DEAD MALL:Pittsburgh Mills Mall 

I'm from this area. Pittsburgh Mills was an out of the way mall that nobody wanted. They literally blasted entire foothills to level the area for this thing. There's nothing around it for miles except for dying ex-steel towns. It never had a chance. I worked for a sign company that did most of the signage at the mall. One of the first businesses to abandon the mall was a bowling alley. They actually had us take down their signs in the middle of the night, without warning to the mall. They just left.

As of January 2018 about 1/2 of the stores and the skyzone that were open in this video are now closed. The Mall sold for $100 at a bankruptcy auction but remains open. An addition of a Joann Fabrics last year with no interior mall entrance has really made Pittsburgh Mills the place to be. There is one business that was recently thriving judging from the multiple sex trafficking busts in the parking lot.

This looks very, very similar to the Ontario Mills in Ontario, CA which was opened in the 90's sometime. Of course it's still going strong, most of the stores in that mall are outlet stores...that's why it's thriving plus there are so many people here in Southern California. But it's set up the same way - it might have the same developers. Love your channel!!!

now here is the big question. do they have GNC, Bath and Body Works, and Radio Shack? staples of dead malls.

To answer your question on Sears Grand...It was a test concept for Sears to try to compete with Wal-Mart. It had a small mixture of food,cleaners, greeting cards,candy and other items in addition to the regular Sears mix of goods. I believe there were only about 8 that actually were in existence before the whole idea was scrapped and most were either closed or converted to regular Sears stores. This particular one remained open, with alot of the extra items removed and transformed back into a regular Sears. Zamias took full ownership of this mall after the Mills corporation went bankrupt. Once they took over, like many other Zamias properties, it slowly but surely went on a downward spiral, much like our local Zamias mall in Indiana,Pa. Hopefully a miracle will happen and save the Mills, It is the most interesting and beautifully crafted mall in the Pittsburgh region. BTW, really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work!

I'm from Pittsburgh. This mall was dead the week it opened. I've only been there once because its such a joke.

This mall is absolutely beautiful! This is so much larger than the Mall at Robinson. I can't wait to check out this Mall!

This is near spot-on to what the St. Louis Mills/Outlet Mall looks like... down to the paint colors, flooring design, architecture, and empty stores.

Thank you for all of your travels and hard work on these videos!

Very ambitious mall. Not only is it enormous, but most of the stores and restaurants are high end. Nevertheless, one of the most beautiful architectural feats I've ever seen. Thanks for the upload.

We are down to 2 big malls in the Austin, Texas area. We have a third mall that is a walking/outdoor mall that is all designer goods, LV, Prada,etc. this mall is about 8 years old and doing very well. The 2 outlet malls in Round Rock and in San Marcos are building on new wings constantly. Today, I was at the mall and saw 2 vacant store fronts. We have a lot of service industries moving into the mall- Castle Dental, a spa, hairdressers, etc...

Wow! It seems like this mall just opened and was all the hype! I guess if I think about it, that was between 15-18 years ago, but still kinda recent. WOW, I would have never guessed. 😞

Another great mall walkthrough video! For whatever reason, it's very rare to see Panera Bread inside a mall. The only mall I'd ever seen a Panera inside of myself, is the still pretty successful Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, IL. Maybe it isn't as rare, as I think that usually is? Hopefully, you also have Saint Louis Mills on your to visit list of malls in Missouri. I'm not sure if that's been renamed(I suspect it might, forget the new name), but it's struggling like this mall. Hard to believe this only opened in 2005, not many malls opened during the 2000s I believe. Cheers,to how great all your struggling and dead mall walkthrough videos have been!

Thank you for documenting a fading but once important part of America's culture. I think you and Dan Bell do great work!

It's because there are literally too many places to shop! Period! Just like there are too many chain restaurants everywhere, too many big-box stores, too many fast-food joints! There are literally too many stores and nobody has enough disposable income to buy things anymore! It's not 1985 where everybody was buying a BMW or a Volvo and buying leg-warmers and SONY Trinitron television sets! People are struggling, and it's high time for corporations to develop new strategies for consolidation, otherwise brick-and-mortar retail as we know it is going to be dead within 25 years, and UPS and FedEx trucks are going to be clogging our streets because everyone's gonna order everything online and have it delivered to our homes!

This mall was dead from the first day it opened. In an effort to have full occupancy on opening day they put in a lot of garbage tenants - like the local raceway had a storefront, several car dealerships had cars parked in the storefronts, TONs of dollar stores. It didn't take long for shoppers to know it wasn't worth your time to shop here. Many retailers left as soon as their first lease was up - further contributing to the downward spiral. The developers hedged their bets though and built several Strip Malls just outside this mall - They are doing well while this mall is going dim. Anchors like TJ Maxx, Marshalls and other retailers who can be found in other "Mills" concept locations did their demographic homework and stayed away from this mall. Sears was already in decline when they built the "Sears Grand" concept store - a monster of a store that offered little more than a standard Sears mall store. It was one of only 10 Sears Grand locations built across the country as a one-stop shopping outlet. Teenie boppers swarmed to the movie theater here on weekends and summer nights - without the theater this mall would have died a faster death. This mall was built even though other local malls like Century III Mall, Parkway Center Mall and Village Square were already on life support. It won't be long now before this one joins the list.

This mall first opened when I was seven within 3 miles of me, in the beginning, there were crowds of people and they even had a strawberry shortcake concert in that exact same food court. Also right next to the spencers they had autograph signings with the survivor winners, I have a picture of it somewhere. I spent so much time there just walking around in circles there, also the odd thing about mentioning that Starbucks in the mall well there was another Starbucks withing 5 minutes of walking distance. The only thing causing people to go there now is the movie theater, it gets updated often and even has those d box seats built in. Hopefully, the movie theater never leaves, because by then there's no reason to go inside there and I'm left with going to Monroeville for a decent movie experience

Sears Grand was as you described, typical Sears with a grocery store. The front by the mini golf with the checkered flags was originally supposed to be an outdoor go-kart track that never came to fruition, and the closed front across from minigolf was a Dingbats restaurant that closed ~5 years ago. There was also a Johnny Rocket's next to the Houlihans.

The problem with shopping malls and brick-and-mortar stores is a vicious cycle. They can't afford to keep the inventory and selection of items that can be found online. Because the stuff would be sitting around too long. So then people buy even more things online. It just keeps getting worse.

He seems to be inspiring everyone to do their own take on Dead Malls or Abandoned Places not bad Dan.

Indoor malls seem to be dying out all over. The outdoor mall in Homestead seems to be thriving. My wife and I shop there. I can't remember the last time I was at an indoor mall.

also alot of stores like wal-mart, target and all these big stores put alot of small businesses out of business and i'm sad to see the small businesses gone i miss the corner stores and the local boutiques of my childhood too. i guess change has to happen.

Wow that is so sad! This looks like one of the nieces malls I've ever seen! It looks huge! I think they should just give the mall up to the city so they can keep it going! It has so much potential, someone just needs to keep it going and save it before it completely fails!

Sears Grands were essentially Super Kmarts. The original plan after Kmart bought Sears was to convert all the Kmarts to either Sears Grand or Sears Essentials for a uniform branding -- they started doing this around the time this mall opened. This turned down many customers however because they thought Sears Grand/Essentials was a more upscale and expensive version of Kmart (which it wasn't), so most wound up being converted back to Kmarts or closed altogether.

Cool video! I went to Pittsburgh Mills once about a year or so after the mall opened. Some people should never even ever have a thought about managing a mall or any business. This mall is a financial disaster.

I wish indoor malls made a comeback like Vinyl Records

The same company also built one of these malls in Texas called the Grapevine Mills Mall and it is still going strong to this day the last time I checked.

The children's play area is great! Flooring gets a thumbs up as well!

I saw The Neverending Story there last September. I walked around with my friend afterwards. I thought the mall was simply beautiful. It was huge (that's what she said - Michael Scott) but I guess I didn't notice that it was in foreclosure.

I watch Dan's video's. I found yours just a couple of weeks ago and I love them. Thank you!

Really enjoy your videos and I'm glad that you take inspiration from Dan. But you still have your own voice. Glad you're doing these videos. Keep it up man. Can't get enough of this stuff. Also wondering, what's your favorite Mall movie?

Oh man, I remember that mall from when I lived in Pittsburgh in my late teens (19 or so). I lived in the more urban area of the county, but I remember that so many people in my neck of the woods would make the trip way out into the sticks to this mall for whatever reason. Every time I visited this mall, it just got worse and worse. I hate to say it, but even the Monroeville Mall where they filmed the original Dawn of The Dead is hitting a rough spot and may end up like this place. Pittsburgh on the other hand is prospering yet again and making tremendous strides, so the loss of a few malls is not the end the city fortunately.

I was there a few days ago. It's sad to see the state that it's currently in. I remember when it first opened. It was quite crowded. There was going to be a go cart track outside, but it was never finished. There's a Walmart near the mall, and it's the mainbreason people bother coming to that decaying area.

Nice videos, Ace. It is sad watching these malls pass away...

I haven't been in that mall for years, but I remember it being very bright and huge. A pity they built it in that location.

Yup, Sears Grand was Sears trying to adopt to a changing economy where Super Target and Walmart Super Center's reigned supreme, they had a dry good grocery selection and were more of a mashup of a party store, pet supply store and hardware store all merged under one roof with the traditional Sears offering. After Kmart acquired Sears, many of the Kmart Supercenter stores rebranded under the Sears Grand format name. Love your videos, so fascinated with dead malls and what kills them. North Hanover Mall in Hanover PA is a dead mall in the making, its anchors are the only thing keeping it afloat...all the little mom & pop stores have gone... in their place you can find cars from the nearby car dealership on display just to keep the storefronts from looking too bleak

I wouldn't exactly call it dead, as it still has its anchors. if wells sells it to someone like Simon properties, they can turn it around.

Go to Arundel Mills south of Baltimore, you'll have serious deja vu. They look almost identical, except Arundel Mills is so packed most of the time you can't even find parking.

This mall was just sold back to Wells Fargo for $100 at auction.

Great vid! Sears Grand was a concept begun under Sears' last independent CEO who tried to take the company into more of a discounter direction. The stores were all new builds and featured traditional Sears lines plus new ones such as Health & Beauty, Consumables, Toys, Books & Magazines, limited Grocery and Pharmacy amongst others. (He often joked that only at Sears Grand could one purchase a refrigerator and a gallon of milk to put in it). While the original Grand stores were successful in the beginning, the merger with Kmart ultimately doomed Sears who now has management that doesn't care about saving the company. Other Grand stores were opened in converted Kmart locations but it isn't the same, the original Grands (Gurnee, IL, West Jordan, UT, Las Vegas, NV to name a few) were huge newly built stores, to which a dingy 40 year old Kmart can't compare. Ultimately, Sears Grand could have been the vehicle that saved the company but was sadly cut short by the merger.

BREAKING: Wells Fargo has bought the struggling Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills, which hit the auction block today, for $100. This just came out today

I can remember the stores that are at the Grand Outlets at Saiger all day, but, here they are: The blue and yellow store is Westworld, and formerly Fitness Equipment and Supplies. The topical store is Next Clearance, formerly Next to Nothing and also N-E-X-T. The green triangles store is Camille Lingerie, and formerly Duxia. One of the curved stores is Antler Outlet, and formerly Cia-Dix. This store looks like a Forever 21 but it actually used to be The Designer Room, and before that Yorkshire Fashion Depot. This store is actually Claire’s Outlet, and FastLooks before that. The store with the sale thing is Klass, and formerly Kaylina Clearance. The curtained store is Roman Originals, and formerly Hay. The blue store is Hallmark Cards. The army store is Bags Etc, and formerly Bags Extra. The lime store is Game, and formerly Rainbow Games. Another curved store is Pilot. The little seen store is Monsoon. The counter store is Baskin Robbins, and formerly Ice Cream at Cookie Jar. The walled off store is Le Creuset, formerly Bed and Bath Works, and also Systemos. The flowers store is Tog24, and formerly Zeino. 3 of the shopfronts are merged into The Sony Centre (The Hive), and formerly Grove. The big store is Gap Outlet, and formerly Outlet World. Another big store is Nike Factory Store. But let’s go down into the Food Court though. There are a lot of restaurants down here. There is a Burger King here, as well as a Spud-u-Like, KFC, Toilets, The Fishery, Subway, News Empire, Watch Pairs, Yangtze, Café Europa, and Little Italy. That wasn’t there when the mall opened, the food court opened in 1998. The light blue store is Marks and Spencer Outlet, and formerly Rouge. The arcade store is Jaeger. The windows store is Billabong, and formerly The Coast. The store next to Child’s Play is Austin Reed. Another walled off store is Origin Outlet Fashions. The white store is Sports Direct, formerly Lillywhites, and also Bix Sports. The store next to be is Crabtree and Evelyn, and formerly Nailsioa. Wow! There’s a info desk here, and near that is the UCI/Odeon cinema. The other blue store is The Works, formerly Book Depot, and also Book’z’. Another curved store is Bedeck, and formerly Linens by Alaneoek. The blue and white store is Reebok. Another curved store is Julian Graves, and formerly The Health Tree. The Beauty Express and black stores are together to form The Beauty Outlet. That is a coke machine. The brown store next to it is Crew Clothing Company, and formerly Clothes Makers. A big store is Orvis. Another counter store is Millie’s Cookies, and formerly Cookie Jar. The yellow-ish store is The Body Shop Depot. The wood store is Ollie’s Burgers. The tile store is The Keinger Inn Pub. The Orange store is Starbucks.

2005? That makes this the newest mall by far of all the ones I've seen in these videos so far, on all the channels I'm subscribed to combined! As for resembling Dan Bell's stuff, that's a good standard to follow. I guess the mall's developers were riding high on the housing bubble euphoria, not realizing that it was in fact a bubble. But I read in a few places that a Speculative Bubble can only be identified after it bursts.

ITT Teck is closed now. rue21 is gone. The American Indian store is closed now. D.E.B. is gone. Sears Grand was kinda like a bigger Target store but not as many groceries.

Great video I'm assuming This is Dan Bell inspired you?

This mall reminds me of the abandoned and closed buildings in EPCOT that just anyone can walk into.

The mid 2000's is starting to look like the early 90's XD Oh how the times change 12:50

Anyone else get a commercial for a really upscale Mall in Las Vegas before this lol? Talking about Champaign, and food while you watch your personal shopper try on things for you lol. Hilarious in front of a dead mall video.

Sadly I believe my mall near where I live (Chambersburg Mall, in PA) is about to die here soon, since at least 5 tenants went out in the past month alone, including two of the anchor stores this year. Sad to see it go, it was such an amazing part of my childhood. :/

Sears Grand is something else from Sears Holdings. It had the most of what Sears/ Kmart is known for, clothing! A lot of electronics, personal products, small furniture and alliances, and the food that Kmart typically would carry.

I believe a Best Buy store is closing there saying its the malls inability to flourish. if its the foreclosure still looms with it today

Great video. The floors there are quite unique. And the neighborhood signs are a lot like Cincinnati Mall. Hoping you might check out Schuykill Mall in Frackville PA heard thats gone more downhill since Kmart closed.

if you haven't heard what sears grand carries They carry everything a Sears department store carries, plus health and beauty products, a pharmacy, toys, baby care, cleaning supplies, home décor, pet food, cards and party supplies, books, magazines, music, Little Caesars Pizza Station, movies, and a selection of groceries which is limited mostly to dry goods.

Sears Grand is a chain with only a few locations. The store carries clothing, some furniture, electronics, a auto center, a garden center, and small snacks. Sears Grand doesn't have many visitors compared to regular sears, but they somehow manage to stay in business.

i love your videos, i don't care if there similar to dan bells... i just get to watch the best of both worlds! 😊

This is good stuff Ace. Love Dan Bell too! Yes. sad to see these go. Wondering why these buildings can't be repurposed? These buildings ..like this are so massive..even calling courses ", Neighborhood s" It seems to me..they could be turned into a living community. The stores are big enough to be apartments.

So the mall has the racetrack layout? If you're ever out west in the Phoenix area, we have Arizona Mills in Tempe, a Simon Property. It's an outlet mall, originally, but has non outlet tenants as well. Opened in 1997 with a racetrack layout. They have stores like Neiman Marcus Last Call, Dress Barn, Forever 21, Buckle, H&M, Guess Outlet, Burlington Coat Factory, Game Stop, Disney Store, and the list goes on. Plenty of places to eat like Wetzel's, Rainforest Cafe, and Johnny Rockets. There are a bunch of opening day tenants, though some like the Virgin Megastore, Off Rodeo Drive, and JC Penney Outlet have gone off to the yestermall. Food court was remodeled a few years ago with the clean, modern lines replacing the old theme of the 90s. Seating area is more open and free. Food court is full with Church's Chicken being the best known nameplate. Villa Pizza has been showing up recently in malls including this one. The rest is stuff I've never heard of. The mall doesn't have an anchor presence like a normal mall. The largest stores don't have separate facades, but some do. Harkins has a 24 screen theater and they own the IMAX here. Tilt Studio just opened this week. They got to work FAST on that one after Gameworks left. School buses are often parked by the northeast corner because Sea Life ipenes an aquarium here to much hype several years ago. April was when LEGOland Discovery Center opened. Just look for the bright red and yellow building. This mall gets pretty busy and has very few vacancies. Now about Sears Grand, I visited one that recently opened when I drove up to Salt Lake in 2003, I think. The Grand concept was dropped some time ago, and the Grand stores that were kept were converted to normal Sears, or possibly Kmart. I had heard about the Grand concept because I worked at Sears from 2000-2005. Grand is the Sears version of a Super Walmart. There are 2 entrances with shopping carts. Registers are at the front of the store between entrances. Concessions are at the front, which were the typical Sears offerings of the era: watch and jewelry repair, portrait studio, Miracle Ear. I don't remember if the tux rental was in the store I saw. All departments you found in a normal store were present here. Lawn and Garden had live plants. The store had a grocery area. I would say it's closer to what was added into a normal Target. Typical impulse products sold at the registers. I want to say some aesthetics and fixturing found in the Chandler store, where I worked, was present here. My old store in Chandler, AZ was a prototype. It opened in 2002 at the usually busy Chandler Fashion Center. The look we had at opening was unique to us. The drywall above the top of the slot wall was a different color for each area. The sections of wall that curved outward like a bow had the department name in letters mounted over Chicago area graphics. The floor around the escalators where home decor and housewares were located had a wood look while the floors in the main aisles had alternating bands of black and ivory tiles. Wallpaper on the escalators, as well as the hallways outside of the restrooms and break and training rooms had horizontal light blue and white stripes. Shoes used to have a clearance room. Stockrooms have ladders that slide back and forth on rails. Receiving had a belt to move merchandise between floors instead of using the freight elevator for everything. We had a chain to manually close the mall entrances in a power outage. At the time all stores had the all caps SEARS logo, we had rhe Sears logo. Sears Grand had our Sears logo with grand in red cursive. And bleh. Ty Pennington. Almost everything in his collection was just ugly. A couple of dishes looked ok, but his bedding and bath stuff was just plain ugly. It didn't sell well, and we were in a great market due to all the new construction and higher incomes. The other brands sold better, especially the Whole Home microsuede comforter set we displayed at the mall entrance. I could probably tell you stories all day about working at Sears at the mall!

Same style as Vaughan Mills in the a Toronto area in Canada. That mall also opened in about 04-05, but it is thriving, it is an absolute zoo sometimes!

Your talking during the video is not annoying. Thanks for sharing the videos and knowledge you have of these places!👍

I only live 10 minutes away from the Mills...it's hella depressing in there...

I watch you AND Dan Bell. Glad I found your videos, they're great too!

Great video, the design and decor of this mall reminds me of Arizona Mills. Houlihan’s is one of my favorite restaurants, they’re so hard to find.

Pittsburgh Mills is in the middle of nowhere. Rt 28 construction and its location was the downfall. I only went there once when we saw the first Night at the Museum movie. no reason for anyone living in Pittsburgh to drive all the way there

Ohh I can't wait to see Summit Place! Even passing by the mall in the daytime is super creepy.

Dead mall? This is the liveliest place you've filmed so far. Compared to most of your videos, the foot traffic in PIttsburgh Mills makes it look like Tysons Corner or King of Prussia. With that said, this mall is heading in the wrong direction with an unhealthy number of vacancies and it continues to lose stores. If we could somehow magically shrink the mall to 2/3 or one half its current size, it would probably be fine. Unfortunately, real estate doesn't work that way and this place is indeed in trouble. It's good to see it being recorded now before it reaches true dead mall territory. Finally, there's way too many dying and dead malls to be covered by any one person. You, Dan, and several others are doing a great job capturing the design and spirit of these places that won't be around 20 plus years from now.

Wow has Pgh Mills Mall changed since then. Excellent video

sad to see it is such a nice looking Mall another great video thanks for sharing I just love watching these dead Mall videos

Ace if your ever in the Baltimore area you should visit eastpoint or white marsh I can't help feeling nostalgic when I see these videos and those two malls I used to go all the time as a kid and now there a shell of what they were especially eastpoint

I love that the dude who had a beard is named Beard.

Looks EXACTLY like the Vaughan Mills Mall we have here, just North of Toronto, Canada, except that our mall is so packed every day that its impossible to find parking, it is packed almost every hour of every day it is open.

that song that plays at the beginning and during the video sounds like a karyn white song but its slowed down. :)

A glow in the dark mini golf that is cool.

This mall was built in 2001-2002.... in a very isolated area of "pittsburgh". i watched it being built, as i worked field service job through the area, and drove by almost weekly. this mall was junk from the first day. the only good thing was (and i think still is) the movie theater. I wish they would renovate this mall into a convention center of sorts, it has massive space and could hold a fairly large convention. that would be the ideal for it now.

Sears grand was a huge store, similar to a Walmart, but had a lot more clothing, and technology, and tools

This mall reminds me so much of Square One Mall in Mississauga, Ontario.

this is sad. i hate seeing things like this happen. when the malls start closing it is like a domino effect. other businesses in the areas around the malls start shutting down. we have alot of malls in new hampshire. i just hope none of those are going anywhere. online shopping is putting alot of the malls out of commission as well. i miss going to the methuen mall in methuen ma. that closed in the late 90s. i used to go there every weekend. and when i had kids, i used to take them there up until the mall became dead than finally closed its doors in '98. it was demolished in '99. the loop is now there. i like the mall because people used to meet there and it was like a comunity and also walking around the malls, you got your excercise in! lol! 😃

aw, that commercial is so heartbreaking.

The Dan Bell concept work's good Ace 👍

It looks INSANELY like Vaughan Mills Mall in Toronto Canada, except Vaughan Mills is one of the top performing malls in Toronto.

Thanks for posting this video..

I moved to Pittsburgh from Outside NYC in the fall of 2015, only stayed a year. I was told my co worker that Pittsburgh Mills & Century III was a waste of time for shopping, turned out that they were right.....

That's an awesome place to go during the pandemic!

The sears grand had some furniture, appliances, outdoor appliances, and outdoor furniture, clothes, televisions, and some what of a grocery store. Basically it was a target but not as big of a selection with the grocery part, it did have some makeup brands and normal drug store stuff.

New subscriber here. Love this vid.

Sears Grand was a full line Sears store with a full line grocery store as well. Kinda like a Super Kmart.

Was just there this last Saturday., there were actually people walking in the mall. Mostly "back to school" shoppers. I would say it's at about 1/3 of it's capacity full...

Sears Grand was Sears attempt to slap the Sears name on Kmart stores.

Great video reminds me of Concord Mills Mall in Concord NC..

Malls like this have been declining for years and years. I would dare say that 35% of all malls that have been built in the United States in the last 30 years have lost more than 50% of their businesses. The Moorestown Mall in Burlington County NJ is hoppin'.................the Burlington Center Mall just 12 miles north on Rt. 295 is virtually dead. There are a few other malls around the Philadelphia area (30 - 40 miles in every direction) that have fallen by the wayside.

i love the fower look

at about 13:53 TJ Chinese buffet , i definitely recommend going their i love that buffet 😃. it is sad the pittsburgh mills is so vacant now, they have lost alot of stores . i think it could possibly be revived if they lowered the rent and tried to bring in more speciality stores and maybe have special events . the movie theater in the pittsburgh mills is pretty nice.

There was a decent steakhouse where Smokey Bones is NOW. I ate there right after it opened in '06. Smokey Bones is alright too - I ate there once, also. There was SUPPOSED to be a "NASCAR Experience" track as part of the Mall originally, but that fell through. Hard to tell which is more empty these days; this mall, or a typical NASCAR grandstand on raceday... :doh:

What a pity. This is one of the nicest malls I've ever seen.

damn i was there back in 2006 it seemed dead then. i only found one hole in the starbucks in the corner of the food court. my uncle doesnt live to far from that mall either in the same city sadly. also this mall was more designed as a kiddy mall since it had a more kiddy feel on the inside. cant forget that mall

Pittsburgh Mills very sad it is in such dyer straits ,you would think being the only Mall out that way it would be able to survive......The Bowling alley was great wish it was still there .....

I had actually never heard of Sears Grand until you mentioned it in this video.

Been there several times - bit of a haul from the Inlaws digs. Knew the anchors were leaving, and, the owner was in arrears. Another carcass on the growing heap of malls..

Thanks for the Video. Helps get me through the Day. Amazon is the reason for all the physical stores closing. But now that Amazon competition is closing doors they are going up on their prices as well.

one of the major things that killed this mall is that they only wanted to cater to a certain type of person. Pittsburgh does have its mass of affluent people but not the amount this mall would need. The mall refused to allow PortAuthority, the cities public transportation company, to have pick up and stop off points on the property. Event the affluent in individuals in Pittsburgh use public transport excessively due to the shortage of major highway routes and small streets. Pittsburgh, like NewYork and Philadelphia rely on public transport due to the cities infrastructure. This mall didn't take this into account. It's owned by an Ohio based company that knows very little about the dynamic of the city. I lived in the Pittsburgh region for over 27 years and know for a fact no buses, no business. even the cities other high end malls know this rule. The Mills did it to themselves and i really don't understand why they haven't learned there lesson.

You do you Ace 👍🏾