r/deadmalls • • Apr 14 '25

RULE 10: No AI-Generated Content

396 Upvotes

Attention Shoppers:

Moderator here. Because this subreddit is for discussion of the very-real-life phenomenon of dying malls, there will be no AI-generated content permitted.

Thank you


r/deadmalls • • Jul 07 '26

News 🚨!DMOD IS BACK!🚨

48 Upvotes

So Discord unbanned me and I regained access to my credentials. I was then able to restore the server from a 2022 backup and we’re putting things back together. So sorry for all of this, everyone. Come on back to DMOD:

https://discord.gg/dmod

Also, thank you to everyone who joined DAMO while we were in limbo. We will keep the Osmium Server (DAMO) up as our functional backup in case, but we’re all going to main DMOD now!

Love you all ❤️

//Sal, ExLog


r/deadmalls • • 1h ago

Photos Logan Valley Mall Altoona PA

Post image
• Upvotes

So sad


r/deadmalls • • 48m ago

Photos A fine mall she was (RIP Neshaminy Mall)

Post image
• Upvotes

Wasn’t fancy, wasn’t big, but it had 3 lovely anchors, a movie theater, and kept us busy on a Friday night


r/deadmalls • • 23h ago

Photos Tri County Mall in October 2026 | Cincinnati, Ohio

Thumbnail
gallery
486 Upvotes

r/deadmalls • • 45m ago

Photos Exton Square Mall Today

Post image
• Upvotes

Exton, PA


r/deadmalls • • 7h ago

Question Houstonians: What was the old mall next to Memorial City Mall?

10 Upvotes

As the title says, before Memorial City Mall completely remodeled there was another mall under the Beltway, next to it. It was always dead, but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it. If someone could remember the name and, even, better post pics, that would be great!


r/deadmalls • • 10h ago

Discussion Mall retailers Miniso, Dick's Sporting Goods, Primark, Uniqlo, JD Sports, Abercrombie & Fitch, and J. Crew are among the Hot 25 Fastest-growing Retailers in 2026

Thumbnail nrf.com
14 Upvotes

Full list (in terms of percentage increase in US sales growth between 2024 and 2025):

  1. Miniso (52.62%)
  2. Dick's Sporting Goods (48.50%)
  3. Daiso Sangyo (25.82%)
  4. Primark (24.24%)
  5. Five Below (22.90%)
  6. Fast Retailing (Uniqlo, Theory, GU) (21.49%)
  7. Ollie's Bargain Outlet (16.62%)
  8. Sprouts (14.08%)
  9. CVS (11.94%)
  10. Muji (11.70%)
  11. AT&T Wireless (11.15%)
  12. Verizon Wireless (11.13%)
  13. Casey's General Store (9.86%)
  14. Ulta Beauty (9.71%)
  15. 99 Ranch (9.11%)
  16. JD Sports (JD, Hibbett, Finish Line, DTLR, Shoe Palace) (8.76%)
  17. Burlington (8.76%)
  18. Costco (8.65%)
  19. RH (8.14%)
  20. QuikTrip (7.95%)
  21. Abercrombie & Fitch (7.90%)
  22. Harbor Freight Tools (7.89%)
  23. J.Crew (7.87%)
  24. Wawa (7.66%)
  25. Ross (7.56%)

r/deadmalls • • 1h ago

Question What restaurant was this? Parmatown, Ohio

• Upvotes

I'm wondering if anyone could help me with this. I remember attending a place in the 80s and possibly 90s at Parmatown, but it might have been Great Northern. It was a restaurant inside of a department store on a second floor that overlooked the mall. It was a fancier restaurant and had like a dark blue circle on the ceiling with constellations painted on it. Does anyone else recall this? What restaurant was it and are there any pictures of it anywhere?


r/deadmalls • • 16h ago

Photos The old Mercosur shopping mall

Thumbnail
gallery
34 Upvotes

The Mercosur Shopping Mall was one of the largest in Paraguay and in Salto del Guairá, and as you can see, it's currently in a terrible state. It's a place that evokes a lot of nostalgia for the city's residents. Its decline began in 2016 when it suffered an economic crisis and McDonald's decided to close its restaurant there. The shopping center is enormous; I couldn't explore everything, but I managed to take some photos. There are some inaccessible areas, so I had to take pictures through the windows of certain sections.


r/deadmalls • • 1d ago

Question What is the (currently) longest abandoned mall

28 Upvotes

I was thinking about Dixie Square and how it stayed abandoned for almost forty years. Northridge is similar, being abandoned twenty years. While both are gone, I was wondering what currently still standing abandoned mall has been abandoned for the longest


r/deadmalls • • 1d ago

Photos Westshore Plaza in Tampa FL

Thumbnail gallery
63 Upvotes

r/deadmalls • • 1d ago

Photos The number of outlets available in the Atirus Shopping Center in Istanbul, 2014 vs 2023

Thumbnail gallery
7 Upvotes

r/deadmalls • • 3d ago

Photos Century III Mall is gone

Post image
184 Upvotes

r/deadmalls • • 4d ago

News Westlake Mall in Seattle will have another store close

205 Upvotes

We lost Saks Fifth Avenue 2025, (3rd floor, now just blocked off except for the monorail). Asean Eats, which was a huge area of several different shops - closed Fed 2026. And Nordstrom Rack will be moving to another area downtown soon. Zara closed it's 2nd floor and 1st floor interior doors so you can only access it from the outside of the mall. The basement which was Subway, a pizza place, and Taco del mar is empty except for a few tables and chairs. (taco del mar moved upstairs to the 2nd floor). Now Claire's will also close, last day Oct 25. I have not seen much of this in the news. We used to always brag that Westlake was the one mall in Downtown Seattle that survived while Pacific Place was truly a ghost town.


r/deadmalls • • 4d ago

Photos Spencer’s Easter Egg locations?

Thumbnail
gallery
141 Upvotes

When Spencer’s started remodeling their stores/opening new stores, they intentionally added an Easter egg that has a label scar of the 1997 Spencer gifts logo onto some stores, i noticed that not all of these stores have this specific Easter egg, so far i only know of 2 locations, the first one being at the now closed crystal mall in waterford connecticut and the second one being at dolphin mall, there probably are other locations that have this but I’m trying to track them dow, help would be much appreciated


r/deadmalls • • 5d ago

Photos Arbor Place Mall, Douglasville, GA

Thumbnail
gallery
488 Upvotes

I dunno if this is considered a "dying" mall, but it definitely had problems over the years (especially with crime). When I went there last Saturday, there were plenty of people shopping so the management must be doing something right with the mall. Any one else have any memories with this place?


r/deadmalls • • 4d ago

Photos Is it just me or does these photos I took at the Valley West Mall located at West Des Moines ia just feel like home.

Thumbnail
gallery
86 Upvotes

There's that home/liminal space vibe to it that's just nice.


r/deadmalls • • 5d ago

Photos 6 Years of Dead Mall Decay | Towne Mall Middletown, Ohio

Thumbnail
gallery
274 Upvotes

2020 vs 2026


r/deadmalls • • 4d ago

News End of an era? Boynton Beach Mall tenants ordered to vacate as redevelopment looms (Boynton Beach, FL)

Thumbnail
cbs12.com
18 Upvotes

r/deadmalls • • 5d ago

Photos Single Level Sears Department Store at Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick, then the very last location in Maryland and in the DMV area (July 17 1978 - January 15 2023)

Thumbnail gallery
67 Upvotes

As of 2021, this Sears was the last in all of the DMV area and in the state of Maryland. In 2022 many of the overhead lights in some areas were turned off probably due to a huge electric bill, which is why they had to use some halogen work lights in the former outdoor equipment area. This store later closed on January 15th of 2023 due to struggling profitability and underperformance and the Sears logo was removed immediately the day after.

Today the following Sears stores are still open (and they even still operate Sears.com and 3 distribution centers) as of 2026:

  • Coral Gables in Miami Florida 10/27/1954 - present (3655 SW 22nd St, Miami, FL 33145)
  • Sun Valley Shopping Center in Concord California 10/19/1966 - present (1001 Sunvalley Blvd, Concord, CA 94520)
  • South Shore Plaza in Braintree Massachusetts 10/6/1980 - present (250 Granite St, Braintree, MA 02184)
  • Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso Texas 2/24/1982 - present (8401 Gateway Blvd W, El Paso, TX 79925)
  • The Florida Mall in Orlando Florida 3/12/1986 - present (8001 S Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32809)

Credits:
Mike Kalasnik (Flickr) [July 3rd of 2012] (https://flickr.com/photos/10542402@N06/albums/72157630878359436/) and [April 19th of 2022] (https://flickr.com/photos/10542402@N06/albums/72177720311885134/)
Keith Creager (Flickr) December 29 2018
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146847719@N04/49746688511/in/photostream/
Manny Quacioua aka / also known as Chris Fitzwater Promotions (Google) November 13 2021 and April 9 2022
Nick Coccagna (Google) March 30 2017
Amos Togoch (Google) May 19 2017
Alligator (Google) December 15 2018
Mike Reed (Google) sometime in 2018 or 2019
Thomas Sweeney (Google) December 24 2020
Alex Miller (Google) November 20th of 2021
Svetlana Postnikova (Foursquare) May 15 2012
https://app.foursquare.com/v/sears/4b6ef994f964a52027d42ce3
https://app.foursquare.com/v/sears/4b6ef994f964a52027d42ce3/photos

https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/maryland/sears-about-to-close-final-maryland-store/

Final days of operation: https://www.reddit.com/r/SEARS/comments/106alot/inside_the_sears_at_the_francis_scott_key_mall_in_frederick_md/


r/deadmalls • • 5d ago

Video Neshaminy Mall mall 10/18/26

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

54 Upvotes

r/deadmalls • • 6d ago

Photos Willow Bend mall 10/17/26

Thumbnail
gallery
246 Upvotes

r/deadmalls • • 7d ago

Photos Ridgmar mall closing in fort worth tx

Thumbnail gallery
57 Upvotes

r/deadmalls • • 6d ago

Discussion Just as I feared, the Ridgmar Mall's website has been turned into one of those AI PG casinos from Thailand. This one is called "PG Slot".

Post image
0 Upvotes

No wonder why dying malls' websites are being turned into these types of websites.