The smoked glass overhang with the black steel rafters to mall and department store entrances were iconic 80s design. I would love to go back in time when they were fresh and new. Of course I’d want my body from the 1980s as well. 😄
I must admit I was surprised how long they stayed after the mall closed. What I predicted a couple years ago was right though. I said that the mall would close and Penney’s would stay attached to an abandoned mall like when Rolling Acres shuttered.
Man this is super sad, that emptiness is beyond creepy, it's unsettling, it's really interesting seeing so many dead mall nowdays, this isn't really a problem in my country since malls exist in bigger cities, like Lisbon and Porto, so there isn't a lot of dead malls, with the size of century ||| mall or others. The death of mall is really an interesting case study of how saturation can ruin something, there were so many malls that they started cannibalizing each other's sales, and brought all of them down, other things, like the internet, and decrease in comsuption contrubuted a lot to the decline of malls, there's another thing that made malls downfall quicker in many areas, the "no loitering rule" basically no hang out, let's just say having security chasing off teens who just want a place hang out , isn't really going to drive the sales upwards, but it'll help to kill the mall quicker. Well, that's my comment hope all of you are reading this a pleasant day/afternoon/evening, frm the other side of the atlanltic :)
I find it amusing how people are so sad. But I bet those are the same people that shop Amazon and order online. That’s what killed our malls. Hey if you like that cool . I prefer to shop in person.😭
I was in CIII before JC Penney was the only one left. It was REALLY desolate, most of the stores were gone and there were corridors I REFUSED to go down into. They had that Carousel that no one was riding and the whole atmosphere at Verizon was just terrible. They didn't have ANY Selections of phones and Dick's NOTHING for Bowling. It had the feeling of Doom. I swear there are bodies in there and you will never find them.
We have only one JC Penney left in our state (out of 3 originally). It’s always so empty when I go in there now, it feels like it’s just a matter of time before that one closes, too. Online suppliers like Amazon are just crushing these places, shrinking local job opportunities, and slowly robbing the in-store shopping experiences from those of us who still prefer in store vs online shopping.
Any mall can be turn around and be marketable space with a waiting list. With just some simple common sense conversions. Anyone interested. Market space for the next 50 years.
Should be repurposed as residential space and have one area for restaurants. Condos . Movie theater, A health club and restaurants. Certainly has plenty of parking.
The same development is taking place in Finland. First came the malls that wiped out all the boutiques and shops. And then the malls moved outsite the cities besite with the large hypermarkets and they leaving nothing to the city centers. And now these malls are dying. Daily shopping and stores are permanently moving to the internet where people’s lives and leisure are today. For example, if you want clothes then they have to be ordered online, if you want food then it has to be ordered online, if you want coffee then it has to be ordered online, if you need control time with a doctor then it has be ordered online. We live now online world.
@@Maddog4x4 they finished it off, but Simon really was greedy, didn't reinvest into it, and it started the downfall. C3 was on it's death spiral when Moonbeam took over. They thought they could save it, but bit off more than they could chew and mismanaged more.
Ok, I will be the odd commenter here... I really don’t get the sadness for the closing of a 40 year old shopping mall. Nobody, not even Jeff Amazon, killed it ... shopping patterns are cyclical and it’s time was just up! The days of destination shopping have given way to online shopping. First it was the death of downtown retail, then strip mall retail faded, now enclosed mall retail is dead. Its just shopping guys, take a breath, you will be ok.
No theres one mall about 5 miles away and its always packed. Century 3 mall had problems even in the late 90s with store closings in that mall. This mall also had a bus stop at one of their entrances where pretty much every goon from the city would congregate at this mall especially on weekends making it unsafe
These videos work by tugging at the heartstrings and teleporting us back to the age we cannot be again. As these places were burgeoning and blighting our society so that the moneylenders in the temple could get rich, we stood by. No one was making a fuss about the thousands of small business operators who were obliterated if they could not secure a rented space in the new palace of dreams. The chickens have come home to roost and we are now waiting for Jesus to come again and , once more, chase the money lenders out of the Temple! Go for it , Jesus!! The current pox, raging world wide, will serve to accelerate the process! Stavros.
@@Maddog4x4 Hey thanks for replying. Yes I was discussing the mall situation and some of my experiences in C3 during the 80s when it was kind of a hub for the western PA rock and roll community. There are emerging technologies that could turn these malls back into major economic and social assets for the community at very reasonable cost.
