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Sky 4 flies over the former Century III Mall as demolition continues The demolition began last year and is expected to finish sometime in 2026. The mall has been closed since 2019. JCPenney, the last remaining store, closed its doors in 2020..

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala has filed criminal charges against the owner of the abandoned Century III Mall. Century III Mall PA, LLC is facing one felony count of causing or risking a catastrophe and one misdemeanor for making a public nuisance. The company’s Las Vegas-based owner, Moonbeam Capital Investments, bought the property in 2013, but never fulfilled assurances that it would redevelop the site. “They clearly have no intention of doing anything with the property as it exists. They've abandoned [it], for all intents and purposes,” Zappala said at a press conference announcing the charges Tuesday. “This is...

MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA — Local dad Justin Simpson took a trip to the mall on Christmas Eve to begin his Christmas shopping, only to find a vacant lot where the mall once stood. "Oh man, I've been coming here forever," Simpson said. "I mean, it's been a few years, but I used to love getting malts at the Woolworth soda fountain. Then my mom would always make us buy some educational books over at Borders." A distraught Mr. Simpson had reportedly planned to shop for his entire family at the mall this year. "I figured I could get the older kids...

Back to the Crabtree Mall. It was the best thing going back in the early 1980s. The main anchors were Ann & Hope, Lechmere and Zayre's with a nice food court that included the ubiquitous Orange Julius, Mrs Field's cookies, Auntie Jenn's Pretzels and some Chinese fast food joint in which you could get a heaping plate of rice and meat with Chinese women standing outside of it offering free samples of stuff on toothpicks. What was not to like? Another anchor was Sears & Roebuck which was quite the store and they had dungarees, lawn mowers, washing machines and...

Hundreds of shopping malls across the U.S. have been forced to shut down following years of debilitating declines in consumer traffic. In many cases, the shuttered malls are left to decay for years before developers or local governments raise the funds to bulldoze or renovate the space. Pseudonymous photographer Seph Lawless traveled the country for years to find these forgotten malls and document their decay from the inside. The photos he captured are haunting and apocalyptic, featuring dead trees and abandoned shopping carts against landscapes of broken glass and crumbling walls. He compiled the photographs in a new book, "Black...