I want to re-explore this so badly but on the other hand, the two times I did explore this, once with video, it was just so much cleaner than it is now, now its just destroyed inside and it breaks my heart being my childhood mall.
I'm not at an "urban explorer", though I've often been fascinated with the concept. I lived most of my life in the South Hills, so Century III is definitely a memory. Even in the decay I recognize certain things like the "bricks" inside, or the fountain with the blue tiles... closest I've done to urbex was poke around Centralia, PA a couple times, which now is also pretty much nothing.
@@onesabez Yeah, I get "why" they covered the road, especially at the time, but it really took away the last really interesting thing to see, I hate that it happened
I've spent most of my life living in the South Hills (recently just turned 40), so Century III is definitely an old memory of mine. It's funny how I recognize things like the interior brickwork or the fountain and its blue tiles. I wasn't a proper mallrat despite the prevalence of that in the 90s (honestly it was always going to be a two-bus-route trip to get to any mall, so I generally didn't) but I still went there on occasion with my parents, or in my 20s with my brothers when I had a driver's license. Honestly the general decay of malls in the US is not surprising to me particularly. Even before they became the phenomenon they are now, I probably haven't been to a mall in a good 10 years. General purpose stores like Walmart and Target replaced the need for several disparate specialty stores, and otherwise I just order everything online, which spares me all the time and gas traveling to a mall and wandering around, possibly not finding what I wanted anyway.
my mom told me how she used to always go to this mall. this is the same place she met my father and had all her childhood memories. it’s a shame I can’t experience the same things she did
Century III is hazardous as heck at this point- especially the roof, where a few weeks after this someone ended up falling through, dropping 20 feet and suffered critical injuries in the process. Structurally speaking, it will only get worse from here.
Amazon will buy half. The rest will be converted into warehouse space. That way, Americans can order useless junk and have it shipped directly into storage.
We've lived in Jefferson Hills since 1996, this mall is where we spent every weekend with our kids. Watching this was so sad, it used to be amazing until they added bus stops😪and brought in the gangs. Sears was where our dentist & optician was, plus we got our family portraits & hair done in the salon. So there were 4 stores inside of the Sears itself. I got my nails done at Sassy's, took my kids to Game Stop & Hot Topic all the time. There used to be a KB toys on the lower level by Penneys in the late 90s. If you have any questions, I can answer.
The mold!!! Oh my flipping God is it bad there, Liked your vid, glad to hear your using respirator while filming this, crazy how fast century three went down hill
I don't claim to know about finance but there's a monetary reason for buying a property like this & letting it fall into disrepair, I saw it so many times with old resorts in the Poconos, someone's profiting by owning properties like this
They are notorious for doing that. There are 2 others that all communities that have malls need to watch out for. Do not let these 3 that make up The Mallapocalypse that is Moonbeam, Namdar and Kohan buy their malls.
45:25 If I remember correctly there were tables and chairs under this area, like a second food court. Pretty sure there was a Dairy Queen among other stores, back where they have it walled off.
Thank you for showing some different parts of the mall than other videos. Also so, so.glad to see respirators. I'm not arguing exploring, just explore as safely as you can. There are videos with people breathing that crap in and wearing sneakers and shorts.
They make money on it being that way. They can't afford to fix it and keep it up to code... so they let it fall into disrepair and then they can claim it as a loss tax time. It's sad and sick. Places like this could be turned into cool affordable housing and small communities... or cool old folks homes... but nope. I have an old abandoned hospital by me. Lights still on and everything. But it's not to code and costs too much to repair... so they are letting rot and collect $ via taxes as a loss.
That building is done for. Once it has a snow load on that roof that's already compromised from the fires and all the roof leaks etc. I have a bad feeling that the roof is just gonna fall in on itself. The Structural integrity is severely compromised and is at very high risk for collapse. One of my relatives worked in construction and we have real a bad feeling about this building. They need to cut all the utilities that might be still connected. Lock it the hell down and bulldoze the place. That black mold alone is bad. All i have to say is Eff Moonbeam!
my god i wanna go back to Century iii with a friend of mine so bad! as mentioned i still love the place despite how abandoned it is and always pray for it they could turn the building into an indoor water park we need one Lol
For future explorers reading my comment: Please do not play with electrical panels. A electrician died at the derelict Northridge mall working on an electrical box where the front door was energized. You don't know who did what to what in an abandoned mall.
Fiesta mall in Arizona is worse I blame city and county where these malls are more than the owners. They have more call on what happens to these places they should've been ripped down years ago. There's no reason they should be still standing. None of these damn places there, passé anyway ! Most people these days are too busy to go out shopping so staying at home and shopping is ideal. Most people that are out in the malls are people that are bored and don't work so screw them all as we don't need them grow up people your past is over with these. Yes, it's sad but it's reality move on.
It's private property. The City and County can't do anything about this but take the owners to court and impose fines for letting this become a danger to the community. That would be like you saying the City or County can take anyone's house that is not kept up, they can't, it's private property and on the owner to take care of it. Besides it would cost millions of dollars to tear it down so why should the tax payers in the city or county have to pay for that. The owner needs to either sell it to someone who will do something with it or tear it down. West Mifflin is in a battle with the owners of this property and they are trying to get it condemned. However, the owners of the property will just keep appealing and this will be in the court system for years.
What I'd like to know is that over three weeks ago there was a fire and on that very day the power was shut off, according to the news report on the day, police awaited the crews to shut off the power. So with that being said, this can't be a recent exploration?
@@nationdecay thank you for the clarification and nevertheless awesome video... I'm all the way from south Africa but recently I've been watching alot of abandoned malls of the USA. Truly sad what has become of century 3 plaza. Now it sits in the same decay and vandalism as Jamestown mall, fiesta mall And Northridge mall just to mention a few.
@@nationdecayRandall Park Mall was demolished years ago. There’s an Amazon fulfillment center on the land now. The only remaining building from the mall is the former Sears.
The fires were electrical. They were set inside of a wall/ceiling in the back of a store near the food court. Not sure why it was 3 alarm because it was mostly just smoke damage. The areas that the fire happened are where I came in at at the start of the video and didn’t have power to them before the fire
The local municipal has to notice all the safety things water everywhere electric on but they dont act there enforcement dept must be a laughing stock leting moon beam get away with power on with all those safety risk
Lmfao they said this months ago. I’ve talked with city officials and I have footage of the security guard allowing me into the mall that I didn’t include for his own safety 😂. But good one
@@mrpibb2982 Yes they do have better things to do. But it's easier pickings to waste time on youtubers filming a derelict mall, that needs to be buried in slag from steel production. The people the cops should be arresting are the scumbags that currently own this place.
The audio quality is absolutely horrid in this video. The audio quality is so bad that I think that you should take down this video! And reedit it. P. R. O. P. E. R. L. Y. And, then, reupload that video! It might have been great to go there, to this mall, & experience this place, even filming it for your own viewing pleasure. But, from a user's POV, this is utterly pointless! This is video is, at least virtually, unwatchable!
It’s because you guys were shooting a weapon and being cocky. It was a perfect case to make an example. Nobody I know who’s been in here has had an issue. If you aren’t going to be respectful of the location don’t bother. It was much more peaceful years ago when people weren’t vandalizing and security wasn’t up everyone’s ass at every location
You aren’t respectful when you go into a building with a bow and arrow and walk around with your friends acting like you are on the set of jackass. Real explorers are respectful of the location and leave without a trace. Also good luck, my channel has been reported to west mifflin about 5 times now and I have the security guard on camera giving verbal permission that he didn’t care if I was in the building. My ass is covered.
I want to re-explore this so badly but on the other hand, the two times I did explore this, once with video, it was just so much cleaner than it is now, now its just destroyed inside and it breaks my heart being my childhood mall.
I'm not at an "urban explorer", though I've often been fascinated with the concept. I lived most of my life in the South Hills, so Century III is definitely a memory. Even in the decay I recognize certain things like the "bricks" inside, or the fountain with the blue tiles... closest I've done to urbex was poke around Centralia, PA a couple times, which now is also pretty much nothing.
@@CaptainSouthbird I still want to check out this mall despite the decay and recent fire. Centralia road is now covered in dirt 😢
@@onesabez Yeah, I get "why" they covered the road, especially at the time, but it really took away the last really interesting thing to see, I hate that it happened
The fact that when he’s standing outside of the mall in the dark white those crows making noise is so scary
I hope that Moonbeam (the company that destroyed C3 Mall and drove it to abandonment) and the people in it rot in hell
I've spent most of my life living in the South Hills (recently just turned 40), so Century III is definitely an old memory of mine. It's funny how I recognize things like the interior brickwork or the fountain and its blue tiles. I wasn't a proper mallrat despite the prevalence of that in the 90s (honestly it was always going to be a two-bus-route trip to get to any mall, so I generally didn't) but I still went there on occasion with my parents, or in my 20s with my brothers when I had a driver's license. Honestly the general decay of malls in the US is not surprising to me particularly. Even before they became the phenomenon they are now, I probably haven't been to a mall in a good 10 years. General purpose stores like Walmart and Target replaced the need for several disparate specialty stores, and otherwise I just order everything online, which spares me all the time and gas traveling to a mall and wandering around, possibly not finding what I wanted anyway.
my mom told me how she used to always go to this mall. this is the same place she met my father and had all her childhood memories. it’s a shame I can’t experience the same things she did
Century III is hazardous as heck at this point- especially the roof, where a few weeks after this someone ended up falling through, dropping 20 feet and suffered critical injuries in the process. Structurally speaking, it will only get worse from here.
Hopefully it will be demolished soon.
problem was, they were on the roof of the store that had a huge fire.
He got charged on top of getting really hurt
So sad to see Century 3 in this condition. I have a lot of good memories of my youth in this mall. So sad.
Amazon will buy half. The rest will be converted into warehouse space. That way, Americans can order useless junk and have it shipped directly into storage.
We've lived in Jefferson Hills since 1996, this mall is where we spent every weekend with our kids. Watching this was so sad, it used to be amazing until they added bus stops😪and brought in the gangs. Sears was where our dentist & optician was, plus we got our family portraits & hair done in the salon. So there were 4 stores inside of the Sears itself. I got my nails done at Sassy's, took my kids to Game Stop & Hot Topic all the time. There used to be a KB toys on the lower level by Penneys in the late 90s. If you have any questions, I can answer.
The mall was built in 3 phases so I think that could explain the sudden architecture change.
The mold!!! Oh my flipping God is it bad there, Liked your vid, glad to hear your using respirator while filming this, crazy how fast century three went down hill
The mold was worse in some of the areas we didn’t get to film. There was a couple stores literally collapsing from the water damage
I don't claim to know about finance but there's a monetary reason for buying a property like this & letting it fall into disrepair, I saw it so many times with old resorts in the Poconos, someone's profiting by owning properties like this
Moonbeam Capital is notorious for doing that type of thing, unfortunately
They are notorious for doing that. There are 2 others that all communities that have malls need to watch out for. Do not let these 3 that make up The Mallapocalypse that is Moonbeam, Namdar and Kohan buy their malls.
The Mexican restaurant first started as a Ruby Tuesday's.. to the left of it was Kohl's.
45:25 If I remember correctly there were tables and chairs under this area, like a second food court. Pretty sure there was a Dairy Queen among other stores, back where they have it walled off.
Yes! I remember that Dairy Queen
Lights being on always amazes me
Thank you for showing some different parts of the mall than other videos. Also so, so.glad to see respirators. I'm not arguing exploring, just explore as safely as you can. There are videos with people breathing that crap in and wearing sneakers and shorts.
How can these mall owners allow the building to fall into this condition. Absolute shame. Thanks for bringing this video to us.
They make money on it being that way. They can't afford to fix it and keep it up to code... so they let it fall into disrepair and then they can claim it as a loss tax time. It's sad and sick. Places like this could be turned into cool affordable housing and small communities... or cool old folks homes... but nope. I have an old abandoned hospital by me. Lights still on and everything. But it's not to code and costs too much to repair... so they are letting rot and collect $ via taxes as a loss.
Because it will just be torn down
They only cared enough to buy it & keep it as a tax write off.
Obviously, they don’t care that it’s in poor shape.
The store with the columns, I believe was a Victoria Secrets.
This just seems unreal. It was a wonderful place to shop in the 80s. 😢
Your breathing reminds me of Darth Vader. LOLOLOL
I'm a Pittsburgher, & was only ever in that mall once. I'm 50, so that was over 20 yrs ago.
That building is done for. Once it has a snow load on that roof that's already compromised from the fires and all the roof leaks etc. I have a bad feeling that the roof is just gonna fall in on itself. The Structural integrity is severely compromised and is at very high risk for collapse. One of my relatives worked in construction and we have real a bad feeling about this building. They need to cut all the utilities that might be still connected. Lock it the hell down and bulldoze the place. That black mold alone is bad. All i have to say is Eff Moonbeam!
The building is fried beyond the roof, the foundation was built on top of slag and it's totaled 🍳
My son actually worked at the FYE on the first floor by the fountain with the oodles of black mold!
Love this video buddy and hope you are having a blessed day or night ❤
32:26 The mannequin just couldn't take it anymore. 😩
my god i wanna go back to Century iii with a friend of mine so bad! as mentioned i still love the place despite how abandoned it is and always pray for it
they could turn the building into an indoor water park we need one Lol
Rollin Acres vibes
It’s well on its way. Only difference is that the anchor buildings are all empty too.
Great Job Guys! Thanks
There were other stores in there that were walled up, and never used again. Like chic Fil A by food court
I don't think they used the Wendy's again after it closed
I can't understand why people have to vandalise and why They Always have to Stick chairs in the drywall.
For future explorers reading my comment: Please do not play with electrical panels. A electrician died at the derelict Northridge mall working on an electrical box where the front door was energized. You don't know who did what to what in an abandoned mall.
If it's shuttered, i don't understand why it's not labeled as "permanently closed" on Google!
I’ll take it up with management right away!
crazy electricity is still on and scrapers haven't touched the wiring yet
Surprised was lights outside place on but ever more suprised on figure would have been cut off years ago
How did you get into Century 3 Mall?
Thank you for the video, it's first-rate.
Props to the security guy for your chill.
"Security guard" 🙄 More like "squatter"
He pulled up to me today when I was walking around the building trying to get in I'm pretty sure he is security
there are guards on site patroling the whole site.
Fiesta mall in Arizona is worse I blame city and county where these malls are more than the owners. They have more call on what happens to these places they should've been ripped down years ago. There's no reason they should be still standing. None of these damn places there, passé anyway ! Most people these days are too busy to go out shopping so staying at home and shopping is ideal. Most people that are out in the malls are people that are bored and don't work so screw them all as we don't need them grow up people your past is over with these. Yes, it's sad but it's reality move on.
It's private property. The City and County can't do anything about this but take the owners to court and impose fines for letting this become a danger to the community. That would be like you saying the City or County can take anyone's house that is not kept up, they can't, it's private property and on the owner to take care of it. Besides it would cost millions of dollars to tear it down so why should the tax payers in the city or county have to pay for that. The owner needs to either sell it to someone who will do something with it or tear it down. West Mifflin is in a battle with the owners of this property and they are trying to get it condemned. However, the owners of the property will just keep appealing and this will be in the court system for years.
Cool video nation of decay, ❤
its not abandoned, its just how places in Pleasant Hills and West Mifflin look !
I still want one of the hanging stars.
Awesome video
With Permission of course, can I use some of this footage for a video? You'll be credited fully with any clips I do use
And of course, we ALL know the Pink store downstairs was Vicki's Secret 😊
What I'd like to know is that over three weeks ago there was a fire and on that very day the power was shut off, according to the news report on the day, police awaited the crews to shut off the power. So with that being said, this can't be a recent exploration?
This was 2 days before the fire
@@nationdecay thank you for the clarification and nevertheless awesome video... I'm all the way from south Africa but recently I've been watching alot of abandoned malls of the USA. Truly sad what has become of century 3 plaza. Now it sits in the same decay and vandalism as Jamestown mall, fiesta mall And Northridge mall just to mention a few.
@@nationdecaythere will never lights in there again
How can this mall still have power on? Lol i figuredvit was really hit by scrappers. Great job on this video. Please visit randell park mall
I think Randell Park was demolished
@@nationdecayRandall Park Mall was demolished years ago. There’s an Amazon fulfillment center on the land now. The only remaining building from the mall is the former Sears.
I was watching the disrespect century three then it won't open it says it should be on what happened
How much would it take to convert this into a paint gun park?
I heard the power got shut off, maybe the people the security guard warned you about were coming to disconnect it?
Power STILL ON AFTER 2 ELECTRICAL FIRES!!!
The fires were electrical. They were set inside of a wall/ceiling in the back of a store near the food court. Not sure why it was 3 alarm because it was mostly just smoke damage. The areas that the fire happened are where I came in at at the start of the video and didn’t have power to them before the fire
I meant to say were not electrical
The reason the one half of the mall
Does not look like the rest is cause there was a Netflix show filmed there. Mind Hunter I believe.
I grew up at this mall, WTF?????? What happened.?
Some might think THIS is the end but in due time, THIS will be what "ONCE WAS".
Exploring with Brody got charged for coming here
The local municipal has to notice all the safety things water everywhere electric on but they dont act there enforcement dept must be a laughing stock leting moon beam get away with power on with all those safety risk
It sounds like Michael Myers breathing in his mask lol
Had to wear it or else I’d get sick. Another friend of mine went here without a mask and got hospitalized
@@nationdecay I understand. I would do the same thing.
Why is Darth Vader there?
Probably the extreme abundance of deadly black mold
Welp, They coming for all youtubers that broke entry and filmed the mall! Will be charged and arrested soon
Lmfao they said this months ago. I’ve talked with city officials and I have footage of the security guard allowing me into the mall that I didn’t include for his own safety 😂. But good one
@@nationdecay long as you did, I just know the police will issuing warrants this week for all those with recent footage
@@RANS87IROCZ that’s horrible does the pigs got anything better to do.
@@mrpibb2982 that's what we say about scumbags that have to break entry in places to make a youtube video for attention, real work too hard
@@mrpibb2982 Yes they do have better things to do. But it's easier pickings to waste time on youtubers filming a derelict mall, that needs to be buried in slag from steel production. The people the cops should be arresting are the scumbags that currently own this place.
The audio quality is absolutely horrid in this video. The audio quality is so bad that I think that you should take down this video! And reedit it.
P. R. O. P. E. R. L. Y.
And, then, reupload that video!
It might have been great to go there, to this mall, & experience this place, even filming it for your own viewing pleasure. But, from a user's POV, this is utterly pointless!
This is video is, at least virtually, unwatchable!
I was just arrested exploring that place. Wow it's crazy in there
It’s because you guys were shooting a weapon and being cocky. It was a perfect case to make an example. Nobody I know who’s been in here has had an issue. If you aren’t going to be respectful of the location don’t bother. It was much more peaceful years ago when people weren’t vandalizing and security wasn’t up everyone’s ass at every location
@@nationdecay hey keep it down dude. We're real respectful. The front door was open. My lawyer is going to eat this case anyway
I'll be sure to pass on your channel too to the DA when I go in front of the judge next week
You aren’t respectful when you go into a building with a bow and arrow and walk around with your friends acting like you are on the set of jackass. Real explorers are respectful of the location and leave without a trace. Also good luck, my channel has been reported to west mifflin about 5 times now and I have the security guard on camera giving verbal permission that he didn’t care if I was in the building. My ass is covered.
@@nationdecay The place is already trash. Shooting an arrow at a stupid decoration is the least of that mall's problems.
Ever bought anything from amazon? You caused this!