DEAD 90s POSTMODERN MALL (Hamilton City Center)
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2022
- The City Center (formerly Eaton's mall) was built in the downtown core of downtown Hamilton Ont. in 1990. and it has been described as a postmodern monstrosity. After Eaton's left the mall it has slowly been dying and is now dead. It is being closed permanently on Dec 26th 2022 and demolition will be started in early 2023.
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Our family opened a printing shop in the early 90's Downtown. Eaton Centre was one of the locations we scouted for setting up, but they wanted an insane amount of money for rent - it was actually more per square foot than we would have been charged to open in Downtown Toronto, if you can believe it. It never took off. It was a huge place, and I used to enjoy the Philly Cheesesteak sandwich place in the basement, but other than that there was never much there once Eaton's closed. Bad timing all around, economics and the downturn of steel in Hamilton set the tone, and the expansion of the suburbs and arrival of American Box stores sealed its fate I think.
I find this really sad. I miss the 90s.
One of my earliest memories here, was a grand opening one of the music stores.They had some boy band perform and sign autographs for all the screaming girls lol😁 Also worked in one of the clothing stores there. Oh the 90's! Love forever and rememberd in our Mall memories! ✌💖🙏
Really nice mall. Shame it's going but if it's dead guess it makes sense. Great explore Terry and thanks for taking us with you.
Radical. I worked at eatons in the late 80s when I was a teen. I had to move the new merch into the new Eaton store in 1990. It was such an exciting time to be in a new huge Eaton department store. Although we missed the old eatons store that got demolished before they built this one because the old Eaton had a woman who wore white gloves and took you up and down on the old fashioned elevators with a cage door and then a steel elevator door. Good old days gone. They should have just kept the old Eaton store there before building this failure. every restaurant across the road fails too.. all the good jewelry shops from 70s, 80s across road near king all gone. all the real hungarian butchers across road going north on james street all gone too. Sad as life really was better in 70s 80s in that area. Probably 50s and 60s too when the original denningers family stores were operating with original owners.
I wish I had seen the old building it looked gorgeous!
I was there opening day, and remember the the old Eatons being torn and this built. It was the next big downtown project as Commerce Place was just completed
Heartbreaking to see urban malls in Canada suffer and fail especially all of the old Eaton Centre's with the exception of probably Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver... Ours here in Edmonton is also on its last leg with at least a 50% vacancy rate and what's left is basically a Landmark Theatre 9 plex, a Delta hotel and lots of parking next to Rogers Place. They even removed the food court for more parking... Winners, Sport Chek and The Bay all packed up and left in the last 3 years and nobody has replaced it.. Great video, btw!
Been there a few times.When it opened, it was quite impressive. Kinda reminded me of a retail Cathedral .But when Eatons went bust ,quite a few downtown malls that had them went bust soon after .Some malls bounced back eventually ,but never recovered . Yeah Jackson square mall next door feels like a vault ,but it has business. People go there. This place went from a Cathedral to a morgue. Mall management and the city declaring that everything must close at 6 pm is just stunning.
Thanks for capturing this when you did! I found out the City Centre was closing too late to go and see it one last time myself...
A lot of comments are mentioning ways it couldve been good or asking what happened to it, why it cant be restored.. But I don't think people realize that although its pretty, its directly connected to Jackson's Square, and its in a pretty ... bad area. Several big crimes have been commited in and around those 2 malls. A friend of mine literally witnessed a stabbing while on the bus outside here. -and it was very common to see some pretty sketchy people there. I always went with a group of people. Sad to hear about the bowling alley, but I can honestly understand why you wouldnt even want to be there after 6/7.
Im rather sad that Jackson's Square is staying but this gorgeous City Centre was the one to go. Everytime I was there I loved to walk into the Atrium area. Again, thanks for capturing it so extensively!!❤
Yeah I can remember a few big crimes that have happened there too. And fully agree that jackson should go! One of the worst mall designs etc ever (although if you look up the original plans it was going to be really cool)
Yes super amazing, love all your videos 💕🥰
i would like to see them save that clock tower on it, i think that clock tower is very beautiful. maybe they could incorporate it into the new thing they are building. it is kind of a shame to demolish a fairly new building.
I heard they're keeping the clock and an old Eaton sign
Hi Terry 👋 Wow that Mall is huge and I love it too❤️I would to go shopping there 😁Another great video 👍Have a wonderful day or night 😎
Beautiful Mall Terry ❤️
Wow! Weird to think this mall is going to be demolished! Its huge!!!
Hamilton City Centre is 423,900 square feet, the Jackson Square mall next door has around the same amount of retail space, which is probably enough mall space for downtown Hamilton at this point. The Eaton Centre they built in downtown Toronto, which this one was kind of modelled on, is four times the size.
I lived in Hamilton 1998-2004. You could have fired a cannon through that mall and not hit anyone.
Limeridge mall killed downtown shame it was built . Unfortunately this mall should have never been biult what a waste . Loved the old Eatons store shame it was torn down to make way for this mistake. Only if Jackson Square looked like that ! Good to document history especially the tragedies
I'm still blown away that Jackson Square is staying and they are demolishing this. And who knows when that will even happen now, the project is on hold indefinitely
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Well, when you have a Salvation Army across the street...
Looks like a great mall too bad it never took off 😎
Great explore while still open
Lets see it in a few years if you can sneak past security…
Demolition is slated to start early in 2023, so not much chance to get into the mall once it closes
with managers like that, who needs competitors?
To be fair to the managers of Hamilton City Centre, they've managed to find new tenants to keep most of the space inside the building occupied for the last twenty years since Eatons closed, even if that meant a call centre on the top floor and less-fancy retailers than the mall had when it opened in 1992. Managing a downtown shopping mall in Hamilton is not exactly an easy task, especially when you are right next to an even larger downtown mall. Honestly I think this mall could have continued on in its current state for years to come, if the property owners hadn't decided it was time to cash in on the very valuable land this mall is sitting on
wow, amazing i want to live there, really think this financial shit shouldnt happen to our socities ,can u study and report on the owners case of relation to ownership
Sad looks like destiny in Syracuse scary you never know
I get it. No one goes to malls when you can order online. The architect is beautiful. Why not make it a hotel? Or apartments for homeless. Or business offices. I dont get it. Thanks for the video
Some people are still going to this mall and Jackson Square, even in their depleted state. If you go to a mall like the Toronto Eaton Centre or Square One, there's definitely still a ton of shoppers. As to why they are demolishing Hamilton City Centre to build condos, well consider how much condos cost in Hamilton and this redevelopment will add 2,000 of them, so that's roughly a billion dollars generated from this site versus whatever it's earning now in rent from the remaining retailers. I hope at least having those thousands of new residents will help businesses in Jackson Square and elsewhere downtown.
I think Hamilton City Centre is a cool looking mall, but really they should have just kept the old Eatons store, there's a lot you could do with a grand old department store from the 1920s versus a mall from the 1990s.
@@sacvideo1998 thanks for the info
Pretty nice mall
hi Terry nice mall so sad that they are closing the door, s for good and that they are going to demolished it hope they will put something else there ❤️ you guys
They are going to put three condo towers with 2,000 units, plus retail on the ground level.
HI Terry there is one Question Do any malls in Canada have department stores
Any that I have been to don't anymore
Yorkdale Mall, which is bussling, in Toronto has Hudson's Bay.
Yes, most large Canadian shopping malls still have department stores. Hamilton's most popular mall, Limeridge, has a Hudson's Bay, which is kind of a mid-market store like Macy's. It use to have a Sears, but Sears went out of business in Canada a few years ago, so a lot of malls have been dividing up former Sears stores into smaller spaces. Basically, other than Hudson's Bay, Canada's only remaining department stores are more high end, so you mostly find them in fancy malls. Yorkdale in Toronto, for example, has Hudson's Bay, Nordstrom and Holt Renfrew, while the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto has Hudson's Bay, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Square One in Mississauaga, the largest mall in Ontario, has Hudson's Bay, Holt Renfrew, the Quebec-based Simon's and Walmart (which is something you see in Canadian malls way more often than in American ones). Additionally, it's fairly common for Canadian malls to include grocery stores.
The Eaton's chain, which built Hamilton City Centre, built a bunch of downtown malls before it went out of business in 1999. Sears took over some of its best downtown locations, but the Hamilton store didn't make the cut.
Also, the Hart store, which currently occupies the biggest chunk of space in Hamilton City Centre, is technically a department store, but closer to a Kmart type department store than Macy's or something. It has various departments, selling clothing, furniture, house wears etc, kind of replacing the function Eatons used to serve for downtown Hamilton. You see Hart in a lot of smaller Canadian malls, or in smaller cities, like up in Northern Ontario, often replacing space that used to be filled by a store like Sears.
@@sacvideo1998 Thanks, never heard of Hart Store and I live in Toronto (GTA).
Close at 6:00, no parking, destined to fail. Thanks for the experience.