I thought it might be challenging finding enough pictures of dead or dying malls to make this post worthwhile. To my chagrin, it was as easy as taking a credit card from a baby. After completing this post I’m more convinced than ever that a retail collapse tsunami is headed our way. There are so many malls on the verge of collapse that I could have posted 300 more pictures without blinking an eye. There are entire websites dedicated to dying malls. The funniest part is that banks across the country are carrying the loans on these dead malls on their books at 100%. The Mall owners pretend to collect rent and make loan payments and the banks pretend they will get paid off.
Please add your own dead or dying mall stories or pictures.
Somewhere, Friedchickenlaquesha is crying.
JC Penney, Dixie Square Mall
Belz Factory Outlet Mall
Rolling Acres Mall
Columbus City Center
Dixie Square Mall
Promenade Mall – Never opened
Unknown
Somewhere in Virginia
Westminster Mall, Denver
Vacant Blockbusters litter the land
Regina Canada
Lincoln Mall, Illinois
Highland Mall, Austin
Bedford Mall, New Hampshire
Scottsdale Mall, Indiana
Metro Center Mall, Phoenix
Universal Mall, Michigan
THIS IS THE END
THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING
http://youtu.be/V0kbC0hQHRg
You folks in other states, just TRY to top this. Go ahead! TRY!
It has been called “the ugliest damn building in New Jersey and maybe America,” has bedeviled three governors and has burned through two developers. Despite $1.9 BILLION spent, it is still an unfinished pile of concrete, steel and garish pastel panels.
Now, Gov. Chris Christie and the developers of the Mall of America have struck a deal to pour in ONE BILLION DOLALRS MORE in hopes of reviving the oft-ridiculed Xanadu Meadowlands complex.
Ugliest fucking mall in America
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I live about 20 minutes from this shitpile.
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Bergen Mall, Paramus
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Shoping in Austria
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nice pictures. Deadmalls.com has a great photo gallery of these relics of the mid 20th century. Near where I work Richmond town center looks to be on it’s last legs. There are many stores that closed including Barnes and Noble and a Ruby Tuesday. The main anchor stores are Macys, Penney’s and Sears which is a good bet to fail before the end of 2013. The food court is half empty and the aisle ways are filled with prepay cell phone and cheap jewelry kiosks. Shame they wasted all that money a dozen years ago making it nice inside. I missed that cheap red carpet. Down the Road is Euclid square mall which has been dead for over a dozen years. Changing demos to say the least killed that place. Now it has Macy outlets. Can’t give the place away and too expensive to demolish. I agree retail real estate is a about to take it’s last breath.
Nice picts stucky. That Bergen mall looks so empty.
How do I add pictures from my fucking hard drive?
The Columbus City Center looks pretty sweet.
@Work In Progress:
Don’t upload them from your hard drive.
Go to photobucket.com, establish an account there. Upload from your hard drive to photobucket. Once in your album, you can put those pictures anywhere by right clicking on the pix, go to properties and copy the url. Paste the url where you want the pix to go. That’s how you also put pix in an email.
Good Luck!!
Like Hope says you can use photobucket.com to get a url for your pictures, it’s easy and it’s free. Once you have a URL, you can use SSS’s instructions for posting photos on TBP:
SSS says:
Mucky and Anon
One more time.
1. With your cursor on the photo, right click.
2. Click on Properties, which is usually last on the drop down list.
3. On the pop-up list, click and drag to highlight the Address/URL.
4. With your cursor on the highlighted URL, right click and select “Copy.”
5. Go to TBP comment box and click on the “clicking here” to add your photo, cartoon or whatever.
6. A yellow prompt will appear at the top of the TBP screen. Click on it.
7. Click on the “temporarily allow” box.
8. Now go BACK and click on the “clicking here” AGAIN. A box will appear with the letters “URL’ highlighted in blue. Delete it with the delete button.
9. Put your cursor in the box where you deleted URL and right click and hit the word paste. The URL of the image you want added should appear.
10. Hit the add button (I think that’s what it is called) and the URL should now appear in your comment box. If it doesn’t, you fucked it up again, for the hundredth time, a TBP record.
Admin, couldn’t you have found a better version of that Doors video on youtube? I’m assuming you must be using a fullscreen (4:3 ratio) monitor. Else, if you are using a widescreen, I’m sure watching fullscreen videos with black bars on a widescreen (so you have nice fat black bars on all 4 sides) is about as enjoyable for you as it is for me.
Nothing sucks worse then trying to watch a youtube vid (fullscreen) on a 46″ LCD only to see it on less then 50% of the screen.
You should enable Videos in the comments along with the Pics.
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http://www.doomsteaddiner.org
Dixie Square was the site of the famous indoor car chase scene (plus some preliminary hijinks in the mall’s parking lot) in the 1980 film classic The Blues Brothers.
Oh man, now I feel armed and dangerous with the knowledge I have gained.
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Oh man, now I am armed and dangerous.
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Armed and dangerous.
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I’ll be back bitchez
How ironic that two of the ads running on this thread were Staples and IKEA.
Wow! I got downed for asking for proper widescreen video? WTF?
I think this is all of my 4th comment here on this site.
I guess I better start marking ppl negative whose comments that I don’t agree with. I may be an ex-Obama 08 supporter turned Paul 12 supporter, and have only been reading this site for about a year, but apparently I don’t even need to login to down someone, so I guess I should start passing that kinda stuff along. I wasn’t raised that way, but hell, all the youngsters these days don’t give a shit. Why should I be any different?
Nevermind, I guess I’ll just go back to not reading the comments whatsoever. (And for posting that fixed link to the RP video earlier yesterday, I won’t do that again.)
Really, IKEA? I get a corn fungicide ad. Really a waste of time, bought it last fall. At least they aren’t porn ads.
Scary that they know the customer, really.
EF
Actually it entirely depends on the cookies you have stored in your browser and the websites you have visited in the past. I see a ton of Newegg adds everywhere, but thats one of the few websites that I actually spend money at. Even just visiting Kohls,com here a few weeks ago caused their ads to start popping up on pages for me lately.
I sincerely wish my dad was alive to see these pictures. He took over his late mom’s store from his dad right on Main Street USA. The malls came and his uber-rich successful uncle told him to go put his shop in the mall.
He couldn’t bring himself to do it and sold his business and became a de-facto CRE investor as a result.
Amazing how first it was the malls that killed Main Street, then the internet hit them, then the box stores and now the banks and wall street have clobbered them.
And in the end they’ll all look the same—-see above. I hope Main Street grows out of the manure that killed it.
I think they are selling the wrong stuff at malls. They need to sell stuff people can’t get on the internet and amazon for cheap.
So, they need to use this retail space to grow marijuana, manufacture methamphetamine, grow poppy seeds, and have brothels filled with hot chicks from foreign countries that want green cards (that haven’t become Americanized obese piles of shit yet). Problem solved. The parking lots would be full, and business would be booming.
bulldozed empty retail space or tornado fodder?
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Shockingly, the dead malls around here have been refurbed.
We lost malls during our “one state” recession, now we mainly lose the small mom & pops.
Walmart waltzed in and bought up two former mall sites, the first one opened around ’04, the second in ’10.
In exchange for hundreds of minimum wage, no benefit jobs, they have been gifted 10-15 year tax abatements. Which means they have NO problem beating the prices of ANY of their local competitors.
I try, and try, to explain to people how costly their cheap socks are. As mom & pops are run out of business, the tax base shrinks dramatically (small biz paid around 60-70% of all local taxes) and then we will be paying for the cheap socks in higher property taxes and rents. Nearly no one gets it.
Anyway, the malls around here burnt out long ago. Now it is a race between overbuilt (standalone) box stores and mom/pops to see whom can leave the most empty square feet in the state.
Since newly opened big box stores are getting free tax rides, I’m guessing it is mom & pop that are going to win that race.
Kunstler has a VERY nice photo essay titled; “The industrial ruins of my little town”
http://www.kunstler.com/Greenwich%20Winter.html
Stuck
That deserves its own post. Nice find. Kunstler and I have been having a pretty regular email correspondence. He’s not as bombastic as his articles appear. He cares about what has happened to this country.
According to a recent Howard Davidowtiz piece on Yahoo’s Daily Ticker. There hasn’t been a new mall built in the USA since 2006 says Davidowitz. Davidowitz cited the fact that due to the increasing popularity of shopping online, malls have become an outdated concept and don’t make as much money as they once did. General Growth Properties, the country’s 2nd largest mall owner, filed bankruptcy back in 2009.
The photo you have identified as Somewhere in Virginia is actually Dixie Square Mall. It’s finally being torn down after standing empty for 30 years.