Dead Mall - Eastern Hills Mall - Williamsville, NY *2019*

Dead Mall - Eastern Hills Mall - Williamsville, NY. Opened in 1971 by Dibartolo Corp, this mall was once a thriving shopping center in the Buffalo, NY area for many years having many different tenants but now with other nearby malls and the increase of online shopping, this mall is now struggling. There are plans to convert the mall into a place to shop, play, and live within the next 3-10 years.
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[@waltwynn-sandiegonorthcoun8475]

That place was hopping when I lived out there in 1978

[@Titanic19127]

This makes me really sad, this mall had a Dave and Busters and so much more not too long ago, and I believe a Bone Fish grill, the aesthetic in this mall is amazing, especially those lights!

[@TheAskTrixieChannel]

At least they replaced Dave and Busters with something like it. :)

[@marlawitkowski1395]

Bone Fish was at one of our other decaying malls - The Boulevard Mall. Eastern Hills had a Ruby Tuesday, which later turned in to a Duff's chicken wing place.

[@TheAskTrixieChannel]

This mall's a major frustration for me. Two years ago, it was great. Even had a nice little food court. Now, they're refilling the anchors, but all of the smaller stores in between them are bailing.

[@WallieB26]

That's a shame. I loved this mall the first time I visited it in 2017. Now, it looks like this. Sad to see it fall apart.

[@TrideepNagg]

The Ask Trixie Channel 2 years ago wasn’t any better. It started in decline around 2008. The mall was packed when I was a kid.

[@markvolpe2305]

My favorite local mall! I still miss the neon lights it used to have the red floor tiles down the wings used to follow the same red neon pattern above it. also the food court signs had mostly all neon there too.

[@richardcolosimo4308]

So I love your videos and I watch them often. I'm scrolling through and see "Eastern Hills Mall" and said, we have one of those. Turns out is IS this one. That mall has been dying for years.

[@evarodney9789]

Awesome mall video wallie omg your awesome love it.❤

[@JERios-wv8lx]

WHAT A PITY! ONE OF THE MOST AESTHETICALLY BEAUTIFULL MALL I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!

[@kimberlyontiveros9175]

I see absolutely nothing wrong with this mall looks nice I wonder what really happened to this mall looks nice inside thank you for an awesome video keep making awesome video and keeping being awesome

[@WallieB26]

It is very nice inside. The reason it's not doing so well is because businesses began moving to the Walden Galleria which gets substantially more business. It's a shame. I like this place.

[@kimberlyontiveros9175]

WallieB26 I have a mall down the street from where I live it's exactly like this one dead business is gone use to be popular when baybrook mall took over I live in Houston Tx

[@elizabethorsillo7187]

Great mall...great vapor wave music...great cats (I’d want to take them all home with me)!

[@racheldehaan1331]

How sad looks well taken care of

[@agirlfromnewyork2074]

Greeting from n.y. it's sad this mall is dead....

[@FlameDragon]

That bowling wall was awesome

[@Otr808]

Awesome job background music at beginning made me think of 80s action movies also the news clip very clutch

[@Christopher0817]

Great mall video well done Wallie very nice clean looking mall.

[@Looking1231]

HI!! This is Dan Bell... Oops sorry.... Seriously this was a well produced video. Enjoyed it a lot

[@WallieB26]

Haha I'm nowhere near that good. I just really enjoy the style of filming dead malls like that. Hence why I do it. I personally really enjoy that style. Anyway, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed. It takes awhile for me to edit these mall videos where I want them to where i will watch over and enjoy how i put them together.

[@l.wheels3458]

I've been there several times. It's a good mall and a shame it's dead.

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

As late as 10 years! Holy crap man! It’ll be completely empty by then.

[@arisacharya4895]

I worked here during the closing of the sears last fall I come to this mall often you should check out what's in your attic and rising sun for great vintage stuff

[@Optopolis]

Beautiful mall! Too bad and it's sad that it's not in it's best day anymore. LMAO I had a grandparent that had a bird similar colors but a bit smaller, Always SQUAKED when someone left/came in the room XD

[@mousejjt2]

I live right down from here not to far away its sad to see its business start to drop so fast.

[@c00pster88]

Great video wallie, sad that this mall is so dead

[@gaylenewood7707]

Great video👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊🌹.

[@jet34thehawk]

Man video you are making are amazing

[@juniormint5782]

I hope my favorite shop at eastern malls does not get closed down. The place is called what’s in your attic the place is very fun I suggest you check it out. They have lots of cool and fun antiques. I usually buy the coins there because they have lots of cool coins.

[@jasonwilliams6005]

Worked for that mall for a year back in the 90s. Then Sears there for a year (where BFLO is now). Niagara Emporium is really cool.

[@KathyR1964]

As a cross border shopper from Canada, I shopped there for decades. The last time we went there was in 2019 and it looked pretty much like your video. Because of the Pandemic/Border closure, the next time we where there was in May 2022 and was shocked to see all the closed stores. It was like an apocalypse! All the Mom and Pop shops in there only open on the weekend, so its SO creepy and dark. It is very sad as this was such a lively and happening place years ago.

[@letapearson2043]

Hi Wallie, very nice video! Such a beautiful mall, too bad it’s closing soon! Love the animals at the end! Maybe that parrot wanted attention! Stay awesome! ❤️😍

[@gaylenewood7707]

Uh some claire's stores are also been closing up bunch of states I'm surprise this mall has it.

[@clairelfhs02]

No closing words? No "stay awesome!"? What's goin' on here! Hehe! ;)

[@MDK22420]

8:02

[@clairelfhs02]

@@MDK22420 Duh!!! 😜

[@raymondp.kotiiesq.5934]

As a little boy I spent a lot of time learning how to walk inside Eastern Hills Mall. Very sad to see it in its current state. I am fortunate to have been born into a much happier time than the present one. Eastern Hills Mall was so packed on Friday evenings and Saturdays, it was incredible compared to the ghost town that it has become.

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

Greetings from Utah!

[@gaylenewood7707]

Aw you got a cool pic of that car it's a 71 beetle?

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

Gaylene Wood yep

[@gaylenewood7707]

@@ChristheShrinerdawg I hope you kept that car cause those cars got pretty good gas mileage and also the seats got alot more room than today's cars.

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

Gaylene Wood I actually never owned one. I want one so bad though....they’re just hard to find here.

[@gaylenewood7707]

@@ChristheShrinerdawg Well there are some old vw.vans those are just as nice and vintage as well👍🏻👍🏻😁.

[@racheldehaan1331]

Watching the dead malls makes me grateful for ours

[@waltwynn-sandiegonorthcoun8475]

Records and eight track tapes📀📼...(1977)

[@marlawitkowski1395]

This one truly breaks my heart. This was my mall growing up. As a teen in the 1980s I spent many many nights and weekends here - working in many of the stores and hanging out with friends. The big anchors were Macy's (also known as Sibley's and Kaufmann's), Sears, Bon Ton (formerly AM&As), and JC Penney. There also was a local department store called Jenss that opened to the outside as well. Now only JC Penney is left, and if they leave it will most likely signal the death knell for the mall. What's left inside is primarily pop-up antique stores and a few minor businesses - even the food court is gone.

[@snowandice8804]

Music is amazing.

[@WallieB26]

Thank you!

[@gardenshock51]

I remember when it was crazy packed not too long ago :(

[@darkmaster4611]

Always nice to see videos in my area. I can see the boulevard mall being next to close and then maybe McKinley. The Bon-tons closing hit the malls pretty bad and I don’t think the Sears at McKinley will be open for much longer, I can see a lot of pop up Spirit Halloween stores showing up in the future. On a positive note they are redeveloping the North Town Plaza in Amherst.

[@raymondp.kotiiesq.5934]

I can see Northtown Plaza re-development ending as a big flop. See how many cars are parked in front of Whole Foods compared to Wegmans on Alberta. I bet Wegmans Alberta outsells wholefoods by five or six to one. I cannot imagine Whole Foods being around in another few years.

[@michaelsalazar6393]

@WallieB if you ever go to another abandoned ames please see if you can find something with ames on it my grandma used to work for ames from 1978-2002

[@michaelsalazar6393]

Plus my birthday is on September 27 next week please give a shoutout in a video thank you

[@michaelminton1224]

Right now, the only mall that I go to is the Walden Galleria since it now has a Lego Shop while the others do not, so therefore, they are a dump.

[@doctorwhofan1989]

It's funny at the end of this video showing that parrot, because before I was randomly looking up teaching parrots to swear on Google. That would be a never-ending source of amusement for me.

[@markfromkona8816]

👍

[@mallaholicretailadventures]

That is a good looking mall. What a waste to see this get torn down. Looks very clean. It seems that malls only in the past few years have really went off the deep end. In Illinois, we lost Carson's and Bergners and most of the Sears stores, leaving penneys and Macy's as lone anchors of most malls in Illinois, particularly in the Chicago area. I just wish that dillards would give the Chicago area a try, because it would bring something new to the region. Their stores are very clean.

[@gobillz6895]

I did the crane technique in the back parking lot after coming out of the karate kid in the theatre

[@theawesome48fanhunter]

Do a update on this please it would be nice to see a youtuber i like In town

[@venusing]

holy crap. i live near by the eastern hills mall and it is so dead.

[@TrideepNagg]

It was packed back in like 2001-2006 when I went there as a kid

[@racheldehaan1331]

My mall in my town is thriving

[@JamesR1986]

Greetings from 2021, Raymor and Flannigan is up and running, Auntie Annes is gone :(, who knows what is happening with the sports bar anchor (Rockys), although there is a smaller popular chicken wing place..

[@MrChase-mf6cn]

How do these stores pay their monthly lease?

[@jacobfrech288]

This mall does not look to be doing to to bad my guess ballpark wise would be 75% occupation and the sears looks like something is going in there from the beginning shot

[@stevenlarabee9436]

Think it put the nail in the cofen when macys left

[@billl1127]

The architect is Gen-sler not Jen-sler.

[@lela3926]

Parrots are definitely not for everybody. They are gorgeous creatures but they're very emotional and complex beings that act out their frustration by being naughty. Imagine having a a two year old baby for the rest of your life, since parrots can live for a long long time... it's not always fun. They're very emotionally driven creatures that are very bratty and jealous and tend to love only one person and hate everyone else, hence they get rehomed so often. And rehoming parrots is very traumatic for them, hence they develop even more behavioral problems. In conclusion, please please please don't buy a parrot. They're lovely but they're very demanding pets.

[@matthewcampbell7985]

Why Eastern hills Mall is dying?

[@WallieB26]

Walden Galleria is a big reason why. It took a lot of the stores from this mall. That mall is absolutely thriving and that's a reason so many stores left here.

[@josephbrooks6453]

Play Wall-E I love all of your videos they're very nice to see a very memorable at that. As you and anyone knows big businesses or best known as big box stores such as Wal-Mart has taken away a lot of businesses from malls. I just wonder what will happen since Walmart is closing down a lot of their stores. Let me know what you think

[@pval6838]

St went

[@michaelblair5767]

It will never be redeveloped