Dead Malls

[mgk920]

I saw on Instagram that Metro Center Mall in Phoenix is really dead as bulldozers leveled it completely.

< sniffle >

Mike

[bing101]

Here is a dying Mall in San Francisco. 

[mgk920]

Formerly Westfield Mall.  I will not be saying anything more in here about it.

Mike

[MikeTheActuary]

I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread, but the Enfield Square Mall, in Enfield, CT is in its last days, with the state having just approved $10m for the site's redevelopment and permits to begin demolition in July being lined up.

A recent walk-through of Enfield Square on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj--rPDDHuE

I believe this will take the Hartford metro down to two malls...although one of them, Buckland Hills, isn't healthy.

A January walk-through of Buckland Hills:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLcUSEjLtdk

[SectorZ]

I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread, but the Enfield Square Mall, in Enfield, CT is in its last days, with the state having just approved $10m for the site's redevelopment and permits to begin demolition in July being lined up.

A recent walk-through of Enfield Square on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj--rPDDHuE

I believe this will take the Hartford metro down to two malls...although one of them, Buckland Hills, isn't healthy.

A January walk-through of Buckland Hills:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLcUSEjLtdk

As someone who goes into Buckland Hills every 1-2 years, it's staggering how much worse it is with every trip.

[roadman65]

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DqLJMqTfQ/

One Cherry Hill Office Tower at Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, NJ is coming down for a ball field.

Mall still open, but building is dead.

[bing101]

Here is the Westminster Mall in Westminster, California. 

[Road Hog]

What's the biggest sign of a dying mall?

To me, a Burlington Coat Factory as an anchor is tantamount to a load of bracket fungus on a trunk.

[mgk920]

What's the biggest sign of a dying mall?

Several of those vibrator chairs set up in an array in the main corridor.

 

Mike

[SectorZ]

What's the biggest sign of a dying mall?

To me, a Burlington Coat Factory as an anchor is tantamount to a load of bracket fungus on a trunk.

Oddly enough the corpse of the Billerica Mall near me just had it's Burlington Coat Factory leave for a different location within the same town. This place has lost a Kmart, Market Basket (to new apartments), and has the vaporware of an Amazon Fresh where the Kmart once was.

Another sign of death is nothing but GNC and Bath & Body Works inside the mall for a national chain.

[Bobby5280]

Spencer's stores have commonly been associated with indoor shopping malls. Now the chain is about to open its first standalone store not inside a mall. Of all the places they could choose where to build it, they're opening the new store here in Lawton.
https://www.kswo.com/2025/05/28/spencers-host-grand-opening-first-ever-standalone-store/

[SectorZ]

Spencer's stores have commonly been associated with indoor shopping malls. Now the chain is about to open its first standalone store not inside a mall. Of all the places they could choose where to build it, they're opening the new store here in Lawton.
https://www.kswo.com/2025/05/28/spencers-host-grand-opening-first-ever-standalone-store/

That looks enormous and is probably 30 years too late to be remotely cool.

[D-Dey65]

What's the biggest sign of a dying mall?

To me, a Burlington Coat Factory as an anchor is tantamount to a load of bracket fungus on a trunk.

The Burlington Coat Factory in Patchogue took over the former Mid-Island Department Stores, and was successful for a long time. I'm not sure how they've been doing since they moved to Sunrise Highway though.

[bing101]

Puente Hills mall to be renovated and for a new era.