Fascinating how buildings and homes die so quickly when people aren't around.

@ShutUpH00ker

Жыл бұрын

Nature takes over very quickly

My husband and I just found your channel and we love it. The first video we watched was the one with the abandoned Carvel. We were so touched at how you guys fixed up the Carvel and re-hung the signs and re-decorated it to make it look like an open Carvel. We thought that was so respectful and sweet. Thank you for your videos and the respectful way you explore. It’s so interesting and sad at the same time. Thank you!

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We appreciate it. And thank you for watching 😊

The multiple shower head thing is a hydro message bed. I’m shocked they didn’t take their equipment out with them, that stuff is super expensive!!! I would have taken it all even if I had to buy a storage unit.

I've lived next to that complex most of my life. The fact is, whoever owned it was demanding way too much in rent. Despite having many stores there, I can not remember a single time when all the store fronts were filled. The supermarket changed hands at least 4 times over the approximately 25 yrs since the complex was built. I knew some of the business owners there and the rent he demanded was too high to stay. I'm not surprised he sold and screwed them out of their leases.

@mrsr003

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a greedy POS!

@appletherapy

Ай бұрын

I believe it. He just sold it all. All he wanted was quick money. Maybe the owner passed away and a family member took over. Thats usually what runs businesses to the ground.

At 33 min the company was Planet Swirl. A self-serve Fro-Yo shop. They also had a party room for kids parties. Having grown up in town with and old shopping center there and seeing it transformed into Pine Plaza in the 1990s, it makes me so sad to see all these places in this condition and ready to be torn down.

Out of all those businesses there was a lot of equipment that look kind of expensive they could’ve either repurposed it in another business or sold them it doesn’t make sense that it was all left behind never to be used again.

@nyprpapi01

Жыл бұрын

Well think about it, if you were a business owner and sunk all of your life savings into a business and failed, would you want to return to a place like this ? I know I wouldn't. How do you know this can be refurbished for a profit, some places want brand spanking New items.

@nickpatrick1636

Жыл бұрын

@@nyprpapi01 right i wouldn't either

@Igrowyourbiz

Жыл бұрын

You are exactly right, many businesses buy used equipment to save money. There is millions of dollars of equipment left here.

@jevonnecooper8131

Жыл бұрын

They probably sued the owner of the plaza and got a big payout for new stuff who knows

@PoserPosse

Жыл бұрын

This was what I thought when I saw the Chuck E. Cheese video, as well as this video. So much waste! So many things that can be donated or re-sold or turned into scrap for parts. Less of the trash, more the of reduce, reuse, recycle!

Wow that place is surreal! I’m surprised so much damaged can happen over 2 years. Great exploration guys! Keep it up!

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

I wish buildings could be moved. I can think of a lot of places that will be ecstatic to have a plaza like that. Life is not fair.

Its honestly crazy I watch tons of these. It never feels real until its a place you know. I used to go with my family to the melting pot all the time for major celebrations. To see it like this is heartbreaking.

@urbaxvibes

11 күн бұрын

That’s wild to have experienced it while the shopping center was still operating! So cool!

Just discovered you guys, been watching your old videos.Pretty awesome and informative.

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

This just shows how we live in a through away society its really sad all that stuff that will go into landfills and they wonder why our ground water is going bad just sad

I’m so upset you didn’t explore the back of Jersey mikes. Should’ve seen if there was still food in the cooler and stuff. And seen the ovens and stuff

Great explore here. So much expensive equipment left behind. Thanks for the video. Just found you on FB🙂

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

I know right!?? But thank you for watching!! 😊

That’s incredible guys love the content!

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Incredible how big the property was! Cool find thank you for showing us

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

I know right! This place was big! glad you enjoyed the video! We appreciate your support 🙌🏻

That multiple head shower thing. its a hydro massage unit those are very pricey..surprised all this stuff was left behind

@ShutUpH00ker

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I’m wondering about the legality of breaking leases by the landlord… even with misuse of eminent domain the business had to have been compensated somehow & were they allowed to pickup their property?

@MissMoni83

Жыл бұрын

I love a nice hydro spa!!

frozen yogurt shop, i think is what the purple themed galaxy one was!

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Wow didn’t think of that!! Thanks for the insight 😳

Just trying to be helpful: When you walk into a space that's covered in black mold (As that martial art studio was, and especially as you stated you could smell it), you need a respirator. That sort of thing will really mess you up over long term by breathing those spores in. Just be careful.

I found your channel through tiktok. This is sad.. these businesses were once people’s dreams. I want to own a nail salon and those desks, pedicure chairs, and other equipment aren’t cheap. Those look to be in nice condition, I don’t understand why the owners would just leave everything. If I was being forced to close shop I’d atleast try to make some money back.. maybe they didn’t want to sell to a competitor.

Awesome video! It’s always cool to see abandoned places where people used to enjoy there daily lives

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

They should have been paid for the time they lost

@crazymike7883

Жыл бұрын

Time, money, product. All of it, I hope all this went to court.

@GODISREALNEVERFAKE

Жыл бұрын

@@crazymike7883 I hope they did to

Imagine how much money you could get by selling the stuff in there

That’s insanely cool!

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! This place was awesome 🏚

Just doesn't make sense why the business owners of the salon would just leave their equipment - that doesn't belong to the property owners. It looks more like a fire had happened in spots.

My hubby’s family lives in New Jersey we have passed this many times. This property will now be a Costco Whole sale store.

Interesting the shop owners would leave everything behind.

What nice 90s style find shopping center. Sad it's all wasted away. And geez I heard the word COOL nearly 40 times. Lol

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

When you see something so unreal and something you won’t probably ever see again, your going to be that excited. But it was sure a nice 90s style find.

Were the owners all evicted or bought out or something because the spa alone has THOUSANDS of dollars of stuff that could have been removed/taken to a new place. D:

I live in the area and grew up there. Before it was the pine plaza it was a small strip mall that had a liquoor store and ( maybe) an A and P. The reason it closed was the value of the land was more than the value of the retail business. It is going to be a combined retail/ housing complex ( i think rentals. They recently finished the demo and have started to build out the site.

The multi shower heads are for shower massage. Hydro shower massage. I've had it done and it's amazing. If u 2 can ever have it done do it. You'll feel amazing afterwards.

I just found your channel. You make amazing videos that show incredible detail in these abandoned places. I do have a serious question: Why don't you guys ever take small items as souvenirs? Liked and subscribed!! Keep making these fabulous videos, especially in Ohio!!

Very cool place some of them stores where so cool thanks for sharing

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! 😊

Thats insane!

I followed your tik tok here. That was my nail salon, I’m in disbelief. It was so beautiful, and everyone there did awesome work-super friendly. All this happened within a few years holy sht.

Whom ever owes the building should set up a garage sale outside to sell a lot of the stuff from all the stores.

@billiewilson9957

Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking there was some environmental hazards going on in the entire plaza and that's why they evacuated and just left stuff behind. You don't want to carry biohazard, moldy, maybe asbestos equipment to a new shop! 🤷‍♀️ who knows what was really going on here!

It was a great place to shop. Went everyday at lunch.

Bro so happy to find your videos I love shit like this. I’ll not be going out for the rest of the day 😂

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

We’re so glad you like our videos!! Thank you for your support!!

Woah! I worked at Ed K's 15 years ago! Crazy to find this!!!

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

So crazy to see this pop up, I grew up around here I remember selling girl scout cookies infront of farmtastic! The place that you went into that was planet themed, was called planet swirl! It was a huge frozen yogurt spot in town!

Thank You! Have you thought about getting better light sources?

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

This is a old video, and a random find, we didn’t have much videography equipment on us at the time.

Glad you filmed it before it got demolished!💗

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Wow I saw the thumbnail and was like I know where that is. There were rumors Costco from East Hanover was supposed to go there but that fell through if it’s going to be residential.

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Yup full on residential!! Thats cool to know though! 😊

It’s sad when I see all the products and equipment being abandoned The owners would have been under emense pressure to pay their rent and also remove all equipment Shame on the landlord for bullying the little people 😡

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Sure is! 😢

This place was active not all that long ago so it’s shocking to see how quickly the building deteriorated.

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

I know right 😳

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

I know right 😳

This is my favorite episode....

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

So glad you liked this one!! Thank you for the support!! 🙌🏻🙏

Wow I love your tt!

Sheesh, I must'a been there 200 times in my childhood. Foodtown! (Shop Rite before that?) Cool video.

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Cool! And thank youu

Used to turn around here on my way home - so happy to see it’s turning into housing!!!

This place is so incredible, so great explore, it's shame of this place.

I'd wish I knew about this. I'd drive my truck there and take the Leftover shit like chairs and usable stuff. I mean why not recycle? 🤷‍♂️

i just see a lot of $$$ sitting for the taking, FF&E is not cheap!

Awesome....

As soon as I saw those lights, I had those installed in the computer rooms. They are in great shape Door handles and fans Another industrial washer and dryer I really wish I knew about this place. And it is an upscale area so you don't see stuff taken

I'd totally taken the Supermarket Rascal. Those things are fun.

In Middletown NJ we had a local salon that in the back rooms, they offered, I'll call it, special services for men that where willing to pay. These services where why they got shut down, and now the place is a doggie spa

Thanks guys!

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! 🙏

Why stores can't donate chair, desk , washing machines, etc? I guess some small business owners would be grateful!

I wish you had found the electrical phone utility room for the plaza There is a central room usually around back that the phone and power comes in and runs to each business. The meters are all inside the room as is the phone equipment

Reminds me of a place I saw in Gary Indiana. So sad!

My hometown! I worked at the Foodtown grocery store in the 80s before it became Pine Plaza.

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

Did any of those places ever reopen elsewhere?

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Yea the dog grooming business did down the road, im not sure about the others

I used to pass that all the time.

Did the businesses get compensated for their losses? And usually a lease is a binding agreement on both sides, the landlord can't just terminate the lease without cause.

The place I like the most was the Chinese food it looks great

So crazy how do you not get in trouble for exploring these places? Awesome videos

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Theirs no need to get in trouble we’re doing nothing wrong… if we ever encounter police we’ll get let go after explaining to them what we’re doing. They’ll just make us leave - but thank you 😁

If they left the HVAC units on the roof, each of those is worth 100,000 dollars You need a crane to get them, but this plaza is not that old. It is so much money for those units. Even just bench tables from the diner are 800 dollars each I have helped with a friend who sold their business and I found buyers for their equipment and made them 80,000 in just 2 days on merchandise they were going to throw out. I don't know what these people were thinking. There has to be more to this story I bet they didn't know they were being forced to leave and just had a day or two to get out. This looks exactly like a place that the owner forced them out with legal action and they had to leave, an eviction, and took just what they could carry. You don't leave this The tax records, they would not leave behind. Northern NJ has a lot of corruption. This looks like a bad situation that they were forced out. The light fixtures, so much money. Restaurant equipment is always valuable. Usually they lease a lot of it because it costs so much.

The U desk is 700 dollars The filing cabinet is 400 Business fax machine, office chairs It hurts my head to see this much waste

The phone equipment, the PBX systems have value. The electric panels have value and can be reused. So much money just left to the wrecking ball makes Zero sense Something very strange about this

This is a dense area. They must be going to put in a big box store.

Great setting for Zombie Film or programme

Do you ever get to keep any of the stuff you find

Why wouldn't these businesses have sold their merchandise ? It makes no sense to not sell the equipment that has value

Working washer and dryer, 1000 dollars right there Just makes no sense they left all this money behind

All that expensive stuff. Daaaamn bruh. Lol find some places around New Orleans

"They were kicked out long before their leases were up." Well that's a lawsuit waiting to happen

@myalaynaangel

Жыл бұрын

They would never win sadly

@lincdc12

Жыл бұрын

@@myalaynaangel how so?

@richlaue

Жыл бұрын

But really would it have been worth the cost to go to court over?

DVR security camera storage unit. Cameras I really wish I had known about this place. I bet I could have pulled 200,000 dollars out of there in equipment alone

Why did they all leave the belongings?

😳😳😳

still some valuable stuff inside especially in that beauty salon surprised not been fully emptied

Now demolished. will be replaced with mixed commercial and housing.

That thing with multiple shower heads is for a table shower massage

here in nz spa pedicure chairs are worth $2000 minimum

Why hasn't anyone taken that valuable equipment

i could watch these guys on a loop impossibale to get board one of the things i like most is the respect they show and thear grate cinematic sweeps of what ever room they are in grate work guys i am making my way trough your vidios frankie jacques 42 bedford uk

@urbaxvibes

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much we appreciate it tons!!

Hydro Massage Machine You really need a person who has experience to go with you and tell you what each item is

This stuff all has value. Why would they leave everything?

Environmental investigation explains it

I think the multiple faucets in the beach room might have been for full body tanning

I know where this is! On the way to Funplex.

Omg i have cablevision in my house lol is this long island cuz thats ehere im from

Why did they abandoned these buildings! They could have started a whole new nail salon!

All gone torn down

Save the converse shoes for me. I'd loveto have them

If Those Shoes👡👠Were Size 11/12, I'd Be in Heaven⛅!

OMG !!!!! A MILLION DOLLARS IN FREEZERS AND COOLERS ARE YOU F+-&(ING KIDDING ME ??!!!!!!

cant you get sued for terminating leases before their expiration?

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

I sure hope so!

@VSDalSheron

Жыл бұрын

@@urbaxvibes I wish I could join you on these abandoned adventures, but I hope to have my prop exoskeleton completed and possibly my writings published so i can have the income to travel around. Here in east Tennessee, I wish to invite you to check out our abandoned wonders, are you interested?

FYI you probably should wear a mask when you are dealing with black mold.

Do you ever come across people living in the abandoned places you explore ?

@urbaxvibes

Жыл бұрын

Yes we have! Haha

The company made showering a team building experience.

Beach room probably tanning