Dead Malls

[Angelo71]

I don't know if anyone has talked about this, but gross Pittsburgh has a disgusting dead mall and almost a second deal mall. Century Three and probably soon Monroeville. The senile decrepit town is just continuing to die. Even its own news station said how poorly it is run, and it won't ever change. The government needs to relocate everyone who lives there and erase the town, and every trace of it. Sorry for my unwanted opinion*

[mgk920]

I don't know if anyone has talked about this, but gross Pittsburgh has a disgusting dead mall and almost a second deal mall. Century Three and probably soon Monroeville. The senile decrepit town is just continuing to die. Even its own news station said how poorly it is run, and it won't ever change. The government needs to relocate everyone who lives there and erase the town, and every trace of it. Sorry for my unwanted opinion*

Would the Pittsburgh area improve any if all of the munis in Allegheny County, including Pittsburgh, would be merged into a single city?

Mike

[OCGuy81]

I don't know if anyone has talked about this, but gross Pittsburgh has a disgusting dead mall and almost a second deal mall. Century Three and probably soon Monroeville. The senile decrepit town is just continuing to die. Even its own news station said how poorly it is run, and it won't ever change. The government needs to relocate everyone who lives there and erase the town, and every trace of it. Sorry for my unwanted opinion*

I think Monroeville was the mall seen in the movie Zack and Miri.  It took place in Monroeville, though I'm not sure the mall they worked at was the one you mentioned or not.  If so, it looked bad back then, and I think the movie is about 12 years old now.

[Flint1979]

I don't see what's wrong with Monroeville, Pennsylvania I've been there before. Now Wilkinsburg I didn't care for that place.

[jakeroot]

I don't know if anyone has talked about this, but gross Pittsburgh has a disgusting dead mall and almost a second deal mall. Century Three and probably soon Monroeville. The senile decrepit town is just continuing to die. Even its own news station said how poorly it is run, and it won't ever change. The government needs to relocate everyone who lives there and erase the town, and every trace of it. Sorry for my unwanted opinion*

I think Monroeville was the mall seen in the movie Zack and Miri.  It took place in Monroeville, though I'm not sure the mall they worked at was the one you mentioned or not.  If so, it looked bad back then, and I think the movie is about 12 years old now.

It was in Zack and Miri. But nothing compares to its feature in the original Dawn of the Dead from 1978. I'm sure it's most well known today for that over anything else. As it should be, frankly.

[Flint1979]

It doesn't beat Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois with the scene from The Blues Brothers .

[jakeroot]

It doesn't beat Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois with the scene from The Blues Brothers .

For that brief scene in Blues Brothers, yes. But Monroeville Mall was a huge part of Dawn of the Dead. It was as much a star of the film as any of the cast members.

[Flint1979]

It doesn't beat Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois with the scene from The Blues Brothers .

For that brief scene in Blues Brothers, yes. But Monroeville Mall was a huge part of Dawn of the Dead. It was as much a star of the film as any of the cast members.

I became a fan of Dixie Square Mall because of its abandonment and condition it was in before it was demolished. For some reason I like dead malls.

[Angelo71]

I don't see what's wrong with Monroeville, Pennsylvania I've been there before. Now Wilkinsburg I didn't care for that place.

Monroeville is fine but murraysville is better. Most of the Pittsburgh greater area is so gross. But the eastern areas are disgusting! Go to north Versailles and McKeesport and they are disgusting. And you can't tell me rankin or Braddock are any better!

[Flint1979]

I don't see what's wrong with Monroeville, Pennsylvania I've been there before. Now Wilkinsburg I didn't care for that place.

Monroeville is fine but murraysville is better. Most of the Pittsburgh greater area is so gross. But the eastern areas are disgusting! Go to north Versailles and McKeesport and they are disgusting. And you can't tell me rankin or Braddock are any better!

What do you mean by so gross?

[Flint1979]

Currently walking around Saginaw's Fashion Square Mall. I counted 45 stores in the mall in a mall that has capacity for over 100 stories. The corridor we're the main entrances is totally vacant of any stores.

[CoreySamson]

Not sure if anyone's mentioned this but Cortana Mall in Baton Rouge looks to be basically dead. I remember walking around in it about 10 years ago and seeing a lot of abandoned stores. I think my dad remarked that it was on the decline, but it appears to be gone now. The Mall of Louisiana has really lead to Cortana's demise (admittedly, the Mall of Louisiana is probably the best mall I've been in, and Cortana was not).

[Bruce]

Lloyd Center in Portland isn't doing too well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/nmi8w6/the_most_dead_mall_of_portland/

[hbelkins]

Drove by Mercer Mall near Bluefield, WV today. Best as I could tell from the road (US 460) it appeared dead.

[Flint1979]

I walked around Genesee Valley Center in Flint a little bit today. It seems to be doing a little better than Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw with more stores. The food court however only has two places open.

[OCGuy81]

I walked around Genesee Valley Center in Flint a little bit today. It seems to be doing a little better than Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw with more stores. The food court however only has two places open.

We could probably do a whole sub topic on the food courts! Even the malls that are still around, it seems food courts are a shell of their glory days.

[GCrites]

When malls open up a lot of times at first there's nothing around them. Then as restaurants and fast food open up around them the food court starts to die.

[Flint1979]

The least profitable mall in this area has to be Bay City Town Center (use to be called Bay City Mall). It has lost all it's anchor stores and has no food court anymore either it was removed for a PetSmart that only has an outside entrance. Half of the old Sears became an Ollie's Bargain Outlet and also only has an outside entrance. Use to have a Sears, Younkers, JCPenney and Target.

I went into the Midland Mall the other day which only has a Target left for an anchor and many vacancies as well. Use to have a Sears, JCPenney, Target and Younkers. Midland Mall's Food Court seems to be doing ok it had the most restaurants out of any of the malls I've mentioned in my previous posts and also has a sit down restaurant, use to be Ruby Tuesday but now is Alex's Railside Restaurant. Alex's use to be located in Sanford along the Rail Trail which is why it's called Railside but after the floods from the dam's failing last year they got flooded out and relocated to Ruby Tuesday's old spot in Midland Mall.

[GCrites]

It's hard to criticize any particular mall for losing Sears when a Wal-Mart, Lowe's, Kohl's, Menard's and a Harbor Freight all opened up right next to the mall. Or within 1 mile of it. That could be over 600,000 square feet of the exact stuff Sears sold in their 80,000-100,000 sqft space. With a Pep Boys, Valvoline Instant Oil Change and Discount Tire around the corner.

[jeffandnicole]

It's hard to criticize any particular mall for losing Sears when a Wal-Mart, Lowe's, Kohl's, Menard's and a Harbor Freight all opened up right next to the mall. Or within 1 mile of it. That could be over 600,000 square feet of the exact stuff Sears sold in their 80,000-100,000 sqft space. With a Pep Boys, Valvoline Instant Oil Change and Discount Tire around the corner.

And the Town or County's zoning planning allowed all of this to happen!

[thspfc]

At this point malls should be celebrating when their Sears goes out of business. Poorly run company stuck in the past.

[Flint1979]

At this point malls should be celebrating when their Sears goes out of business. Poorly run company stuck in the past.

I guess I could be said for Kmart too. I mean yeah same company but they are totally stuck in the past.

[Stephane Dumas]

At this point malls should be celebrating when their Sears goes out of business. Poorly run company stuck in the past.

I guess I could be said for Kmart too. I mean yeah same company but they are totally stuck in the past.

And that's a warning tale to Wal-Mart and Target if they want to avoid to fall in the same traps althought in the case of Target when they aquired Zellers stores in Canada. They completely screwed things.

[Flint1979]

At this point malls should be celebrating when their Sears goes out of business. Poorly run company stuck in the past.

Honestly another thing. When the Sears in Genesee Valley closed and then the next year the one in Fashion Square closed my first thought with both Sears locations was ABOUT TIME.

[Flint1979]

At this point malls should be celebrating when their Sears goes out of business. Poorly run company stuck in the past.

I guess I could be said for Kmart too. I mean yeah same company but they are totally stuck in the past.

And that's a warning tale to Wal-Mart and Target if they want to avoid to fall in the same traps althought in the case of Target when they aquired Zellers stores in Canada. They completely screwed things.

Around here Meijer blows Walmart away.