will your mall make the list?

[alocispepraluger102]

http://deadmalls.com/

[BruceH]

Thanks for that! A fascinating site. The article on the Methuen Mall in Massachusetts really took me back because I grew up on that place. I was raised in Andover, right next door to Methuen, and for years that mall was the almost the only one in the whole area.

The old Shopper's World in Framingham, MA was an interesting old place, only the second suburban mall built in the United States. I'm now glad that my wife and I checked it out several times in the late 80's when it still had the dome-topped Jordan Marsh at one end. All gone now.

[alocispepraluger102]

many of the malls have aged (and died)really fast.

they were so cool at the time.

[Tom 1960]

They have my local mall(Hudson Valley Mall) on the list and though the writeup is about 6 yrs. old, it's hardly what you call dead. It can be quite active on weekends and Friday nights and of course during the holiday season. To be honest, I don't visit there too often unless I really need something. I just don't enjoy dealing with the crowds. It's not my thing. The mall is located on the outskirts of town in a very dense business district. The mall is pretty much responsible for killing business in uptown Kingston for which it has never recovered. A friend and I were talking recently just how bad things are uptown and I told him stories about what it was like before the mall moved in nearly 30 yrs. ago. It used to be a very vibrant area. You had Woolworths, JC Penney's, a couple very reputable clothing stores and many small storefronts. I miss that alot. It was part of growing up for me.

[JSngry]

Fascinating site indeed. Thans for posting.

[DukeCity]

There's an Albuquerque mall on the site. Built in 1960 and almost completely empty now (just a Dillards and Bed Bath & Beyond). Last year there was a film crew working there for a couple of months (part of the booming film industry here in "Tamale-wood"), and I learned recently that they were using that mall as the main location for new Kevin James movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

[BruceH]

They have my local mall(Hudson Valley Mall) on the list and though the writeup is about 6 yrs. old, it's hardly what you call dead. It can be quite active on weekends and Friday nights and of course during the holiday season. To be honest, I don't visit there too often unless I really need something. I just don't enjoy dealing with the crowds. It's not my thing. The mall is located on the outskirts of town in a very dense business district. The mall is pretty much responsible for killing business in uptown Kingston for which it has never recovered. A friend and I were talking recently just how bad things are uptown and I told him stories about what it was like before the mall moved in nearly 30 yrs. ago. It used to be a very vibrant area. You had Woolworths, JC Penney's, a couple very reputable clothing stores and many small storefronts. I miss that alot. It was part of growing up for me.

Yes, while I wouldn't go so far as to use the word schadenfreude because one doesn't like to see all these businesses that people depended on for their livelihood go under, it's still a strange thing to contemplate all these dead or dying malls. It was the shopping mall that killed off so many main street and downtown shopping districts across the country in the 50's, 60's, and 70s. Then droves of the malls are suddenly killed off by the "big-box store" phenomenon, and now (after, what, barely 10 or 15 years?) the big-box chains are being killed by online shopping and the ailing economy. It's enough to make your head swim.

[T.D.]

They have my local mall(Hudson Valley Mall) on the list and though the writeup is about 6 yrs. old, it's hardly what you call dead. It can be quite active on weekends and Friday nights and of course during the holiday season. To be honest, I don't visit there too often unless I really need something. I just don't enjoy dealing with the crowds. It's not my thing. The mall is located on the outskirts of town in a very dense business district. The mall is pretty much responsible for killing business in uptown Kingston for which it has never recovered. A friend and I were talking recently just how bad things are uptown and I told him stories about what it was like before the mall moved in nearly 30 yrs. ago. It used to be a very vibrant area. You had Woolworths, JC Penney's, a couple very reputable clothing stores and many small storefronts. I miss that alot. It was part of growing up for me.

I live about 50 mi. W of the Hudson Valley Mall, and it's by no means dead. To the extent I shop at malls (practically not at all, as they make me very uncomfortable), I go there: I've been to Best Buy, Target and Dick's Sporting Goods a couple of times each. One non-cultural reason for discomfort: a couple of years ago, some nut with a rifle randomly shot several people at that mall!

I can say that the site's coverage of the King's Mall (less than a mile down the road from Hudson Valley Mall, it's very depressing), Dutchess Mall and Mall at New Rochelle is very accurate.

[paul secor]

Two that are very close to where i live are mentioned - Dutchess Mall and South Hills Mall - are mentioned. I don't miss either one.