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They are now demolishing Century 3 Mall.
Poor mall moonbeam sucks i miss malls a lot i want it back they need to bring malls back
Beautifully done Video. Im very Sorry to All whom shopped here. I never did but Thank God those in my generation, im 47, we have the Memories of the Booming 1980's into mid 90's and im grateful for those before me and us, who built these Mecca Centers so we can have and share lasting memories.
Instead now the place is going to be replace with apartments and two new grocery stores. Whoopty doo. I wish traffic and the roads could be fixed in our lives.
No mention of the S&S Cafeteria?! That was amazing. Cannot understand how that went away when it was so popular for so many years and decades. I don't understand how you have and know so much information about this place but not about the S&S. It was such an integral part of the mall and experience. We would go there every Sunday lunch after church and Sunday school. People quit going to church in the late 1980's so the crowd dwindled and went away at all of these places. Now, I'm no religious person any more...but this time period I believe was the start of the collapse of our society and civilization. Especially when Viacom bought MTV in 1991 and rap, bad country music, and explicit music became common place...and for youth. You all think nothing was to come of that? I've got news for you. This was and is never more clear and exemplary than when you look at the other malls in town. All of them. And what happened to them with the culture changes to urban life. Yes, Amazon, and buying on the internet played a major part in the demise of these places but it was also what happened to the hearts, minds, and souls of humanity the last few decades. That's before you bring in the issues of the break up families, smoking, drinking, and drugs. So sad. I'm 46 and don't believe we will ever have such a renewal of life again. I hope and pray that I am wrong. That's how serious this all is.
I think the information is correct but how do you and whomever get all of this information?! This is insane and crazy how you know it.
I’m 3 years late commenting here. Thank you for filming this beautiful gem!! What an absolutely beautiful mall. The wood panel ceilings, the wooden columns, the architecture & design make up for an absolutely beautiful mall. Just love the aesthetics of this mall. I’m a bit disappointed how this mall is closing this weekend. This mall will be closing its doors for good today on 4-21-24. Just so sad to see such an amazing looking structure die and will be demolished soon for redevelopment. I wish they could keep some of the architecture for the planned redevelopment. The previous owners did not come up with a plan to revive this dying mall since they took over in 2019. I’m so sad about this. Wish there was an active save Stratford Square Mall effort before it was too late. This was by far one of the most beautiful malls I’ve seen on the internet. Thank you again for taking the time to document this mall. Just subscribed to your channel. And a belated congratulations on your marriage and hoping to enjoy more upcoming videos from you.
First of all, I am not a prejudice person at all. But If no one else will say it, I will. I used to work at this mall as a security officer. I was working the courtesy booth one day when a young black man brought his child to ride the kiddie rides right next to our courtesy booth. That child leaned out of the vehicle and pretended to shoot at me, saying kill the po po......as the father stood there laughing. THIS is what killed that mall, generational black hoodlums who live right next door engaging in gang activity, IN the mall. The blacks simply outlasted the people who shopped there and they eventually drove everyone out all together. When I worked there, Twice there were fights with guns involved and all I had was a dam radio. But I was sent to break those fights up... Once when I was not even working, just walking by the food court minding my own business, I was approached by a group of black man-boy hoodlums who threatened me just for being there. That was where they like to hang out, in the food court. I never shopped there again. First hand experience at this mall both professionally and privately tells me this, and there IS no doubt about it, the black hoodlums killed this mall. They had the advantage, they lived right there! They were ALWAYS there because there was nothing else for them to do BUT go to the mall and try to steal for a living. Now that the Orchards Mall is closed, I have to ask those investors who built this, what did you expect to happen? You built it right in the middle of the hood! People who built this mall had dollar signs in their eyes because they were building this mall in an enterprise zone. It offers a tax breaks to entice investors to build there. When it was first built, this mall was all there WAS in this part of the state for shopping. People were overjoyed to finally have somewhere local to go shopping. Now we didnt have to drive to South Bend Indiana just to go to the mall anymore. So In it's hay day, it was absolutely packed every single day. The Security guards drove corvettes and carried shot guns and side arms to keep shoppers safe and chase down shoplifters. But, because they built the mall in the hood right next to the projects, and the hoodlums lived right there, over the years as shoppers started to thin out because of higher prices, the blacks just took the mall over. Building in this location was the absolute dumbest idea I have ever seen. I will never understand it. What did they think was going to happen? You built it in the hood! So over time the mall became a haven for gang activity. Every single year on the anniversary of the Benton Harbor riots, (1 and 2, yeah, look those up) there was always trouble at the mall on those anniversaries. Eventually people just didn't want to deal with it anymore. The lack of safety drove shoppers out, and they abandoned going there altogether. This mall dying was a slow process. I am 65 now. I started going to the mall when it opened in 1979, when I was 21 years old. The process of this mall dying has taken up most of my life. It has been 45 years. As I watched the number of shoppers dwindle over the years, safety became a back burner item, and the mall got worse. Eventually safety became non-existent at all, and even the anchor stores started pulling out. You can't pay security if you have no revenue coming in. So the mall got worse. Combined with high retail rental space, those stores passed on the costs to shoppers. I blame the investors for that, again. You priced your selves right out of the local market. Who would want to risk life and limb just to pay higher prices for the same items you can get cheaper elsewhere and not have to endanger your life in doing so? No one. And that is exactly who you have shopping at this dead mall now. No one. But you still have top pay your taxes, so now its just costing you money. I haer they recently paid 3 years of back taxes to the tune of about $250,000. Hows that working for you genius's? So when Meijers built a new mega shopping center in a white neighborhood about 15 miles away, THAT location was the death blow for the mall. That location has been thriving ever since. Huh weird. I wonder why...It's not mystery, There are no hoodlums there. You get what you pay for. Investors may have paid lower taxes initially by building in an undesirable location, and even if it WAS an enterprise zone filled, it was filled with black hoodlums! Now all these investors have is an empty mall that's creating NO revenue what-so-ever, is a nuisance to the community, and went into tax airers for not paying their taxes. So what's the point of keeping it? Now it's a nothing more than a home for seagulls. Everything last thing moved out and there is absolutely no reason what-so-ever to go there, and no reason what-so-ever to keep it. It is completely worthless. The land under it would be better served it reverted back to an orchard. Hell, even the hoodlums abandoned it. Other business's HAVE built a little way down the road. SO, The best thing that could happen for this mall and, for this shopping area in general, is to bulldoze the mall and plant thousands of thick briars bushes to keep the hoodlums away from what little shopping there is left. I know I will never go there again, and it's kind of sad, but predictable.
Welcome to the internet era 😢
Update to Shoppingtown mall Shoppingtown mall close not only because of Moonbeam and capital but because of whatever you wanna call it Covid coronavirus COVID-19 or 2020 the pandemic nobody wants to remember. During the time that it was open, the mall had a regal cinemas movie theater. It lost its Rite Aid pharmacy when Walgreens took over and decided to close this location, black mamba skate park was home to a bunch of karate, gymnastics dance class type studios that all went out of business when this mall went out of business. It was then home to a coronavirus COVID-19 or a 2020 shot vaccination site until closing permanently. Currently the mall awaits its fate to become District east, but with moonbeam capital being the previous owner I don’t think they’re gonna let district east ever happen and they’re just gonna stay in court battles and fight fight fight over who wants to demolish this mall. So long shopping town mall you will be missed by all your baby escalator and all.
Billions from the super store conglomerates have created shell companies to put all malls into a public facilitation of past undermining the existance of all small entrepreneurship and buisiness supporting communities in America making billions or the rich who put nothing back but poverty and unemployment
It is irreprehensible how government allowed the desruction and livelihoods in America by unfair business practices and fair game in industry by the conglomerate companies such as Walmart making huge profits outside of communities and destroying them within ! RIP Shuykill Mall
This is Mall set to Demolished in 2024
so run down
If haven't closed then would have once covid hit
I suppose that for the long term there will be no new shopping malls constructed and perhaps the surviving malls will be profitable. I don't see any viable alternative.
Right now in Missouri, cost of renovation is about $110/sf (overgeneralization) so why not convert Jamestown and similar sites to residential quarters for the influx that is about to happen from our southern border? 1. The project must be Federal. City and County will fubar it with corruption and incompetence. In similar fashion, you must keep out AFL-CIO somehow because unions are value subtracted. 2. There must be a cultural intermix with the locals. You would be smart to hire local gang leaders as construction crew leaders, and teach them Spanish. Create controlled warlords a la CIA and give them DID to police. 3. Build for high maintenance: The drywall crew does turns. 4. All in all, this is going to be way cheaper than other ways to house to those disease-ridden, unwashed, ignorant, socially incompetent, unfortunate, deserving-of-charity immigrants. 5. In the process, you will create a social serendipity which will be a long term resolution to maintaining a happy labor force. Boeing and the Ford plant would welcome that labor pool in lieu of millennials with no work ethic. Just for the record, I now live in Springfield, because St Louis is a good place to be FROM. Ritenour '66
Ny dad was rteh ops manager at sear in the 80s, I used to go sometimes early to work and open the store.
This mall still stands & just caught fire a few days ago , I think it was homeless people just tryna keep warm . I wouldn’t go near this place even if homeless lol everything in that entire surrounding area is creeped out especially carrico road
24:00 Is That Macys?
No 😅Its Sears
Scheduled to be completely demolished this year
Thanks for the memories. I forgot about that waterbed shop. I got a queen size out of there in 86 or 87 I can not remember exactly. I got a Klingon knife from cutlery world. and I worked at Manchu Wok for a summer and built bicycles during Christmas down at Toys are Us. My little brother ended up working there to as a manager at the arcade. I loved the cheese steaks from the cheese steak place in the food court. I guess that is why this hits me so hard Century III was a large part of my history. I see it now and it breaks my heart.
SOLD!!! The mall was SOLD today!!! Huge multi use complex coming!!! I will have a video up soon.🎉🎉🎉
I was here the 1st day it opened and worked there in earlot 90s at the athlete's foot (shoe store). My sister worked at the candy jar store mid 90s. Steve and Barry's was awesome. No one knew how they sold so much college apparel for cheap. They were scammers and forced into bankruptcy and arrested. Great mall back in the day!
Its going to be closed very soon. Its worse now
Oh we haven't seen anything yet . Lazy couch potatoes who only shop thru the web , thank you POS and now you demand to work remotely and abandon the office , I hope it all blows up in your face . Only God knows what our country will be like when yall take over in government positions and we have to go to war . Millennials oh no I don't want to go to war let's do that remotely please . I can only go to war from 10:00 till 3:00 and then I need my free time . bastards .
Definitely hitting all the right Silent Hill notes here. I especially like the stacks of crt tvs between the escalators staring at us like dead corpse eyes. It's nice you got the Stix / Dillards store. That was the oldest part and what the mall really aspired to when it was built. Why didn't you keep going up the escalator though? Did you know they had their restaurant on the the top floor? It's the row of windows visible from the outside but the view from inside would have been awesome.
Its a shame Amazon or another On-line retailer doesn't take these abandoned malls and turn them into warehouses or now called fulfilment centers they would have the same criteria they as malls being close to population centers and close to major highways
The blacks had a huge riot there about ten years ago. It went straight to hell after that. It no longer exists at all. Sad.
The mall looks open or is my sight failing me ?
I think cvoid is the blame for it's closing n becoming dead .( When the first wave hit )
SOOO many memories, for so many people! Great video!
My dad used to go to the movie theater and the movies that he saw there were fast and furious the first jackass movie the second jackass movie and stepbrothers and many others and I have a friend who back when the place opens there was a claw machine that had South Park characters in it and my friend ended up winning the set of four friends which was Stan Kyle Eric and Kenny the plushy ones but if you look at the photos from when I opened it had a bunch of South Park themed stuff in it
Good history of the mall.
Stellar production. The eerie soundtrack really gives credence to a spooky atmosphere. It reminds me of the Steven King movie "The Langoliers" when they're in the vacant airport terminal. You wouldn't suspect that such an abandoned monstrosity would be haunted, but I certainly wouldn't want to venture through it alone at night. Thanks for the look around. Great job guys!
Actually JCPenney closed right around Easter 2014.
My husband and I lived in Columbia for a few years, from 2015 to 2018. I went to the Barnes and Noble a good bit, but that was it until we wanted to see a movie and the theater at Richland Mall had a showing time that worked best for us that day. We parked on ground level outside the Barnes and Noble because that was what I was used to, not knowing that the entrance to the movie theater was at the top of the parking deck. 😂 We got lost on our way to the top floor and ended up wandering in the dark, just super intrigued by the hella dead mall vibes.
Do you remember a poster hanging up. It was either for Anti Drug or Anti Gun. It was drawn in crayon and it depicted a kid who shot his friend. His friend was laying on the grass and there was blood on the poster. We swear it was in that mall but literally no footage anywhere can be found of it.
Yes! I remember that poster. It was in front of the Bon Ton store in one of those triangular poster board displays. I always used to park in the Bon Ton lot and walk out to the mall there and I looked at it every single time I visited.
Nice history of mall and great video
Great video and excellent history of mall.
Geesh, I saw Santa at this mall and got lost when shopping with my mom... The was even a restaurant in the 4 story dillards
I use to shop here. My optometrist was also here at a LensCrafters. I recall in 2010, the place was still full of ppl. I want to say around 2013 is when I noticed it becoming more empty. Last thing I bought here was a vacuum cleaner in 2018 at a SEARS. The only store left. But yes, back in the day it was a busy mall full of business.
12:20- holy crap, a sign for Betamax tapes? Talk about ancient videotape history.
Wow. Sam Goody. I still have CDs I bought from there.
That place looks terrible. It's changed so much. The '90s were the time I was there. Since then, it seems that new stores and food establishments were added. It looks so different. I don't even recognize it.
It looks even worse now. Like a bomb went off.
@@Retailpocalypse wow
To date, Jamestown Mall has still not been demolished- the county has set aside $6 million as of April 2022, but seeks more funding from federal or state grants to make up the difference and finally bury the corpse of this mall once and for all.
Endless waste. How much cheaper would it have been to fix the roof and hire some security guards? The demolition will probably be just as loaded with corruption and kickbacks, just like letting salvagers and scrappers gut the mall was.
Classic! A mall that still has a car in it! Love it! I remember those so called car giveaway contests in malls!! 😂 I miss Candy World! The one in Woodfield closed a few years ago or so! Woah! On the carousel! That looks so cool! It wasn't there when I used to go. When was it put in? Did people ever ride it? Same with the train! Did it ever run? When was it put in?
I remember riding on the train and the carousel as a kid. Shame they are gone now
It's in sad shape. Not many stores left at all. Penny's closed, I don't think there's any food places anymore. If there is, its 1 max.
Great video! Thanks.
Completely demolished last year. Good memories, but it was time to move on.
Do you know what they are going to do with the property ?
@jcherrera104 sorry I'm now seeing this comment. I went to visit my Grandmother around in May 2023 when I drove out that way it looked like part of the Land was a Warehouse Company being Built on the old Strawbridge & Clothier Parking Lot used to be.