Thanks. The mall of my youth! Brings back many memories.

I went here over a hundred times during the years. It was once bustling and brimming with busy shops. I bought many things there, clothes, shoes, books, CDs, jewelry, DVDS. It had a distinct ambience of the movie Pretty Woman, like you might see Julia Roberts strolling thru or Cindy Crawford and supermodels. Whimsically enticing women's fragrances pervaded the air. Also the smell of Korean BBQ, cinnamon sugar Auntie Anne's Pretzel wafted upstairs in the food court. The place had character. I could feel the energy was shifting a decade ago as the shops were changing; from high culture and ritzy to low culture trendy urban outfitter and gaming/phone slacker merchandise. The area became more and more seedy where it eventually became a menacing place with high crime.

When I was around 13 years old I was on a youth group trip to Denver to see Petra in concert, and we stopped in Springs to go the Chapel Hills Mall. I invested in a turbo controller for a Nintendo I didn't yet have. When I got back home my mom was pretty upset with me. In retrospect I understand why. I had put the pressure on her to deliver on a Nintendo. It wasn't my intention because I figured I'd get one somehow, but it had an undesired effect nonetheless.

I grew up going to University Mall and it was a huge part of my childhood and teenage years. Spent many, many Friday and Saturday nights hanging out with my friends. The food court would be jam packed with teenagers. It breaks my heart to see the state of the mall now. 😢 Anchors back then were Burdines, JC Penney, Dillard’s, Sears, Burlington

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Andrew i loved going to that mall when i lived in colorado springs thanks for bringing back the memories

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas. Thanks for the tour.

Merry Christmas everyone! See you all in 2025!

Live in Winter Park and went to this one several times. Saw several movies there. I remember first seeing the poster for the first Transformers movie ("Their war, our world") and getting excited. Had some good times there.

Enjoyed the entire series, thank you! 🎄

This is a beautiful looking mall! Thanks for the tour.

Loved the big stockings standing on the floor. Nice gift shop!

That big lots location marking a farewell season on your holiday series due to bankruptcy.

I actually use your videos when choosing possible next locations lol. Oddly convenient, do you have videos on Ohio valley?

0:37 little did you know, they did and they are closing all stores. Unless if this was an older video and you already knew that

Merry Christmas! May you get many, many more subscribers next year. You deserve them. You do quality work!

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You should go back to country club mall some things have changed

Puzzling considering the surrounding neighborhoods of Dublin and Hilliard. Eastland Northland, and Westland -very easy to understand.

I have enjoyed tagging along with you! Merry Christmas!! 🎄

Hey! The Westminster mall in California will be closing for good in 2025! The pandemic and online shopping led to a massive reduction in sales and as a result the mall will be no more!

Merry Christmas dude!

Please make this mall the first organic greenhouse members club - tomatoes, lettuce cucumbers etc. Great to have students help out and keep such large spaces green and beneficial

How do these "real estate groups" make any money. They seem to buy struggling malls and run them into the ground. Not exactly a profitable business venture

It's sad how dead this mall is. I used to work at the Target store that was here, but after that left it slowly died. Not sure how true it is, but I've heard it's the high rent that is keeping businesses away.

I grew up going here all my youth. Such memories

I need to visit a Scheels, at some point. I'm considering going to Springfield, IL(mainly since I want to see White Oaks Mall, but also want to see other things in that Springfield), and will stop at Scheels(at a standalone shopping center east of White Oaks) before I leave. Good video!

Charming little mall. Great skylights and concourse design. Thanks for the history and video. Have a beautiful week.

I wonder if Crown and DeBartolo possibly fought over building here in Sharon / Hermitage considering how close it is to Youngstown?

We would stop here everytime we were up there to see the holiday displays for Kraynaks down the street. The mall was already doing bad and then Kohls and a few other big box stores opened around the area of the mall. If those big boxes could have opened in the anchor slots, the mall could have rebounded. There’s also a great burrito place across the street near the First National building “hot head burrito”.

I love seeing that vintage wing. I’m sad to see this mall closed. It has a lot of vintage aesthetics to it.

Merry Christmas a little extra for you, Thanks again!

Thanks and Keep em Rolling!

This video was very well done. Probably one of your best to date.

This video was beautifully made. This was my childhood mall. So sad to see the end of it. So many beautiful memories made there.

Excellent video. Your videos just keep getting better and better. Thanks.

Great video. Very informative. Thanks.

The building still stands today. It’s an Aldi, where the garden center and automotive shop was. Harbor Freight, where the entrance was, as well as a Dollar Tree, and Planet Fitness where the Craftsman, Diehard and Kenmore signs were.

With as dead as this mall is it's amazing there is still an open restaurant in the food court.

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Reminds me a lot of hilltop mall in Kearney Nebraska

What a great store. Thanks for the video.

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Do you have any memories visiting Shenango Valley Mall? Leave them in the comments below. Thanks for watching!