Stratford Square Mall - A Retailpocalypse Feature Presentation
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2020
- Our walkthrough of Stratford Square Mall, filmed 2018 © Jack Thomas/Retailpocalypse. Enjoy!
Editors Note: Due to a copyright claim, the music used roughly between mark 22:30 and 24:30 has been replaced by RUclips generated music due to a copyright strike. Apologies for any sudden volume changes.
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Kevin MacLeod - Atlantean Twilight • Atlantean Twilight - K...
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Kevin MacLeod - Passing Time • Passing Time - Kevin M...
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I’m 3 years late commenting here. Thank you for filming this beautiful gem!! What an absolutely beautiful mall. The wood panel ceilings, the wooden columns, the architecture & design make up for an absolutely beautiful mall. Just love the aesthetics of this mall. I’m a bit disappointed how this mall is closing this weekend. This mall will be closing its doors for good today on 4-21-24. Just so sad to see such an amazing looking structure die and will be demolished soon for redevelopment. I wish they could keep some of the architecture for the planned redevelopment. The previous owners did not come up with a plan to revive this dying mall since they took over in 2019. I’m so sad about this. Wish there was an active save Stratford Square Mall effort before it was too late. This was by far one of the most beautiful malls I’ve seen on the internet. Thank you again for taking the time to document this mall. Just subscribed to your channel. And a belated congratulations on your marriage and hoping to enjoy more upcoming videos from you.
Beautifully done Video. Im very Sorry to All whom shopped here. I never did but Thank God those in my generation, im 47, we have the Memories of the Booming 1980's into mid 90's and im grateful for those before me and us, who built these Mecca Centers so we can have and share lasting memories.
The crazy part about the design of this mall is that a lot of malls are currently being renovated with similar wood panels. Great job as always Jack!
This mall at one point had both an EB Games and Gamestop at the same time, it was one of the last U.S. stores to have in EB Games (if not the last). The EB games was still there in 2009 and I believe closed in 2010 or 2011.
The ceiling at the Mall's center court is still one of the most beautiful I've seen in a mall. I'm glad RUclipsrs have documented this, because I think Stratford may get torn down in the next few years. I grew up with the mall and remember when it was still a high end mall in the late 80s and 90s.
I agree. Such beautiful aesthetics in this mall. The wooden panels on the ceilings, nothing like them. The Greek like columns, just so beautiful. So sad to hear of its closing today on 4-21-24.
Thank you for recording the mall in its heyday, showing most of the stores as full. That’s a great way to remember it.
This is my local mall, I have lots of memories here, it is really said to see what has happened in a week I saw for places closed and the arcade is closing. I wish this place will turn around but it most likely will not. There was a rumor that Simon was going to purchase this mall once JCPenney closed, I wish that actually happened and it might have made it more thriving. If you want more info about some inside stuff. (We were a friend of a old art gallery owner) so I have some other info. There used to be a step fountain in front of fye and they got rid of that then there was another fountain and I have a updated video from right before COVID. I am going to make a update video since I was just there and saw how much worse it is.
Is round 1 closing?
@@ayo3014 Yes, on Halloween
My fiancé and I love this mall! There’s just something about it that makes you feel comfortable! We were hoping that the mall would turn around! But I sadly don’t think that’ll happen.
Same
This opened 3 months after I was born and was the mall the family went to when I was growing up, so I always remember it as being something that was just a part of life. I remember when they used to have trees, and when they changed the shoebox theatres to modern theatres. I was 10 when Charlestown was built, so I remember that as the 'new' mall, never quite as good as Stratford or Fox Valley, but not bad. In the early 2000s I worked a job at Woodfield.
A few years before I left Illinois, Charlestown basically died and Stratford was dying. I think Fox Valley and Woodfield are still doing allright, yeah?
Woodfield still going strong. Fox valley has a slight dip than what it once was. Charlestown is just the movie theater. Maybe one store but that's it.
I remember at one point when Charlestowne actually had 3 bookstores. And had a movie memorabilia store and a sports memorabilia store. It was a good mall for guys, usually malls cater more to women.
I know almost every square inch of this mall. Been going here since high school in the 80s.
So many movies like “Blade Runner,” David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” and “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”
As teenagers we would cruise up and down the mall looking for girls. Grabbing a bite at the food court and meeting up just before going to a big party.
Dozens of Christmas Eves were spent here shopping for family and friends. Christmas shopping was I was so busy and stifling hot, no matter how cold it was outside.
It’s sad to see it go. But among the locals, I swear it’s been on the horizon for well over a decade. It never quite garnered the kind of traffic that Woodfield Mall garnered. (it’s main competitor) end, it never could secure what kind of stores that Woodfield could anchor.
Just watched this for the 5th or 6th time . Very well done . You really capture everything. I really grew up in this mall through my childhood until after I finished college. Thank you for making this . I truly loved this place and have some amazing beautiful memories here . Awesome job !
I knew I recognized the music. Great music to go along with the tour. Very nice.
'In 2020, More stores inside the mall were closing including Victoria's Secret, The 25 West Brewery, Oriental Gifts, Scooby's hot dogs and more. Round One is set to close on October 11, 2020"
-Wikipedia
Found out about Round1 after I finished production on this. Not a good sign at all, and fueling a continual decline for this place.
@@Retailpocalypse It is sad I have a lot of memories here. Plus it is still my local mall. I might do a spot the difference comment.
I was here the 1st day it opened and worked there in earlot 90s at the athlete's foot (shoe store). My sister worked at the candy jar store mid 90s. Steve and Barry's was awesome. No one knew how they sold so much college apparel for cheap. They were scammers and forced into bankruptcy and arrested. Great mall back in the day!
Thanks for what you do!
With the way how technology has progressed over the past 15 to 20 years, people are getting more comfortable with ordering off the internet rather than going to the store. The only way people would ever go to the store is to return an item that they ordered off the internet. Plus to remodel a mall is a huge undertaking and that could affect the stores inside the mall to a point where prices might go up a little. Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL went through a remodeling phase about 2 or 3 years ago and it looks a lot better or more modern. Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, IL just completed their remodeling but yet it still feels like nothing has changed. Soon malls are going to be a thing of the past.
Actually JCPenney closed in April of 2014.this I believe is what led to a beginning of a persistent domino effect throughout Stratford Square in a matter of time unfortunately.Arby’s was next then Waldenbooks and Waldenkids.and Abercrombie and Fitch due to Feldman charging higher rent to this particular tenant.as well as others I believe causing a loss of foot traffic and teenagers to this property and then the Disney Store and the next stage was the closing of Macy’s in Spring of 2017.
I walked through this mall this week and it was quite depressing. Sorry to see what has happened here!
Classic! A mall that still has a car in it! Love it! I remember those so called car giveaway contests in malls!! 😂 I miss Candy World! The one in Woodfield closed a few years ago or so! Woah! On the carousel! That looks so cool! It wasn't there when I used to go. When was it put in? Did people ever ride it? Same with the train! Did it ever run? When was it put in?
I remember riding on the train and the carousel as a kid. Shame they are gone now
This mall still has good bones. Newish flooring, etc. Too bad they can't turn it into an indoor mega-entertainment meca.
Reopen the movie theater and bowling ally. Add bars, resturants, nightclubs, mini-golf, lazer tag, recording studios, axe throwing, etc etc. Have a jazz bar, country bar, rock bar, etc.
Center stage for entertainment ala Vegas or Nashville.
Offer all new residents free rent for 1-2 years until it finds it's feet.... or crashes and burns.
Great video
Beautiful mall. So sad seeing so many empty storefronts.
Even worse now I'm afraid. The last two years since this was filmed have not been kind.
Well said.so many memories of Christmas past .it doesn’t get any easier to see old friends fade away like this..next March Stratford Square turns 40.i do believe life begins at 40.it maybe time to simply try something new.the village of bloomingdale has stopped tax money from going to Namdar Realty until they present a plan to improve this property.if someone or something is important to you then invest into what has been given.if not its time for something new.i would put Stratford at 28%occupancy as of December 2020.and the closing of the entrance of Kohls due to coronavirus concerns won’t help matters either.hope is all that remains.just hope.just hope for something better in the near future.
@@Retailpocalypse I revisited here, earlier this month. In the storefronts and food court it's down to 24 stores left, and 2 kiosks. I visited on a Sunday, so not all of them were open.
But if I saw evidence peering into a storefront that a business appeared to be operational, I counted that place as open. Hot Topic and Red Robin recently left, and Burlington will move in early 2023 to a strip mall just west of here(in part of a former Kmart). I'm pretty darn sure the only reason Finish Line remains open at Stratford, is due to spillover business from Burlington shoppers walking through the inside mall entrance.
I was EVEN more shocked Foot Locker remained open, in the old JCPenney wing. Proof shoe stores never bail from a mall, till the ABSOLUTE end. Also 3 other mom and pop stores remained open, including a wrestling studio with limited hours in the JCPenney wing. Finally had a bizarro experience walking into Lids and then out, and then lol didn't see a single employee inside that store despite it being open! Reason you ask, is because I was trying to ask an employee how long ago Hot Topic closed. I finally got an answer, walking into the axe throwing place. Go figure....
Mall is much worse now than it was 2 years ago. Big sad
I've heard. Not good.
IMO, this mall has two options.
First option, reopen Cinemark and Round1.
Second option, just close it altogether and put it out of its misery already.
I literally have no plans to go back there in the foreseeable future. For now, I’ll just go to the Fox Valley, North Riverside, and Woodfield malls.
Actually JCPenney closed right around Easter 2014.
Namdar has further allowed Stratford to decline.it didn’t have to be this way.the first important clue was the April 2014 closure of the JCPenney.that I believe was the beginning of major change at Stratford Square.it still had 3 more years before the March 2017 closure of Macy’s.something I strongly feel should have been done with a little more urgency to try to save the mall.but like I stated before the recent closure of the century theater could be that nail in the coffin.
I suppose that for the long term there will be no new shopping malls constructed and perhaps the surviving malls will be profitable.
I don't see any viable alternative.
I think cvoid is the blame for it's closing n becoming dead .( When the first wave hit )
Hi 👋
Great video but by any chance, when are you coming out with your next video?
That's kind of in flux right now. I recently moved and started a new job. Also planning my wedding for the summer, so needless to say things have been hectic. I'm hoping to have one out as soon as I am able. Stay tuned and thanks for watching!
@@Retailpocalypse WOW congratulations! I hope things for get less hectic. I am just really into your content and I was wondering what was going since you hadn't post anything in five months so I wondered if you quit youtube or where things were hectic for you. Congrats on your marriage and don't rush anything for youtube if things are hectic right now, everything will work out. Have a nice day!
1:58 sears is closed
3:04 Quencher smoothies closed
4:14 all the kiosks are gone
5:31 Munchie p’s got replaced with scoobys which then closed, cold stone creamery closed, China max closed
6:22 Auntie Anne’s has not opened, may open?
6:31 MRs, Fields closed
6:51 candy store and Furniture store closed
7:57 Walled off for woodmans
8:01 Too cool moved to 7:05
8:09 Scrubs and beyond closed and fun flatables moved upstairs
8:33 lens crafters moved across the street
8:43 Payless closed before the company closed all there stores
10:55 It is not a little kid play thing and the wave kids behind it closed
12:01 Famous footwear closed and is a sports store now and the baskin Robbins closed
13:02 that 25 west closed and sprint is a third t mobile and the steel art is boost mobile
14:13 round 1 is closing
15:30 Carson’s is closed
17:36 skate room closed
18:21 hot rags closed, couple years later where the sign was had to be blocked off because it was falling, fixed with duct tape (not a good fix)
18:42 New York and company closed, fun flatables is there now
19:15 that kitchen collection closed
19:27 yankee candle closed and Victoria’s Secret closed
20:08 the lawn place closed, became a music place now vacant
10:03 That place closed on the right
20:13 the art gallery moved then closed
21:13 bricks&bear closed
The dance studio moved to part of the old JCPenney
Thanks for the updates.
@@Retailpocalypse No problem. It is sad.
Century Theaters has closed. I was there today and the large mall facing sign had been removed.
@@tombauer5740 yep ik it is sad
Aeropostale on the first floor in the former Macy's wing is also gone.
Sadly this mall closed on April 21st 2024
Where are you??? You had not been uploading!!! :(
New job has kept me quite busy, as well as recent life events. I am working on a new video which will hopefully be out soon!
Crazy sad how these once bustling structures are now so dead. On the upside (maybe?) Woodman’s is a kick ass grocery store owned by it’s workers (shareholder options etc…) and should do well once folks realize how good it is. Woodman’s can’t save an entire mall though!
Now the theater is gone
At all stated in 2018
I was just there yesterday and it's even worse.
I miss Noah's Ark.
The pet store
Why did you stop?
Time to create videos of the quality that I want to share with everyone has not been on my side. My current line of work doesn't lead to much time for editing and I don't want to do rush jobs on an inferior end result. In the meantime, my focus is on photography. You can find my work on Instagram under the same name. I hope to one day get back to videos, but for now it has taken a back seat.
@@Retailpocalypse Oh, okay and not only that, I featured you in my channel in the home section at the very bottom
I went there today and ITS DEAD AF
Its going to be closed very soon. Its worse now
whats with the pointless music?