My Trip to the American Dream - The Second Largest Mall in the US that took 15 years to open!
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2022
- Living only an hour away from this monstrosity and seeing this eyesore being built since 2004, I have been meaning to take a trip there since its opening in 2019. I really feels like a monumental waste of money that is destined to fail.
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Bro, that Sbarro behind you is triggering my 90s urge to eat mall pizza.
That’s really cool you’ve seen the process of how the mall came to be finished during such a strange time. Your stories are very enticing to hear! Also your character is adorable and looks super cool!
It's sad to see projects like this with the involvement of so many resources, so much time and money ending in 3 words: not economically viable.
The prices are a product of the costs, obviously. I agree with you that it would make sense to lower admission to a lot of things to get more people through word-of-mouth, but there is probably some kind of contract at play that guarantees the involved parties to get their investment back in a such-and-such time frame.
I guess we will have to wait for either Retail Archeology or The Proper People to explore this, haha. To be frank I think your guess of 10 to 15 years life-expectancy is very optimistic, but perhaps the franchises that are in here now had to sign contracts for this long to start with at minimum, so we'll see.
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Just about everything you talked about reminded me of the overall plan and history of Forest Fair Mall outside Cincinnati. I practically grew up in that mall, but it's now a world-famous abandoned mall. Every single misstep, almost exactly the same.
I'd say this from experience, since I almost took a full time job as a lifeguard at the Dreamworks Water Park at the American Dream. During orientation, the current owners, Triple 5, don't want to refer to AD as a "Shopping Mall" but rather and get this...an "Entertainment Recreational Facility." They want to be different from the Mall of America where they want to be 65-70% more of attractions and entertainment than shopping. And speaking from experience, yeah that 142ft water slide is the 2nd tallest slide in the world while Brazil beat us by 3ft. Nearly vertical slide, feels like your freefalling especially since you're launched from a pod with a trap door. I can talk for hours on the training and experience with nearly EVERY ride in the water park, including the poolside bar, water slides and even the surfing stream.
Cooper you are awesome
Something about your voice just lets me listen to you talk about anything that interests you, and I'll just be hanging on your every word
the Toys R Us in American Dream is its new flagship store! The company is trying to come back with an updated “shopping experience.” They want to be seen as a “boutique” store with more things for kids to play with inside the store, kind of like old Disney Stores.
Here’s a comment to feed the algorithm since I can’t think of anything funny to say or add lol
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I live about 10 minutes away from Mall of America and watching this makes me sad. It really looks like they missed a lot in building. But now I feel better about the Mall of America prices ;) Got to get an annual pass for the amusement park!
The original company that developed the mall in 2003 until it's 2007 bankruptcy was Mills Corporation. I've been to their first mall as a kid, Potomac Mills, it was pretty massive. Mills Corporation would later on be acquired by Simon Property Group Inc.
Just looked it up. A single day pass with rental to the ski slope is $70-90 if you want lessons and such. If you are an experienced skier you can get 2 hours for about $40-60. To just WATCH people ski, not actually ski, just WATCH. Is $15
I love malls and the feeling they have. I hate seeing these buildings become abandoned and demolished. I know the one in my home town is still going because they made it a sort of flea market and antique shop while converting half the mall to apartments. Mall where I live now still survives because it's mostly a giant art museum with a few stores.
I agree. Malls have a special atmosphere because of their aesthetic and size. While they are designed by corporations to make money from consumers, they also have a place in American culture that isn't entirely negative.
That's why the mall was chosen as the main setting in Stranger Things season 3 - it represents a significant part of American culture and many people can relate to the experiences that take place there.
Even though I live in the UK and our 'shopping centres' aren't as big or as central to the culture as American malls, I have many fond memories of exploring my local mall as a child. The seemingly endless supply of toys and food always excited me.
I am glad to see you still posting videos . Thank you . I wish I could chat again with you in VR , but I am having issues with my head set atm .
I remember Randal Park Mall when it opened and then failed too. wow.
Kinda Like sneaking into a fancy rich man's Mall. :p
What a waste of land and resources, glad you got something out of it
IF it was ME... I would turn the empty shops into Apartments and make it a City indoors under one roof where you don't have to go anywhere to Eat, Grocery shop, Play, just everything you need it's all right here!!
Cool video!
This mall sounds like a Backrooms themed experience
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Interesting about the kabobs, because here in Nova Scotia we have things called donairs, started by Lebonese and Greek people in Halifax, they are very similar to a gyro, and contain meat that is shaved off a rotisserie meat hunk.
Not enough chain stores to fill the mall wasn't a problem at the mall of America, they have quite a few duplicate stores.
Penn(sylvania) Square Mall [Simon Malls] here in OKC is finally getting a Sbarro.
Crossroads Mall, which is bigger and gotten shittier to the point that it had shut down a decade ago, had a Sbarro!
It feels like you have something a lot of people seem to lack, a soul and self reflection enough to be a nuanced human being, it's hard to describe, seems like most people are just shallow and don't even bother thinking about anything beyond how to feel pleasure.
Those prices are not that bad Tom. Have you been to an amusement park lately?
This mall was where I was at when they announced the winner of the 2020 election, lmao. Felt symbolically appropriate.
Escalators to nowhere? Hmm it really is the American dream theme huh?
The mall should open a place called the Scrapple Diner. If that doesn't attract New Jerseyans, then you know the mall is doomed.
Those high prices are to cover the costs of construction & fees
Amazon killed the malls
I'd argue that it was more big-box stores in outlet areas, over-saturation, hikes in rent, and over-aggressive youth loitering enforcement that killed them off, but Amazon sure didn't help.
To suck more insult injury the mall was built on a sensitive wetland where some endangered species lived and they just took away most of its. You know home just so they could build this mall in the meadowlands. Was it worth it? No
Oh by the way, if you want decent ramen come to Edison. We literally have like four ramen shops all on route 1 we got two next door to each other on route 27. We have I believe one right next to the car dealership on route 1 and I believe there's a third one in Metuchen New Jersey I could continue. Oh yes, as the final continuation we also have. I believe two in New Brunswick so you want better quality ramen or mall ramen. I think proper quality ramen
I love the music at 8:05 what is it called buddy
Jollibee is cool, I go to the London Leicester square one
I Just passt this place on my travel
Looks like development started in 2003. Someone for whom the construction site had been there as early as they can remember could have grown up and been hired to work on it in that time.
You haven't posted for ages. Is everything ok?
Empty = Thanks Internet for killing places to go and do... Stay Home, Think what WE tell you....... Get it now......
soooooo.... Have you made a VRChat world of it yet? I mean it is only 3 million square feet.
Nice!
I've always been curious how Mall of America keeps going.
Always such a shame to see so much time and resources poured into these buildings, only for them to become derelict.
My position on any business is if I can't walk there, I don't go. If they are going to make a place you can only get there by car, even living close, it deserves to go down in flames.
I'm looking to go myself at some point maybe this year because I fear the same, someday this place could shutter for good. (But also, there's not enough indoor slopes in the US, and I want to try Big Snow here.) This mall could not have opened at a worse time, when so many people have shifted to online shopping.
Edit: omg, I just took a look at the website, and saw that their "season pass" to the Nickelodeon Universe amusement park, which you can buy for $109, only lasts until September 30th of this year... Something's fishy about this.
"Authentic German kebab" You know kebabs are a middle east / Mediterranean thing right? They're pretty common across Europe now but they're about as German as Pizza is english.
What they need to do is at the doors to mall, you can buy a Complete Pass for ALL things inside for like $60...... Don't worry our tax money will Bail the mall owner out when they declare bankruptcy.....
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It's kinda funny how people say that this store has ridiculously prized attractions and parking, while they are perfectly okay with all the ridiculous pricing at all the Disney parks and parking lots. xD lol
But dang, 15 years of building and it is pretty much a ghost mall. xD Talk about a waste of money. x'D lol
Thank for letting me know to never fucking go.
I live about 10 minutes away from Mall of America and watching this makes me sad. It really looks like they missed a lot in building. But now I feel better about the Mall of America prices ;) Got to get an annual pass for the amusement park!