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Update: On July 30th 2019 A referendum to borrow $7.25 million dollars to transform the mall into a community center was approved by the voters in Irondequoit. So this nice building will be re-purposed, not torn down.
There’s also a Ronald McDonald charity sales area that has opened. Also a business called Conduent. Both businesses occupy the former Macy’s section of the building. Senior housing will be soon built at the Sears end as well as the outer area of the mall.
Abandon Mall Video: **1 Year Ago** (Edited: This was a meme calm down obvi this wouldn’t be the set they used.) Stranger Things Fans: *STarCouRt Mall From S3?!*
I love how these guys are respectful of the premise, not taking or damaging stuff, or even moving it around most of the time. They leave almost no indication of their presence, they're just there to observe. Its nice to see.
@@binksmas Then they would not function. Neon is really fragile that's the reason it isn't used as much. There are very special and specific ways to transport it. It's glass tubes with an inert gas (Neon) in it with an electric charge to make the light. Specific power requirements are also needed. Just touching a neon tube with bare hands will cause it to stop functioning because of the oils in human skin. Source: Years ago back in 1997, I called a neon sign company because I wanted some wild designs made. Clearly, out of my price range.
As soon as they walked into the Disney store I remembered the cake tiered display of plushies and the Screen that would play different movie scenes. Those were the days back in the 90s.
Just enough technology to make life easier, kinder people, happier times, and most important, no social media. I wish I weren't able to type this. I wish there were no Facebook, Instagram, snap chat, tik tok, or any other social media platform which has completely destroyed society.
This place was my childhood. It was opened when i was born. I shopped at those stores. I ate at that food court. I rode that merry go round. My grandmother worked at Bon Ton. I was last in that mall when I was 16-17. I went Christmas shopping with my father. There obviously wasn’t much left open but Macy’s and Sears. I remember stopping in the middle of a crowd of people, taking a quick look around and then crying like a baby. It hurt to see such a large part of my childhood reduced to nothing. It’s bittersweet watching this video now because I work in the Macy’s area now but I’m not allowed to go into the mall. So close yet so far away. Thank you for uploading this.
i miss being able to smoke in the mall. i used to love walking the long halls smoking a marlboro red.. in the famous words of archie bunker..."THOSE WERE THE DAYS"
I can just imagine a whole community of zombie apocalypse survivors living there, making their homes out of the stores and the center of the mall being turned into a garden for food.
bbtank3000 I would have loved to have seen that stage thing in the old Disney store when it was open because that’s where all the plushies would have been. A big mountain of plushies. At the nearest one to me (they closed an even closer one 😢) the plushies are all on a wall, shoved onto a shelf
The thing in the middle was a huge display where they’d put all the plushies, I always just wanted to jump in the plushie pile. One time I was the kid who got to open the store in May the 1st (I think it was) and they gave me Mickey’s wizard hat and a little wizard Mickey lanyard, which I sadly lost.
They also used to be filled with thugs trying to harm people, gang fights, rude teenagers causing trouble, couples bickering about spending so much money, and overpriced merchandise. So, look at the downside, which is the upside in this scenario. Hope that cheers you up. :)
I remember when that mall opened and I was there the last day it was opened. The gangs had taken it over and became unsafe to be there at all. I was once stuck in a store because of a fight in front of the store I was in. That Disney Store closed years before the mall ever closed. The Sears was the last to close down and was functioning well after the mall closed. It finally closed not too long ago. The area is not the best and more than likely will never have anything done to it. Many plans have come and gone and yet nothing has been done. The reason it looks so nice is that there are a lot of people who look out for the mall and have called the police when they see anything suspicious happening. There is a Target within walking distance from it, so the cameras would pick it up. I loved this mall when it was full of stores, but toward the end there was only Burger King and a few Sneaker stores left.
@Bill Williams This mall boarders the north side of Rochester, which is the ghetto, "those people" have anyways been there. That whole area is just shitty lol.
I'm so unfamiliar with you guys exploring abandoned malls, Dan Bell is the mall guy. But this looks like a PROMISING video! Loving the mall style music too.
I live in Chicago so it's not much help, but very interesting to know about. Chicago (and Gary, IN) have a lot of great abandoned places, but security is pretty high around many of them
I live in NY, they closed because too many gangs were hanging around and it turned people away. It’s not abandoned, nobody has just bought it yet. Also, a Japanese amusement park company just purchased the Carousel and it shall be being shipped shortly. ;)
That's a crock of shit. I live 5min from the mall and frequented it often. Never once have I saw gang members. It's not even a bad part of town at all..
I remember going to this mall when it was almost closed down. Only a couple of stores open at that time, the rest was pretty much empty. Now a days, there are plans to convert it to some senior apartments and other stuff. Thanks for making this video.
I actually live around this area and went to this mall when I was a kid. The marry-go-round was the fastest one in our area. I used to always go up and down the blue elevator (which that one actually started my love for elevators). It's crazy to see this mall again.
Brad's Verbal Vomit Shopping malls still exist...and plenty of them are still thriving. I'm 18 and there are 2 I grew up with (Grapevine Mills and Northeast Mall in Texas) that still get decent foot traffic as far as I know. The abandoned/dead ones we see on here are the ones that are in bad areas or refused to get with the times.
I felt somewhat emotional watching this video, I remember going every weekend with my dad to the pit stop slot car track. It was great to see this place after so many years.
I love the designers thought to add in plenty of natural lighting. Reminds me of the Sparks Legend Outlet Mall near me (in NV). My cousin and I went to a really old still active mall (Warwick Mall) when I visited her one Christmas and it had barely any windows on the roof at all. Made the place seem so dreary despite all the Xmas decorations.
The layout and everything reminds me of a retro version of the mall I'm closest to. That mall is still extremely popular and busy almost all the time so its very eerie seeing a mall very similar completely empty and abandoned
Omg, this is my city. I shopped in this mall with my mom as a little kid. And a few years on my own as a pre-teen. The memories! How am I just now finding this 😱
Wouldn't it be awesome if people could just rent out one of these stores and live in it? Those huge empty anchor stores would make amazing luxury homes. This could even be converted into a school or leased out to small businesses..so much wasted potential 😭
Monica Hernandez I mean I feel like no one would do that unless the population grew big time and stuff started going again, because it sure would be scary to be living in an abandoned mall
I remember going into this mall. I live 10 minutes away. It was so beautiful and there was nothing like it. One of the only two story malls in the whole state. I miss it for sure.
It always fascinates me that a vast amount of space that was was bustling with business now sits abandoned and empty, never to return to its original glory.
We have a mall here in Houston called Greenspoint Mall that opened in 1976. It is now in the final stages of being purchased and converted into a multi use facility. It will likely still include retail stores and dining, but will also probably include office space, educational and other uses. I should point out this mall is in a pretty rough area known for crime. If they could save Greenspoint mall from being abandoned there is no reason why this mall couldn't be saved. This is just an example of poor management. Sad that such a new building is just sitting there rotting away.
I live close to Nashville and there used to be a mall called 100 Oaks Mall and it was bought by Vanderbilt after it closed and was made into a medical facility of doctors offices. It’s actually a pretty nice facility with little cafes and places to eat.
How these guys don't catch criminal trespass complaints left and right is beyond me, this is one of my favorite channels, this and 'Expedition Log' with Salvatore Amadeo!
I miss malls and sometimes prefer them over online shopping. My family or friends would go with me and we would just socialize and hang out. We can’t do much of that anymore since malls are closing down.
My home town mall is very popular. I don’t see going out business because there not a lot do in Fort Wayne Indiana. *knock on wood. Where I live now my mall almost went out business because of contract problem but a new owner bought and put a aquarium into it.plus city has plan to add on to train so that u can ride train to it. Hopefully it stay in business for long time
I worked at the Sears in 2002. Majority of those stores left in the late 90's up to 2002 or so. Sears was the last one open and 2 other big anchor stores closed right before them in 2009. They sealed off the mall in 2002 or so. I remember when I worked there in Sears they sealed of access to the mall that year as there were no more retailers left.
This is a professionally done video. More than that, it is artistically done. When you can make an empty building something you want to see, that is just brilliant. There are some, who can draw a beautiful picture; and then there are those, who can create art. You two are the latter.
i've been to this very mall a couple of times when i was a kid! i was very little at the time for what it's worth--but i have such a vivid and clear memory of this halloween maze thing that they had set up w/ the help of my half-brother's school a county over iirc? still bonkers to think about too because this was the only big mall in the rochester area, and the mall where i used to live in greece is absolutely on life support
Yo it's the Medley Center! I live in Irondequoit! I used to go to this mall all the time as a kid. I've always wanted to see inside it while it was abandoned.
Good job guys, I was missing your vids. One questions: Was that bird breathing? And, someone else has thought about The Last of us carousel with this vid?
This is still my favorite video on the internet. I just read today that the mall was sold to a guy for $100,000 at auction. I'm disappointed I didn't get the chance, I would have made an offer. Anyway, this was my mall for many years. The only mall I like these days is a mall that looks like this. Much love, keep up the amazing work. And thanks for this video. I have photos of the mall from right before it was finally all boarded up, and I can say for almost certain I won't be setting for inside their again, at least not in this condition. I appreciate that I can visit this mall anytime I want through this video.
I would love to explore places like this, It’s awesome to know that those places has history and people used to go there to have fun and share good moments with each another.
In my town in greece,we have a big L shaped mall that was abandoned on the early 2010's.Back then i was alive but i dont remember about the mall . I really want to go and explore it but theres a working supermarket(not inside the mall) from what I've heard that supermarket chain is likely to be bought because it owes 2,5b $ to the government
i used to drive by everyday as a kid, listening to my stepdad tell me about the mall. i never actually got to go inside of the mall, but it seemed so cool and i always wanted to.
Terrific music selections, gents. It really captured the almost majestic feel of what it must be like to walk through his cathedral-like structure. (Of course, it's been bouncing around in my head all day, now...) A great job throughout, hands-down the best of all the Medley Centre films to date.
While most of the mall closed in 2009... Macy's was still open until 2014, and Sears was open until 2016. Angelo Ingrassia bought the property in January of 2016 and announced a redevelopment project in August of 2017. Funding for the project was approved by the town in July of 2019. And the "groundbreaking" for the project occurred in January of 2020... bad timing.
Great video guys. I am a fan of all that is abandoned. I live not far from this mall. It was first called Irondequoit Mall back in the early 90s. I have been in many abandoned locations in this area. Awesome job I am a big fan.
Now do the same documentary at midnight on Halloween and hold up just a candle in front of the camera as lighting. When you hear a noise in the distance, do like every horror movie and yell, "Billy, is that you?!"
10:42 i dont know why but i immediately recognized that as the Disney store. Im not a huge Disney fan and probably only went in one of those stores a handful of times in my life. But I immediately recognized it. I guess their store set up and style was just that distinct.
15:12 Sargent is a brand of locks with their own set of keyways (key and lock milling patterns), some of which are proprietary, and some of which are not. From my (Limited, apprentice) experience, I'd guess they're used for... Something. No way to tell accurately without more information.
At 10:30 I knew it was Disney!! The outside glass tubes had the displays that moved! The back TV had stuffed animals in the shelves, there would have been charecters on top of shelves and in the glass! Also, that design if Disney was from the 90s to 2000s. The last store of that design was actually in NY and recently closed. The moving displays would have been given back to Disney or sent to museums!
everytime i watch videos like this i just think how it just takes a few people to buy them and say "I am giving back" ... make part of it apartments/housing (for the less fortunate), open up the food court in part to have some basic food.... maybe put some sort of medical office in there someone to take care of the people living inside ... and look how BEAUTIFUL that is .. sure there are old dead malls in bad shape physically but some are in great shape and just sitting there
In my town there’s only like two abandoned places that people go to. The first one is called Midget Town. It’s a old incinerator that’s all graffitied up. And then the Slaughter House in the stockyards downtown, but there’s so many cops over there you can’t even get in.
This mall design was almost exactly (if not legitimately exactly) reproduced different places. Freehold Raceway Mall in NJ, for example. It’s been updated some but this is scarily identical to how it was in the 90s-early 00s. Giant fountain in the center atrium with the elevator (was removed for walking path and starbucks), giant carousel at the end of the food court. All stores and facades and accents identical. Pretty crazy.
OMG, the interior looks exactly like the Freehold Raceway Mall near me, right down to the middle area with elevator and Merry Go Round in back near food court(Still open though)
@numberyellow I dunno if those places are still there, haven't been there in awhile either. I don't see FRM closing any time soon cause of location, but interesting to see a dead mall with pretty much the same layout.
I think it would be cool if a developer came along and turned the whole top part into condos and then reopened the bottom part as a mall. So much potential with malls
This is creepy. Uncanny. There is a mall in my town called the Charlestowne Mall. It looks almost exactly the same. There was a carousel similar to that one. The inside architecture is almost exactly the same. Look up "Charlestowne Mall." You will see how creepily coincidental this is.
That's because this mall and Charlestowne were "sister malls". Built around the same time and by the same development company, Wilmorite Properties. Who are based of of Chili, NY not far from where the mall in this video is located.
The whole time you were walking around The Disney Store, trying to figure out what it was, I was yelling “The Disney Store!” at my TV. 😂 Must have been put in around the same time as the one in my mall as a kid.
Irondeqoit Mall was absolutely beautiful when it opened up! I spent many many happy hours in that place. The increase of car break ins and shop lifting combined with the downfall of Kodak and Xerox led to its demise. Now we are left with only two actual malls in Rochester - and of the two Eastview is the only one I can see making it for years and years to come. Thanks for posting this.
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The Proper People nice reference to this is dan bells dead mall videos
The Proper People ,,,,,yet another good vid guys,,love the music,,really good😊👍✋
What mall are they exploring?
When were you guys at Medley Centre!?! That's 20 minutes from where I live!
what stores were there in that mall ?
Update: On July 30th 2019 A referendum to borrow $7.25 million dollars to transform the mall into a community center was approved by the voters in Irondequoit. So this nice building will be re-purposed, not torn down.
fuck that center bull shit how bout fully funded homeless shelter
is it still easily accessed? im tryna go
Can you give us a visual update on this ?
@MysteryFan ye
There’s also a Ronald McDonald charity sales area that has opened. Also a business called Conduent. Both businesses occupy the former Macy’s section of the building. Senior housing will be soon built at the Sears end as well as the outer area of the mall.
This closed mall is in better condition then the open mall in my town
Bin Dardundat it’s too bad they could not find a broker to buy this place and be able to revamp this mall.
Same lol
What about inside the walls
@@BrandonSugiura it would be a good place for airsoft
It's to bad malls are not profitable anymore.
Abandon Mall Video: **1 Year Ago**
(Edited: This was a meme calm down obvi this wouldn’t be the set they used.)
Stranger Things Fans: *STarCouRt Mall From S3?!*
Adam _2020 / *I COMMENTED THE SAME THING*
Thank God I wasn’t the only one who instantly thought of ST3 when I saw this.
Hahahaha
At least I know I’m not going crazy off of stranger things 😂
yessss same thoughts . crazy haha
I feel attacked
The most depressing part is that beautiful old carousal just sitting there abandoned. .all the joy it brought and now long silent..
Erik TheDragonGeek76 thankfully it has been bought by a collector and will be moved elsewhere to be restored and taken care of.
@@brynntimothy37 Well, it is going to China. so there is that. China using the money you spent on their garbage to buy you out...LOL
I find the bird about to die the depressing part :(
Yes for kids but not adults ☹️
Erik TheDragonGeek76 what a cliche
I love how these guys are respectful of the premise, not taking or damaging stuff, or even moving it around most of the time. They leave almost no indication of their presence, they're just there to observe. Its nice to see.
While I also appreciate that, like the rest of us they'd take something really valuable in a minute.
sparkplug1018 I doubt it considering they make a lot off these videos
its one of the reason im such a big fan of this channel. i just started watching them in the past couple weeks and these guys are great.
Tbh i dont like to steal or damage things. But i would have taken the neon signs in a heart beat 😂 sorry
@@binksmas Then they would not function. Neon is really fragile that's the reason it isn't used as much. There are very special and specific ways to transport it. It's glass tubes with an inert gas (Neon) in it with an electric charge to make the light. Specific power requirements are also needed. Just touching a neon tube with bare hands will cause it to stop functioning because of the oils in human skin.
Source: Years ago back in 1997, I called a neon sign company because I wanted some wild designs made. Clearly, out of my price range.
As soon as they walked into the Disney store I remembered the cake tiered display of plushies and the Screen that would play different movie scenes. Those were the days back in the 90s.
Just enough technology to make life easier, kinder people, happier times, and most important, no social media. I wish I weren't able to type this. I wish there were no Facebook, Instagram, snap chat, tik tok, or any other social media platform which has completely destroyed society.
This place was my childhood. It was opened when i was born. I shopped at those stores. I ate at that food court. I rode that merry go round. My grandmother worked at Bon Ton. I was last in that mall when I was 16-17. I went Christmas shopping with my father. There obviously wasn’t much left open but Macy’s and Sears. I remember stopping in the middle of a crowd of people, taking a quick look around and then crying like a baby. It hurt to see such a large part of my childhood reduced to nothing. It’s bittersweet watching this video now because I work in the Macy’s area now but I’m not allowed to go into the mall. So close yet so far away. Thank you for uploading this.
No wonder you eat stray cats!
miss this place man, ive lived over in webster my whole life
That's where I've lived for the last 6 years, but I was born and raised in East Irondequoit.
Living in Webster, I was in this mall almost every weekend.
Liz Moulton I live in Webster too!
This video satisfies my late 80's/early 90's fancy
Malls just seem to be such an odd novelty now that I think about it.
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i miss being able to smoke in the mall. i used to love walking the long halls smoking a marlboro red.. in the famous words of archie bunker..."THOSE WERE THE DAYS"
You guys should include overlay videos of the past...it would be so interesting to see the time lapse from a time long gone.
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Bright Sun Films does that
I can just imagine a whole community of zombie apocalypse survivors living there, making their homes out of the stores and the center of the mall being turned into a garden for food.
Was thinking the same exact scenario
Ditto.
Watch the show The Mist. The writers had a similar idea!
I forgot what I wanted to say, but it was related.l
Twinkies!!!!!!?!!!!!!!
One of my favorite dead malls. I love malls with a lot of natural light and that late 80s early 90s aesthetic. This is a time capsule from 1990
Dude, the music was killer in this video.
DustinPenncakes go watch Dan Bell abandoned mall series, retro wave is the type of music
I've watched a few of Dan's videos in the past. I'll have to go check him out again.
The music was very much like a group from the 1990's called Enigma.
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Them: "It was a very old looking Disney store."
Me: (sigh)......."That's what they looked like in the 90s when I was a kid."
bbtank3000 I would have loved to have seen that stage thing in the old Disney store when it was open because that’s where all the plushies would have been. A big mountain of plushies. At the nearest one to me (they closed an even closer one 😢) the plushies are all on a wall, shoved onto a shelf
that's the Disney store that I know
It looks like the Disney store I went to from the late 00s and early 2010s lol
The thing in the middle was a huge display where they’d put all the plushies, I always just wanted to jump in the plushie pile. One time I was the kid who got to open the store in May the 1st (I think it was) and they gave me Mickey’s wizard hat and a little wizard Mickey lanyard, which I sadly lost.
Im so pleased that it’s evaded graffiti art! Looks pristine 💋 xx
It's does give you that feeling .. weird to just see them abandoned.. sad to think they used to be packed filled with people enjoying time
Yeah i miss that time so much fun times and now its al over uhh
They also used to be filled with thugs trying to harm people, gang fights, rude teenagers causing trouble, couples bickering about spending so much money, and overpriced merchandise.
So, look at the downside, which is the upside in this scenario. Hope that cheers you up. :)
@@Simpleton_X no this mall was not that bad I used to go there
I remember when that mall opened and I was there the last day it was opened. The gangs had taken it over and became unsafe to be there at all. I was once stuck in a store because of a fight in front of the store I was in. That Disney Store closed years before the mall ever closed. The Sears was the last to close down and was functioning well after the mall closed. It finally closed not too long ago. The area is not the best and more than likely will never have anything done to it. Many plans have come and gone and yet nothing has been done. The reason it looks so nice is that there are a lot of people who look out for the mall and have called the police when they see anything suspicious happening. There is a Target within walking distance from it, so the cameras would pick it up. I loved this mall when it was full of stores, but toward the end there was only Burger King and a few Sneaker stores left.
@Bill Williams This mall boarders the north side of Rochester, which is the ghetto, "those people" have anyways been there. That whole area is just shitty lol.
This mall is SO 90's. Looks just like the one I grew up with. those skylights...
I wasn't born in the 90's, but yeah, I get the ascetic and I love it
I'm so unfamiliar with you guys exploring abandoned malls, Dan Bell is the mall guy.
But this looks like a PROMISING video! Loving the mall style music too.
I live in Chicago so it's not much help, but very interesting to know about.
Chicago (and Gary, IN) have a lot of great abandoned places, but security is pretty high around many of them
Look way back on their channel, they have another one. It's how I found them.
I live in NY, they closed because too many gangs were hanging around and it turned people away. It’s not abandoned, nobody has just bought it yet. Also, a Japanese amusement park company just purchased the Carousel and it shall be being shipped shortly.
;)
If only I were there to stop them regardless of how I did it.
I bet we see the carousel in an abandoned Japanese theme park video soon. ;)
Was this in Syracuse NY?
Irondequoit, NY. Mentioned in the beginning of the video
That's a crock of shit. I live 5min from the mall and frequented it often. Never once have I saw gang members. It's not even a bad part of town at all..
I appreciate the mallsoft/ vaporwave vibe you did
The visuals and the music in this video were on point.
I remember going to this mall when it was almost closed down. Only a couple of stores open at that time, the rest was pretty much empty. Now a days, there are plans to convert it to some senior apartments and other stuff. Thanks for making this video.
I actually live around this area and went to this mall when I was a kid. The marry-go-round was the fastest one in our area. I used to always go up and down the blue elevator (which that one actually started my love for elevators). It's crazy to see this mall again.
OutsideTheBox (and beyond the dictionary) umm, *merry
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I used to get confused with this mall in another mall in Greece Ny as a child
@galaxycraft20 me too! West side
@@KINGONE6XIVused to be Greece town Mall and long Ridge mall. I now live like a block from there on Ridge
OMG I remember going to this mall every weekend as a kid so many memories 😩😩
These videos make me very emotional. Kids today will never know the pleasures of the shopping mall.
I love shopping malls am a teenager
Brad's Verbal Vomit Shopping malls still exist...and plenty of them are still thriving. I'm 18 and there are 2 I grew up with (Grapevine Mills and Northeast Mall in Texas) that still get decent foot traffic as far as I know. The abandoned/dead ones we see on here are the ones that are in bad areas or refused to get with the times.
We still have thriving malls in Austin. My kids know. Lol
Yeah. The problem is they put malls where bad people are and they steal everything and then people that want to buy stuff cant.
I felt somewhat emotional watching this video, I remember going every weekend with my dad to the pit stop slot car track. It was great to see this place after so many years.
I love the designers thought to add in plenty of natural lighting. Reminds me of the Sparks Legend Outlet Mall near me (in NV). My cousin and I went to a really old still active mall (Warwick Mall) when I visited her one Christmas and it had barely any windows on the roof at all. Made the place seem so dreary despite all the Xmas decorations.
"I think we went in on the first floor...?"
Me at any functioning mall.
malls have entrances on all floors
The layout and everything reminds me of a retro version of the mall I'm closest to. That mall is still extremely popular and busy almost all the time so its very eerie seeing a mall very similar completely empty and abandoned
Omg, this is my city. I shopped in this mall with my mom as a little kid. And a few years on my own as a pre-teen. The memories! How am I just now finding this 😱
That carousel is so beautiful!
Your face is pretty too 😃 but yeah that is one beautiful carosuel warms my heart no one detoryed it
Amazing seeing these abandoned malls .. it’s also amazing seeing a mall without Starbucks 😅
me-*recognizes the exterior of the Disney store immediately *
them-“whats this store?”
me-“wow, i’m old”
Seeing that bird just lying there dying slowly made me really sad
yeah wtf it was alive.
Me too 😕
You can see i breathing too. I wonder what was killing it.
Silas McGee learn to use punctuation.
The bird probably hit a glass window trying to get out
Shopping malls need to make a comeback. Great memories to be had and a great place to spend time with family or friends.
Starcourt mall
Wouldn't it be awesome if people could just rent out one of these stores and live in it? Those huge empty anchor stores would make amazing luxury homes. This could even be converted into a school or leased out to small businesses..so much wasted potential 😭
Monica Hernandez I mean I feel like no one would do that unless the population grew big time and stuff started going again, because it sure would be scary to be living in an abandoned mall
He said theyre converting it into a community center and office building soon so that is great.
@@sfletch3042 They always say stuff like that. I've never seen it happen.
They should open to the homeless
Adrian Camarena can you imagine the smell?? They will ruin everything
I remember going into this mall. I live 10 minutes away. It was so beautiful and there was nothing like it. One of the only two story malls in the whole state. I miss it for sure.
Dylan Boccardo why did the stores close?
@@nathaliacgoncalves the area in which it was in was mostly lower income folks. Plus rumors of crime and two other malls in the area got remodeled.
@@TheeRighteousOnee i remember going to it too. always liked eastview better tho.
I miss that mall. It was my childhood. 😭😔💕🔥
It always fascinates me that a vast amount of space that was was bustling with business now sits abandoned and empty, never to return to its original glory.
chivic89 thank Amazon .com
Thank the Federal Government & Zero Percent interest rates that gutted the disposable income of the American Middle Class
It was a shopping mall, not that glorious to begin with. At least sitting abandoned like this it has a certain artistic quality.
sadly build on the right side of the tracks but just on the other side of the tracks is like chivic89 stated. to bad!
chivic89 that's because of technology, retail sales is going to be a thing of the past unfortunately!!
We have a mall here in Houston called Greenspoint Mall that opened in 1976. It is now in the final stages of being purchased and converted into a multi use facility. It will likely still include retail stores and dining, but will also probably include office space, educational and other uses. I should point out this mall is in a pretty rough area known for crime. If they could save Greenspoint mall from being abandoned there is no reason why this mall couldn't be saved. This is just an example of poor management. Sad that such a new building is just sitting there rotting away.
I live close to Nashville and there used to be a mall called 100 Oaks Mall and it was bought by Vanderbilt after it closed and was made into a medical facility of doctors offices. It’s actually a pretty nice facility with little cafes and places to eat.
billybassman21 more like GUNS POINT MALL
Why The Proper People don't have at least one million subscribers is beyond me.
Daniel Antonio I know!! I feel the same way!!! Their videos are so good!
Cause a lot of people aren't into great videos like this. They rather see two dipshits prank each other all day or watch a bunch of drama channels.
There's hope for the world then. Watching a bunch of kids break the law isn't as popular as it used to be.
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Because it’s boring idiot
Imagine playing hide and go seek in there or go carts! Whose with me?
I am all for the go carts!
Definitely go carting ! Mario races ...I pick bowser 😂
Hell yah! For hide and seek though you'd have to pick a section as the mall is just too damn big. lol
heh, I used to work in Rochester and drive by this mall everyday off 104. Pretty cool to come across it on your channel!
I live off Ridge Rd
585 rep
I see it about once a week and the donuts and skid makes have turned the parking lot black
How these guys don't catch criminal trespass complaints left and right is beyond me, this is one of my favorite channels, this and 'Expedition Log' with Salvatore Amadeo!
I remember going too that mall when I was 7 years old this is insane to me
the ambient noise, haunting/faded music, and the crappy parking lot made it feel like a Fallout scene
I miss malls and sometimes prefer them over online shopping. My family or friends would go with me and we would just socialize and hang out. We can’t do much of that anymore since malls are closing down.
My home town mall is very popular. I don’t see going out business because there not a lot do in Fort Wayne Indiana. *knock on wood. Where I live now my mall almost went out business because of contract problem but a new owner bought and put a aquarium into it.plus city has plan to add on to train so that u can ride train to it. Hopefully it stay in business for long time
The place looked very well preserved, no water leaks and resultant mold that is usually abundant in long derelict buildings.
My father loved the video, brought back good memories for him
they really kept those 90s photos all the way up till 2009. wow this mall is beautiful.
I worked at the Sears in 2002. Majority of those stores left in the late 90's up to 2002 or so. Sears was the last one open and 2 other big anchor stores closed right before them in 2009. They sealed off the mall in 2002 or so. I remember when I worked there in Sears they sealed of access to the mall that year as there were no more retailers left.
This is a professionally done video. More than that, it is artistically done. When you can make an empty building something you want to see, that is just brilliant. There are some, who can draw a beautiful picture; and then there are those, who can create art. You two are the latter.
i've been to this very mall a couple of times when i was a kid! i was very little at the time for what it's worth--but i have such a vivid and clear memory of this halloween maze thing that they had set up w/ the help of my half-brother's school a county over iirc? still bonkers to think about too because this was the only big mall in the rochester area, and the mall where i used to live in greece is absolutely on life support
Yo it's the Medley Center! I live in Irondequoit! I used to go to this mall all the time as a kid. I've always wanted to see inside it while it was abandoned.
This Mall Is HUGE WOW
Good job guys, I was missing your vids. One questions: Was that bird breathing? And, someone else has thought about The Last of us carousel with this vid?
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Holy crap I totally see the Last Of Us now
It looks like it was still breathing! It could have flown into something and knocked itself unconscious. That happens a lot with windows/clear doors
Who gives a shit ? lol its a fucking bird
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Oh hey, I remember that Sprint logo. "That's an _old_ Sprint logo." TFW I realize I'm old. feelsbadman.jpg
From the image on that cell phone store sign this screams 20 years ago .
This is still my favorite video on the internet. I just read today that the mall was sold to a guy for $100,000 at auction. I'm disappointed I didn't get the chance, I would have made an offer. Anyway, this was my mall for many years. The only mall I like these days is a mall that looks like this. Much love, keep up the amazing work. And thanks for this video. I have photos of the mall from right before it was finally all boarded up, and I can say for almost certain I won't be setting for inside their again, at least not in this condition. I appreciate that I can visit this mall anytime I want through this video.
Amazing vid once again yall, music was absolutely perfect
I will forever miss the Mall. #80sChild
So nice to be able to see an abandoned building that has NOT been vandalized
It looks Exactly like the Freehold mall before it got renovated... really brings me back...
I love the late 80’s pastel colours for the tiles and decor, awesome!
I would love to explore places like this, It’s awesome to know that those places has history and people used to go there to have fun and share good moments with each another.
I was 9 when it opened. I basically grew up in this mall. This brings back many memories. Amazing video!
Can't believe theres no graffiti or broken glass anywhere
5:13 that bird on it’s last breath made me feel like I almost cried
Looks like the mall by me it was so nice when i was a kid and teen
In my town in greece,we have a big L shaped mall that was abandoned on the early 2010's.Back then i was alive but i dont remember about the mall . I really want to go and explore it but theres a working supermarket(not inside the mall) from what I've heard that supermarket chain is likely to be bought because it owes 2,5b $ to the government
i used to drive by everyday as a kid, listening to my stepdad tell me about the mall. i never actually got to go inside of the mall, but it seemed so cool and i always wanted to.
Terrific music selections, gents. It really captured the almost majestic feel of what it must be like to walk through his cathedral-like structure. (Of course, it's been bouncing around in my head all day, now...) A great job throughout, hands-down the best of all the Medley Centre films to date.
Can anybody name the song they played? I want to know!
While most of the mall closed in 2009... Macy's was still open until 2014, and Sears was open until 2016. Angelo Ingrassia bought the property in January of 2016 and announced a redevelopment project in August of 2017. Funding for the project was approved by the town in July of 2019. And the "groundbreaking" for the project occurred in January of 2020... bad timing.
Loving the 90's retro type of beats playing in the background! 👌🏾
I love love love the skylights
Great video guys. I am a fan of all that is abandoned. I live not far from this mall. It was first called Irondequoit Mall back in the early 90s. I have been in many abandoned locations in this area. Awesome job I am a big fan.
This mall looks like a clone of the Charlestown mall in St Charles Illinois.
It is also dead.
This design must be cursed.
David Lyons I live near st Charles mall that’s what I thought this mall was when I watched the video it’s exactly the same design.
It's not cursed because the exact duplicate mall about 10 miles away is still running smoothly
Now do the same documentary at midnight on Halloween and hold up just a candle in front of the camera as lighting.
When you hear a noise in the distance, do like every horror movie and yell, "Billy, is that you?!"
Abandoned in '08? Let's go to the hot topic! Lol
Lol yeah exactly. Might as well just film inside a mall in the last 10 minutes before closing time. Then add dark ambient in the background.
10:42 i dont know why but i immediately recognized that as the Disney store. Im not a huge Disney fan and probably only went in one of those stores a handful of times in my life. But I immediately recognized it. I guess their store set up and style was just that distinct.
Reminds me of the Burlington mall in New Jersey with all the natural light. Sad to see this mall empty and in this condition
This is where i started watching this channel! You guys rock 🤘
starcourt mall?
No
15:12
Sargent is a brand of locks with their own set of keyways (key and lock milling patterns), some of which are proprietary, and some of which are not.
From my (Limited, apprentice) experience, I'd guess they're used for... Something. No way to tell accurately without more information.
I'm glad I found this channel. Abandoned malls and theme parks are my favorites.
At 10:30 I knew it was Disney!! The outside glass tubes had the displays that moved! The back TV had stuffed animals in the shelves, there would have been charecters on top of shelves and in the glass!
Also, that design if Disney was from the 90s to 2000s. The last store of that design was actually in NY and recently closed. The moving displays would have been given back to Disney or sent to museums!
everytime i watch videos like this i just think how it just takes a few people to buy them and say "I am giving back" ... make part of it apartments/housing (for the less fortunate), open up the food court in part to have some basic food.... maybe put some sort of medical office in there someone to take care of the people living inside ... and look how BEAUTIFUL that is .. sure there are old dead malls in bad shape physically but some are in great shape and just sitting there
In my town there’s only like two abandoned places that people go to. The first one is called Midget Town. It’s a old incinerator that’s all graffitied up. And then the Slaughter House in the stockyards downtown, but there’s so many cops over there you can’t even get in.
This mall design was almost exactly (if not legitimately exactly) reproduced different places. Freehold Raceway Mall in NJ, for example. It’s been updated some but this is scarily identical to how it was in the 90s-early 00s.
Giant fountain in the center atrium with the elevator (was removed for walking path and starbucks), giant carousel at the end of the food court. All stores and facades and accents identical. Pretty crazy.
OMG, the interior looks exactly like the Freehold Raceway Mall near me, right down to the middle area with elevator and Merry Go Round in back near food court(Still open though)
Looked up info and it was built by the same developer. Wilmorite Properties.
Exactly what I was thinking
Only real difference is FRM took out their fountain for a Starbucks and a sitting area.
@Michele Szczuplak - Ew, they really did that? I haven't been there in a few years. Is Gyro Place, and Michael's Deli still there?
@numberyellow I dunno if those places are still there, haven't been there in awhile either. I don't see FRM closing any time soon cause of location, but interesting to see a dead mall with pretty much the same layout.
I think it would be cool if a developer came along and turned the whole top part into condos and then reopened the bottom part as a mall. So much potential with malls
This is creepy. Uncanny. There is a mall in my town called the Charlestowne Mall. It looks almost exactly the same. There was a carousel similar to that one. The inside architecture is almost exactly the same. Look up "Charlestowne Mall." You will see how creepily coincidental this is.
That's because this mall and Charlestowne were "sister malls". Built around the same time and by the same development company, Wilmorite Properties. Who are based of of Chili, NY not far from where the mall in this video is located.
Yeah I’m from the same area lol I was thinking the same thing. Someone should try to record it before they tear it down.
I remember growing up going to this mall all the time it sad to see it like this
I watched them tear down the woods i played in to build it and then spent years in that place. And now its shot.
The whole time you were walking around The Disney Store, trying to figure out what it was, I was yelling “The Disney Store!” at my TV. 😂 Must have been put in around the same time as the one in my mall as a kid.
I love shopping at indoor malls. Sad to see them abandoned. This one looks like it was really fancy at one point.
How did you not run into any zombies? Surprised you didn't get lost in that place.
Irondeqoit Mall was absolutely beautiful when it opened up! I spent many many happy hours in that place. The increase of car break ins and shop lifting combined with the downfall of Kodak and Xerox led to its demise. Now we are left with only two actual malls in Rochester - and of the two Eastview is the only one I can see making it for years and years to come.
Thanks for posting this.
hmmm i wonder why Eastview is still doing well? could it be demographics and the fact that it doesn't have city bus service?
It was so beautiful when it was operating as intended. It's a shame we don't construct for the long term.
I like that 80's "art deco" style
Is it just me or does it looks like starcourt mall?
Just you. In fact, you are the only person who has mentioned this in the comments.