Posted on 01/06/2015 7:33:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
#19 Brookdale mall in Brooklyn Park by Minneapolis, Minnesota was the place to go when I was bit younger. The news stories about the mall failing sited the bus stop as a big reason for the shoppers going elsewhere.
I also use to go to the Golden Valley Shopping Center. I would ride my bike there as a kid. Today my parents would be arrested for letting me.
I recognize several of these stores. I had been away since 1988 and visited in 2004 and the stores are still there for the most part. The strip mall across the street has been removed and replaced with a better looking strip mall so I guess it is just a matter of time for this place.
http://dumpystripmalls.com/golden-valley-shopping-center-golden-valley-mn/
Dead Malls Stories
http://deadmalls.com
Dumpy Strip Malls
http://dumpystripmalls.com/
-—In other words, not much transaction
-—(i.e., purchase of goods and services ) going on.
Thats how I read it...
There are simply not as many chain stores nowadays as in prior years. That’s part of this trend as well. As you note about the DC area, many old local chains went out of business. Off the top of my head, I can think of Woodies, Hecht’s, Lansburgh’s, Garfinckel’s, all gone . All used to have major anchor stores in DC area malls. There simply are not enough remaining chain stores to rent these vacant retail spaces.
I went to the Great Plains Mall in Olathe, Ks a few days before Christmas. There were people but it was surprisingly empty for that time of the year. I also noticed that more than half the store spaces had their metal gates closed. Another (what used to be popular) mall called Metcalf South in Overland Park Ks. closed this year. I know a lot of malls bit the dust around Kansas City due to crime and with the lack of shoppers now days I probably wouldn’t visit the remaining ones after dark.
ROFLMAO
I wondered what impact constructing a Bus Rapid Transit transfer station out front of a local mall would do...
...you guessed it!
Our transit system had a problem with teenagers hanging out in a subway station. Then they started piping in classical music- teens gone, commuters loved it.
And we can’t forget Amazon and other online retailers. I think I did about half my own Christmas shopping, limited tho it may be, online.
Great solution, and cheap, too!
Not me. I don't remember seeing a mall until I was well into my twenties.
Where I live now, there is no mall. There is no mall in the next nearest town either. In fact, there is no mall within 150 miles and, even if there were, I could not drive there because the town where I live is on an island.
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One of you fellers better run out and buy a lottery ticket.
Powerball is at $146M right now.
We’ve had three malls in our metro die, Bannister and Independence in Missouri, and I think Indian Creek in Wyandotte County. Two that are terminal are Mall of the Great Plains in Olathe and Metcalf South Mall just down the street from us. Sickness has set in at Ward Parkway. I know this in spite of the fact that I almost never go to malls. I think that part of the reason that they are dying are the big box stores. Another is that there are people who drop off their kids and the kids trash the place... whatever their ethnicity. The first three I mentioned - their demise was blamed on blacks but it was more than that. Metcalf has been owned by a senile old man and the world is waiting for him to die. I’m pretty sure it will be torn down then. Its almost empty.
Metcalf South is open? I lived in “Perfect Village” from 2004 to 2012 and I always thought the place was closed.
The NRV mall has one big ticket: New River Community College. They could anchor up that whole mall if needed. I’m surprised they haven’t occupied the Sears.
Very true. No shortage of people from that area going to NRCC, and I’m sure the state makes for a good paying tenant! A win-win.... As opposed to having empty retail space just sitting there.
Dead Malls WAS a great site.
I say WAS because it seems it has rarely been updated since around 2009.
I'm in Washington county (NOT WARSHINGTON) .. and if you get to the corner of 70 and 79 ... almost as far as the eye can see (just a little bit exaggerated) .. there is wall to wall mall.
well, it depends on the situation. If you’ve got two or more malls relatively close to each other with the same selling proposition, then at least one will die — free market economics
I don’t suppose there is public transportation to Washington Mall and any of the others. That’s what saves them.
Not really a presence, no.
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