@@Frank00 I think it goes without saying. While those jobs didn't pay really well many of them did allow people to pay their bills and live without struggling constantly moving from temporary job to temporary job.
@Frank00 I feel bad for the people who lost their jobs but people are capable of finding new jobs. The mall plants will have to rely on people for relocation. Those are nice looking, mature plants and it would be a shame to see them become casualties of corporate greed.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, this was one of the shopping centers we went to. My brother and sister and I always had to stop to see the water wheel, and run back and forth across the bridges and watch the koi in the mill pond. Thank you for the memories.
Really feel bad. My allergy doctor was in that office building. Plus every year in grade school, my class went to the Mill Run Theater. So sad to see Sears gone.
The majority of industries left America for cheap labor overseas and so many other remaining industries are automated to death. What once took hundreds of employees to run can now "run" with probably 50 employees or less. And the human element has been erased out of almost everything so much so that even restaurants that only pay workers $2 per hour is even trying to eliminate them by getting customers to place their own orders on PC tablets instead of using a waiter or waitress. So if the majority of Americans no longer have jobs that pay living wages, how can the afford to shop at a mall? And all of this was intentionally done by the majority of our politicians being bought off by corporations and no longer working for average Americans who put them in office. So now they've gone so extreme in middle class job elimination that it's starting to backfire as even Dollar stores are seeing declines in sales.
I used to live in Des Plains and hang out at Golf Mill all the time (usually at fye) it's been almost 10 years since I've been there and my god wow what a sad sight to see it dwindle away... I still will forever miss getting my cup of Gloria Jeans coffee there.
I think Gloria Jean's is still open to this day, or did it finally close? I'm amazed it survived(or is still surviving?) as long as it did, considering the Gloria Jean's at Stratford Square finally closed a year or 2 ago.
I do love the look of '60s malls, I wish some kept their original asthetics, just for the retro/nostalgia vibe. themed metro malls, I'm calling it now!!!
As a kid growing up in the 70s in Chicago, I don't recall this shopping center as much as I recall the Old Orchard not too far away. We moved out of Chicago to L.A. in 1979, but visited relatives numerous times since, and the Old Orchard didn't disappoint in keeping it nostalgic. The last time was the summer of 2021 post-ish pandemic with my own kids, and it STILL looked familiar.
It is strange looking back. I'm old enough to remember when the advent of malls spelled the end of many downtown retail centers. Now, I've seen a new technology and concept put an end to many malls.
I remember this being. an outdoor mall and then when they enclosed it. Now it's going to be an outdoor mall again. LOL! I know you said you were nervous because of security, but I wish you would have went down the wing to where the movie theater is. Oh well. Great job on this. I had a lot of great times at this mall. They used to have the best Video Arcade over by the JC Penny's. 👍☮
what a great mall. i hate seeing great buildings like this demolished. i hope it gets stopped so people can continue to enjoy this cool mall shopping and spending time together in a cool place
I grew up in that mall. I remember when Santa's House would open up by the Water Wheel. I went every year as a child. Once I grew up, I loved going there to window shop. I will miss the way it used to be 😢
They’re supposed to bring back a new water wheel when they redevelop the site, it’s interesting how they’re bringing it back to a similar outdoor concept like it once was
Thanks for doing this. I remember going to this mall in the 2000s decade for Christmas photos at JCP. Also went to the theater and remember having Sbarro pizza back when the food court was larger. If they haven't started demo yet, I might have to stop by for myself. While I didn't go here often, I still have some memories of it!
Americans have less disposable income. Plus inflation, coupled with online ordering. This in an era of the past. Sad to see this decline! Thanks for video.
Lots of memories there as a kid and teenager of the 80s/90s. I had to look up this mall it just crossed my mind. I have been living in Colorado for 23 years so haven’t seen it in all that time. Sad to see it go!
I worked at Lakehurst Mall, that used to be in Waukegan. I worked at Gurnee Mills on opening night. I remember seeing the Golf Mill cylindrical building, but never went to that mall. I have been to the Hawthorne Mall in Vernon Hills, Woodfield Mall, and Water Tower Place. A few Malls I have been to outside of Illinois; Mall of America, and a few other "Mills" malls on the east and west costs.
💙🔥💙Thank you so much for posting. I used to go Christmas🎄Shopping at Golf Mill with my mom and dad as a child. Sears was excitedly always the first store we hit. Good memories. I still go to the mall to see a movie at AMC now and then. Harlem Irving Plaza in Norridge is a mall doing exceptionally well with recent additions to it. Its another place that was originally built in 1956 as an outdoor strip mall and now its a two level indoor. Its lovely there too.
Same here, such fond memories shopping with my mom and dad at Golf Mill on Saturdays and going to the Harlem Irving Plaza with my friends-I lived close to ‘The HIP’ (Harlem Irving plaza). I was born and raised in Chicago and damn proud of it!!!!!!!!!!! Then end of an era-makes me so painfully sad 😞.
You walk through the dead mall and all I see is that Gloria Jean that's been there since the 80s. I see Aunt Anns, Gamestop / Funkeland, The toy store with so many different names, All the stores I did IT work for. The back halls my brother used to skate around in. Lots of memories. I took this same walk with some friends in the spring and it kind of hurt. They live right behind the mall.
This particular Mall's demise has certainly been accelerated by poor decisions and lousy management, which I suspect are behind it. To chop the mall in two, by blocking access from both north and south sides, when a hallway could have easily been set up where Sears used to be, but no, "Let's choke this thing up and kill it!" seems to have been the plan, probably to write it up as a loss at tax time. Very suspicious!
I count myself lucky that malls around me are doing quite well. In the Texas heat and humidity malls are still a main social hub. Several near me are even older malls. One dating back to the 1980’s still has a working neon glass block elevator. And every weekend there are so many people you can hardly walk. Another has a River that comes up to it with shops and restaurants along it. And the other has some amazing original features from 80’s and 90’s as well. Every time I see these vids I like to go to my malls and think at least for now thank goodness mine still are bustling and full of life. Some are down an anchor ( Sears ) but for now are still very busy.
Sad story about Sears. A couple of bad CEOs did this to the company. Board of directors making bad decisions with their CEOs. As for why malls are dying I can only give my reasons for why I don’t go to malls. 1. They are too far away and a pain to get to. 2. I work from home so clothing and fashion isn’t a priority. 3. Malls don’t sell what I want to buy. I’m 6’5 and they don’t sell clothes and shoes that fit me. Malls need specialty stores for people who are bigger like me and there are a lot of people like me. 4. Malls usually don’t have hardware stores in them since home improvement/repair is where I spend my money for non grocery items. So I guess changing customer preferences on what they purchase and malls not adjusting to this might be a factor.
Really Cool Mid-Century Modern Mall, spring break 2023 I walked through, I have no life. If the Cubs wins you get a free Chick Fila sandwich, also I have the Panera coffee plan. The Panera and Chick Fila are both out parcels, but I did walk through the mall. This is a cool place hope that it stays around, redevelop, but still mid-century modern.
Great video! Really interesting, too. I'm not from the midwest so I had never heard of this spot until now. Good captions -- and I really liked when you mixed the music with the video's sound. Maybe look for a little more variety of the same kind of chill music? Can't wait to see where you go!
I remember this as Golf Mill Shopping Center with Sears at one end, JCPenneys at the other and the rest being open air shopping. I watched them enclose the mall and now to unenclose the mall. What comes around goes around.
i am pushing 60 and grew up in niles. Spent many weekends at the mall, even back when it was open air and it had the water wheel. its sad to see it now.
I have been to a few Malls lately, there were plenty of people walking around, but too many closed shops, it is like people want to get out of the house and do something post pandemic, but many of the retailers did not survive . I think malls will comeback one day, or be reinvented.
The Sears stores in Nebraska were attached to the malls but were not owned by the mall. Mall gift certificates were not accepted at Sears and they didn't participate in mall promotions. They claimed the malls depended on their presence to be successful.
@@QuietExp I think it's because for many years(heck, even back to the mid 2000s), this mall had slowly been losing tenants. When the mall did a renovation in the mid 2000s(I think around 2006-07), the only new chains this mall gained was a Deb store(they're now out of business altogether), and Elephant Bar Restaurant. Also the anchor stores, have slowly been getting less interesting over time. I.e. the old Woolworth space was gutted into several smaller storefronts, Kohl's later became Burlington, etc. Not to forget that national chains, have slowly been leaving this mall for years(i.e. Express, Victoria's Secret, etc). It is a miracle in a way, that Bath and Body Works and Claire's haven't departed yet.
@@watershed44 Exactly. Inflation, less jobs, etc... Advancement in technology also plays a major factor. We have a shopping mall right in the palm of our hands and now we can find specific items. Back in the day, you were sh- out of luck when a clothing store stopped selling an item you wanted and couldn't afford, and then you had to search everywhere for something remotely similar.
Sad to see this mall go into mall heaven. Makes me wonder because the way Sears sits in the middle of the enclosed mall you'd think they would have built a simple enclosed walkway so customers wouldn't have to go outside to visit the other side of the mall. Ah well.
@@QuietExp thanks I just got a find it odd that they are going to shut it down so quickly especially since when I watch your video it looks like it wasn’t completely dead I mean I know it’s struggling and not doing well but there was a fair amount of people for being a dead mall
@@QuietExp cool thanks. I have a ton of mall content abandoned places and travel videos. I hope you enjoy. I enjoyed getting a chance to discover gold mill through your video. And if you want to see the raw and real editions of my mall videos they are on Patreon. The raw and real edition is more like your video where you can hear the mall sounds without commentary 😊
So many malls have small businesses that get opened with small business loans and then collapse because of the outdated business model. Which is fine, because the owner is simply using it as a write-off for personal loss on their taxes. When I worked for Taubmann Malls, the majority of tenants could only afford a Kiosk and would fail after 3-6 months.
I've noticed when I'm watching these dead mall videos that I'm seeing quite a few Targets in these malls, I didn't realize that Target was an anchor in some of these malls, I always thought they were free standing stores like Walmart.
The mall in my city went through a similar transformation. It was originally built in the 1960’s as a single story outdoor mall. In the late 1970’s, I believe, it was covered with tension fabric roof to convert it to an indoor mall. In 1998, they demolished and replaced the mall with a two-story building, leaving two of the original anchor store buildings in place, and adding two more department stores. The Sears went out of business around 2017, and the building that was originally JCPenny, which was replaced with a new building in mall, and converted to a Robinson May, is now a two story Target. The mall is still open, but slowly over time, stores are leaving and the mall is less and less inhabited. There are some original stores that weee not demolished and incorporated to the indoor mall which were renovated within the last ten years which are still going strong which includes a Ross, Trader Joe’s, a 24-Hr Fitness and others.
This part of niles had many Korean folk living here, pumping all sorts of money into the local economy,,but recently over the past few years now they have been moving north to MI and also Canada due to the fact they don’t pay any tax to goverment to run their businesses and such. Even when they go to the casinos in Canada, they don’t have to pay taxes on their winnings I’ve heard.
@@QuietExp We have two newer malls here in the Frankfurt area. Loop5 which opened in 2009 and was a chain store paradise and is basically dead now. And Skyline Plaza, opened 2013, which is dying even faster. Both malls packed with stores that you will find everywhere, so why go there ?
I don't see how there could be any other reason for the decline of malls other than online shopping like Amazon. I keep hearing people say that it's not the reason, but of course it is. It's not like everyone just got tired of going to malls all at the same exact time. Suddenly the whole country just decided one day that they didn't like malls anymore??
Yes, advancement in technology is the main reason, in addition to inflation & less disposable income. Many young people today are addicted to their mobile devices and it's more fast & convenient to spend money on clothes online than it is in person. Plus, the internet makes it possible to find specific deadstock-items that got cleared off the shelves when we couldn't afford them. The Covid scare & shutting down the economy also helped kill businesses. Also, kids today generally don't go outside as much as older generations due to advancement in technology. They have social media, Call of Duty Black Ops or whatever, etc... Shopping malls represent a bygone era with a better economy, technology that was less advanced and different attitudes... We forget that everyday life & technology was very different 20+ years ago, shopping at a mall today is no longer a necessity. Shopping malls are still doing well in Asia & developing countries though, I've heard.
The plants in this mall are amazing! I hope they all find good homes once the mall is closed.
Any sympathy for the people who lost their jobs ?
@@Frank00 I think it goes without saying. While those jobs didn't pay really well many of them did allow people to pay their bills and live without struggling constantly moving from temporary job to temporary job.
@Frank00 I feel bad for the people who lost their jobs but people are capable of finding new jobs. The mall plants will have to rely on people for relocation. Those are nice looking, mature plants and it would be a shame to see them become casualties of corporate greed.
I wish I could take some of their plants. I hope they rehomed too. Plants matter 🌱 🪴
When I was growing up in the 1960s, this was one of the shopping centers we went to. My brother and sister and I always had to stop to see the water wheel, and run back and forth across the bridges and watch the koi in the mill pond. Thank you for the memories.
The malls built in the 60’s and 70’s always had a great style to them
Really feel bad. My allergy doctor was in that office building. Plus every year in grade school, my class went to the Mill Run Theater. So sad to see Sears gone.
My allergy doctor was in that building too. I shopped in the mall nearly 35 years, so sad
So sad what's happening to malls in America!!😔😔💔💔
The majority of industries left America for cheap labor overseas and so many other remaining industries are automated to death. What once took hundreds of employees to run can now "run" with probably 50 employees or less. And the human element has been erased out of almost everything so much so that even restaurants that only pay workers $2 per hour is even trying to eliminate them by getting customers to place their own orders on PC tablets instead of using a waiter or waitress.
So if the majority of Americans no longer have jobs that pay living wages, how can the afford to shop at a mall? And all of this was intentionally done by the majority of our politicians being bought off by corporations and no longer working for average Americans who put them in office.
So now they've gone so extreme in middle class job elimination that it's starting to backfire as even Dollar stores are seeing declines in sales.
You are right man it sucks big time 😔😔
Very sad I agree.
I used to live in Des Plains and hang out at Golf Mill all the time (usually at fye) it's been almost 10 years since I've been there and my god wow what a sad sight to see it dwindle away... I still will forever miss getting my cup of Gloria Jeans coffee there.
I think Gloria Jean's is still open to this day, or did it finally close? I'm amazed it survived(or is still surviving?) as long as it did, considering the Gloria Jean's at Stratford Square finally closed a year or 2 ago.
I do love the look of '60s malls, I wish some kept their original asthetics, just for the retro/nostalgia vibe.
themed metro malls, I'm calling it now!!!
As a kid growing up in the 70s in Chicago, I don't recall this shopping center as much as I recall the Old Orchard not too far away. We moved out of Chicago to L.A. in 1979, but visited relatives numerous times since, and the Old Orchard didn't disappoint in keeping it nostalgic. The last time was the summer of 2021 post-ish pandemic with my own kids, and it STILL looked familiar.
It is strange looking back. I'm old enough to remember when the advent of malls spelled the end of many downtown retail centers. Now, I've seen a new technology and concept put an end to many malls.
Everything has a life cycle.
@@PremiumFuelOnly Isn't that the truth. The older I get the more apparent that becomes. I think that applies to me as well!
I remember this being. an outdoor mall and then when they enclosed it. Now it's going to be an outdoor mall again. LOL! I know you said you were nervous because of security, but I wish you would have went down the wing to where the movie theater is. Oh well. Great job on this. I had a lot of great times at this mall. They used to have the best Video Arcade over by the JC Penny's. 👍☮
what a great mall. i hate seeing great buildings like this demolished. i hope it gets stopped so people can continue to enjoy this cool mall shopping and spending time together in a cool place
Same here, I wish they would at least repurpose these buildings so we could still visit. A mall hotel would be awesome
I grew up in that mall. I remember when Santa's House would open up by the Water Wheel. I went every year as a child. Once I grew up, I loved going there to window shop. I will miss the way it used to be 😢
They’re supposed to bring back a new water wheel when they redevelop the site, it’s interesting how they’re bringing it back to a similar outdoor concept like it once was
Thanks for doing this. I remember going to this mall in the 2000s decade for Christmas photos at JCP. Also went to the theater and remember having Sbarro pizza back when the food court was larger.
If they haven't started demo yet, I might have to stop by for myself. While I didn't go here often, I still have some memories of it!
Americans have less disposable income. Plus inflation, coupled with online ordering. This in an era of the past. Sad to see this decline! Thanks for video.
Exactly. Advancement in technology and many people are struggling financially. The Covid 19 scare was the final nail in the coffin.
Lots of memories there as a kid and teenager of the 80s/90s. I had to look up this mall it just crossed my mind. I have been living in Colorado for 23 years so haven’t seen it in all that time. Sad to see it go!
I worked at Lakehurst Mall, that used to be in Waukegan. I worked at Gurnee Mills on opening night. I remember seeing the Golf Mill cylindrical building, but never went to that mall. I have been to the Hawthorne Mall in Vernon Hills, Woodfield Mall, and Water Tower Place. A few Malls I have been to outside of Illinois; Mall of America, and a few other "Mills" malls on the east and west costs.
My dad used to work in the office building in the 1970s. This area hold a lot of nostalgia for me.
💙🔥💙Thank you so much for posting. I used to go Christmas🎄Shopping at Golf Mill with my mom and dad as a child. Sears was excitedly always the first store we hit. Good memories. I still go to the mall to see a movie at AMC now and then.
Harlem Irving Plaza in Norridge is a mall doing exceptionally well with recent additions to it. Its another place that was originally built in 1956 as an outdoor strip mall and now its a two level indoor. Its lovely there too.
Same here, such fond memories shopping with my mom and dad at Golf Mill on Saturdays and going to the Harlem Irving Plaza with my friends-I lived close to ‘The HIP’ (Harlem Irving plaza). I was born and raised in Chicago and damn proud of it!!!!!!!!!!! Then end of an era-makes me so painfully sad 😞.
You walk through the dead mall and all I see is that Gloria Jean that's been there since the 80s. I see Aunt Anns, Gamestop / Funkeland, The toy store with so many different names, All the stores I did IT work for. The back halls my brother used to skate around in. Lots of memories. I took this same walk with some friends in the spring and it kind of hurt. They live right behind the mall.
The music sounds really good. 😊 I love Dead Malls 🤎
Thank you :)
This particular Mall's demise has certainly been accelerated by poor decisions and lousy management, which I suspect are behind it. To chop the mall in two, by blocking access from both north and south sides, when a hallway could have easily been set up where Sears used to be, but no, "Let's choke this thing up and kill it!" seems to have been the plan, probably to write it up as a loss at tax time. Very suspicious!
You did a phenomenal job on this video thank you I truly do appreciate it
Not nearly as dead as Stratford Square, but still awesome
Great vid! Really liked the non renovated side especially the light fixture and ceiling lights. 👍👍
I count myself lucky that malls around me are doing quite well. In the Texas heat and humidity malls are still a main social hub. Several near me are even older malls. One dating back to the 1980’s still has a working neon glass block elevator. And every weekend there are so many people you can hardly walk. Another has a River that comes up to it with shops and restaurants along it. And the other has some amazing original features from 80’s and 90’s as well.
Every time I see these vids I like to go to my malls and think at least for now thank goodness mine still are bustling and full of life. Some are down an anchor ( Sears ) but for now are still very busy.
Sad story about Sears. A couple of bad CEOs did this to the company. Board of directors making bad decisions with their CEOs. As for why malls are dying I can only give my reasons for why I don’t go to malls.
1. They are too far away and a pain to get to.
2. I work from home so clothing and fashion isn’t a priority.
3. Malls don’t sell what I want to buy. I’m 6’5 and they don’t sell clothes and shoes that fit me. Malls need specialty stores for people who are bigger like me and there are a lot of people like me.
4. Malls usually don’t have hardware stores in them since home improvement/repair is where I spend my money for non grocery items. So I guess changing customer preferences on what they purchase and malls not adjusting to this might be a factor.
Really Cool Mid-Century Modern Mall, spring break 2023 I walked through, I have no life. If the Cubs wins you get a free Chick Fila sandwich, also I have the Panera coffee plan. The Panera and Chick Fila are both out parcels, but I did walk through the mall. This is a cool place hope that it stays around, redevelop, but still mid-century modern.
Nice video. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
Also I kept on thinking that putting a store as the only way to get to the other side was very odd as it's closing would impair the mall completely.
there is some life still! i’m glad to see it still alive
Great video! Really interesting, too. I'm not from the midwest so I had never heard of this spot until now. Good captions -- and I really liked when you mixed the music with the video's sound. Maybe look for a little more variety of the same kind of chill music? Can't wait to see where you go!
I miss the malls ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I remember this as Golf Mill Shopping Center with Sears at one end, JCPenneys at the other and the rest being open air shopping. I watched them enclose the mall and now to unenclose the mall. What comes around goes around.
i am pushing 60 and grew up in niles. Spent many weekends at the mall, even back when it was open air and it had the water wheel. its sad to see it now.
I always remember it being open air just like Old Orchard mall-those were the days…….so 😢
I have been to a few Malls lately, there were plenty of people walking around, but too many closed shops, it is like people want to get out of the house and do something post pandemic, but many of the retailers did not survive . I think malls will comeback one day, or be reinvented.
Sears used to sign 99-year leases with malls,….
I had 25 year roof shingles installed by Sears but the shingles lasted 12 years only.
The Sears stores in Nebraska were attached to the malls but were not owned by the mall. Mall gift certificates were not accepted at Sears and they didn't participate in mall promotions. They claimed the malls depended on their presence to be successful.
I drive past this mall all the time! I’ve been there a couple times only though.
To this day I cannot believe how SEARS ran itself into the ground. Biggest retailer in the US at one point, with 350,000 employees
Grew up in Hawaii I loved our malls we have 4 big malls here there doing well
Compared to many malls, there are still a lot of tenants here - Many die a very slow, decaying death until they are razed.
This mall is in way better shape than a lot of other dead malls. Why don’t they start with those. Haha. It’s so strange.
Beautiful mall... they won't be missed until no one has any where to go.. shopping on the phone or online is boring
Nice video. TFS
This looks like a beautiful mall inside. Why no patrons?
People are broke
@@QuietExp I think it's because for many years(heck, even back to the mid 2000s), this mall had slowly been losing tenants. When the mall did a renovation in the mid 2000s(I think around 2006-07), the only new chains this mall gained was a Deb store(they're now out of business altogether), and Elephant Bar Restaurant. Also the anchor stores, have slowly been getting less interesting over time. I.e. the old Woolworth space was gutted into several smaller storefronts, Kohl's later became Burlington, etc. Not to forget that national chains, have slowly been leaving this mall for years(i.e. Express, Victoria's Secret, etc). It is a miracle in a way, that Bath and Body Works and Claire's haven't departed yet.
@@watershed44 Exactly. Inflation, less jobs, etc... Advancement in technology also plays a major factor. We have a shopping mall right in the palm of our hands and now we can find specific items. Back in the day, you were sh- out of luck when a clothing store stopped selling an item you wanted and couldn't afford, and then you had to search everywhere for something remotely similar.
Sad to see this mall go into mall heaven. Makes me wonder because the way Sears sits in the middle of the enclosed mall you'd think they would have built a simple enclosed walkway so customers wouldn't have to go outside to visit the other side of the mall. Ah well.
How did I miss this mall on my Chicago mall trips. Crap I need to document this. Maybe I missed it but when is it closing?
@@QuietExp crap and I now have no cart to get up there 😫
@@QuietExp thanks I just got a find it odd that they are going to shut it down so quickly especially since when I watch your video it looks like it wasn’t completely dead I mean I know it’s struggling and not doing well but there was a fair amount of people for being a dead mall
@@QuietExp yeah I just visited Spring Hill last month and made a video a few days ago 😊
@@QuietExp cool thanks. I have a ton of mall content abandoned places and travel videos. I hope you enjoy. I enjoyed getting a chance to discover gold mill through your video. And if you want to see the raw and real editions of my mall videos they are on Patreon. The raw and real edition is more like your video where you can hear the mall sounds without commentary 😊
So many malls have small businesses that get opened with small business loans and then collapse because of the outdated business model. Which is fine, because the owner is simply using it as a write-off for personal loss on their taxes. When I worked for Taubmann Malls, the majority of tenants could only afford a Kiosk and would fail after 3-6 months.
I've noticed when I'm watching these dead mall videos that I'm seeing quite a few Targets in these malls, I didn't realize that Target was an anchor in some of these malls, I always thought they were free standing stores like Walmart.
Canada has lots
seems like a colossal waste of money, all these dead malls
The mall in my city went through a similar transformation. It was originally built in the 1960’s as a single story outdoor mall. In the late 1970’s, I believe, it was covered with tension fabric roof to convert it to an indoor mall. In 1998, they demolished and replaced the mall with a two-story building, leaving two of the original anchor store buildings in place, and adding two more department stores. The Sears went out of business around 2017, and the building that was originally JCPenny, which was replaced with a new building in mall, and converted to a Robinson May, is now a two story Target. The mall is still open, but slowly over time, stores are leaving and the mall is less and less inhabited. There are some original stores that weee not demolished and incorporated to the indoor mall which were renovated within the last ten years which are still going strong which includes a Ross, Trader Joe’s, a 24-Hr Fitness and others.
The artists rendering of the new place looks like SoDoSoPa!
The next generation won't know what a mall is. Only reading from a text book.
Malls will make a comeback on Mars.
I used to go here in the 90s. 😑
This part of niles had many Korean folk living here, pumping all sorts of money into the local economy,,but recently over the past few years now they have been moving north to MI and also Canada due to the fact they don’t pay any tax to goverment to run their businesses and such. Even when they go to the casinos in Canada, they don’t have to pay taxes on their winnings I’ve heard.
Song of Storms
These malls can easily be saved.
Lower the rent. Give new tennants free six month trial.
Get rid of all the chain stores and restaurants.
@@QuietExp We have two newer malls here in the Frankfurt area.
Loop5 which opened in 2009 and was a chain store paradise and is basically dead now. And Skyline Plaza, opened 2013, which is dying even faster. Both malls packed with stores that you will find everywhere, so why go there ?
Why does security care if you film?
Where is the Mall located?
Doesn't look dead enough that they'd be considering demolition.
The internet ruined the world
I don't see how there could be any other reason for the decline of malls other than online shopping like Amazon. I keep hearing people say that it's not the reason, but of course it is. It's not like everyone just got tired of going to malls all at the same exact time. Suddenly the whole country just decided one day that they didn't like malls anymore??
Yes, advancement in technology is the main reason, in addition to inflation & less disposable income. Many young people today are addicted to their mobile devices and it's more fast & convenient to spend money on clothes online than it is in person. Plus, the internet makes it possible to find specific deadstock-items that got cleared off the shelves when we couldn't afford them. The Covid scare & shutting down the economy also helped kill businesses.
Also, kids today generally don't go outside as much as older generations due to advancement in technology. They have social media, Call of Duty Black Ops or whatever, etc... Shopping malls represent a bygone era with a better economy, technology that was less advanced and different attitudes... We forget that everyday life & technology was very different 20+ years ago, shopping at a mall today is no longer a necessity.
Shopping malls are still doing well in Asia & developing countries though, I've heard.
The cc, and music are annoying, it takes away from the experience.
I agree about the music. Too loud and doesn’t strike the right vibe. I appreciate the footage though!
Mask cultist in mall
This young generation don't go to malls, so what do they do for fun and where do they go on dates?
Yes what s going on I love going to the mall when I was growing up in the 90s sears kaybee toy store was my favorite also Woolworth too