A look inside the Macon Mall as Christmas approaches
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- It's the holiday season when the Macon Mall should be seeing holiday shoppers.
Just two weeks out from Christmas, classic carols echo through the mall. Christmas trees stand dressed in ornaments. Lights hang from the ceiling. All of this is to get shoppers into the holiday spending spirit.
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For those of us who remember the glory days of the Macon Mall, it has been sad to watch it descend into what it has become over the past twenty or so years. I remember when we'd go over during the Christmas season and have to drive around the entire parking lot two or three times looking for a parking space. The food court had lots of restaurants and the seats were full. We'd start at J.C. Penney on one end and stroll around the shops working our way to Sears on the other end, then go to the next level and repeat the journey the other way. Across the way was a theater complex, one of the nicest in Macon for a while, and two auto shops (Sears and Firestone) where you could get tires changed or your car serviced while you shopped. Now no Sears, no J.C. Penney. No theater. There were two bookstores, a toy store, and a wide variety of interesting shops in addition to the various clothing stores. The crowds were elbow to elbow during peak hours, and most folks looked forward to a trip to the mall. It was an experience! Now, sadly, it is just depressing.
One of my fondest memories as a child was seeing the Christmas tree and being dazzled by the lights in Parisians.
Same things happening here in Jersey. We had jam packed malls. Menlo, Woodbridge, Freehold, Monmouth. Freehold was the nation's busiest mall in the country during Christmas. The energy within the malls is gone. There's been numerous Outlets built and these mini shopping centers with the brand store that used to only be in the malls. When I go to Macon, it seems to me like ppl ditched the Mall for River Crossings.
When I was in Macon, I was asking around for a place to get a haircut. The gentleman was talking about the "old" Macon mall and the "new" mall. I never ended up going to either of the malls. Did the new mall wipe out the old one? Is there 2 malls? This was quite some time ago and I could have been wrong or misunderstood the gentleman.
@@nc732 The new mall is off of Riverside and Arkwright. The one on Eisenhower is considered the old mall.
@@Valiente350 oh wow. So, the new mall is considered the shops where Walmart, Hooter, Dunkin, Publix is? I used to stay on Sheraton and shop in those centers all the time. I never really thought that would be considered a mall. Maybe River Crossings. There's a lot of shops and good restaurants there.
Looking at the mall makes me sad. It’s nothing like how it was when I was growing up 😢
They took away the chairs and no one wanted to go and stand up all day long and then they took away the family atmosphere and the kids ferris wheel and riding toys went bye bye and it won't come back without any seats and without having something for the kids like a ghost house, bva game room that awards something like candy, school supplies, good toys, etc
Typical case of crime moving in and the stores and customers move out.
This is one gigantic mall. Despite the low occupancy and shoppers, this mall is in much better shape than many malls throughout the US which are slowly dying or closed.
I gre up down the street from this mall. As a small child, my mother drove my siblings and I around the property that would become the mall. It was just pine trees and a creek.
Very nice mall I am going to visit.
I remember going to the Macon Mall one evening X-Mas week 1996 and not finding a parking space it was so packed. I had to park almost to the outer road by the food court with so many people inside you could not see less than a few feet with shoppers around everywhere. Never see that again but man we had some good times in that mall and Westgate Mall.
This is so sad. I use to work in the mall and remember when you could hardly find a parking spot. Malls are truly dying ☹️. It's just not in Macon. I now live in Jacksonville and their indoor malls are dying too. Especially, Regency Square Mall.
To be fair, RSM really is a joke nowadays. Same for the Phillips Road Mall. Malls just don't have the same appeal, plus nobody can afford them anymore.
We think we have it bad here in Charleston, WV, with our mall...locals should watch this, empty malls are everywhere.
Sure not decked out for Christmas, like it use to be. I didn't realize that many stores were still open there.
This is so sad. It breaks my heart to see this.
So sad to see all the empty store spaces. This has got to be bad for the city of Macon.
Yeah, the Macon Mall really sucks compared to what businesses used to be in there. Then drug deals started going down there and the place pretty much went bankrupt. It got bought out again & again, now it's just another failure of Macon to get rid of drugs, gangs, & problems from the area. It used to have Macy's, Belk, Sears, Dillard's, and a whole other half of a mall that's not used anymore. It also used to have a carousel & video game arcade. The Cheesecake Factory used to be on the 2nd floor.
The Colonial Mall (AKA The Macon Mall) really has died out.
I miss shopping in the malls at christmas
had they used heavy crime deterrents, perhaps it would have more business….. sure, online shopping has played a significant role, but me and mine aren’t going there after dark.
Sad to see so empty, people now drive miles away just to stay away from Macon because the crimes in the town
Wow the mall not like it use to when I was little it be pack
Well no holiday cheer here nothing to see , nothing to enjoy what did you think would happen telling people everyone is bad , hateful , raises , sexual no family valuables any more. So not surprised at all , to be safe and to protect family stay home !
Talk about blast from the past. Spent a lot of my teen years there.
I still don’t believe an Amphitheater and Picket-ball court can save this mall.
Watching this makes me very sad (and motion sick). The one time I was in that mall was in 2002 and it still had its anchors and was full of inline stores. Both wings (the original and the new wing) were still there.
I’m going to find it and do some shopping in the mall.
The internet shopping stores have killed the malls in this country.
Yeah, iPhone invention as well. but so did the lease agreements that worked against the tenants.
This once was a grand place to be especially for fun times shopping and eating with friends and family I rather have indoor mall shopping than out going from store to store especially in the cold weather miss this place 🥺
The mayor needs to be ashamed
What can he do able it? There’s a whole other outside mall where all the stores moved to and in a better area noting they can do about it really
Why? The Mayor is bringing Pickle Ball Courts and an Amphitheatre to the Mall to make it great agian. Maybe you need to bring your pickle and balls there when the work is complete to enjoy what the mayor is doing for Mac-town??
The Shoppes at River Crossing is no where near what this mall was 23 years ago when we moved to Macon. And, as for today, who’s paying the electric bill at this brightly lit EMPTY mall???
I haven't been to our local mall in at least 5 years. And I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart after they put railing up outside the entrance to herd the customers like cattle and put those stupid stickers on the floors telling customers which direction they could walk. I wasn't going to put up with all that nonsense so they lost my business.
They need to put 500 to 1,000 seats in the mall like they used to have a long with the restaurants and ice cream places chairs plus in ADDITION to the food court chairs, so they need a total of about 2,000 chairs so you can stand in line and shop til you drop and have plenty of places to sit down to rest and eat. They were putting benches around all the entrances at one time because they were still begging for more seats. Now the new mall has walls to sit on a long with benches and massive amounts of ramps for the disabled people and the Macon Mall will never recover unless they put those benches and chairs back to be used for the ADA law and use them at your own risk
I’m with you I miss the malls
😢such a shame. Macon Mall was so beautiful and over flowing with eager customers this time of year in the past
A carousel 🎠 for the kids plenty of places to eat in food court and throughout
Ladies footlocker/ footlocker
Santa’s shop set up and the line to get picks done
Nail shop full
Seeing those you haven’t seen all year 🎉😢
Are there any nail shops inside?
@@DJ-vj4vi Lee nails use to be in there next to Macy which is no longer there on the ground floor
I missed this mall, don't go in it no more. Nothing exciting about it. All the stores and restaurants I loved is gone
😢🙁😔
We just moved here (Macon) and we can't wait to see the mall
Something that might make malls attract more people would be more exotic items. Things people buy online, like swords, costumes, furniture, toys and stuff. But that's just me.
Malls, especially in larger cities, tended to have specialty shops that could only be found by driving a long distance to a large city, but those types of businesses tended to be quick to fail after 2001 or so. The local and specialty places got replaced in malls with larger national chain tenants who would often expand into a space formerly occupied by 2 or 3 smaller stores previously. This hurt the store selection and in smaller malls could seriously reduce the number of stores. In some small town malls, a larger chain like Goody's would come along and take a whole quarter of the mall for their store.
It sounds like is that low class mall now
KUBRICK could not have done better !@ Thank you...Thats some creepy desolation..
Where is it? I’m coming from Griffin
Where is everybody?
Home
Tik Tok
WOW I thought it was closing. Don't get to Macon much live about 70 miles east. I basically grew up their when I lived in Cochran.
Yeah, I'm surprised that the mall still has as much in it as it does given what I've read about it. It's definitely not the full, lively place is was in 2002 when I visited it.
Escaped from the Zulus.
We could make it like this if we all worked together
It’s owned by the Jewish community
Worse than south lake mall as far as selection it looks like.
Not many people at that mall this year I see
Turn it into a combination indigent mental health hospital and homeless shelter.
They need to rent wheelchairs and strollers for people who can't walk far or for people who needs a wheelchair and they don't want to have to deal with transporting the wheelchair
He had a gun.
What's your point? Georgia is an open carry state, allowing any lawfully owned handgun to be carried openly or concealed in most public spaces and without any permit.
I guess it's kind of sad in an insignificant way, but if this is what it takes to have amazon then it is worth it.
He had a gun.
No that was a pickle.