Roads, and Crestwood were all demolished years ago, and St. Louis Centre closed in 2006 and is now a parking garage.
Yeah, I was really just showing all of the malls that have been built in St. Louis because compared to other cities that map boggles me. Thanks for sharing this!
Good video. Thanks for filming.
I remember in 1988, when a tornado touched down a couple miles away from the mall. The drop in pressure blew out all the windows in the upstairs main entrance and that of the cars parked up there. It sounded like a bomb going off. I was working downstairs in a now-closed clothing store across from Sbarro. Memories…
St. Louis is really overmalled. They’re more dead or dying malls than alive. Galleria and West County are the only good ones left that i know of.
Yeah the cities retail situation is really bad. I took a visit to the Galleria and that’s where I saw a really “Mall” experience
NorthCdogg22 and me being a Mills fan, St. Louis Mills was not in a good location and was barely developed. Most Mills malls around the mall itself were properly developed (I live between both Potomac and Arundel and both are in good retail areas). I would’ve said had they built it in Eureka, MO by the Six Flags, they would’ve still flourished.
PiplupJamesBattle I agree, it was the location that really killed it. It just never developed like they expected it to. Similar stories would be Jamestown Mall, which is coming soon
@@MrJamieBattle St Louis Mills did do well for awhile the problem was not location the problem was oversaturation. Letting all that new retail development out in Chesterfield was huge mistake.
St Clair Square has a 95% occupancy rate, even with an empty Sears.
Mid Rivers Mall is beautiful and has added several stores since this video.
You aren't kidding about those skylights. Those are beautiful.
Every october this mall gets rented out for a giant zombies vs humans nerf game. It's spooky at night and even spookier hearing a hundred+ people screaming from across the building.
That sounds like the coolest thing ever
I can't believe you said they building another mall in the same vicinity wow time are soo twisted I really thought 20/20 was gonna be about seeing what we had and it's all gone
Yeah it’s insane how they’re building so many malls
I have a bunch of family that live over here and we would go there together sometimes, and 90% of the time it was almost empty. It’s always so weird going there and being one of the only families there.
Yeah Mid Rivers is strange because it has stores it’s just so empty..
@@NorthCdogg22 Yeah it was fine shopping but it was really quiet. Too quiet....
I think the other thing to note about St. Louis is as the years go on, everything and EVERYONE is moving further and further out of the metro area. Places like Wentzville and Lake St. Louis (45+ mins away from the city center) are growing while the city’s population is shrinking. So no wonder this mall is being neglected for newer, shinier ones out in the ‘burbs :/
Thank you for visiting. I will say that some shops have closed but it has picked back up. You visited it at it’s worst and obviously before it had officially opened for the day at 11am. They do allow mall walkers in before that. Please give it fair representation next time.
I agree. I frequent this mall often and it’s much busier than what is was portrayed in the video plus this was still a time when ppl weren’t coming out as much bc of covid. I shop this mall and I just come and walk this mall very often.
6:25 St Louis area also includes the "metro east" AKA Illinois. We've got St Clair Square over here, and it's part of St Louis area malls.
My dad was the Store manager at the Sears from ..like 1997ish to 2008 when Mom and Dad moved to Lexington KY and he was the store manager there until her retired in 2013 I worked the counter across the street at tire America.. "NTB NOW"
2020 was probably the final nail for many of these malls
This place was horrible during Covid, it’s parking lots are packed on the weekends now it’s looking a lot better 😊😎
Mid-Rivers is great.
Do Chesterfield Mall because it's dead and only 30 stores remain
I visited this mall countless times as a kid and owned a house within a couple of miles away until earlier this year. It's sad to see it in the state it's in now. I haven't been inside since 2018 or so when I specifically went to the Vintage Stock and Slackers. It seems like a lot of the stores are operational but closed. What time of the day did you go there?
It is sad to see this mall in the state it’s in, and me and me friend visited around noontime. I’m not quite sure why there were so many stores closed.
@@NorthCdogg22 What day of the week was it?
fthetm Friday if I remember correctly, I know it was on the tax free day thing
@@NorthCdogg22 Wow that's bad, you'd think more of the stores that have inventory and hours up would be open. How long ago was this? Was it still a time frame when everyone was in lockdown mode due to the pandemic or was it more recently as things have opened up a little more?
fthetm I know I was also shocked at how nearly all of the stores were closed. And it was about 3 weeks ago so yeah I’d say the pandemic might have something to do with it all
It actually Open 1987 And Fun fact GRM Adventures Work at sears at mid rivers for 8 months back 2019. When he was in California a freinds said that sears would start closing till October 27 2019. And 2 years ago it became a Sprit Halloween. AKA 2020
This mall became a lot busier once ppl ventured out again after covid slowed down.
Mane this is sad 😭💔
Damn. My youth. Dead. RIP 1987-1991!!!
Yeah, you got this confused with Chesterfield, this mall is still doing well, when the pandemic ends, it'll rebound to where it was before, it's not dead like Chesterfield.
I had my first kiss at this mall. Very special place to me
But its not dead usually. I went there a few weeks ago and it was packed. There are days when it may be dead but it usually isnt
That’s good, it just felt strange that on the no tax day when everyone should’ve been here, there was no one at the mall.
I went there not too long ago around the holidays and it was packed!
@@misstoridanielle30 that’s good to here! It’s a beautiful mall so I’m sure it’s doing well!
I feel like the issue with St Louis Malls as well is as you said, the crime. It's such a large city, and a lot of people in large cities tend to spark more crime. Most people would probably rather stay inside as much as possible. Don't forget its sister city, East St. Louis. It's downtown area is barely existent anymore to shop at. I think there's even an old abandoned supermarket by there, with the parking lot completely vegetated, and vines growing on the lamp posts. I can go on about the sociopolitical aspects (some even hinted on that dusty sears wall lol) on why St. Louis is the way it is but it pretty much just boils down to that it's not a very stable city.
I completely agree, this cities original suburban areas that were flourishing in the 80s and 90s are changing so much, so much of the retail and suburban boom has pushed into the western side of the cities metro. And while I don’t believe there’s any hope of saving the “old city” retail and housing markets. I do believe the city could save its current malls by upping security, and stop building newer outdoor shopping centers. Because the current state of retail in St. Louis is absolutely out of control.
You went to the wrong mall, Cheserfield Mall is the largest mall in the region, and also a dead mall. Mid Rivers is the same size as St Clair Square, and both are smaller than Chesterfield.
That's a shame. It's a nice mall. I like the design of it. But yes this is not dead due to internet shopping or covid. It's dying due to mall over crowding in the area. Well covid does take some part in all malls right now tbh.
It’s sad because this mall is beautiful, and yes I agree part of the reason is Covid and yeah the area is extremely overmalled it’s really bad.
Isnt there a best buy in there
not IN the mall, but in a separate building by itself just outside the main mall.
I always thought going to the mall and shopping there is so much fun exciting to go to but it's all that online shopping really knocked it out it really killed it I don't like that part.
You also filmed this during the pandemic, right?
St Louis feels overmalled as Baltimore , Pittsburgh , Cincinnati and Dallas
Another one of your great videos where you don't talk all the time like Aces. It's very dramatic and narrative how you show viewers how you can hear mall music. When there are thousands of shoppers, the music can't even be heard. You're getting better shooting the small details like the plastic soda bottle at JC Pennys and description of the 1980s Sears seques well to how you start with Toto on your trademark drive up.
Good noticing the Trump 2020 finger painting in the dust.
Thanks! It’s the little details I like to focus on sometimes and I love giving e viewer the “experience”. Rather than just telling them about it
I remember I was actually thrown out of this mall by Mall Security for taking videos and photographs and that was back in 2017 so I guess you was lucky here you didn't caught by Mall Security here.
Actually it was difficult lol, I remember constantly dodge security when making this video
@@NorthCdogg22 I remember that Chesterfield Mall wasn't as bad when I took photographs in that same year like Mid Rivers was.
@@zonilo1 Chesterfield from what I’ve researched died REALLY fast, which is extremely sad
@@NorthCdogg22 I actually have photographs of Chesterfield Mall from 2017 and the Tilt! Arcade area from Mid Rivers when it was active but the Mall Security had me delete the rest of the photos sadly but let me keep the Arcade photos though.
@@zonilo1 that’s sucks :/ you shouldn’t have to delete pictures for them because technically they are your property after you take them, but it sucks that mall security is that way and won’t let you try and preserve history
It wouldn't call it a dead mall.
Maybe not dead but dying🤷♂️dead malls is just the name of the series
@@NorthCdogg22 I see that doesn't nessasarly mean that every mall you cover is a dead one.