Yes very true I remember going there as a teenager it used to be full of people

Not surprised at all Fiesta closed. The management company was most likely charging more for the retail spaces than what was financially lucrative for those stores. And the strip mall in the NW corner of Southern & Alma School has been empty since I moved here in '99.

The old teenager stomping grounds. When we came to hang out all day from Globe-Miami! This is sad.

This is so sad. My maternal grandma used to take me to Fiesta Mall to get my hair cut back in the '80s whenever she went to have hers done, then we'd always eat at a restaurant in one of the department stores (don't recall which one now). She passed back in '95 and I still miss her so much. Fiesta was a reminder of her, so seeing it like this hurts.

I loved this Fiesta Mall and it was a good place to do shopping, have a fun and eat something and even just walk around. Also, this mall had a good stores where people did shopping, came with their children and even they had some concert too. Actually, I was very sad when they decided to close this mall a few years ago and almost all of the stores are moved out. Yes, it was a small mall but it locates next to the college and other places too.

I remember the old days

I worked at the upper level Naturalizer Shoe Store from Oct.1979-Oct.1981 Lots of great memories there.

It's a shame, I loved that mall

Rest In Peace fiesta mall: Nov 3, 1979 to Jan 28, 2018.

@DannyBoy-nz2mi

6 жыл бұрын

Dream Big Productions I shopped at this mall all my life. I was a toddler and I got in the elevator alone... My brother and I used to crawl around and hide in the racks of clothes. When I was 5 my mom was buying pillows and had to try something on. So I laid down on the pillows and the woman next to me was TRYING ON BRAS 👀. Is that why I am a big tit man? 😇

wow, thats nuts. This is the mall I went and saw santa in as a kid

Yes very true Tim it’s a shame they let mall go to hell like this

I will miss this mall as I spent my formative years between here, Fashion Square and Superstition. I saw a punk band play a live gig in the parking lot 17 years ago and it was great. Fun fact the only official Diamondbacks team store was in Fiesta until like 08. The only place other than Bank One Ballpark to get official team merch. I watched the sharp decline of Fiesta mall and see the same thing happening rapidly at Superstition mall and honestly for the past ten years I've said good riddance. Mall stores, even chain stores are more expensive with a limited stock compared to their online counterparts, even ordering directly from most stores like Dillards, Macy's, HotTopic etc is a better experience online.

We did a chorus show there and a small kid got his head stuck in the upstairs railings. That's when they added those middle rebar that are kind of been and don't look like they were originally there.

could be a huge homeless encampment help/center.. so much shelter with no one using it is sad!

Oh my used to shop there all the time very sad

I don't think the whole mall is abandoned. 2:36

When this Mall was built and opened to the public in Mesa, it stood as one of the Greater places to go to [to get out of the Desert Sun] in the Summer time. In the 1980s, it was a place to get out of the Sun and wlak around in peaceful abandonment. Then the 1990's came. Along with the ever-increasing changes, brought on by the increasing illegal Mexican pressence ...it soon became a lesser frequented Shopping experience. Crimes like stabbings, started to happen inside the Mall and some of the bigger 'anchor' stores started to pull their companies out. The neighborhood is a crappier shell of what it once was, and the plans for this building were scheduled to be converted into a College [ironiclly] in an attempt to educate the lower classes of peopel now calling Mesa their Home. Gangs now fight for turf in Mesa. Way to go Humanity.

Fiesta Mall was the popular mall to visit in the east valley back in the 80s. Kind of sad to see it die but all things eventually pass.

My mom an I drove past the Fiesta Mall when we had to go to Arizona Mills Mall, I remember seeing the parking lot packed with cars. I heard now the Arrowhead Towne Center Mall lost it's Sears store and might lose its Forever 21 store. I also heard Metrocenter Mall is being re-done it's gonna be an outdoor mall, much like West-Gate.

I really don’t know why it closed but my Guess is once Arizona mills and chandler fashion Square malls opened up I think people must rather go to the Nicer higher end malls that’s my opinion but i really don’t know the real reason why it closed down

wow! I use to live right across. the street from fiesta mall . It was a great hang out place, For us kids.

Lol wow I totally forgot about tri-city mall I remember going there as a kid

@DannyBoy-nz2mi

6 жыл бұрын

Don't forget about Christown Mall. And yes I grew up with Tri City. I liked the Walgreens there.

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Hey i used to love going to this malll when i was a kid/teen! I heard they turned it into a school

How’d you get in? Me as a photographer would like to get in, but is it closed off?

Wow that’s crazy man how things has changed

Yes it was about 3 Months ago I was in there last to do the video I’m pretty sure the Dillard’s entrance in close now . The last time I was driving by the mall sears was having a clothing sale. So it’s a matter of time before the whole mall closes down

I lived at 1141 W Frito Avenue, just across the street before/during/after Sears was built and then Fiesta Mall followed it. Saw the place change so much in the 70's-80's as the snowbirds and 'other state' invaders (lol) moved in. Alma School Rd was all dirt back then and 60 had not yet made it to Alma School Rd.

Since it became easier to order things online, at a lesser price and shipped to you for free malls were made obsolete. About the only thing that can stay open is clothing stores since you really have to try things on.

I worked at the Hollister in this mall right before it was closed. Too bad, plenty of people live nearby to close it.

At 4:30 was the sunglass hut and around the corner was the hat club

Crazy!

Yes it pretty scary to open up a business anywhere in America right now period

@joaquimrodriguez8961

5 жыл бұрын

you scare easily. Everything comes to a end, sooner or later.

I worked at the hot topic lol

Yes I agree with you I think they should turn it into housing for vets or homeless or something like that put it to good use unseed of letting it sit and go abandoned it’s a shame. Most small town would kill for a mall that size

@satup9227

6 жыл бұрын

Azlife Video yeah, move it to Buckeye. We need a "slightly used, economy sized under 200k orig miles but AC works fine" mall here. Arrowhead is too far.

I wouldn’t doubt it

There are plans being developed by a collaboration of the City of Mesa, the Maricopa County Community College District and ASU to turn the facility into a health sciences education center including a nursing school and a college of medicine. Whether or not it comes to fruition, that's another thing. The crazy thing is that "Bath and Body Works" wants to maintain the store after the transformation.

2:29 still people getting their hair cut not abandoned.

I heard a rumor that mcc is going to buy it out. It's close enough in proximity to be true, but most likely a rumor.

No this was shot around 3 in the afternoon

Yes it is it’s a beautiful mall it’s ashamed it’s going to hell like that

Pretty clean for a dead mall, I was expecting trash and graffiti... Someone is still trying to keep it up.

Yes very sad mark Wagner

Ya that’s a good idea

2:39 I remember that barber shop gave me a sorry ass haircut one time which was the last time I went and the far left inside the food court near the restrooms was the sbarros pizza my favorite

This must be before closure seeing as how the Dillard’s mall entrance is wide open. Also you misspelled the malls name

@diamondbacks1100

5 жыл бұрын

Dillard’s is still open, everything else closed...

I think the reason it's so clean is because there are saleing the building

@rebeccaburns7980

6 жыл бұрын

Azlife Video - "there" states a location/place. You meant "they're" - a contraction of "they are". "Saleing" isn't a word. What you wanted was "selling".

Sad

They should turn this into a collage with several schools in side like cosmetology and even have a big daycare on sight and open the food court it would do well I think!!

@izziehoward470

6 жыл бұрын

lavonne Branom there actually doing something like that, like a college or nursing home

This is going to be some sort of medical college or something to do with medical school or care.

sad , all those resources to waste

Closed it's doors permanently in Jan 2018, not even a place to get a haircut now.

That is not abandoned! Someone walked by him

What happened why did it close?

@arizonaoc5991

6 жыл бұрын

Nathan Faust other malls opened up not far

@edgarh252

5 жыл бұрын

@@arizonaoc5991 Which one?

@thathusky7248

5 жыл бұрын

@@edgarh252 Superstition Springs Center and Chandler Fashion Center

Is this being shot early in the morning before everything opened? Because all the stores are closed.

@natea.1326

6 жыл бұрын

Geerladenlad lmao no

@Geerladenlad

6 жыл бұрын

Nate A. Have you ever been in the mall early in the morning?

@natea.1326

6 жыл бұрын

Geerladenlad yes I have but no this mall is dead literally i live by there. I went 2 months ago to clean my ring there and me and my wife fucked at dillards fitting room

@Geerladenlad

6 жыл бұрын

TMI

@natea.1326

6 жыл бұрын

Geerladenlad that's how dead the mall is and the one time parked on top of the parking garage and fucked out side and inside of the car.

Anyone else hearing that annoying breathing?

6:20 you passed foot locker at the end of the hall was anchor blue down stairs on the left was champ sports

@kramalerav

Жыл бұрын

I remember buying VHS films at SunCoast back in high school in the nineties!

@steveaustin6786

Жыл бұрын

Was that by the food court and Dillard's?

@kramalerav

Жыл бұрын

@@steveaustin6786 it wasn’t next to the food court, but instead right next to one of the anchor stores. That was a very long time ago so I can’t remember which one it was exactly. The Aladdin’s Castle arcade was just adjacent to the food court near one of the entrances.

@steveaustin6786

Жыл бұрын

I remember there was that cd store that sold all kinds of music ect I thought it was in that store

@kramalerav

Жыл бұрын

@@steveaustin6786 Sam Goodie..Warehouse..FYI were music stores all located there at one time or another as well as a couple other music store names that I can’t recall.

my teen years dead and on display haha

turn it into anther prison!

@troyb.4101

6 жыл бұрын

State doesn't prosecute criminals it has no money to do so.

So much people who have a regular job and sleep out maybe they can to do something for it I do not talk about the druggies they will messed up those kind of places or the marginals who don't want any help . I talking about all those the honest one who live in their car or out even they try hard to get out .YES flash news in the street honest and respectable people live out too 😕😉😊

Malls are closing because of GREED. Yes GREED you can't buy a shirt for a $1.20 and try to get $100. Dollars out of it. Then you have the mall owners wanting 15 percent of the stores profit. GREED, GREED, GREED.

@johnv.1764

6 жыл бұрын

thanks to Amazon

@tonyinarizona4350

6 жыл бұрын

Do you shop at Amazon because you're greedy?

Arizona most bad place to invest on business ever

@jigglywookie8061

6 жыл бұрын

Gus Pompa That is a very ignorant comment.

@redefv

6 жыл бұрын

Gus Pompa because one mall closed? So forget about the yearly population growth stats? One mall closed just throw in the towel 🤣😂🤣

@kasmaineheyoka540

6 жыл бұрын

Leave!!!

@AZCobraman

6 жыл бұрын

Gus learned English at the most bad place to learn English ever...