I used to come here in the early 2000s every Tusday to play Warhammer at the Go! The Game Store. I really miss the Tokyo Grill in the food court. All that section was demolished though. It's a shame that you can't do a video on Palatine's Randhurst mall. That whole thing got leveled for an outdoor mall
I used to go to Springhill Mall quite often when I lived in Crystal Lake. Haven’t seen the inside of this place since the early ‘90’s. Great video and thanks for sharing ✌🏼👍🏼👍🏼
This mall just closed a few weeks ago. I met my wife here for the first time. Granted, we spoke on the phone the night before but this is where I first laid eyes on my beautiful bride. Now married with 7 kids, I will miss this place well into my golden years.
I love seeing your videos ❤ But this one hit home 😞 I remember Growing up in this mall. I remember the stores I remember the food court. I remember it was always as busy as it can be on Saturday. But the most I remember is the times of going in with your parents. Young not having any bills or problems just walking with them doing shopping at Spring Hill Mall. Sad to see it die down but memories are always in our heats ❤ Thank you for this 🙌🏼
I LOVED this mall, it was my childhood. the fountain used to be the coolest thing to me. They're permanently closing soon and it's just been making me super depressed but im glad you have this video up for preservation. I'm going to miss this place so much...
This video was a banger! What a nice mall to fall into ruins. Usually I am not a fan of the mid 2000's renovations, but they really did a great job here.
I’m really impressed by the quality of research you do for these episodes. I tuned in because I saw Stratford Square pop up on my feed out of nowhere. I watched it because I originally moved to this area because a job transfer with a company that operated there. I’ve watched a few episodes since and really enjoyed them. Can’t afford the Patreon right now, but I’ll subscribe and keep watching for sure!
Good evening northcdogg22 good day hope you had a wonderful weekend with family, friends, exploring new things today at the mall and besides your video are getting better every moment.
Incredible as always North! It is an honor to featured in the last episode of season 4. I am just astonished on how dead Spring Hill mall got from the last video I watched where Barnes and Noble was in state of closing for good and especially seeing that closed Cinnabon is heart breaking. At least the fountain is still going, I can't wait to see what you have in store for season 5! Stay Gold North!
Great video about Springhill Mall!!! 🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️ I didn't know you did a review of Springhill Mall??? 🤔🤔🤔 And great pictures of writeup about the history of this fabulous mall I and my family enjoyed for years and I mentioned in you Stratford Square Mall video my twin son hoping to visit it come this summer!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I use to ditch class and drive all the way out to this mall 😂. But it was going down at the start of the 2000s as well. I haven't been there in 13 years.
been watching for a while now and im so hooked on each video u post i dont know what it is but the view feeling and vibes are always gold please continue with this amazing content
So happy to see you cover Spring Hill. This was the mall of my adolescence. I grew up over the years from visiting with my mom, then breaking off on my own and going with friends in high school. Just a treasure of a place. IIRC, at one point before the mid-200s redesign, the ceiling (at least in places) had a sky and clouds wallpaper? Vibes. Also glad you got some shots of the nearby downtown East/West Dundee. Thankfully, that area did NOT get killed by the mall, and today is thriving with some really cool shops/restaurants. The old Clearwater (now Rochaus) theater is another peak nostalgia place. And shoutout to Bandito's and Carol's Corner Pub! Also, I think you missed filming it but the strip mall just outside the mall on the south side was for a good while COMPLETELY empty and dead. It was eerie for a few good years, but now they've converted most of it into self storage. Anyway great video and thank you for capturing this icon. P.S. I know the security guy at Charlestown Mall and can possibly help you get in if you ever want to come back and do it. I didn't know it was locked now (I no longer live in the area).
I would love to come back for it! If you could DM my Instagram the info I would be more than happy, I have always wanted to tour Charlestown! Thank you!
At 1:02 you caught the street some of the opening of the movie "road to predition" was filmed on. They closed down the West Dundee side of the Fox River and made it look like winter in the middle of like July.
Indeed a beautiful mall and my, that center court made me speechless. Also thank you for all of season 4 and thank you for introducing me to main Street and Spiess
I lived a little more than an hour outside of Dundee and my parents took us kids to Spring Hill in 1986-87 in its heyday. It was a great mall at one time and full of life, laughter and commerce. It's sad that a place of such happy times for so many people declined so much that it had to be closed.
As usual amazing content and totally worth the wait! The fountain and the rest of that center court area makes me wanna go there, escape and sit down with a good book for hours on end. Unfortunately, once things started going down hill with that mall, things just seemed to have snowballed and of course the purchase by you know who pretty much sealed its fate. Sad to see it in its current state. That conversion of the one area of the mall sure produced a really nice looking theatre from the outside, a lot of grass and sidewalks. That artist's rendition of the remodel looks exciting for the area. Hopefully in a mixed use environment, at least the movie theatre will survive; I would think that something like that would be very profitable with a complete do over. You take what you do very seriously and the content of your videos clearly shows that. Based upon things you've said in the videos you would have obviously been in your complete glory if you had been around during the hey day of malls but you are doing your best to capture the content that is still out there! Many/most younger individuals probably really don't have too much of a concern for malls and archiving their histories and down falls but you are most definitely different and a big THANK YOU for all that you get out there and capture for all of us. You care about what you do and it clearly shows! Looking forward to what you have in store for us all next. THANK YOU again NorthCdogg22 - you rock.
I live literally 15 minutes away from that mall! I went there a lot as a kid... even went on a field trip to that mall in kindergarten! The food court is even where I got my taste for spicy Mexican food (too bad it closed down in 2014ish). My sisters and I also visited Santa and the Easter Bunny, which were always good times. I could just go on and on about the memories I've had at this mall
I've been going to this mall my entire life and this video was very well done and filmed. I just want to note that the food court was doing decent until they kicked all of the tenants out for the movie theater. I would say it was 75% occupied at the start of 2015. There was a really good sushi place, a Mexican restaurant, Sbarro, Subway, Charleys, Baskin Robbins, a Chicago-style food place, Auntie Annes, and an Asian Food place. JCPenney opened the new store in 2008 but closed at Spring Hill in 2011. So they tried coexisting with two stores within 10 minutes for like 3 years. In the JCPenney wing, the section from the food court to the center court was still full in 2015. The food court was a very BIG reason why people went to the mall. After they took that away, foot traffic decreased significantly. From what I understand, that Sbarro is still doing well, literally, people just go to the mall for Sbarro. That proposed redevelopment is far from happening. The political boundaries of this mall falling within the jurisdiction of two towns (West Dundee and Carpentersville) will make redevelopment difficult, as whatever happens will require being accepted by two village boards. West Dundee was just trying to solicit proposals by making clear they're fully supportive of redeveloping it
Thank you for those few corrections and this comment! I do hope this mall is able to come back somehow because it truly is beautiful, and I think that there is still a community behind it. It really just needs to secure more tenants like Sbarro it sounds like.
The Mexican restaurant is where I got my taste for spicy food. Remember eating there when I was about 6/7, and I always ordered a steak bowl with lots of hot sauce. I used to dig my fingers into the hot sauce when my mom wasn't looking XD And wait, there's still Sbarro? I thought that closed along with the food court in 2014. Or maybe I'm just not paying attention.
Pittsburgh, eh? So probably Pittsburgh Mills, Century III (if you like sneaking in at least), Monroeville Mall, and if you like going north of the city an hour or so, Shenango Valley Mall and Clearfield Mall? Pittsburgh actually has a lot of still living malls, surprisingly enough, too.
Santa's village isn't half of what it used to be, the owner has closed the ice rink gotten rid of the animals, and over half of the rides, and converted half of the property into a paintball battle ground, only families with very small children, and tight budgets go there any more, in fact with Great America having gotten too expensive, and having a serious problem with gangs, and the demise of Adventure Land and Dispensas Kiddie Kingdom, along with the original Kiddie Land, the Amusement Park business in the Chicago area is pretty much on the skids.
Yea, I used to go to Kiddie Land, Dinorex, Six Flags, all that. It is sad to see so many things turn to mush. And to think that's happening in a lot of other major city areas. But I guess it's to be expected
Oh, for the days of Riverview! I went there once as a young child before it closed in 1967. It opened in 1904. Nobody can afford Great America anymore.
This was my favorite childhood mall I would always come here ive been coming to this mall since it still had its play place by JC penny but when the food court got torn down it just lost its spark I still visit this mall like once every 2 months its very depressing
The property was previously occupied by a large nursery company called D Hill Nursery. That is why hill is part of the mall name. The nursery moved farther west and is still in business.
@@NorthCdogg22 Yeah, I didn’t frequent this mall often since it’s farther. But Stratford was the closest mall for me so that one is kinda sad to see dead since i remember when it was still decently occupied.
Like Stratford Square, this mall (as well as Woodfield and Fox Valley) is on my weekly walking schedule. The center court here is truly special. Great that the fountain has been preserved, too. Thanks for this video! 😎
This was where we took our young son on weekends up until about five years ago. i’d take him to super bounce while his mom shopped at Macy’s and then a ride on the Jolly Express train before going to Olive Garden for lunch. I took our three year old daughter there a couple of months ago and it was practically empty except for the Kohl’s and a few seniors getting their steps in along the dimly lit corridors. All of the coin operated kiddie rides were out of order and the gorgeous fountain was empty. I remember when the place did brisk business in the 80s and my sister used to work at the County Seat. It was never as busy as Woodfield mall but that’s what I liked about it.
The mall is mostly now owned by the village of West Dundee. Since some of the mall is part of neighboring Carpentersville, that portion is not under West Dundee's control. There are plans to redevelop the space, but nothing has moved forward yet. I also heard recently that the interior is completely closed, though one last event is scheduled to be held there: the Pinewood Derby for the local Cub Scout pack.
I've been loving that mall fountain since I was a young child... One of my best friend worked at that Aladdin's Castle until they folded. My mom seemed convinced that the Mall's death occured because of gentrification of the area further out west of the mall in Algonquin Commons. Commercial areas moved west, and the mall became a place associated with some racial tensions, given just how much of the Carpentersville populace in particular are latinx. Also, that Cinemark sucks. There's been rumor that there's a group who want to turn the mall into a senior community. I didn't know it was gonna be general condos.
you said something so true, when malls started local stores went out of business, those were family businesses, also things like tailors, cobblers, electric appliances repair, you dont see a lot of those, people buy new 🤔 , and now we have machines, computers even robots to do many things and jobs with just one click. 😶 I also notice how much I miss fountains and the sound of water, those are rare too, now water is becoming precious. The things we take for granted.
Used to be the only close place with Auntie Anne's Pretzels just outside the food court. I came here so much as a kid. It's like an 8th of what it used to be.
As someone who grew up in the area, i used to go there all the time as a kid. I went back the other day and it was really sad to see how empty it was. i highly recommend the Cinemark theatre tho! really great popcorn!! i remember in the early 2010s begging to get a nestle nutella crepe from the stand they used to have by the fountains, or beg for an auntie annes pretzel.
Well this is it, Kohls just announced that they’ll be shutting down all of their underperforming locations, including the one at Spring Hill Mall leaving the closed mall without an anchor store.
Around 90 or 91 this mall had a promotion during Halloween. I think there was a kidnapping or some kid got poisoned with candy the year before but they had Trick or Treating the following year. My parents took me. We went from store to store and the stores handed out candy. A fun but strange memory.
I spent a lot of time here. My first wife worked at a couple of stores in the JCPenney concourse starting in 1981. She would usually close and I would come in earlier and have dinner. My ex-girlfriend was manager of Baskin Robbins and I bought dessert there. She always had my favorite ready. Mint chocolate chip. She knew it was my favorite since we dated. It's pathetic how the mall has degenerated.
I'd say 70% empty like Lakeview Square mall in BC MI which is way smaller than Spring Hill. And I'd say Lakeview Square mall is 90% empty they still have Barnes & Nobels a movie theater, Apple Bees & B-Dubs, and the few national chains will leave once the lease ends in my opinion.
Very Eerie but Thanks for the video. Sad how these Centers of Goods and entertainment come to an End. 😔👎 Golf Mill, The Hip, Woodfield Schaumburg,OLD Orchard, were my malls I went to,. I have to assume GOLF Mill will be joining Springhill very soon as far as its fate is concerned.
Hello! I am wondering what setup you use for filming? I currently run a canon rebel t7 with a zhuyin weevil s. I had a røde video mic that I got for my camera but it needs a 3.5 mm audio jack and my camera has a 2.5,. I love your videos btw. Keep up the awesome work
Thank you! My setup is really quite simple actually, I film and edit on an iPhone 13Pro and use the software InShot, for my voiceover I use a Blue Yeti basic desk mic
@@NorthCdogg22 That’s awesome, i too have an iPhone 13 not pro, but your shots look very well I couldn’t even tell. I’m going to be exploring some dead malls in the west coast and filming them soon just wanted to make sure I’m going in with everything I’d need. Thanks, and best of luck on your future endeavors, can’t wait for more content!
Also from what I heard management played hardball in lease renewal negotiations with tenants with renewal and quite a few other tenants were interested in the theater redevelopment but balked when they were inflexible and wanted to charge higher rent and playing hardball
This mall is going to be demolished this summer (might already be demolished by now). I work in the area, so it was a discussion going around work. So sad to see it go!
Alison OBrien, yes Great American has gotten way too expensive, and with the gangs out of Waukegan and the North Lake shore towns fighting over just whose " turf" it is its gotten too dangerous as well.
Great video! I have two (possibly dead) malls that you could do videos on. They aren't far apart from each other, and you could do one or the other, or both.... The malls are Northpark Mall in Joplin, MO and Meadowbrook Mall in Pittsburg, KS. Please do one of them, because those two malls are the malls I'm closest to (the main mall I go to) and both malls have quite a few shuttered stores, includng Northpark which has some shuttered anchor malls.
So... Season 5 starts next Saturday, right? I don't want to be like that guy almost dunking his head into the fountain water in the beginning there. 😉 Dang it.. a whole month without a dead malls video from NorthCDogg22! As a Christmas present could I be that lucky one with a sneak peak into Season 5? Well... I guess this needs a very early Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukah and we will all see your work again in 2023! 🎅🎄🕎✡
sad to see its decline, I was really hopeful that the theater would help improve things as they announced plans for outward stuff as well that never materialized and they opened a Pablo's that lasted all of four months. It seems to me that once Carson's closed they all but stopped trying and threw in the towel and the whole covid situation just sped the demise even further. Also looking back I believe another factor was back in the mid 2000s or so the mall had a run of gang incidents that got a lot of bad press around here and I think that was one of the things that helped set its decline in motion
I like the stone columns and the design isn’t bad for a mid to small sized mall. However………those 90s looking dull pastel, and drab floor tiles are not pleasant and cheapen the look of the mall. The 80s style polished, and sparkling marble floor tiles have always been the best for a mall. This mall put all its effort on the center court and none on the side entrance corridors of the mall in terms of the appearance of the ceiling. Maybe the developers didn’t feel they needed to do that because of its location, but it does matter.
lol i remember working at the carsons there man it was sad i knew the mall was failing but had a fun experience there. The sad part about it is that when i worked the shoe department i would go to the back during break and there were writings on the wall of past employees
I remember when this mall first opened,..spent many fun hours there in the eighties...great gyros at archilles meal, 1 potato 2 was good also,..record land and music land got too much of my money, but well spent..oh, and Aladdin’s castle...some of my friends worked there at the music store, Cinnabon, chess king and movie theater....such memories hanging out and looking for girls like all us young teens at that time...a little known fact is that the property the mall is on used to be a horse stables with riding, performances and contests, this was early 70’s,...I remember it had a big fire, which I watched as a kid from sleepy hollow, then nothing until the mall came...I don’t think it will make it many more years.....too sad
I have a genuine suggestions, it’s more dead then the original Indianapolis Washington square, it’s called Washington square but it’s in Evansville it’s where popular limnial spaces have been tooken:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Mall_(Evansville,_Indiana)
I used to come here in the early 2000s every Tusday to play Warhammer at the Go! The Game Store. I really miss the Tokyo Grill in the food court. All that section was demolished though. It's a shame that you can't do a video on Palatine's Randhurst mall. That whole thing got leveled for an outdoor mall
I used to go to Springhill Mall quite often when I lived in Crystal Lake. Haven’t seen the inside of this place since the early ‘90’s. Great video and thanks for sharing ✌🏼👍🏼👍🏼
This mall just closed a few weeks ago. I met my wife here for the first time. Granted, we spoke on the phone the night before but this is where I first laid eyes on my beautiful bride. Now married with 7 kids, I will miss this place well into my golden years.
I love seeing your videos ❤
But this one hit home 😞 I remember
Growing up in this mall. I remember the stores I remember the food court. I remember it was always as busy as it can be on Saturday. But the most I remember is the times of going in with your parents. Young not having any bills or problems just walking with them doing shopping at Spring Hill Mall. Sad to see it die down but memories are always in our heats ❤
Thank you for this 🙌🏼
I LOVED this mall, it was my childhood. the fountain used to be the coolest thing to me. They're permanently closing soon and it's just been making me super depressed but im glad you have this video up for preservation. I'm going to miss this place so much...
This video was a banger! What a nice mall to fall into ruins. Usually I am not a fan of the mid 2000's renovations, but they really did a great job here.
Feels dead as soon as you walk in the door! It is a beautiful mall. I bet it was amazing in its day.
I’m really impressed by the quality of research you do for these episodes.
I tuned in because I saw Stratford Square pop up on my feed out of nowhere. I watched it because I originally moved to this area because a job transfer with a company that operated there. I’ve watched a few episodes since and really enjoyed them. Can’t afford the Patreon right now, but I’ll subscribe and keep watching for sure!
@@DebraJean196 thank you!! I hope you enjoy watching the rest of them
I remember anxiously awaiting the opening of this mall!
Good evening northcdogg22 good day hope you had a wonderful weekend with family, friends, exploring new things today at the mall and besides your video are getting better every moment.
Incredible as always North! It is an honor to featured in the last episode of season 4. I am just astonished on how dead Spring Hill mall got from the last video I watched where Barnes and Noble was in state of closing for good and especially seeing that closed Cinnabon is heart breaking. At least the fountain is still going, I can't wait to see what you have in store for season 5! Stay Gold North!
Thanks CoolCat! Glad you enjoyed it!
@@NorthCdogg22 lover your videos question? can we some day get a face reveal?
Great video about Springhill Mall!!! 🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️ I didn't know you did a review of Springhill Mall??? 🤔🤔🤔 And great pictures of writeup about the history of this fabulous mall I and my family enjoyed for years and I mentioned in you Stratford Square Mall video my twin son hoping to visit it come this summer!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I use to ditch class and drive all the way out to this mall 😂. But it was going down at the start of the 2000s as well. I haven't been there in 13 years.
been watching for a while now and im so hooked on each video u post i dont know what it is but the view feeling and vibes are always gold please continue with this amazing content
That was an amazing fountain! And that mall looked so updated for its age!
Lol was that guy fishing change out of the fountain area oh Lord. I was cracking up!!!
So happy to see you cover Spring Hill. This was the mall of my adolescence. I grew up over the years from visiting with my mom, then breaking off on my own and going with friends in high school. Just a treasure of a place. IIRC, at one point before the mid-200s redesign, the ceiling (at least in places) had a sky and clouds wallpaper? Vibes.
Also glad you got some shots of the nearby downtown East/West Dundee. Thankfully, that area did NOT get killed by the mall, and today is thriving with some really cool shops/restaurants. The old Clearwater (now Rochaus) theater is another peak nostalgia place. And shoutout to Bandito's and Carol's Corner Pub!
Also, I think you missed filming it but the strip mall just outside the mall on the south side was for a good while COMPLETELY empty and dead. It was eerie for a few good years, but now they've converted most of it into self storage.
Anyway great video and thank you for capturing this icon. P.S. I know the security guy at Charlestown Mall and can possibly help you get in if you ever want to come back and do it. I didn't know it was locked now (I no longer live in the area).
I would love to come back for it! If you could DM my Instagram the info I would be more than happy, I have always wanted to tour Charlestown! Thank you!
I bought a lot of my first video games at the funcoland in that strip mall. :(
At 1:02 you caught the street some of the opening of the movie "road to predition" was filmed on. They closed down the West Dundee side of the Fox River and made it look like winter in the middle of like July.
Indeed a beautiful mall and my, that center court made me speechless. Also thank you for all of season 4 and thank you for introducing me to main Street and Spiess
Glad you enjoyed!
I lived a little more than an hour outside of Dundee and my parents took us kids to Spring Hill in 1986-87 in its heyday. It was a great mall at one time and full of life, laughter and commerce. It's sad that a place of such happy times for so many people declined so much that it had to be closed.
As usual amazing content and totally worth the wait! The fountain and the rest of that center court area makes me wanna go there, escape and sit down with a good book for hours on end. Unfortunately, once things started going down hill with that mall, things just seemed to have snowballed and of course the purchase by you know who pretty much sealed its fate. Sad to see it in its current state. That conversion of the one area of the mall sure produced a really nice looking theatre from the outside, a lot of grass and sidewalks. That artist's rendition of the remodel looks exciting for the area. Hopefully in a mixed use environment, at least the movie theatre will survive; I would think that something like that would be very profitable with a complete do over. You take what you do very seriously and the content of your videos clearly shows that. Based upon things you've said in the videos you would have obviously been in your complete glory if you had been around during the hey day of malls but you are doing your best to capture the content that is still out there! Many/most younger individuals probably really don't have too much of a concern for malls and archiving their histories and down falls but you are most definitely different and a big THANK YOU for all that you get out there and capture for all of us. You care about what you do and it clearly shows! Looking forward to what you have in store for us all next. THANK YOU again NorthCdogg22 - you rock.
Thank you so much Posse! That really means a lot! I really hope you enjoy the exciting adventures I have planned for season 5!
This was my child hood mall 😢
I live literally 15 minutes away from that mall! I went there a lot as a kid... even went on a field trip to that mall in kindergarten! The food court is even where I got my taste for spicy Mexican food (too bad it closed down in 2014ish). My sisters and I also visited Santa and the Easter Bunny, which were always good times. I could just go on and on about the memories I've had at this mall
Great video to end a great season! Looking forward to season 5!
Thanks Jig!
You might want to check out Lakeside Mall in Michigan. Was just announced for demolition.
Oh yeah I was actually just there a few months ago!
I've been going to this mall my entire life and this video was very well done and filmed.
I just want to note that the food court was doing decent until they kicked all of the tenants out for the movie theater. I would say it was 75% occupied at the start of 2015. There was a really good sushi place, a Mexican restaurant, Sbarro, Subway, Charleys, Baskin Robbins, a Chicago-style food place, Auntie Annes, and an Asian Food place. JCPenney opened the new store in 2008 but closed at Spring Hill in 2011. So they tried coexisting with two stores within 10 minutes for like 3 years. In the JCPenney wing, the section from the food court to the center court was still full in 2015. The food court was a very BIG reason why people went to the mall. After they took that away, foot traffic decreased significantly. From what I understand, that Sbarro is still doing well, literally, people just go to the mall for Sbarro. That proposed redevelopment is far from happening. The political boundaries of this mall falling within the jurisdiction of two towns (West Dundee and Carpentersville) will make redevelopment difficult, as whatever happens will require being accepted by two village boards. West Dundee was just trying to solicit proposals by making clear they're fully supportive of redeveloping it
Thank you for those few corrections and this comment! I do hope this mall is able to come back somehow because it truly is beautiful, and I think that there is still a community behind it. It really just needs to secure more tenants like Sbarro it sounds like.
The Mexican restaurant is where I got my taste for spicy food. Remember eating there when I was about 6/7, and I always ordered a steak bowl with lots of hot sauce. I used to dig my fingers into the hot sauce when my mom wasn't looking XD
And wait, there's still Sbarro? I thought that closed along with the food court in 2014. Or maybe I'm just not paying attention.
My mom was PIIIIIIIIIIIIIISED when that happened because there was briefly a Long John Silver's in there and she looooooooooooves long John's.
Great work! I really enjoyed this!
Thanks Scott!
Pittsburgh, eh? So probably Pittsburgh Mills, Century III (if you like sneaking in at least), Monroeville Mall, and if you like going north of the city an hour or so, Shenango Valley Mall and Clearfield Mall? Pittsburgh actually has a lot of still living malls, surprisingly enough, too.
I hope CDogg also went to Beaver Valley Mall, as well.
Santa's village isn't half of what it used to be, the owner has closed the ice rink gotten rid of the animals, and over half of the rides, and converted half of the property into a paintball battle ground, only families with very small children, and tight budgets go there any more, in fact with Great America having gotten too expensive, and having a serious problem with gangs, and the demise of Adventure Land and Dispensas Kiddie Kingdom, along with the original Kiddie Land, the Amusement Park business in the Chicago area is pretty much on the skids.
Yea, I used to go to Kiddie Land, Dinorex, Six Flags, all that. It is sad to see so many things turn to mush. And to think that's happening in a lot of other major city areas. But I guess it's to be expected
Now I wonder why Santa’s village was abandoned in 2006.
Oh, for the days of Riverview! I went there once as a young child before it closed in 1967. It opened in 1904. Nobody can afford Great America anymore.
To be fair they did add that water park 🤷 haven’t been there in years but I’m sure it would bring in some more people
This was my favorite childhood mall I would always come here ive been coming to this mall since it still had its play place by JC penny but when the food court got torn down it just lost its spark I still visit this mall like once every 2 months its very depressing
The property was previously occupied by a large nursery company called D Hill Nursery. That is why hill is part of the mall name. The nursery moved farther west and is still in business.
Like I said earlier, I really like the architecture used in this mall.
Same man, it’s so good, and it’s surprising how it’s retained an original look over all these years
@@NorthCdogg22 Yeah, I didn’t frequent this mall often since it’s farther. But Stratford was the closest mall for me so that one is kinda sad to see dead since i remember when it was still decently occupied.
Like Stratford Square, this mall (as well as Woodfield and Fox Valley) is on my weekly walking schedule. The center court here is truly special. Great that the fountain has been preserved, too. Thanks for this video! 😎
Thanks for watching Micheal! Glad you enjoyed!
This was where we took our young son on weekends up until about five years ago. i’d take him to super bounce while his mom shopped at Macy’s and then a ride on the Jolly Express train before going to Olive Garden for lunch. I took our three year old daughter there a couple of months ago and it was practically empty except for the Kohl’s and a few seniors getting their steps in along the dimly lit corridors. All of the coin operated kiddie rides were out of order and the gorgeous fountain was empty. I remember when the place did brisk business in the 80s and my sister used to work at the County Seat. It was never as busy as Woodfield mall but that’s what I liked about it.
Love the videos. Gained a new subscriber.
Thanks Blake!
The mall is mostly now owned by the village of West Dundee. Since some of the mall is part of neighboring Carpentersville, that portion is not under West Dundee's control. There are plans to redevelop the space, but nothing has moved forward yet. I also heard recently that the interior is completely closed, though one last event is scheduled to be held there: the Pinewood Derby for the local Cub Scout pack.
I've been loving that mall fountain since I was a young child...
One of my best friend worked at that Aladdin's Castle until they folded. My mom seemed convinced that the Mall's death occured because of gentrification of the area further out west of the mall in Algonquin Commons. Commercial areas moved west, and the mall became a place associated with some racial tensions, given just how much of the Carpentersville populace in particular are latinx.
Also, that Cinemark sucks. There's been rumor that there's a group who want to turn the mall into a senior community. I didn't know it was gonna be general condos.
you said something so true, when malls started local stores went out of business, those were family businesses, also things like tailors, cobblers, electric appliances repair, you dont see a lot of those, people buy new 🤔 , and now we have machines, computers even robots to do many things and jobs with just one click. 😶
I also notice how much I miss fountains and the sound of water, those are rare too, now water is becoming precious.
The things we take for granted.
They just announced this mall's closing on March 22, 2024 😢
Used to be the only close place with Auntie Anne's Pretzels just outside the food court. I came here so much as a kid. It's like an 8th of what it used to be.
Sad. I live close and haven’t been there in over a decade. Can’t forget that fountain. Very eerie how quiet it is here.
Went to college in 2008 in Elgin. This was half my days off 😢. Sad to see this I’m shambles.
As someone who grew up in the area, i used to go there all the time as a kid. I went back the other day and it was really sad to see how empty it was. i highly recommend the Cinemark theatre tho! really great popcorn!! i remember in the early 2010s begging to get a nestle nutella crepe from the stand they used to have by the fountains, or beg for an auntie annes pretzel.
Well this is it, Kohls just announced that they’ll be shutting down all of their underperforming locations, including the one at Spring Hill Mall leaving the closed mall without an anchor store.
Around 90 or 91 this mall had a promotion during Halloween. I think there was a kidnapping or some kid got poisoned with candy the year before but they had Trick or Treating the following year. My parents took me. We went from store to store and the stores handed out candy. A fun but strange memory.
Are you going to film any east coast mall like in PA NY or NJ or no?
I remember going to this mall to watch Happy Death Day and playing vr games there back in 2017. Man this place changed quick.
I spent a lot of time here. My first wife worked at a couple of stores in the JCPenney concourse starting in 1981. She would usually close and I would come in earlier and have dinner. My ex-girlfriend was manager of Baskin Robbins and I bought dessert there. She always had my favorite ready. Mint chocolate chip. She knew it was my favorite since we dated. It's pathetic how the mall has degenerated.
took 7 months to edit? Filmed May posted on here December?
7 months in my backlog, took me a week to edit when it was time to upload this one in particular
got a big backlog keep up good work just wondering not a criticism
@@robertmiller2104 thanks man! Yeah I got about 30 malls on here lol
Not completely dead but getting there. Is it about 50%? Maybe 70% empty?
I’d say 70%
I'd say 70% empty like Lakeview Square mall in BC MI which is way smaller than Spring Hill. And I'd say Lakeview Square mall is 90% empty they still have Barnes & Nobels a movie theater, Apple Bees & B-Dubs, and the few national chains will leave once the lease ends in my opinion.
Very Eerie but Thanks for the video. Sad how these Centers of Goods and entertainment come to an End. 😔👎
Golf Mill, The Hip, Woodfield Schaumburg,OLD Orchard, were my malls I went to,.
I have to assume GOLF Mill will be joining Springhill very soon as far as its fate is concerned.
Hello! I am wondering what setup you use for filming? I currently run a canon rebel t7 with a zhuyin weevil s. I had a røde video mic that I got for my camera but it needs a 3.5 mm audio jack and my camera has a 2.5,. I love your videos btw. Keep up the awesome work
Thank you!
My setup is really quite simple actually, I film and edit on an iPhone 13Pro and use the software InShot, for my voiceover I use a Blue Yeti basic desk mic
@@NorthCdogg22 That’s awesome, i too have an iPhone 13 not pro, but your shots look very well I couldn’t even tell. I’m going to be exploring some dead malls in the west coast and filming them soon just wanted to make sure I’m going in with everything I’d need. Thanks, and best of luck on your future endeavors, can’t wait for more content!
Love your videos 😊 great to have breakfast with it 😇
4:42 Is that dude fishing change outta the fountain??
I think he was😭😭
Yup, fishing for the change I'm sure if security guards were there they would tell him not to do that could get kicked out of the mall.
Great video man!!
Thanks Andrew!
Puente hills mall? In California
Also from what I heard management played hardball in lease renewal negotiations with tenants with renewal and quite a few other tenants were interested in the theater redevelopment but balked when they were inflexible and wanted to charge higher rent and playing hardball
This mall is going to be demolished this summer (might already be demolished by now). I work in the area, so it was a discussion going around work. So sad to see it go!
Wonderful Fountain it is!!!!! F+L, Corey
I worked at Spiess in this mall as a teenager. Everyone I knew and myself pronounced it "speese".
Hey North I have a recommendation for a great 80s song for you. How am I supposed to live without you by Michael Bolton. I hope you enjoy!
For sure Pepsi Man! I’ll definitely give it a listen!
@@NorthCdogg22 also great video! I don’t even need to tell you they are all bangers!
07:55 They have the US Flag backwards.
Rue21 also closed last week!!
closes march 22nd.
Alison OBrien, yes Great American has gotten way too expensive, and with the gangs out of Waukegan and the North Lake shore towns fighting over just whose " turf" it is its gotten too dangerous as well.
They should leave the fountain to be the center point of the new development.
Great video! I have two (possibly dead) malls that you could do videos on. They aren't far apart from each other, and you could do one or the other, or both.... The malls are Northpark Mall in Joplin, MO and Meadowbrook Mall in Pittsburg, KS. Please do one of them, because those two malls are the malls I'm closest to (the main mall I go to) and both malls have quite a few shuttered stores, includng Northpark which has some shuttered anchor malls.
I’d love to check them out!
@@NorthCdogg22 thanks
Is this your final episode of this year. NorthCDogg22.
Yessir, next Season in January!
Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from you and your family, NorthCDogg22.
Mall management announced on February 22, 2024, that the mall will be closed for good on March 24, 2024, aside from Kohl's and the movie theater.
Discord???? Is there a discord
Currently making one! Stay tuned on my community tab here for when I give you the link!
@@NorthCdogg22 can I help? I’m good at discord making and I’m known for it
Elgin is pronounced El-gin (like the drink)
Thanks for the correction!
It's pronounced ghetto.
Took the words (even the example lol) right out of my mouth!
Are you going to any that have made the effort with Christmas decorations? Or are they that dead they don't even care lol
Actually yes! I’ve been busting quite a few dead malls recently with loads of Christmas decorations surprisingly
@@NorthCdogg22 Good stuff mate, I watch from the UK, no idea why American malls are so interesting, I love it though, cheers pal
Nice job...
So... Season 5 starts next Saturday, right? I don't want to be like that guy almost dunking his head into the fountain water in the beginning there. 😉 Dang it.. a whole month without a dead malls video from NorthCDogg22! As a Christmas present could I be that lucky one with a sneak peak into Season 5? Well... I guess this needs a very early Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukah and we will all see your work again in 2023! 🎅🎄🕎✡
Well.. I was going to keep this a surprise but, on Christmas there mayyy be a Dead Malls special coming out
GGP actually built Jordan Creek. Parts of it remind me of that.
sad to see its decline, I was really hopeful that the theater would help improve things as they announced plans for outward stuff as well that never materialized and they opened a Pablo's that lasted all of four months. It seems to me that once Carson's closed they all but stopped trying and threw in the towel and the whole covid situation just sped the demise even further. Also looking back I believe another factor was back in the mid 2000s or so the mall had a run of gang incidents that got a lot of bad press around here and I think that was one of the things that helped set its decline in motion
I like the stone columns and the design isn’t bad for a mid to small sized mall. However………those 90s looking dull pastel, and drab floor tiles are not pleasant and cheapen the look of the mall. The 80s style polished, and sparkling marble floor tiles have always been the best for a mall. This mall put all its effort on the center court and none on the side entrance corridors of the mall in terms of the appearance of the ceiling. Maybe the developers didn’t feel they needed to do that because of its location, but it does matter.
I like to go to spring hill mall before the movies
That’s crazy
Spring hill mall is closing on march 22 2024
Just got notification, can I ask you a favor? Would you be willing to place our RUclips community hashtag randomly in one of your vids?
no
No dead mall Christmas special LOL.
The arcade machines you walk past to of the machines my friend owns now
lol i remember working at the carsons there man it was sad i knew the mall was failing but had a fun experience there. The sad part about it is that when i worked the shoe department i would go to the back during break and there were writings on the wall of past employees
Valley west mall is doing alot worse than since your last vist
I would love to make a revisit
I remember when this mall first opened,..spent many fun hours there in the eighties...great gyros at archilles meal, 1 potato 2 was good also,..record land and music land got too much of my money, but well spent..oh, and Aladdin’s castle...some of my friends worked there at the music store, Cinnabon, chess king and movie theater....such memories hanging out and looking for girls like all us young teens at that time...a little known fact is that the property the mall is on used to be a horse stables with riding, performances and contests, this was early 70’s,...I remember it had a big fire, which I watched as a kid from sleepy hollow, then nothing until the mall came...I don’t think it will make it many more years.....too sad
Thing is if they’d raze the anchor stores and keep the interior mall small business would thrive.
Very sad to see this mall this way when it used to be jam packed..
I have a genuine suggestions, it’s more dead then the original Indianapolis Washington square, it’s called Washington square but it’s in Evansville it’s where popular limnial spaces have been tooken:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Mall_(Evansville,_Indiana)