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@ronverduin1979

11 ай бұрын

Interesting story about the sculpture piece at your opening sequence if you're interested. 😊

This mall and the conversation pits are so beautiful my heart is so broken for the community and I'm so sorry🥺💔💔

@christie140

Жыл бұрын

I feel so sad about all of these dead and closing malls. Regardless of what you think of huge commercial centers like theses, they were great places to bump into people and socialize. Some of them really brought community together. A by-gone era now.

@belieber3502

9 ай бұрын

I believe people should go back to in store shopping so these malls don't all close

I walked this mall 20 years ago.

Pretty creepy how the music still plays when nobody’s in the mall!.

Although I never went to this Mall, it sucks that it had to close. Good memories for those who went to this Mall.

@dvferyance

Жыл бұрын

It is because it doesn't leave many malls in metro DC on the Maryland side. The Virginia side has plenty of malls the Maryland side doesn't even before this one closed. I really don't know what the factor was for this malls demise. Anyone have any thoughts as to why it went under?

@LoydKline-uw4no

9 ай бұрын

Indoor mallused to be the ultimate hangout

that's the future of this country

I used to go to lake forest all of the time when I was a teen in the mid to late 2000’s. Can’t believe it’s now closed. 😮🥹

Hats off to the maintenance crew for keeping it up. It looks like this mall was once the place to hang out in it's prime. Like so many others because of Amazon and Ebay it is going out of business.

Very sorry to see that mall go. Would loved to have checked it out. Thanks for sharing this.

God I almost thought this was Lakeside for a moment based on the thumbnail before I read the name. Sad to see the Taubman malls disappearing one by one.

Good video, derserves a subscribe, greeting from Ireland

Such a shame . Nice mall and so clean. I don't like shopping online. I bought some tops online found out to return the item they charge me $10.50 per item. I will buy my skechers online but not clothes

This is really sad 😢😢😢

Nice video. Keep up the good work on your content.

Watching this video, this mall does not look bad. I wonder how many of these merchants pushed through until the last day.

One of the saddest moments is to watch a mall closing. After that, the attack of subhumans vandals.😢

@Mapmaker1559Retail

Жыл бұрын

Vandals are indeed some of the most subhuman. As depressing as it is that the mall will likely get demolished, my hope is that it can remain in respectable condition until a demolition permit is issued. Landmark Mall in Northern Virginia managed to stand in a similar manner.

Another Taubman master piece withers away

@Mapmaker1559Retail

Жыл бұрын

😭

@gianpolignano2632

Жыл бұрын

Has Taubman addressed this issue?

@coolcat365

Жыл бұрын

@gianpolignano2632 Taubman no longer owns the property. Therefore, it is not in their hands. Most malls these days that have the Taubman design are no longer owned by the company.

@LoydKline-uw4no

9 ай бұрын

Alfred Taubman dye long time ago

i love this type of vídeo and i got SO happy when i noticed "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" by Coldplay, playing. i swear, i just imagine myself listening to this song in an abandoned mall, just jumping and being myself bcz no one is seeing me, like, just happiness inside a sad place...

I enjoy mall shopping. 😢💔

Reminds me of a mall called regency square near me in Virginia

Funny how the one in Meriden CT have the same exact entrance with a Ruby Tuesday next to it. The only difference is the Lakeforest sign. We also have one similar to this one in Farmington Ct that still holding so far. I feel privileged to be part of a booming era of the malls, and now witness the end of that era 😥😥

So very sad to see that this mall is dying I worked in this mall in the 90's for almost 2 years some good memories, I wish someone will buy it and find another use for it. A pity these malls closing and left abandoned and not being used, surely some of these young businesspersons can think of using these structures for something other purpose that would not cost too much. Looks like Lakeforest has been very well maintained, Lakeforest should be saved.

It's weird seeing how US malls are struggling and becoming dead, whilst in Europe, malls are packed and they are doing well.

@Mapmaker1559Retail

Жыл бұрын

I think it's a combination of mismanagement and weird trends on how to develop property.

@personzorz

Жыл бұрын

Difference between driving destinations and walking/transit destinations

Reminds me of Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights, MI

@Mapmaker1559Retail

Жыл бұрын

They do have very similar designs. They were both built by the same developer so that definitely has an influence.

@Mapmaker1559Retail Excellent Video! Hope you keep making more videos like this one. Thumbs up!

@Mapmaker1559Retail

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

looks like an interesting channel..........any chance you could "talk" as you are walking the Mall??... explaining the different stores, what's good , what's bad.. etc.... thanks... 👍👍

@Mapmaker1559Retail

Жыл бұрын

I have considered doing voiceovers in the past, and I may in the future, but for now my style is a raw style where I give you a realistic glimpse into a mall at a moment in time with little to no editing.

Any possibility this can be restored and made into a museum?

@Mapmaker1559Retail

9 ай бұрын

I wish.

this place must have been packed back in the early 1980's.

@Mapmaker1559Retail

11 ай бұрын

I believe it was.

Why would anyone prefer to go to an outlet open mall, and walk in the heat or cold, to shopping in a closed mall, nice and cozy.

Did someone think to dig up and relocate all the plants in the mall? Plant them outside where they can get sunshine and rain and at least stand a chance of surviving? If just abandoned and left in the mall with no water they will soon all wither and die, that's not great, they were planted inside the mall for the shoppers and now they are just left to die.

@Mapmaker1559Retail

9 ай бұрын

A lot of the plants were taken by patrons on the last day of the mall's operation. A few were unfortunately left to die.

This looks like Ascene out of A horror movie weird 🤔

Yeah their used to be corner drug stores that served lunch and milk shakes, their used to be small auto dealerships, their used to be fur stores, their used to be candy stores, and record shops, their used to be TV and appliance fix it shops, and independent hardware stores and privately owned pet shops, and places with silver smiths and guys who would shoe your horse all gone..Malls a 60 year phenomena gone the way of the horse and buggy.

It'll be a community college by Monday.

@user-uc4yu6hd3y

Жыл бұрын

Lakeforest Mall is located is great it is central downtown business area. It would be a shame to for this great structure to remain abandoned,

Wild it has the exact same architecture and layout as Fair Oaks Mall Virginia does back in the 80's. Parallel universe? =P

@Mapmaker1559Retail

Жыл бұрын

The layout is a little different, as Lakeforest only has four wings while Fair Oaks has six, but the architecture is very similar, as both were developed by the same company. 👍

13:21 Alessia Cara!

So what next tear it down or be destroyed my kids that don't have anything else to so like Again a beautiful mall bites the dust farewell 😢😢😮😅

So sad! Can't you build some affordable houses in the vicinity, add a bus route and a school, and you'll have a ready made village....Let a few hard-working and enterprising immigrants in, and the economy will be productive. It's saddening to see so many Malls lying closed - You gotta put them to productive use. Many people overseas would love to come and settle in America.

Americans mall don’t have any architecture. People in Europe go to malls and still just because of the architecture, you want to be there all the time. On the other hand, American buildings are life less.

@Gordon_2000

10 ай бұрын

Idk I used to live in Europe and malls are nice but much smaller and get too crowded. American malls are much nicer inside, bigger and more enjoyable to walk even if there´s no real arquitecture outside.

Hello there. Thanks for showing this. The reason that I disliked this video is because you were so silent. I am not able to see what each store is or what you are passing.

@Mapmaker1559Retail

11 ай бұрын

If you don't like my videos then don't watch them. This channel uses a more raw style, essentially filming first-person time capsules for each of malls documented, focusing more on the architecture of malls than the stores. If you want commentary and a focus on stores, then go watch Dan Bell. We can't all have the same filming style.