Dead Malls Season 6 Episode 1 - Greenspoint Mall 

It was indeed, worth the wait

This mall…the whole “Gunspoint” area…still terrifies me!

This makes me sad. This place was a staple of my childhood.

My mom and I would shop this mall every weekend! The still pictures of the corridors looking like a tropical paradise from the late 80's/early 90's full of green trees. The whole mall echoed with the sounds of waterfalling and spacious ambient sound. This little video just unlocked a little bit of my childhood for me, ty!

This shit depresses me, I remember skipping school with my friends and we’d go there all the time, I remember the food court was still open around 2015, the mall wasn’t completely dead, and I remember going to Macys with my gf at the time and buying clothes, going to champs and journeys to buy sneakers, I remember the huge movie theater it had, I have distant memories of there being an arcade by the food court entrance as well, it depresses me so much how dead that mall has become, that mall was my childhood and my early teenage years, I feel like the mall didn’t stand a chance once Macys and the movie theater closed down. It hurts me. I made so many great memories there, anyway, didn’t try to get all sentimental and corny and shit lmfao, just wish this mall didn’t ended up the way it did. The mall looks so unique too compared to willowbrook, deerbrook, woodlands, the mall looks very retro and has that 70s-80s futuristic architecture.

Whilst watching this I had a moment of realisation. For time in itself. 2 years ago I watched a video on this mall, it was when I was preparing for my daughters birth. She's sadly passed away since, from her health condition, bless her. Though now, 2 years later when looking at the old musical plants near the old luggage shop I realised I was in the same place where I was back then. Now I'm preparing for my 2nd son to be born in December, my daughter was born in January. It showed me how tired and sad I am, time only moves forward. What an eye opener. Thank you for this video. It unlocked a rich memory of mine. This is why I love your channel ❤

I grew up near this area. We have called this area Gunspoint since the mid late 80’s. Most of us moved on to shop at Deerbrook Mall in Humble.

I live about 15 minutes north of the mall, and I HONESTLY HAD NO IDEA THE MALL WAS STILL OPEN ... I know there is a fitness center on the west side of the mall (facing the I-45 freeway), but I did not know the mall itself was still open. The mall is so close to major freeways and the airport, that it is shameful that crime has run off so much business and retail. HOWEVER, that is a great opportunity, Here are some options: 1) Turn it into a giant laser tag center (alternative, paintball) ... make sure players are using laser tag guns and not real machine guns! 2) Indoor park with splashpark (it looks like it has a few old fountains ... convert them!) 3) Make each old 'store' into luxury apartments and control access-probably not viable, but it would kinda be cool to live in an old mall if it was safe and clean (people would kill for all that square footage ... wait, maybe killing for it is not the verbiage I want to use here) 4) Year-round Monster Jam (monster truck) exhibition space-not sure if there is ceiling clearance space for that ... heck, I'm not an engineer! 4) Indoor food truck park with entertainment space. 5) Giant roller rink ... c'mon ... you know that is great idea! Okay, so those are just my thoughts. Great video. Thanks for reppin' Houston (even if this mall is not one held in such high esteem). Peace. ☮

The mall is definitely dead when a GNC can’t be found or a church moves in. Not knocking churches at malls.

Oh man, I live probably 20 minutes from Greenspoint Mall. I can assure you people still call it “gunspoint” even today and there’s a sort of stigma surrounding the mall that’s hard to explain as anything other than “it’s ghetto”. I do remember as a kid in the early 2000s it was still doing decently ok, my mom would shop at the Foley’s and Dillard’s for clothes and home goods. I remember walking up to the old Montgomery Ward entrance outside and it still looked like it was just closed (By this point it had only been vacant for like 3 or 4 years). My how times change. Last time I visited the mall, the Macy’s was having their liquidation sale and I got a whole bunch of stuff for real cheap. It’s sad to see the mall so dead, but I knew it was going to happen eventually, the 90s and 00s weren’t nice to that mall. Once Deerbrook, Willowbrook, and The Woodlands malls opened, it was basically the kiss of death for Greenspoint.

I can’t believe this mall is still open to the public. Once it became “gunspoint” mall, forget it. So many malls died because of crime. If looked like an amazing mall in its heyday. It opened a month before I was born. I’m really glad that this video came together. It’s definitely a mall with a sad history.

In the late '90s, I went with a friend and her sister to this mall. The sister wanted to go to some store for some special clothes or something. I remember walking in and within 2 minutes saw a group of guys all wearing the same shade of red walking together. My friend and I both looked at each other and we hung out right by that entrance until her sister came back.

Man o man, the light pink and blue interior brings me back, the KBToys where i picked up all things WWF, the Casa Olé where we ate like kings, or picked up pizza from brothers pizza in the food court, to the F.Y.E, Sam goody and blockbuster music store. Playing games at the Tilt, or trying to haggle prices for a nice silver piece and chain, i LOVE Greenspoint mall and even though this is a bit saddening, i appreciate all the memories i have of this once great place. GREAT WORK 👍 👌 👍 H-TOWN BABY 🤘🤘🤘

First of all, well done. It has been a long while since someone did a high-quality update on the mall. Greenspoint Mall is in dire shape now. You almost revealed all of the hidden areas of Greenspoint. The vacant Sears corridor has about 5 stores and a red tile storefront hidden behind the drywall where you first went after the food court. In fact, the old Sears exterior has lots of corners and door frames covered in red tiles from the 1970's that were painted over in the 90's. A lot of tiles are falling off of the building now, so you can get a souvenir. One of the stores down that Sears corridor is a long-closed Woolworth Express that was walled off once the store closed in the 90's. The old JCPenney entrance had the children's play area in front until they shut it down. Then they put up the drywall that you could see near Thirstys. It is good that you went during our long drought this Summer. A lot of those stained spots on the floor are probably wet again. Me and my family started going to this mall in 1986, and I still go in 2023. This mall was hurt by the openings of Willowbrook then Deerbrook Mall, the mortal wound was the Woodlands Mall just as the area was beginning the 1990's decline. Greenspoint was a very strong mall until about the mid 90's when anchors started dropping like flies. Sears, Dillard's, and Macy's all downsized their stores and closed off the second levels before they all ultimately closed. Life is not all bad at the mall. On some nights, people show off their cars. There are several carnivals each year in the parking lot. Fitness Connection is a very busy gym. Brand new townhomes are being built practically next to the old Sears. The old Sears is being used as material storage for the new development, so I was able to peek inside one day when they opened the doors to move materials.

I remember when this mall was brand new and it was certainly the place to be in north Houston in the seventies and eighties. I saw Star Wars A New Hope, and the Empire Strikes Back in the theater there. I even worked at the Montgomery Ward there for about a year or so in ‘79 - ‘80. Signs of decline began in the late eighties and they refurbished it with all the muted pastel tiles you can still see today. I left Houston for another career move and the slow but steady decline continued all the way through the nineties. I visited there from out of state in 2000, and I can tell you, it was a very sketchy place to be, even back then. By the way, you did a very good job on the history of the place.

I worked across the street from this mall for several years in the late 90s, early 2000s and it was pretty much dead even then. We would go there for lunch and surprisingly the food court was usually quite busy - I guess alot of people who worked in the office buildings around there would walk over for lunch like us. It was probably the only thing keeping the mall afloat at that point, because NOBODY would step foot in the mall after business hours.

I visited this mall in 2005 while fleeing Hurricane Katrina. It was struggling then. I remember a closing Champs Sports and Subway as about the only place to eat.

I remember when Greenspoint Mall opened. I spent a lot of time there in the 70s and 80s.

It's funny how well the plants are all doing, unattended.

You went to Gunspoint! Word around Houston is that it’ll be at least another 20 years before that area even begins to rebound economically, assuming oil and gas doesn’t have another boom/bust cycle before then.

Wow!. I grew up going to this mall. This was the first mall that I ever knew. Not long after my family moved to the area where Willowbrook Mall was built, we also started going there. I have not been to Greenspoint since around 2012 or so. My wife and I just went there to see how bad it had gotten. It was bad then, but your video showcases Greenspoint Mall's even further decline. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.

I started going to Greenspoint mall when it first opened. It was nice. Then it started getting bad in th 90s. An off duty female deputy sheriff was kidnapped from there. They found her body days later. Case is still unsolved.

I used to go to this mall when I was a kid, I remember there being holloween events and Christmas ones too. I still remember the movie theater, the old arcade and jungle Jim lol. I don’t remember when the arcade left but I was young maybe around 12 and soon after the food court started fading little by little. My last going there was around 2018 when the movie theater was still active. It was the only thing keeping the mall alive until Covid happened. Had some good memories there lol

Crazy to think I used to visit that mall when it was still functional. I left for the military then comeback to an abandon run down mall 😢 I grew up near the deerbrook mall and honestly it would be heartbreaking to see that one face the same fate.

In the late 2000’s KBR ran a hiring and initiation center in the Montgomery Ward end of the mall . The hiring was for work in Iraq. I was there for 10 days .

It's so sad seeing the Ellipse food court in complete disuse. I used to go there with my dad in the early/mid 2000s to eat Brooklyn-style pizza that we loved. The neon retrofuturist vibes in that area were so pleasant, too! I remember the area featured @ 24:30 feeling a little underused and liminal even when I was a kid - I always wondered what the little cul-de-sac full of plants was for. The last time I shopped at Greenspoint was in the early 10's, grabbing a cool jacket from the now-defunct Macy's and a pair of shades from a stall that looked desperate for customers. The mall was mostly empty back then too, but it didn't feel outright neglected the way it does today. It's so sad seeing blown-out windows and water-stained floors that weren't there until recently.

It would’ve been dope if you went inside the theatre! Nice video!

What's this I here a new dead malls video, well boy howdy here I am

The Dillard's clearance center gave it some life in the late 2000's. I would shop for clearance, go eat Chinese in the food court, the shop some more!

Yooo, season 6 off already? I remember the wait for season 5 was excruciating lol glad too see it

I’m so incredibly excited for this season. I grew up in the Houston area so this is really going to hit close to home. I even plan to visit GreensPoint mall around thanksgiving since I will be visiting family for the holiday. I think I’ll record my experience there so it should be a lot of fun.

Desert Sand's music is perfectly made for this content

Man you are seriously one of my favorite channels, you managed to document all or most of my local malls and now I'm able to see other people's versions of the same thing. Every one of these videos evokes an intense feeling of mono no aware and other emotions I can't quite describe. I've never been to this mall, never even knew it existed, but somehow I feel like I was just there a few days ago. These surrealist feelings are so neat.

In the early 1990s, my future ex-wife before we were married, worked in an office tower across the street from Greenspoint Mall. She worked in the corporate offices of Wicks 'n' Sticks and Deck the Walls. I was a phone technician, and I would travel all over town. If I was working in the Greenspoint area, we would meet at GM for lunch.

Keep up the good work man all the seasons are great keep it up!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

best dead mall channel on youtube love your videos thank you

Thank you for filming! I enjoyed the history.

I needed this tonight! Very excited to watch!😊

Good Job! Thanks for coming through!! Can’t wait to watch

I loved this video, like all the other content you create, keep up the great work, I'm so excited for season 6!!!

Wow. The tiles that are all rusty and dirty is really sad, along with the entire mall dying. Great video, as always!

I worked at that mall in the old Houston Trunk Factory, I was there in the late eighties, is was rapidly changing even then. Thanks for reminding me, great video!

Great video. Thanks.

HEY I'M HERE. I seriously can't believe that thumbnail this place is a wilderness

Looks like a wonderful location to make a low-budget horror movie.

Great Video North! Love it keep up the work!!!!

I spent a lot of time in Greenspoint mall in the late 70s and 80s. I recognize the skylights and the corridors are familiar.

Woo! You got it out!! ❤ Sounds good too! Thank you

Thank you for this! Remember to look after yourself in the process.

Back in Elementary School in the late 90s we would have field trips to this mall for chior. It was so busy and so much fun as a child. Its so sad how times change 😢

You are great at presenting these dead malls thank you!

This mall embraced diversity

I have so many memories of this mall as a teenager in tha 90s.

Good to see you back mate, great way to start the day

Another excellent dead mall exploration! Great job, fantastic narration. Thank you!

This was hard to watch because this was a mall I visited in college and during a long ago job on that side of the city. Mostly what I remember are dim (but crowded) corridors, a really nice Foley's (that became Macy's) and that food court, which was a great gossipy respite from a tense office job. Also, a two story, poorly lit play area that looked like a blast. Great video!

Love the „expedition“ style, including the footage from driving up to the mall. Really builds up excitement (in a relaxed way) 😊. Keep up the good work!

New subscriber! I really enjoy and appreciate your work/content. Love, from Houston!

Awesome video, I used to go to the nearby welding school near greenspoint and still was refrenced as gunspoint mall by all most everyone in the school. As my curiousity increased of greenspoint mall I decided to vist and explore the mall. Altough I wasnt brave of exploring the closed off areas, The vibes from the mall really made me feel nostalgic of a time when i wasnt even born (if that makes sense). Looking back I wish I actually paid attencion to some areas where you visted and at least brought something from thirstys when i visted. So I really appreciate this video as not only as a reminder of the history of the past, but rather the importance of time its self.

Awesome! And great soundtrack. Love it.

I love this mall! The aesthetics are nice! So many blocked off wings. Backrooms feeling

I live like 30 mins north of there and I remember in the 90s and early 2000s when that place was bumpin' and always crowded and a bit safer than it is now. It was so hard to find a parking space. You had to park like literally 2 blocks away in the lot, it was that busy. I drove past there a few days ago and it looked so dead. I haven't been there since like '95 or so and it for sure slowly died over the last 2 decades. So sad. But that for sure is not a safe area to be especially at night. When the sun goes down, (whispers) you go down.

My absolute favorite feature of that mall is the on-ramp to Interstate 45 and leaving as fast as you can!

Love the video. I always get excited when it's my state in a video, even though im not in this area anymore. I last visited this mall about 10 years ago when my job had me staying at a hotel near there for training. It definitely felt like gunspoint. Didn't feel safe. My truck was broken in to. It was rough. Crazy to see how much more Its gone downhill since i was there. Your next mall sounds like maybe Pasadena.

Another great video that was well worth the wait! I still can't believe I saw it while driving to and from the airport only a month or so ago! Similar to you lol, I just wondered what was inside for the longest time. This mall is like The Orchards Mall in MI you visited, but 10x the backrooms and broken tiles. I can't wait to see the next Texas mall you have in store! 🎉🤩

Yet another beautiful video that brings me back to a better, simpler time. If you ever come to Washington state, these malls would surprise you. Some of them are going down hill while others thrive. Location location location haha. Considering I-5 is a major corridor, these malls(including the Tacoma Mall) just never stop thriving. Finding parking is still a pain at the Tacoma mall as well as South Hill mall lol. Also, I don't want my car to be broken into, stolen, or get robbed at gunpoint haha.

Another great one. The pipe fountain would have been neat to see and hear. The neons were cool to see also what was left. You always pick the best music. Thanks

Keep’em coming!

It became a craphole after numerous apartment complexes nearby in the late 80s went Section 8.

Pretty amazing story and tour - thanks! The older you get (I'm 60 now) the more you get into nostalgia from your HS and college days. I was a 20 year old engineering intern in 1984 from Michigan on an assignment with a Houston company (alternated semesters between school and working). Lived about 5 miles down the road, where Halliburton's N Campus is located today at 3000 Sam Houston PKWY (worked for a company called NL Industries). First visited this mall in Jan 1984 and it was still a very nice place to hang out, hit the arcade, watch a movie, or eat. Went to this mall dozens of times during my three internships. Sadly, it wasn't just the general decline of malls that killed this place, but, as you said in the video, the flop house style apartments that were built (instead of townhomes, which would have been the right choice) in the area. Celebrated my 22 BDay at a deli-style restaurant at this very mall in Summer '85. Years later, I heard about the off-duty policewoman being kidnappped and killed but didn't hear about taxi driver. Saw a lot of movies with other interns at the original theatre there. Didn't realize it was just one year after I left (1986) that the police were having stings to catch car thieves. Good thing I drove a rusted out Granada. Never felt worried going in 84 or 85, but was always with a group of interns.

@northcdogg22 Excellent Video! Well worth the extra effort you put into it. I'm glad you brought up the topic of "The Backrooms." This mall definitely reminds me of a Backrooms atmosphere. Thumbs Way Up!!!

Nice to see this mall is still looking the same since when I went here a few years ago!

Beautiful intro music! Great job.

Great great video as always. Simply unbelievable. Reminds me of rolling acres mall. It should be torn down.

It sounds like you will be at Pasadena Town Square Mall next, so many fond memories of working at Dillards and growing up going to that mall.

What an awesome channel!!!

This mall is a time capsule & beauty! I love coming here just to admire it, and have never had a problem. You captured it so marvelously! I just wonder how you managed to venture into the closed/empty areas?

Thanks for the video!

Oh man, a brand-new NorthC!! This is gonna be a good night!

It's happening!!!! 😁 Welcome to Gunspoint Mall. 😉

Honestly I live in Houston and I didnt even know Greenspoint was closed, like I avoid that side of town completely, along with everything south, southwest and east. Greenspoint was always a dump but it only got worse and worse.

They're really building overpriced condos walking distance from a mall that is literally rotting and falling apart, how unbelievably tone-deaf

YESS!! SEASON 6!

Met a security guard at the crossroads mall in waterloo who said he saw you filming in the mall. I told him i follow this channel on my phone and hes like i know him. Lol 😆 I was taking a picture of the Sam goody floor sign and he approached me. Nice guy. He was ok with me taking the photo. 😂

A bit late to the part due to life being busy but my gosh this mall is truly dead but truly 80s. Great video!

You know your mall is dead when there is not a bath and body works in site (assuming there was one)

Sounds like Almeda Mall is next. I did not expect you to be in Houston for season six, so awesome. I’ve lived south of Houston my whole life. Never been to this mall. I’m sure you’re well aware of how saturated Houston is/was with malls, and since the 80s, there’s really been no reason to go to guns point. I am really looking forward to this season!

I remember we would go here when I was a kid, but we slowly stopped coming here and started going to Deerbrook mall more often. I didn't learn till a few years later about the murders, but my older brother would always call it Gunspoint. I've always wanted to go and see how far the mall has fallen over the past years, but knowing the area is one of the reasons why I have never ventured back into the area.

I so miss the malls as they were back in the day.

Wow!!! Just started the episode! And before watching I bought a DS that I’m gonna restore

Once it got the “gunsport” nick name it was over for this place

Wow that was awesome. Having been to Houston many times in the 90's the name was familiar to me. Something tells me I may have went into one of the stores on the way back to Dallas and bought some really cheap running shoes that were really BAD AS IN CHEAP.. It amazes me how violent some of the criminal activity can take place at malls. Not always a safe place to be.

Oh yay 🎉

I grew up coming to this place and hanging out in the arcade when I got into my teen years. I remember the murder suicide that happened in 2007.. the killer came from the fitness connection and picked his victim at random. I had a gym membership there and it felt scary to know that sick man just randomly picked his target. RIP Joanna 🙏

Northcdogg.. 🎉 what a stunning mall that you've documented in that of the greenspoint mall. But I think in this case that vintage pictures of what the mall looked like was the epitome of creativity which included that musical water display. Dude without saying anything, the part when you was on the Dillard's side, you could just see the heat scorching the surrounding as you walked through, in some instances the light shining from those gorgeous skylights seemed glaring. Kinda reminiscent of valley view mall Texas, as you drove around, showing a parking lot turned into like a housing or mixed use development, and it seems like valley view, the mall will be demolished in portions while it remains open I'm assuming. Also when you walked through the not so secure gated off area, those small flags hanging up, to the colors of i think purple and red, are those similar to what draped the center courtyard of the abandoned and now partially demolished carousel mall in San Bernardino. Truly sad seeing such a huge place so empty. That children's ride definitely deserved to be in your Halloween special 😂

First just wanna say, love your videos! Also are you going to trek to San Antonio? The Wonderland of the Americas is a retro 80s paradise XD Never updated. Have friends from around there who have gone. Also the North Star mall, while not a dead mall, is pretty neat to visit too :)

Cool

you should start another series called “alive malls” haha

Crazy thing is 3 murderous criminals changed the trajectory of an entire region. It was going downhill already but 2 high profile crimes changed thousands of lives.

You've outdone yourself on this production. Great job!