Empty.
We walked through Neshaminy Mall today. It’s been cold this weekend and we’ve been doing mall walks to get some steps.
When I first visited this area in the late 1990s this mall was thriving with busy anchor stores, a recent addition, and more. Today the mall seemed about 60% empty. And it wasn’t heated.
I’m happy we wore our coats.
So the guy on one of the "dead mall" channels (plural!) on YouTube says that the mall I grew up going to is "the deadest dead mall he's ever been in."
That's something, right?
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I'm a little bit slow. It's just today that I figured out that BAM! Is the same as Books-A-Million. 😆
Tonight, returned to the second mall that wasn't memories that were clashing with memories that werent-
Wanting to see the lot and the solitary building, only to find demolition crews working on the whole building. At least what was left. I found myself with permission to take photos and videos of what I could
Until I couldn't from a construction crew.
Then heading back somewhere else to see what was left, I find the memory of real- the mall offices with still power running through them. Almost like them. A mess like last time I went there, but left intact.
My only wish was to save what property documents, maps, and diagrams that were left there so there could be something archived.
I had my wish. Shortly after, I woke up.
That part of the dream represents some of my inmost desires of wishing to have been able to preserve more of North Dekalb Mall. I still need to get more of what I have scanned and uploaded online, but there was so much more that was lost in it's destruction.
I wish I could have been able to do more but my body refused to let me. I need to edit my video soon.
This was taken sometime back where I'm standing in front of the Taco Bell "coming soon" wall from the Starcourt Mall set at the currently abandoned Gwinnett Place Mall
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New photoset going live this weekend, full explore coming later. Please follow my stuff for updates!
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Updated my profile pic! I'll be going though photos from my visits at North Dekalb Mall over the years to post over on patreon next weekend. Photoset will be available for patrons only for the first week!
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North Dekalb Mall, 1977. Scanned and archived in thanks to local Atlanta dead mall enthusiasts.
First part of the scans are now live on my Patreon!
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When urban renewal goes wrong: Inside a dead mall frozen in 1990.
Very interesting short film by Bright Sun Films. Along with the usual urban exploration bits, he gives a good history of how and why it failed.
The shopping centre was supposed to revitalise downtown Hamilton, Ontario.
But within six years, it had just a 40% occupancy rate.
A decade after opening, it sold for only CAN$3.6 million — just 5% of what it originally cost to build.
https://youtu.be/NV_c_c_RZdE?si=4fNO5BJAoWzcx_bw
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