Abandoned Rolling Acres Mall, Rolling Acres/Akron, Ohio Footage 2009

[@DigitalDavid07]

What a difference six years makes... There's no way you can ride a bike in there now. Nothing but shattered glass everywhere!

[@kellychuang8373]

And now it's nothing but rubble and there's going to be an Amazon building on that site. Yeah the place got demolished starting in 2016. Really Google the rest of it to find out.

[@djanthonytv]

@@rockinricky4855 Vandells. They like to scrap and destroy things.

[@TRontheLegacy]

And now Amazon is up and running

[@VolkswagenNut1969]

Even at the time this was shot, you can see badly leaking ceilings, water stained floors, and mildew. But still, the difference between this and footage that was shot just a few years later is shocking! You can still sort of make out what it looked like in its heyday.

[@zone47]

This is the best video that shows the mall in it's original condition, nice quickie tour. Had you known what was to come, a slower walk though video would have been golden. Maybe someone else has footage? Thanks for posting this.

[@kcc7565]

zone47 Your the coolest dude and funny when you post the Rolling A demo in progress when there not working.

[@serin_rxses3128]

Yeah they were biking.

[@iknowitstoolate1760]

Someone has uploaded a pretty good quality video of it in 2003. There’s a lower quality video of it in 1978 somewhere on KZbin as well.

[@chloelukasiakcontent]

@@iknowitstoolate1760 1988*

[@GameLifter]

It was cool seeing the mall with the railing still intact. Thanks for posting this!

[@zpunk81]

1:13 There's still a drink in that cup. It looks like the mall is just closed, not abandoned. Amazing the difference between this video and the ones take a few weeks ago. Nice work! :)

[@SearsCool]

No, its abandoned

[@daraka1754]

No, this video is filmed in 2009, the mall closes 31.10.2008, and with the closing it is abandoned, now it's demolished. The anchor stores wasn't a part from the mall worked until 2013.

[@Nags]

Wow, after watching This is Dan Bell's walkthrough of this place in June 2015, you can really see the difference between a year after it shut down and years later...

[@franciszornek8993]

+Doomie Grunt your right it reall lost its color

[@oliverTbest]

Redevelopment often means : tear it down to the ground, then talk for the next decade what we are going to do next. I really hope the economy gets better, but I'm afraid it won't.

[@XtinaLucia]

Yeah the Jc penny sign has all it's letters and all the railings are still there!

[@MrVuckFiacom]

Doomie Grunt Unfortunately you were right.

[@Novusod]

In 2009 Rolling Acres wasn't completely abandoned yet. The Sears stayed open until April 3rd 2011 and the JCPenney remained open until December 2013. It is only after those two stores closed that scrappers and vandals really wrecked the place. Around the time Dan Bell visited was when the mall was starting to look like something out of a zombie apocalypse movie. Then in 2016 was the low point for the mall just before it was demolished. As of April 2017 Rolling Acres is almost completely gone. It is basically just a desolate parking lot and weed field now. Nothing left to explore.

[@alternaterikku]

it was nice seeing it pre vandals

[@WithASideOfFries]

I explored this with some friends today and I have to say that it's only gotten more disturbing and freaky since you've recorded it. One wall had some particularly unsettling graffiti that read something like: "You cannot hide. I will hunt you. I will find you. I will kill you."

[@serin_rxses3128]

Because he will. The four of them are there. They will find you even if you hide. The 50 levels.

[@JoseRivera-bt3zk]

the mall looks relatively clean in 2009

[@elijahtorres2688]

This was before vandals completely took over the vacant mall!

[@Slickmickyoyo97]

By far the best abandoned mall vid on KZbin. You refused to cheese it up with amateur soundtracking. The silence adds to the eeriness. Great job dude.

[@skylilly1]

Thanks for the "one more loop" which makes this such a good video and your squeaky bike just adds to the creepiness of this abandoned mall, which, I was naming all the stores as you rode past them. This was the best mall...sorry to see the extremely dead plants, still upright for some weird reason..This mall had unusual stores, too..."the wild pair" "davy jones locker" and a ton of other ones I can't remember their names now...the fountain was gorgeous!! Great video!!

[@TheReelmom]

I love that you rode around while filming! Thank you for the video.

[@TrustsLiars]

It actually looked good still. It's really too bad that rolling acres has fallen into such a state of disrepair. People in this area have a lot of good memories there.

[@shamus248]

Crazy how the mall was salvageable at this time. Looked like it was just closed for the day

[@taebby78]

I love that you're on a bike haha It's nice to see this place when it was still in tact, for the most part.

[@crowmigration8245]

Wow, it actually sort of still resembled a mall in 2009.

[@firarisaatler1]

Crow Migration Yeah, except there werent any stores. Or lighting.

[@daraka1754]

AB94 or water

[@elijahtorres2688]

Yeah, this was about only a year after they closed. Just a few more years later, especially after Sears and JCPenney closed, this former mall was severely rotted and vandalized… awaiting demolition.

[@justsingforme]

This place is so much worse now. It's kinda sad. :(

[@shacoldbane1901]

Thanks for the tour! It's awesome

[@TheJewels02]

Ugh !! I wish I would have known this a few months ago, I would have just went right in ! I assumed it was completely locked up to the public. Thank you for your polite response, greatly appreciated.

[@pamelaparrish6837]

Thanks for this.. The Mall did not look so creepy before the thugs and creatures took it over.....

[@garbagebanditdayz819]

If you look at ThisisDanbell's video shot in 2015 the railings are gone from all the scrapers and vandals. It's too bad...

[@garbagebanditdayz819]

Look*

[@annv1169]

No, they were sold off.

[@garbagebanditdayz819]

Wanda Michell C O ok or that

[@LethaWolfStudios]

Nope the railings were stolen along with all the copper wiring and a lot of other metal from the mall

[@ssfinch4761]

SoundMaster 391 karma

[@BobbyHarveyVideoProductions]

This video got me interested in malls again, thanks for the upload! Looks like it was once a great place. Yesterday I revisited a mall near me, Valley West Mall in Des Moines, and it really reminded me of Rolling Acres. It's not nearly as big, but the whole layout and feel of the place is the same, and it's still pretty busy and full. There's a glass elevator, several sets of escalators, and the food court is tucked underneath one end of the lower level, just like Rolling Acres! I was thrilled.

[@agm5148]

It's a shame to see places like this go under. Some of the problems are in management, others too many malls or like stores in the area and some other problems are on-line shopping. There is a mall in Cupertino Ca. called Vallco. This mall was built in the very late 60s or early 70s. It's in an affluent city with 3 major anchor stores and it's walking distance from the new gigantic Apple campus. This mall has been sold at least 3 times and they've had improvements but it's still dying. Many stores are empty, Macys' just closed their store there I think eventually it will be like the mall in this video, although Vallco is a lot smaller. Westfield Shopping Town shopping centers seem to thrive. Valley Fair which is in San Jose/Santa Clara just a few miles from Vallco is a very large and thriving mall. I feel sorry for all the people that had jobs at these malls.

[@spear913]

Thank you for posting this video. It's so cool & sad to see places that were always bustling with people, just completely deserted for a long time. There's a big mall where I live called Park City that's I believe was built in the late 60's. I was walking around it the other day trying to picture it deserted like this. There are a few closed stores, but for the most part it's still pretty busy, but you wonder what it'll be in the future.

[@EarlFaulk]

As I got older I thought this mall had a strange floor design with multiple stairways and ramps leading up to or down different levels of shops. Strange thing is after all of these years I still remember playing on those wheelchair ramps.

[@AaronC143]

I miss this mall. I used to come to Rolling Acres Mall all the time. This was my favorite mall back in my childhood and teenage years. I sucks what happened with this mall. Now Chapel Hill Mall is out of business. So now, Summit Mall is now the only mall open in Akron now and they're still going strong. Carnation Mall in Alliance, Ohio was just torn down, they're building a Meijer in it's place. Shenango Valley Mall in Hermitage, Pennsylvania is now going out of business at the end of May. They're now losing their last anchor store which is JCPenney. It's gonna be torn down later this year. I miss these malls. At least the Summit Mall and the Belden Village Mall are still open as well as the Eastwood Mall in Niles, Ohio. These malls are still going strong to this day.

[@DingDangg]

You should see it now

[@ChicagoJoe57]

I thought Detroit was wasteful until I saw your video. This was a huge mall. I have never seen a large mall of this scale ripped apart.

[@shardnugget]

compare this to what it looks like today

[@firarisaatler1]

Kronik Agario Now it'll look destroyed.

[@shardnugget]

yep

[@RickClarkrcl4rk]

Wow. This video sent a chill through me. I worked there selling Men's Clothing while attending Buchtel H.S.

[@davinp]

The mall is completely boarded up, so their is no way to get in,The mail is much worse shape now as seen in 2015 videos. In winter the \escalator is covered with snow due to the broken glass ceiling. The mall would have turned 40 in 2015

[@skylilly1]

The dead plants at eight seconds is creepy..this was the best mall back in the late 70's and early 80's..thanks for upldg, really weird seeing it like this...

[@Senickres]

0:16 Is that Rick Astley?

[@justme1774]

I remember going to the mall as a kid. Then till i moved away from Akron. The arcade there was nice along with the stores. Thanks for taking us back in time....

[@kellireeves4527]

Does anyone else see the chair on top of the customer service stand(that now says potato)at 4:53 or so?I have watched this vid a few times and JUST caught it.Weird.

[@jsmurd]

I replayed it. You have a good eye for detail. The video is moving fast. I've watched this video several times in the past and I never saw that chair until now. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@kellireeves4527]

Also weird mannequin leg in planter at 4:09,but that one's pretty easy.The chair was sneaky.Can you picture someone putting it up there?

[@jsmurd]

Kelli Cox I was thinking that when I saw the chair sitting up there.

[@ssfinch4761]

Kelli Cox I see the chair but potato? xD

[@ThomasCoolVids]

Ssfinch with Beatles someone spray painted "POTATO :)" on that stand

[@ptliving]

Awesome vid, dude. Nice camera work. It must have been completely weird to be inside of such a massive space that was once full of holiday shoppers and is now nothing more than an abandoned ruin. Thanx for posting!

[@jamiejackson2523]

I have watched many videos on his mall It looked like at one time it was a nice and beautiful mall but I have seen the resent videos of this mall and it is in bad shape it is such shame so sad!

[@KryptonMike]

Wow, this brought back memories. I took a tour of the mall back in 97 or 98 for my school. I went to the PLCC. At the time they only had two security officers working a day. And half the cameras under the glass covers didn't work.

[@sethbower11]

Jcpennys closed its doors back in October of 2013!! The entire mall is abounded!!

[@BAZER81]

You do know he made this video in 2009 right?

[@Flannel535]

Apparently it was demolished by 2019 and an Amazon fulfillment center replaced it in 2020

[@Foxstang4life]

Sadly i think they're all doomed thanx to the online shopping. . .The internet took the wholesomness out of America and created quite a few zombies . . What a shame

[@SuperJeremi10]

captainbluefishmonster my mall here is still doing very well very packed there actually having to add on to the mall.

[@SuperJeremi10]

mine is doing well.

[@Foxstang4life]

NuHorizons You have made much sense there and very good point .. The quality of humans has shit the bed and dont see it getting better unfortunately

[@iamstarfox]

Cool video. Urban exploring FTW! As you rode through the corridors my imagination sprang to life... I could see the mall packed with people during christmas time, so many years ago. Everything so new and fresh, people having fun, so much life. It's sad to see a place that was once bustling with activity, now deserted.

[@ArtzieMusic]

CREEPY

[@waterfrontdude]

"April 13th, A would-be copper thief attempts to steal from the main transformer box of the mall and dies in the process." Poetic justice. LOL!

[@jojo-fu4xh]

I got my first vibrator at this mall!

[@MarksKicksOnRoute66]

Benjamin Wilson do you still use it?

[@chloelukasiakcontent]

Lovely.

[@cmountain6]

Thanks for the video. I used to live in Akron-32 years ago-and used to visit this mall for lunch, sad to see it go!

[@WalnutSpice]

I hope this never happens to Chapel Hill mall.

[@WalnutSpice]

AllDayVaper Why do you? You just want to explore it abandoned? It would be pretty cool to visit if it was. I just grew up going to that mall all the time and my mom did as well is why I don't really wanna see it closed. Nostalgia factor I guess

[@WalnutSpice]

AllDayVaper Damn, I didn't even hear about that. Crazy

[@TechnologySpotlight]

Just like Rolling Acres! Macy's leaves, then Sears leaves, then JCPenney is the last anchor.

[@Szyx]

Holy s***. I had forgotten what that mall looked like on the inside. But after seeing this, the memories of going there are coming back. All the unique details of how the place was shaped...kinda eerie to see whats become of it since so long ago.

[@corproblox3874]

You could see it already started to be scrapped, pause at 0:48 , you can see someone ripped the steel off of the fountain.

[@corproblox3874]

And missing ceiling tiles, but I think that's just from water damage.

[@cwp1alpha]

Sad to see such a complex as this sitting so large and abandoned. In my area, the local Bellevue, NE Southroads Mall suffered such a similar effect, as well as the old Mall of the Bluffs in Council Bluffs, IA. I could see so much potential for such a facility, even if an indoor like condo or emergency shelter/housing facility after an "event".

[@DavidMadeira29]

"Slippery when wet"

[@FunkyStudios]

this footage is insane, knowing what the mall ended up looking like in a couple of years later is crazy!

[@MatthewJames-st5wv]

I don't think it got really bad until around 2015-2016.

[@harley56ist]

Slow down; it's almost a blur...too bad, this COULD HAVE BEEN a great video :/

[@masbiturbo85]

well thanks for taking the time to APPRECIATE the fact that i actually filmed and posted this for everybody to see.

[@jase01472]

+Gabriel Troppe BRILLIANT and well APPRECIATED thanks.

[@mrcheese9541]

+Gabriel Troppe calm down

[@LethaWolfStudios]

Like you could have done better

[@alexw2k315]

it was from 2009 while he was riding a bike. humble yourself.

[@eddybart22]

to be honest i have had this dream in my head for YEARS now about being in a mall thats all alone but fully functional and in that dream i sort of see the resemblance in this mall. seriously thank you for the upload, you helped me put my dream into some what into pieces:)

[@ianchristopheralexander1985]

This what those evil democrats do to Malls.

[@W0RLDSSMALLESTVI0LIN]

thanks for filming dude. i love seeing shit like this. id love more than anything to walk around in that mall. id stay in there from dusk to dawn checking everything out carefully. amazing that such a massive mall shut down like that.

[@AbandonedSteve]

nothing like a little bike ride through the mall haha cool video!

[@calvinthedestroyer]

Sweet! you got to ride your bike in a mall! I've allways wanted to do that!

[@seanstephenmccormack8146]

what a difference 11 years makes!! it's gone now as of 2019

[@dcdddddd1]

I remember when Rolling Acres was a very nice mall. I remember all the nice stores and restaurants that was there.

[@haroldking1401]

Great video! I’ve never seen the mall before vandals destroyed it! Thanks for posting.

[@TadThuggish]

amazing to think the brilliant minds at Sears and JCPenney tanked their companies, too

[@DmitryKlevtsov]

Good afternoon Gabriel Troppe. What is happening to this place? Its still guarded.

[@YouthfulElf]

The only thing missing was the echo of phantom voices and music coming from one hall, and then turning a corner only to have them instantly silence! Call me dramatic, but that place is the perfect setting for such an incident!

[@kinaitis]

Cool video. I remember when the place was alive once. Sad to see it finally come to this.

[@rhelt100]

Very cool. I spent a lot of time at Rolling Acres growing up. I would've snatched one of those wooden table/benches that were everywhere.

[@Cho2154]

I like the planters and the big square wooden table/seating things. Sad to think of all that wasted space.

[@GhostHostAnth]

That's pretty wild! The mall would be a perfect setting for an indie horror movie.

[@TheSaneHatter]

This is particularly eerie to me, since not only do I have a couple of dead/dying malls in my own home city, but I ride a bike almost everywhere! It never occurred to me that you could comfortably ride a bike through these places (if empty), but I suppose you could: it's really quite surreal, how HUGE some of them are.

[@ardiemclelland2039]

So sad to see what this has become 10 years later.

[@TypOPositiv]

I'm very saddened to see that place in this condition. That mall was a very nice place to hang out, visit or shop at.

[@searchanddiscover]

amazing the difference in three years between this video and what someone took last year.

[@msfproductionsmain]

Awsome Vid. I miss my local mall known as "The York Mall" Jc pennies moved to a newer mall & Wal-Mart moved in in 1990. Within 5 years the rest of the mall was having less & less stores. Now only wal-mart remains. The middle of the mall was a Bon-Ton But Now Burrlington Coat Factory is in it. That is the onlt part that remains from the original Mall. They tour down Montgomery Wards & rebuilt the lower half as a strip mall. Really Really Sucks.

[@SHYJER1]

At 1:46, some people said that you could see someone walking up the stairs on the lower level. It appears that way, but that is not really what it is. The stairs are actually coming up toward you at that point, therefore if it were someone, you would see them between the treads of the stairs where there are commonly risers. If anyone who has ever been in that mall relly remembers, those stairs had a single steel stringer that ran up the middle of the treads as oppose to going up the sides.

[@houdinifan27]

Good news everyone! I work at Sears next to Rolling Acres Mall and we found out that SIMON (the company that owns Summit Mall) bought the Mall for $1 million dollars in an online auction. We talked to one of the construction workers and they said that its being gutted right now cause SIMON is turning it back into a mall! YAY! The Target Store building is bought and is being a department store (don't know which company), so its gonna reopen! Awesome!

[@SchuminWeb]

This ride through an abandoned mall very much makes me think of a post-apocalyptic world. Like there was a giant battle-to-end-all-battles and this was what was left.

[@tauntonlake]

wow. creepy and cool. such a waste of materials. Thanks for posting! love exploring abandoned buildings on KZbin !! :)

[@SPITFIREmgt]

would be cool if they made this place into a huge indoor paintball course

[@jameswasil]

I celebrated my 10th birthday there and went there often with friends when I lived in Ohio. I'll miss it.

[@letseeitplease]

Thanks for the tour of the mall from your view on the bike, this was awesome, if you get to go back in there see if you can get to the office area and take the audio sound systme amlifier and the tuner for the muzak or special radio service that the mall has or had,

[@KrisRowlands]

I worked at Auntie Anne's there in the 90's.......was such a vibrant mall. It certainly will be missed.

[@Ottomcr]

If I didn't live so far away I would totally check this out. Really cool place.

[@fxyvgngrl]

wow.... I grew up at this mall. Thanks for posting this.

[@SammieBeeNewOrleans]

I'm from New Orleans so I don't know anything about Rolling Acres just learning it from other videos and even Google it. But from the looks of it, this is a much better view of it compared to how it was a few years later. Also, @4:53 how a chair got on top of the customer stand????

[@ValtronW]

All of these abandoned building videos are creeping me out. Just so.......eerie.

[@V8FordTempo]

RIP Rolling Acres, the 90's were fun, got photos of the "Carmen Sandiego" shoot that was done there too.

[@brystonfan]

this was a great mall back in the 80's

[@DukeNukem2020]

Damn. So many memories. Especially at Alladin's Castle arcade(upper level above food court). So many memories from the mid 90's

[@joemancini327]

You rode a bike through the mall dear god that's genius

They say you can never go back, I just did, cool, thanks for that.

[@DavrosVonSkaro]

Wow, I felt like I was watching the original Dawn of the Dead. I liked the mannequin leg sticking out of the plants at the 4 min mark.

[@phatcracker2007]

I grew up in the area in the late '70s-80s. It's odd to see the mall abandoned like this. JT

[@markcayshorts]

4:17 i like how the trees in the sears entrance are still fine but the light poles are removed

[@thegreatbungholio21]

kudos on not wiping out while you were riding around the mall. I went there while attending ksu. sad to see it look like that.

[@aa9g1]

This is what happens when communities start to fall apart, property investors charge too much for rent, and people stop supporting these "empty shoebox" money sucking machines. To tell you the truth, this video depicts the future (and present) of America in general. Thanks to all the jobs shipping overseas that is. We've got a mall just like this in my area called the Machesney Park Mall in Illinois. (Was a small airport before that.) Nice video, thanks for sharing it w/ us! :-)

[@auaiao9]

This is really strange. I've never seen this much property abandoned and left wide open and eerily quiet.

[@TheHistoryGuy87]

Wow... How sad to read all of this stuff. I used to go here as a kid all the time with my mom and older sister. I remember being little and getting a little container of popcorn at the Kopper Popper before wandering off. My favorite stores when I was little were the World of Science, some video game store, and the pet shop near the food court. We got our dog from there way back in the day.... Man, I'll have to come by here sometime and see how the old girl is holding up (read: falling apart).

[@ccraig412]

I find old buildings interesting.. I still don't know why. Lol. Nice vid btw. :p

[@saxman112]

Wow. I just get an eerie feeling inside of me watching this.

[@Shawna0718]

This was THE place to hang out when I was a teen. Crime and fear of crime is what shut it down. No one felt safe shopping there. The anchor stores (Sears and Penny's) are still operating because they have their own entrances, and they own their buildings or have long term leases? Don't quite remember which. There is even a bus terminal on the property and it never looks busy when I drive past. Surrounding businesses and strip malls are also fading away a little at a time.