That opening gave me a chill and inspired me for better things to come. The quote and music and imagery was worthy of Mr. Rodgers. Thank you for reminding me at least that good things are still to come.
@92552234 жыл бұрын
Oh man. I was singing the actual lyrics to Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood as the music was playing. Oh the memories of a simpler time when mankind was just a little less cruel and divided (for me it was around 1982 as my first recollection of watching Fred Rogers. While I’m at it - Today’s Special, Zoobilee Zoo, Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, Shining Time Station and Square One were the shows that my grandmother allowed me to watch while my mother was at work - that, and Bonanza and Hawaii Five-O on Philadelphia’s TV 48 back in 1982 before I was old enough to go to school. Anyway, when Fred Rogers died, I cried like a baby. He was just so full of positivity.
@richardm30234 жыл бұрын
Anyone that didn't cry when Mr. Rogers passed away belongs in a locked cell.
@colinsdad14 жыл бұрын
I started humming that tune at the beginning too....a much simpler time without internet... Cell phones.... Social media. Social media back then was having a Party Line on your house rotary phone! 🤣
@mikesexplorations93144 жыл бұрын
I watched these same exact shows! Hardly anyone remembers Zoobilee Zoo!
@rebekkahdruck13923 жыл бұрын
@@colinsdad1 -- To THINK that was "truly sophisticated" back then -- and possibly MORE-social than our current "smartass" phones.
@petegregory5173 жыл бұрын
Had no idea what tune that was.
@markdressler5614 жыл бұрын
I live just down the street. I believe this mall started to hit hard times when the Waterfront came in. West Mifflin, especially the area around the mall, has started to go through some revitalization. There is talk of trying to salvage the area and turn it into office space surrounded by park, walking paths, etc. She was glorious and one of a kind in her day. Tough to watch what has happened to her. We were able to get in and take a last walk through before they locked her down...got a few pics to remember her. Thanks for the videos over the years.
@rebekkahdruck13923 жыл бұрын
One of the absolute HIGHLIGHTS of our summer trips to visit the grandparents in Greenfield was a sojourn to the really funky, really NEAT Century III, over the Mon and beyond the hills above Homestead. It. Was. BEAUTIFUL. I loved the quirky ramps, the absolutely-asymmetric layout, the sudden emergence of THREE floors at the east end (and that ice cream in the food court!), the glorious lighting, and that crazy-tall artwork..... "On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again."
@tuckersdoghouse2018 Жыл бұрын
It was built on a slag dump for decades they would dump slag here from the steel mills. Can not glorify a turd lol btw online shopping killed this mall and others as well.
@markdressler561 Жыл бұрын
@@tuckersdoghouse2018 not so sure about that. South Hills Village just a few miles away is still going strong. You can't just point to online shopping...although that was A factor.
@MuneageDaydream4 жыл бұрын
This was beautiful, Anthony. To me, this seems even more post-apocalyptic than Rolling Acres. I mean there's something so eerie about such a mammoth structure, still intact with the power on and transformers humming, boarded up and dormant. Thousands of parking spaces empty other than garbage. Like it could spring to life tomorrow if only the people would come back.
@dianeadkins-diorio17834 жыл бұрын
3:20 Moonbeam Crapital = an incarnation of Premier Ventures (of Rolling Acres fame)... meaning this place will sit abandoned for years and rot away like Rolling Acres :(
@johnlockhart77513 жыл бұрын
Don't they still pay taxes on this?
@UrbexAPeakInside4 жыл бұрын
Sears loading dock. A place to enter. The owners didn't think about that.
@welcometotheinternet42154 жыл бұрын
Dead Malls are so relaxing 😌
@maryyung19943 жыл бұрын
You're so right.
@what-t2c2 жыл бұрын
Amazon…..
@snomans4 жыл бұрын
Moonbeam really deserves a swift kick and that’s putting it mildly, for what they did to this once gorgeous and thriving property. This saddens me greatly.
@josephmackela84664 жыл бұрын
snomans Do you think it had to do with NAFTA? North American Free Trade Agreement.
@hulavaultboy59354 жыл бұрын
Moonbeam need to be launched to the moon for their shady, karma Houdini nonsense.
@amberlynnsdirtybrastrap55734 жыл бұрын
A lot of people knock on Pittsburgh, but I think it is a beautiful city
@UltimateShadow103 жыл бұрын
I beg to differ. I'm from Pittsburgh and I don't even live that far from this mall.
@rebekkahdruck13923 жыл бұрын
It IS a beautiful city, but the area was absolutely CRUSHED by deindustrialization. Both of my parents grew up there, but they moved to Baltimore (!) in the early '70s for better opportunities. I will always think of it as my "spiritual" home, but good jobs are hard to find unless you're in healthcare (I am) or education, especially tech.
@jenniferbaldini35273 жыл бұрын
One of the best views of the city is coming inbound out of the Fort Pitt Tunnels. Amazing view of the 'burgh, and the Point/North Shore to the left.
@mellowlady69763 жыл бұрын
Yes it is! Plus the people, as a whole, are very friendly and inviting. Years before Google Maps (and MapQuest), I found myself lost in downtown. Nearly immediately someone recognized my deer-in-the-headlights look and offered assistance. After I failed to understand directions via landscape markers, they pulled out pen and paper and drew me a map. LOL.
@jenniferbaldini35273 жыл бұрын
@@mellowlady6976 Your comment made me smile, and instantly think of 'Pittsburgh Dad'. If your not familiar with him, go to KZbin, and type in 'Pittsburgh Dad gives directions', second only to 'Pittsburgh Dad finding Pizza Hut'. Warning: you will laugh. He is HILARIOUS!! *Pittsburgh Dad for Mayor!!!*
@pilotgrrl14 жыл бұрын
Tax laws need to be changed so the three horsemen of the mallpocalypse -- Moonbeam, Namdar, and Kohan -- can't continue to profit from being slumlords.
@gagejackson86094 жыл бұрын
Especially Kohan.
@lauriesmith50083 жыл бұрын
Amen, do not forget Mills
@aydencook39654 жыл бұрын
I used to go to this mall pretty often many years ago. I live in Connellsville and our malls at the time was not worth going to. Even though it took us 45 minutes to get there, it was worth it. I still miss the stores from the 90’s.
@cpc8744 жыл бұрын
If you look at it from the road heading up to the WalMart above, it looks like a location you’d discover in a Fallout game. With all the weeds growing out of the cracked pavement.
@Flamingbro694 жыл бұрын
JCPenney: Well I have survived another mall closing once again I see.
@enroachingentei34744 жыл бұрын
Tyler Gantert And they will still be there until 2022 at least.
@carouselofLaura4 жыл бұрын
I worked there 8 +years ago in the portrait studio... JCP is probably the spookiest part of this video.
@MsThorne2009 Жыл бұрын
I love the introduction. I grew up in Moundsville, WV about 40 minutes from Pittsburgh and it always amazed me how you would be driving through all these mountains and all of a sudden they were gone as soon as you go though the tunnel.
@slarson80444 жыл бұрын
This place looks pretty bad already. Very eerie feeling. You did a very thorough job showing us the outside. Thank you for sharing this video.
@patriciamorrow68484 жыл бұрын
Ace thanx for the extra photos of pgh. spot on.i left in 2001 great memories of pgh. only been home 2 or 3 times since . Excellent video of Century 3 Mall. I thought it was already demolished, I see this is not been done yet. Thank you for this. Keep safe.
@billl11274 жыл бұрын
When I need to get rid of a mattress or an old refrigerator I just call up the same company that picks up the regular trash. They send a guy out and pick it up next day. I cant understand loading and hauling stuff like that just to dump behind a mall or anywhere.
@stevefarkas75154 жыл бұрын
I think that the bricked up doorway at 9:20 may have been the entrance to the Montgomery Wards auto center.
@tq3254 жыл бұрын
I never would've thought this would be the end for Century III. I never thought there wouldbe an end of it back when I was a little kid visiting this mall with my mom in the late 80s and early 90s. Sad to see!
@johnignaczak72424 жыл бұрын
That bricked up “doorway” was exactly that, it was an secondary entrance for one of the anchors, I think Kaufman’s but was blocked up during the renovations back in the late 90’s
@realazduffman4 жыл бұрын
That doorway is near Sears not Kaufman's
@johnignaczak72424 жыл бұрын
It may have been into sears then...it has been a long time...😉
@northsidediva64654 жыл бұрын
C3 was my FAVORITE mall in my late teens/early 20s (in the 1990s). That was definitely the spot to hit to get our "going out" outfits for hitting the clubs in The Strip. 😁 Seeing it abandoned is so sad to me. I remember it being hard to get a good parking space on a weekend!
@asdfghjen4 жыл бұрын
Seriously so sad. Remember trying to find a seat at the food court?!
@rebekkahdruck13923 жыл бұрын
You aren't kidding!!! The covered parking was INSANE! We usually parked outside of Kaufmann's and hoofed it.
@rebekkahdruck13923 жыл бұрын
@@asdfghjen -- YES!!! Always a challenge. This place was FULL of people then.
@iknowitstoolate17604 жыл бұрын
The dance moms cast performed inside the mall in late 2012. If you want to look at what the inside looked like around 2012 just look up “dance Moms century iii mall performance”
@haileygeertgens64474 жыл бұрын
PGH is my city...best city..steel city!
@markstrouse31014 жыл бұрын
Great great great video Ace. I strongly agree with you 100% that this mall/property is going to rot.
@BoratWanksta4 жыл бұрын
I'm relieved it isn't very damaged on the outside(vs. how the exterior was like before closing), in the just over 14 months since the last inline stores moved out(February 2019). My gut feeling is that it'll probably sit abandoned for a while, until some new development plan emerges. If there was talk last year that demolition would start by March 2020 on C3 and it hasn't yet happened, I'm not holding my breath demolition will occur for a while here. Thanks for your exterior walkthrough, to show what C3 is like now.
@linesinthesand974 жыл бұрын
I agree. I grew up in the area and lived there through the mid-2000's, and The Waterfront really killed C3. Add in the general shift away from indoor shopping malls and it was a death blow.
@johnlockhart77513 жыл бұрын
Heard upmc was interested. Probably don't want the headache though.
@laurencapp3335 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful opening and homage to my hometown of Pittsburgh! I live 2 miles from the Ross Park Mall but have been to C3 several times years ago. I attend classes at the community College that has a campus near the C3 mall. I drove past it last summer just out of curiosity after class. It was dark and not really a place I desired to linger. Sad to see this place in such disarray. The roads are absolutely trash but most of our roads in Pittsburgh are. The C3 roads are apocalyptic in nature. This was the spot to go from all around the city. If you couldn't find it here in the North Hills, you went to C3. Sad developers went ham in the region and poped these new malls out like crazy. Looking at you Pittsburgh Mills. Just a absolute waste.
@marianne81824 жыл бұрын
This is the eeriest dead mall video I've watched. The mall and the general area as it exists now, if one can call it existing, almost has a Centralia, PA feel about it. Like Centralia, it seems like something is on the verge of caving in here.
@chadbollinger25624 жыл бұрын
The doors marked with a "X" means it is sealed from the inside
@TheGeneralBraddock4 жыл бұрын
A lot of people will tell you that the demise of this mall was due to the opening of the nearby Waterfront in 1999. I believe the decline started years earlier. I can remember shopping in one of the mall's department stores known as 'Lazarus" in the mid 90's and noticed that the higher-end leased spaces (Claiborne, Nautica, Polo,...) had moved out. Again, several years before the Waterfront opened. The Waterfront accelerated the decline of Century 3 but you can't overlook the great loss in manufacturing and blue collar jobs nearby that lead to the lack of $$$ to support both properties plus South Hills Village. Too bad, C3 was a great mall; huge place, large food court and wide walkways. RIP.
@ThaSportzGeniuz4 жыл бұрын
I grew up near west Mifflin, it’s a nice area. I went to century 3 mall several times Over the years... I just think malls are becoming obsolete and the waterfront being built also played into effect
@NathanDavisVideos4 жыл бұрын
0:56 Ah yes... The good ol' Kaufmann's clock. Does it even STILL WORK. Sad though because that was MOST FAVORITE department store I have EVER BEEN TO.
@kevinsnipe014 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Pittsburgh and lived in Bridgeville, PA for several years of my childhood. I remember coming to this mall every Friday night with my dad, brother, and sister and get a large pepperoni pizza at the old Italian Village Pizza. It's so sad what happened to this mall over the years. Last time I visited this place was in 2017 with a friend and the mall only had about 5-10 stores open, and a few of those were actually closed for the day. I even have a friend I've known since I was 6 years old that worked at the OLD, old Cash N' Culture that used to be up on the second floor (which eventually moved to the Annex right outside Westmoreland Mall). She goes by the name Denise if anybody might know or remember her! I had a lot of memories of this mall and it was such a huge staple of my childhood. I think what greatly contributed to the decline of this place was the competition from the Waterfront complex in Homestead that opened in the 90s. That, along with the declining of retail businesses in general as most of them are either closed or have converted to entirely online entities, really pushed this mall down the drain. Rest In Peace, Century 3! Plus, your videos are great! Keep it up
@bradpeterson79573 жыл бұрын
I live about two and a half hours north of Pittsburgh. As a kid every day I'd hear on tv the Century III Chevrolet Commercial! Of course they always ended it with "Minutes From The Mall" All my life I've lived here and never made it down to that mall! As a kid I use to beg my parents to go check it out! But they never would! So I never got to see it when it was alive and doing well! So it's pretty sad for me to see this, knowing I'll never be able to shop there. I've heard as well that they want to level the place. I know it was built on top of a landfill, so there's some serious issues with that!
@zunkman14 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. Thanks for the tour.
@ChuckoD34 жыл бұрын
So I live in West Mifflin, which is a weird borough as it is split into two sides. CIII is on the less rough side, though both sides are fairly quiet, middle class areas.
@megaboom694 жыл бұрын
Mall looks so eerie. Sad what a lot of malls have become. Amazing footage 👍
@depatterson73574 жыл бұрын
Thank you for an awesome video preserving the end of its life. The structure will be gone someday. I live close to CIII. It was a magnificent mall. DiBartolo was on his game. There was an organized walkthrough right before it closed. Very sad and eerie but cool as well.
@leatherman88ch4 жыл бұрын
That one bench right before you saw the blue van I used to sit there at lunch when I used to work in the coffman's right there
@billsmith22174 жыл бұрын
Great work very much enjoyed your video
@shaneconnelly95944 жыл бұрын
This part of west mifflin is not bad but east of here in Mkeesport is not a good area and what happened was that the port authority bus system had a stop here at C3 and it brought a lot of issues. Plus south hills village mall is about a half hour from C3 and is a MUCH better place and also the waterfront in homestead is about 15 minutes away. I grew up at C3 and spent many of my young years here. I was at C3 a month before it closed and it was honestly so eerie
@davidellis51414 жыл бұрын
The Zombies own this mall now. It's theirs , they took it ! 😨
@phoenixman85694 жыл бұрын
i was a just going to say something similar , this is a good location for a zombie apocalypses movie.......
@hulavaultboy59354 жыл бұрын
For some reason I thought members of the rock band The Zombies bought the place.
@Titanic191274 жыл бұрын
Sad the state of the Kaufmann’s building
@chuckman2313 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this. I was an 80s kid Mall Rat growing up!
@dianeadkins-diorio17834 жыл бұрын
14:29 At Rotting Acres the guy who owned the storage company in the former Target (that storage company now resides in the former Macy's at Chapel Hill Mall which is itself dying) had installed cameras aimed toward the mall; that's how Dan Bell got caught while he was filming the mall... I wonder if someone similarly set up cameras at C3...???
@BoratWanksta4 жыл бұрын
Is that the storage business at Rolling Acres that set up shop inside a former anchor before it was demolished, and posted a warning sign inside the mall that if their interior entrance was damaged, that they would prosecute anyone doing so? And I think that sign said something like 'turn away now, before you are prosecuted'? Forget the exact words of that sign, but it said something to that extent during the years Rolling Acres stopped being a mall, up till its demolition. Didn't realize it was those cameras set up by that business, as to how Dan Bell got caught.
@genoesposito28954 жыл бұрын
It's gonna be broken into within the year. Book it.
@kster19714 жыл бұрын
It already has been. Go to the West Mifflin police department website and there are pictures and videos of looks like 5 20 some year olds skateboarding by Sears. I guess that was what the $5 million was spent on video cameras. The police are asking for help in identifying them.
@castiguir4 жыл бұрын
The Waterfront was the final nail in a very large coffin
@FriendofMineralTown4 жыл бұрын
Why are the homeless all the same? Scissors, broken lighters, phone chargers and Velcro shoes left behind everywhere.
@donnasherba53253 жыл бұрын
Is that’s all they can afford and that’s all they do
@dubdaze684 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure some of those blocked up entrances were for the old anchor Montgomery Ward on that side, they had an entrance and an auto repair part. The garage was added a couple of years after opening, and the reason it is so unstable is that is was built on an old slag dump, and the whole area is undermined.
@leatherman88ch4 жыл бұрын
I'll tell you another thing that mall may have been closed for over a year but Moonbeam corporate has been letting it rot for many years
@sterlingsilver28214 жыл бұрын
We are at the end of an era
@davidpeterson62904 жыл бұрын
Seeing this mall in the state generally makes me sad. I remember spending much of my young childhood at this mall. I remember going to the pet store on the lower level with my mom when I was around 5. I remember making my first big buy at the GameStop there when I bought an Xbox 360. I remember always asking my parents to take the “cool way” ramp from mall dr. closest to 885. The last time I walked in the mall was when I was 18 years old, 8 years after I got my Xbox. I remember that gorgeous fountain. I was meeting my prom date there and when I was early I toured the mall. I hope something really good does come out of it. My mom always said it went downhill after the bus stop got put in there..
@vernskid4 жыл бұрын
That place you asked if it was a doorway, it was. For horne’s, lazuraus, and I believe Kaufman’s furniture. The sealed it at one point I believe since there was one not too far away. As for the decline it started when they lost the families, they were building newer complexes nearby, and Walmart coming in didn’t help. Worked in the area for 16 years, and saw the steady decline, businesses couldn’t afford the rent, the waterfront opened, Simon started the fall and moonbeam finished it.
@jasoncarskadon68094 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately ace I believe it will probably be the next rolling acres. Moonbeam will find a way to weasel their way out of this one to.
@dondavis56334 жыл бұрын
Anthony, I gotta tell ya that I was fully prepared to hate this presentation -- I mean, who wants to see the OUTSIDE of a mall? However, it was kind of cool to see the boarded-up doors and get a sense of its outside condition, and it never hurts to hear your off-the-cuff remarks about the place, either. As to the idea that it might become 'another Rolling Acres,' I tend to agree with you wholeheartedly. The funny thing is, I'd rather not see that happen, yet there's a part of me that really wishes that it might actually DO that, if only because I never got around to seeing Rolling Acres firsthand. Anyhow, Anthony, thanks for this "cozy" outdoor mall walk, and it is with all sincerity that I say that I hope you make it in again someday.
@AcesAdventures14 жыл бұрын
Mortuus Praesepultus i know, i hate being the outside guy, but I am trying to provide content while staying safe, i will get in soon
@michaeldick22803 жыл бұрын
This is a great write off for Simon Property Group. Not only are they mall slumlords but they own the Indiana Pacers too!
@heatherconway49754 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the distraction!! All is welcomed!!
@trish21794 жыл бұрын
LOVE the opening!!!
@trish21794 жыл бұрын
Did you do Burlington Center in NJ... i live up the road from there.... JW.
@detstorro82584 жыл бұрын
I used to go to that mall a lot. Used to boom back in the day. Sooo sad to see it’s gone !!!
@davidblee8194 жыл бұрын
Ah good ol' Pittsburgh. My 2nd home city. I have fond memories of taking the bus from downtown Duquesne University to Ross Park Mall, Century III Mall, and Robinson Town Centre on lazy weekends as a college student. Sometimes I was afforded the generosity of free rides from fellow dormies with cars, and sometimes had the luxury of paying for a cab. I remember how big these malls, especially Century III felt to me, though I went out to Robinson a lot as I recall because of all of the restaurants. But I did shop quite a lot at Century III.
@barbladner12633 жыл бұрын
Plus down the road a little bit behind Southland shopping center behind Panera bread used to be a movie theater they finally tore that on after years of being empty
@SPECTRE_Island3 жыл бұрын
What's the business case for owning an abandoned mall? Even at a fire sale price the owners spent a lot of money to buy the mall and there's recurring costs to own the thing - even if its boarded up.
@scottguyne63764 жыл бұрын
Cool Mr Rodgers
@cjjacob30954 жыл бұрын
I remember when that was built. The slag heaps were practically still warm.
@88ariesk4 жыл бұрын
I was just there yesterday. some of the wood boards are gone. i think people have been breaking in
@88ariesk4 жыл бұрын
also someone was in the blue van when I was there. so they might work there?
@chuckman2313 жыл бұрын
This place must keep the local fire chief up at night!
@jimbarno804 жыл бұрын
My memories with this mall go back as far as I've been coherent. It's really upsetting to see it like this!
@lynnohern71594 жыл бұрын
People say that when Simon took over this mall and South Hills Village that they let C3 fall by the wayside because SHV was more desirable to them. And, of course, the Waterfront in Homestead didn’t help.
@joeyweber61583 жыл бұрын
JCPenneys just closed. also what camera do you use?
@aaronsadowski16914 жыл бұрын
Moonbeam Capital is the reason I am scared for the fate of Gwinnett Place Mall in Georgia.
@aaronsadowski16912 жыл бұрын
@@joshuacorley7095 Yeah I was there the other day checking out some of the sets they have built for various movies inside the mall.
@BrettHornby4 жыл бұрын
Reason why these properties sit and rot is because it's expensive to demolish them. Life after people documentary live in its natural progression. Too bad as the mall looked nice inside when it was open and lively.
@billl11274 жыл бұрын
I agree. Unless there is a verifiable replacement project ready to go, no one will spend the money to demolish that place now.
@mclaybry4 жыл бұрын
Great video- sad- but well documented. I grew up in this mall almost every summer (my grandparents lived down 51 in Clariton) when I'd visit family. It was always busy.
@brianshoaf84594 жыл бұрын
I appreciate your video. I was security there back in the mid 90s. I do not believe there is any security there now. I've remained in contact with some of the security there and know they were direct employees of the mall so I believe when it closed they were gone. Not sure if an outside company was hired or if West Mifflin Police patrols the property. Also, I believe that was an entrance that you asked about. I believe a store called Lazarus took over Hornes. If i remember correctly that entrance was removed while Lazarus was still there. Looking at those docks.. I remember each night going in and checking the corridors to the stores.
@AcesAdventures14 жыл бұрын
Brian Shoaf thanks Brian, I wish more security were like you, it’s important work we’re doing
@jqueen13804 жыл бұрын
This looks like another good one!
@luissdstuff63814 жыл бұрын
Even in the daytime it has that creepy vibe. I sure don't want to be there at night.
@jock6994 жыл бұрын
Would love to see a site that lists all of the malls developed by DeBartolo and whether they are still open. The closed list must be massive!
@BoratWanksta4 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia weirdly enough, did not have a list of former DeBartolo malls. But I did find a partial list of ex-DeBartolo malls, including some that no longer are open and demolished(i.e. Woodville Mall): debartolodevelopment.com/about-us/legacy/ Some history on DeBartolo Corportation: www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/the-edward-j-debartolo-corporation-history/
@rwdplz14 жыл бұрын
Moonbeam - "A pipe broke all by itself!"
@MrDan7084 жыл бұрын
Wow, this place is clearly circling the drain. I'd be shocked if anything came of it, given the China virus situation.
@brandiDBF4 жыл бұрын
i used to go to this mall because i got my braces on and maintained in the old sears before it moved. it was in decline back then and that was maybe 10-ish years ago? also you know it’s sad when you go to the dead malls wiki page and a photo of this mall is one of the first photos in the article.
@wendyc77302 жыл бұрын
Those steel beams are here at the Trumbull Mall (Trumbull Connecticut) outside the Target anchor store. SONO Collection is the newest mall off exit 15 in Norwalk CT. Trumbull and CT Post Mall in Milford are slowly becoming empty malls. There's making the empty anchor parts of the mall apartments?
@brettwinkelmanjr63814 жыл бұрын
I used to work in that mall years ago. I could tell you every entrance what I would go to
@stevenrivers83863 жыл бұрын
Good vid. But how is this the biggest when you did randall park mall? Which was far bigger as far as retail space.
@danefilander63064 жыл бұрын
I really hope this mall don't decay like rolling acers did.
@MRW22764 жыл бұрын
I believe those covered doors down below were from Wards/Horns/Lazarus and when Lazarus became Macy's Furniture there was ghetto remodeling and the bottom level of Macy's was just a very small show room so they most likely walled in the old outside access doors from the bigger older stores.
@jerrysanders91012 жыл бұрын
I always wonder what these giant developers must end up making on these malls (rents) over the years to make it worth just letting them rot away.. i imagine they make money back and a profit long before these malls die. Definitely creepy as hell tho.
@KRhythm20134 жыл бұрын
It certainly shows a mall just rotting away. Said it before, Moonbeam have a lot to be accountable for, but they won't and this will turn into another Rolling Acres. It'll be sad to see the slow vandalism/destruction of the mall.
@davebruins86234 жыл бұрын
Large abandon malls like this, especially near large cities...should be converted to a homeless center. They could live there, eat there, addiction treatment, medical treatment, mental health issues and basic education. they could partner some some firms to manufacture, at lower costs needed items that the nation really should not be out sourced. no handouts...actual help
@hollygonzalez3484 жыл бұрын
I totally agree with this!
@horseathalt73084 жыл бұрын
No those that do drugs need to sleep in the dirty bed they created
@ItsaRomethingeveryday4 жыл бұрын
I wish someone could get inside and get a vid of it
@leatherman88ch4 жыл бұрын
The reason why the mall decline so bad was because the ownership of the mall between Simon's Moonbeam and other did not try to do the effort of keeping their stores in there and when they lost horns and Lazarus and then Kaufman's got bought out by Macy's the landlord quadrupled the rent and that's why Macy's got rid of their furniture store before they closed
@barbladner12633 жыл бұрын
I'm sure the reason why it closed on they opened up the waterfront down in homestead and just changing all the times you can buy online anymore so it's a shame that place was about abandoned it was a cool place to go to
@ScareFestTTV4 жыл бұрын
Great video! Question though, how is Moonbeam (or any landlord/owner) collecting taxes on a dead mall? Here in Canada the landlord would be paying taxes every year on it. Property taxes among other things. Also wish you had a selfie stick to possibly see over those boarded up entrances. Nice video!
@richardyoung96583 жыл бұрын
Grew up in West Mifflin..my mom and sisters worked there.built on a slag dump
@Christopher08174 жыл бұрын
Great video loved how the inside looked from other youtube videos
@gregorytimmons47773 жыл бұрын
All that black mold on the exterior. Worse on the interior if there are any leaks. Hard to fathom how you can say the mold problem isn't too bad. That place looks dangerous to me and i can't imagine spending any of my hard earned dollars in this mall even in much better times. Man, i am just not used to cities with abandoned blocks or shuttered malls.
@limoman4125 Жыл бұрын
At 5:45 that is the only current way into the mall!! It is bad inside I have seen pics and videos!! Such a shame what that mall has become
@candievermeulen98584 жыл бұрын
its so sad there used to be so many malls now most malls are abandoned today or demolished or look like a horror movie setting
@coltflash9573 жыл бұрын
I used to go there
@mikespikedog52934 жыл бұрын
Don't be surprised if security is parked inside one of those garage doors monitoring inside of building on security cameras or from a off site location. The fact that lights are still on is a sign that property could be monitored.
@deanmccool21311 ай бұрын
When COVID hit at the time this video was made, the whole world turned into Century III Mall. R.I.P