Man, Circuit City hasn't been around for decades in my area. I remember being 7 or 8 the last time I went into one of those before did a clearance at ours and shut it down.
@ICCELOVER22 сағат бұрын
Very nice looking one. Opened in 2004. Expanded to a supercenter in 2007
@Xxrosie_kittyXx123notethisisnoКүн бұрын
bruh hobby lobby moved next door
@samanthakofler22482 күн бұрын
Does anybody miss Toys “R” Us?
@poundcake882 күн бұрын
OMG I was just going to go there!!! I drive past and I didn't know they were closing this location!
@vicentereyes20903 күн бұрын
😂
@JenniferGomillion5 күн бұрын
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@rock_iz7 күн бұрын
rip
@Picdapicguy7 күн бұрын
Looks scary 😨
@DaleTerry-xn9ui16 күн бұрын
Nice beautiful big mall
@RetailContent12 күн бұрын
It is. Thanks for watching
@Star-pn4ff18 күн бұрын
This was closed many years ago. wonder why is still abandoned.
@-gy2id23 күн бұрын
crazy that nothings been done with this building after all this time
@f0rever10st28 күн бұрын
Thanks for the outside view
@Holiday_StudiosАй бұрын
Why not just explore the entire shopping center
@zackomiecinski9275Ай бұрын
Just letting you know it's pronounced New Len-ex instead of New Len-ox.
@radog1028Ай бұрын
The government and big tech want us to stay home sit on the couch and order online. The American way I grew up in is fading away for the evil new world order to take hold of this nation.
@RetailContent2 ай бұрын
Stratford Square Mall has now permanently closed after 43 years
@brokenproperty85172 ай бұрын
You scared me for a second I thought it was about a mall I visited one time in peru
@lindagoreham22382 ай бұрын
You did a great job filming this mall, Thank you!❤😂
@cynthiaj.simmons8702 ай бұрын
Great video!!! 🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️ I don't remember when I lived in Elgin, Illinois if I ever drove down this this mall to visit it. Since I'm in Rockford, Illinois I couldn't get to see this last days/day of this mall because of car problems and my husband's change of is schedule of him working 4 days of the week from 7:00pm to 7:00am but it's so sad to know another well known mall in my home state of Illinois is closing up just so sad. ☹️☹️☹️
@andreamarelli61282 ай бұрын
a me piace molto questo genere di video,essendo io italiano queste cose succedono anche nel mio paese ma se guardo su you tube ne trovo molto di più sull'america che è un nazione immensa e molto più grande dell'italia...c'è molta tristezza e desolazione in questi filmati ma ci raccontano la vita passata di come era una volta
@rachelrivera912 ай бұрын
Thank you for this final tour before this beautiful mall shuts its doors for good. I’m feeling really sad as you walked through the mall and take shots inside the closed stores. Just sad and even numb. This is such a beautiful mall. The architecture and design are just beautifully done. I hope they don’t demolish some of the building with the beautiful wooden columns, and wood panels on the ceilings. This building once had full of life. I just can’t imagine this building being demolished. I’m just utterly sad. Even though I’m not from the Chicago area. I’m sad about a lot of malls being closed down because of multiple reasons. But the reason that struck me the most is the poor management of the owners. They didn’t do anything to revive this mall. Just sad🙁
@Shotgunminister2 ай бұрын
Thank you for recording and chronicling the last days of Stratford Square Mall. This was the mall I grew up with and had a ton of great experiences and memories of. It's a shame to see not only this mall, but so many malls not being able to survive and thrive nowadays. I suppose it's all part of the passage of time. I visited on April 15th 2024, the last Sunday before the mall closed it's doors to the public. It was a rush of both nostalgia and melancholy. There was a ton of people also visiting that day and soaking in the last memories of this mall. I went around remembering all what stores used to occupy many of the spots, what the anchor stores used to look like, and how bustling and lively it was on the weekends and close to the holidays. I'm glad someone else is really appreciating Stratford for the wonderful experiences it once held.
@nicoleely95462 ай бұрын
I grew up in this mall and haven't been there in years since i moved to Florida.. My Aunt & uncle just called to tell me that they took their final walk through there tonight before its demolished soon. I knew youtube would have at least one urbex video of it. This video is incredible!! thank you for sharing this.
@JP-zp6ob2 ай бұрын
love the vid, but could really go without the background music :p
@RetailContent2 ай бұрын
It is.
@Alex.Culkin2 ай бұрын
I remember going there when i was little the parking lot was packed memories
@zero2003eg2 ай бұрын
Is that backrooms 😮
@bartt74252 ай бұрын
Feels like a dream
@alexandercardenas78043 ай бұрын
Hmmmmm but you should go inside record the abandoned places
@RetailContent3 ай бұрын
All of these locations are permanently closed after Bon-Ton’s bankruptcy in 2018.
@harryseldon3623 ай бұрын
We used to say "I'm a Kmart kind of guy!". Same thing happened where I live, one day it was just closed and gone forever. Still makes me mad. We are all pawns to big business.
@FlyingDuckMan3603 ай бұрын
It's sad that shopping malls are a dying breed today, thanks in part to the advent of online shopping. I have to admit I love that retro video game store at 2:23, especially since it has statues of Mario and Sonic in it.
@MEQUPWER3 ай бұрын
i heard they are going to make it into apartments for the migrants, free from month to month, they will get 3 yrs to live there!
@destinyberry35183 ай бұрын
How did the walmart get abandoned
@maryrnbsn51142 ай бұрын
Crime I think. The Walmart 4 minutes away, not in Aurora, wasnt built until way after this one closed. was Ames before it was Walmart. They need to do something with Aurora west side.
@RetailContent3 ай бұрын
This mall is now closed.
@NMG24.3 ай бұрын
Mall doesn't deserve to close
@charlestonpinballarcade3 ай бұрын
Looks like the national retailers had really nice updated storefronts and logos… that’s a waste.
@Sean-ll5cm3 ай бұрын
It's beautiful. Can it be repurposed?
@RussShawTV3 ай бұрын
where is the North Field mall? What State?
@RetailContent3 ай бұрын
It’s in Bourbonnais, Illinois
@RetailContent3 ай бұрын
Sorry, again, for the low quality in the video. I could not recover it from the original quality.
@ygnb56083 ай бұрын
its ok :)
@chamberizer3 ай бұрын
The first malls were open air & then in the 1980's they enclosed the malls. Kid's would hang out in the Malls & or the parks - no cell phones so parents did not track you. Now people can buy anything on Amazon etc. Kid's barely leave the house. Malls were nice at Christmas Time.
@darrenthorne62473 ай бұрын
Cool designs in this mall. Shame to see all this space just going to waste.
@Polarcutter3 ай бұрын
Dam shame.
@turtleislandlac14903 ай бұрын
I keep thinking that it was just yesterday this mall still had some life but then reailze I was last there in 2017. That was before Carson Pirie Scott closed and I would always enter the mall through Carson's. I heard that the FYE store lasted nearly until the end but finally shut down because the mall turned the heat off. When I still lived in Illinois I kept going here no matter how dead it was getting because I remember how great this mall used to be.
@BSchmidty3 ай бұрын
My town has two malls. One is dead but was never really alive to begin with. The other which is on the newer side, late 2000s, was bumpin then and still constantly bumpin now. Including PC Penney.
@lauriesmith50083 ай бұрын
You can sure tell he states that shop Amazon and are afraid to go to malls.
@karenbaird74023 ай бұрын
I like the skylights and atriums can’t we repurpose the spaces for education or health care
@humanshrek18363 ай бұрын
Namdar Reality Group (the previous owners) killed this mall. They have a track record of being a $2.7 billion retail slumlord and they neglect every mall they own. They got sued from the Village of Bloomingdale for it and Namdar lost the mall. The village of Bloomingdale is gonna redevelop the property. Before Namdar bought the mall, it was doing fine. Thats why it’s dead now.
@zachreed14953 ай бұрын
This mall looks IDENTICAL to the Illinois Center Mall in Marion, IL, which is now dead. Completely the same. Even the outside looks identical. I guess they had the same building plan.
@kpatt133 ай бұрын
Came here to say the same thing! I thought it was the Illinois Centre Star centre whatever mall lol.
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Man, Circuit City hasn't been around for decades in my area. I remember being 7 or 8 the last time I went into one of those before did a clearance at ours and shut it down.
Very nice looking one. Opened in 2004. Expanded to a supercenter in 2007
bruh hobby lobby moved next door
Does anybody miss Toys “R” Us?
OMG I was just going to go there!!! I drive past and I didn't know they were closing this location!
😂
Iqoa 8q 9g9 g 28we8 2e
rip
Looks scary 😨
Nice beautiful big mall
It is. Thanks for watching
This was closed many years ago. wonder why is still abandoned.
crazy that nothings been done with this building after all this time
Thanks for the outside view
Why not just explore the entire shopping center
Just letting you know it's pronounced New Len-ex instead of New Len-ox.
The government and big tech want us to stay home sit on the couch and order online. The American way I grew up in is fading away for the evil new world order to take hold of this nation.
Stratford Square Mall has now permanently closed after 43 years
You scared me for a second I thought it was about a mall I visited one time in peru
You did a great job filming this mall, Thank you!❤😂
Great video!!! 🤗❤️🤗❤️🤗❤️ I don't remember when I lived in Elgin, Illinois if I ever drove down this this mall to visit it. Since I'm in Rockford, Illinois I couldn't get to see this last days/day of this mall because of car problems and my husband's change of is schedule of him working 4 days of the week from 7:00pm to 7:00am but it's so sad to know another well known mall in my home state of Illinois is closing up just so sad. ☹️☹️☹️
a me piace molto questo genere di video,essendo io italiano queste cose succedono anche nel mio paese ma se guardo su you tube ne trovo molto di più sull'america che è un nazione immensa e molto più grande dell'italia...c'è molta tristezza e desolazione in questi filmati ma ci raccontano la vita passata di come era una volta
Thank you for this final tour before this beautiful mall shuts its doors for good. I’m feeling really sad as you walked through the mall and take shots inside the closed stores. Just sad and even numb. This is such a beautiful mall. The architecture and design are just beautifully done. I hope they don’t demolish some of the building with the beautiful wooden columns, and wood panels on the ceilings. This building once had full of life. I just can’t imagine this building being demolished. I’m just utterly sad. Even though I’m not from the Chicago area. I’m sad about a lot of malls being closed down because of multiple reasons. But the reason that struck me the most is the poor management of the owners. They didn’t do anything to revive this mall. Just sad🙁
Thank you for recording and chronicling the last days of Stratford Square Mall. This was the mall I grew up with and had a ton of great experiences and memories of. It's a shame to see not only this mall, but so many malls not being able to survive and thrive nowadays. I suppose it's all part of the passage of time. I visited on April 15th 2024, the last Sunday before the mall closed it's doors to the public. It was a rush of both nostalgia and melancholy. There was a ton of people also visiting that day and soaking in the last memories of this mall. I went around remembering all what stores used to occupy many of the spots, what the anchor stores used to look like, and how bustling and lively it was on the weekends and close to the holidays. I'm glad someone else is really appreciating Stratford for the wonderful experiences it once held.
I grew up in this mall and haven't been there in years since i moved to Florida.. My Aunt & uncle just called to tell me that they took their final walk through there tonight before its demolished soon. I knew youtube would have at least one urbex video of it. This video is incredible!! thank you for sharing this.
love the vid, but could really go without the background music :p
It is.
I remember going there when i was little the parking lot was packed memories
Is that backrooms 😮
Feels like a dream
Hmmmmm but you should go inside record the abandoned places
All of these locations are permanently closed after Bon-Ton’s bankruptcy in 2018.
We used to say "I'm a Kmart kind of guy!". Same thing happened where I live, one day it was just closed and gone forever. Still makes me mad. We are all pawns to big business.
It's sad that shopping malls are a dying breed today, thanks in part to the advent of online shopping. I have to admit I love that retro video game store at 2:23, especially since it has statues of Mario and Sonic in it.
i heard they are going to make it into apartments for the migrants, free from month to month, they will get 3 yrs to live there!
How did the walmart get abandoned
Crime I think. The Walmart 4 minutes away, not in Aurora, wasnt built until way after this one closed. was Ames before it was Walmart. They need to do something with Aurora west side.
This mall is now closed.
Mall doesn't deserve to close
Looks like the national retailers had really nice updated storefronts and logos… that’s a waste.
It's beautiful. Can it be repurposed?
where is the North Field mall? What State?
It’s in Bourbonnais, Illinois
Sorry, again, for the low quality in the video. I could not recover it from the original quality.
its ok :)
The first malls were open air & then in the 1980's they enclosed the malls. Kid's would hang out in the Malls & or the parks - no cell phones so parents did not track you. Now people can buy anything on Amazon etc. Kid's barely leave the house. Malls were nice at Christmas Time.
Cool designs in this mall. Shame to see all this space just going to waste.
Dam shame.
I keep thinking that it was just yesterday this mall still had some life but then reailze I was last there in 2017. That was before Carson Pirie Scott closed and I would always enter the mall through Carson's. I heard that the FYE store lasted nearly until the end but finally shut down because the mall turned the heat off. When I still lived in Illinois I kept going here no matter how dead it was getting because I remember how great this mall used to be.
My town has two malls. One is dead but was never really alive to begin with. The other which is on the newer side, late 2000s, was bumpin then and still constantly bumpin now. Including PC Penney.
You can sure tell he states that shop Amazon and are afraid to go to malls.
I like the skylights and atriums can’t we repurpose the spaces for education or health care
Namdar Reality Group (the previous owners) killed this mall. They have a track record of being a $2.7 billion retail slumlord and they neglect every mall they own. They got sued from the Village of Bloomingdale for it and Namdar lost the mall. The village of Bloomingdale is gonna redevelop the property. Before Namdar bought the mall, it was doing fine. Thats why it’s dead now.
This mall looks IDENTICAL to the Illinois Center Mall in Marion, IL, which is now dead. Completely the same. Even the outside looks identical. I guess they had the same building plan.
Came here to say the same thing! I thought it was the Illinois Centre Star centre whatever mall lol.
Oh well