I grew up in Danville, this mall was such a treasure to go to back in the day. There was so much variety and aesthetic you could really spend a whole day in there on the weekends. So many places to shop including 2 toy stores, so many places to eat to the point even Belk Leggett had its own restaurant in it. Now, the fountain is gone, all the landscaping and trees are gone and makes the outside look like a prison. The renovation seemed promising at first, but all it did was remove what little remained of its character and turned it into a watered down art gallery. The mall that brought me so much childhood joy and memories, now just depresses me whenever I go there.
I definitely miss the old mall. Piedmont mall was very nice. The fountains, trees, and lights gave the charm and made the shopping experience! I liked boscovs for back to school shopping they had neat clothing.
Doomies, I wish I could find some pics of Piedmont Mall (it will always be Piedmont in my book), from the hay day, ESPECIALLY Christmas Time. Piedmont used to do it up right at Christmas time. Decor everywhere. Music playing, Pepperidge farms would set up a huge temp store in the area in front of (what’s now) Dunham’s. The awesome central geyser would get capped and they would lay out an awesome Santa’s village on the platform, such good memories.
My hometown mall where I shopped as a teenager. I don't like the renovation they did at all. It is cold and dull. The removal of the fountains planters and tile took away the charm.
Here's an upside of this mall; if the weather sucks or it's during the wintertime and you want to play some Pokemon GO there's a number of PokeStops and a Gym all inside the mall. Good place to walk laps while grinding PokeStops.
Might be the worst music I ever heard in a mall. They use like public domain stuff? Great video. Mall May or may not be dead but it’s at most barely breathing. Shame too. In smaller towns, malls should be places where just about everyone is found. Needs a giant well stocked food court.
Great video, this is my hometown mall I don't get back to Danville as much as I used to but it's a far cry from it's heyday with the fountains and the geyser that was the malls distinct feature, from Hills to KB Toys to an arcade this mall had it all. Now just like the rest of Danville it's a sad depressing place devoid of what used to be.
The Danville mall used to be kind of like paradise but now it’s kind of seen better days and might be closing I have been to the river ridge mall in lynchburg Virginia I was in there for like 3 hours my legs were tired I could barely walk but I made it in and out without falling down
Danville Virginia is a dump one of the boring places ever nothing too do there the city don't even have a public pool for the community too go too there's no fun there it's just sad 😢 they need too tear down the mall and build a water park or something
Glad you made it through Danville alive. lol Seams there is a shooting about ever other day. This mall has the dreaded carpet. And I see a bunch of lights out to
I use to go here during the mid to late 00's. I haven't been since 2011 and even then it wasn't the healthiest of malls. Still it was doing better than this. I remember the awesome arcade they had there. It was just to the right of the door you entered through. My brother use to play the Dance Dance Revolution game they had all the time. I remember the book store they use to have on the second level just past the food court and it's where I spent a majority of my time. They were one of the few stores anywhere close to South Boston, VA that had manga for sale. I would go in find a manga that interested me and would read it for an hour. Then I'd go on to the Game Stop that was at the other end of the store and across from the Pretzel place. After the Book store left in the late 00s I came here less and less. I've since moved away but I did enjoy my times here.
hull totally ruined the carolina mall in concord, nc it was an aesthetic dream mall of a mix of 70's browns and earth tones, it had a lot of cool 80's mall futurism storefronts like gadzooks, camelot music and wolf camera were really awesome... Hull ripped out all the planterrs, and seating areas to detract from teenagers hanging out, and it completely destroyed the mall.. concord mills opened the same year i graduated highschool and it also killed the carolina mall
I got my Covid vaccine in what used to be Penny's. With Sears and Penny's gone is there anything in the mall in 2021?? My Aunt used to work in the mall for years from it's opening until the 2000s. I remember visiting and it being very nice. My mom used to visit it several times per week. I think it almost broke her spirit when Sears and Penny's closed. Danville lost it's downtown shopping then the mall became basically dead. I took mom Black Friday shopping there at Penny's the last year it was open. Mom lost my Dad, her Sister and her hangout in such a short span of time. Sears closing was hard on her, she grew up with Sears, first as a catalog that came to their farm, then as stores and home catalogs. Mom is 89 now she misses the old Danville Piedmont Mall. Sitting in what used to be JCPenney's waiting for our covid shots was sad.
I feel like losing the kiosks in the mall plus the fountain before that now sears plus removing all the couches , game room and vending machines and banning anyone under 18 without an adult is what's ruining it. It like walking through a airport just so much empty space.
Haha, you may as well call it that with how very ugly it today looks inside! Aside from the classic looking Belk interior storefront, which still looks great and is easily my favorite thing about the inside of this mall. Also like that JCPenney still has a classic mirrored sign here, as well.
I've lived in the area since 2005, and the mall was never a very happening place; I think I've been there a grand total of - perhaps - 20 times. Since the remodel, I think I've been there twice, and my opinion is the same as yours: dull, boring, and failing. Sears is gone, Penny's is gone, and I doubt Belk will last much longer. Now, it may be that with Caesar's building a casino in Danville there will be some revitalization, but I think malls are a dying breed. That makes me sad, because I do love a good mall!
I live in danville and the mall was just 3 years old when I moved here I 1987. It had 90%+ occupancy for years. The original anchors were Belk-Leggett, Globmans, Hills, and JCPenney. Sears became the 5th anchor in 1995. There was no good reason for Hull to change the name of the mall. I didn't realize until recently that Hull malls are made to look alike. I hope it gets sold to new owners who will actually recruit new stores. This mall has been under Hull management since 2012. I can't remember the occupancy rate back then. I do remember Lane Bryant had been there for years and even stayed through the long renovation but then closed not long after. This video is just 4 years old, but at least a dozen things have closed since then. Sad.
The interior storefront of Belk looks awesome, with that classic wood/brick(?, I guess it's bricks on both floors) and older light look. And I see Penney's still has the classic mirrored look, inside. Glad that hasn't changed. Otherwise yeah, the Hull renovation sucks really bad, and that carpet is fugly as hell! Also I agree with you on Hull, with their now dead malls in Wilson, NC, and also Columbia, TN. BTW I googled Ponce De Leon Mall right after I finished this video, and I wonder if the church that's at that mall in Saint Augustine used to be an anchor of some sort? Hadn't looked at this mall's website yet, but I suspect it's in similar condition to Danville Mall and is probably doing okay? Who knows if the Sears there is still there anymore, or if that's just a Sears Hometown franchised store with fewer items? Have to say I didn't realize Hull owned that mall, myself. Though I'd heard about several of their other malls.
doesn't look as dead and dull as West Oaks Mall in Houston, Tx lol if u ever get a chance, come by oh and Sharpstown Mall now called PlazAmericas is also as dead if not worse lol
All Hull malls that've gotten this renovation have this ugly interior look about them, sadly. :( I remember reading after Hull acquired Richmond Square Mall in Richmond, IN, they did this same fugly as sin renovation to that mall as well. :( I wonder if they've done this to Regency Mall in Racine, WI yet, or Alton Square in Alton, IL? I should get back to those 2 malls, at some point.
He says is right in the video that most of the stores were closed becasue it was a Sunday and remnants of Tropical Storm Florence were passing overhead.
All the stores of all the malls across America need to move back into the downtown’s to revitalize downtown all across America and the use of the malls need to be for filming locations studios places were people can rent even to do their RU-vid channels that way the mall Has purpose And downtown’s good life again
