David Griffin i’m pretty sure, i think it’s only just been a months since the last stores closed. Round 1 is still open i’m pretty sure and idk about the movie theater
@@ocbee6175 yeah it's been dying for quite some time. Another video from February stated that the mall closed with COVID and likely will now be confirmed dead. I rather enjoyed walking this one.
Silver City has always fascinated me since I was a little kid going there with my parents and grandparents from the time it opened back in 1992 to when I left for college in 2008. It was an incredible mall that managed to hold its own against South Shore Plaza until about 2008. It used to be packed on Friday nights with teens (myself included) shopping, going to movies and just hanging out. Prior to these renovations, the mall was DRENCHED in neon along the skylights and in the food court with mirrors on the ceilings to complement the angular design. There also was an aesthetic af giant neon SCG sign in amazingly 90s fashion that hung in that large food court window that overlooks the parking lot. Center Court had a few giant potted palm trees prior to the renovations that gave us New England folk a taste of CA or FL. They used to have a variety of events in Center Court as it is absurdly large. The original anchors were Sears, JCPenney, Filene's, Lechmere, Bradlees and Hoyts Cinema, which seems to have been erased from the Wiki. For restaurants, there was Bertuccis, The Ground Round and Ruby Tuesday. Lechmere was the first domino to fall at this mall, as it was only accessible from the exterior and the chain was on its way under in general. Round1 now occupies the Lechmere space, but that space actually was completely vacant from when Lechmere left in the mid 90s to when Steve & Barry's moved in, in the mid-late 2000s, and then laid vacant again until Round1 came in a few years back. Bradlees above had both an exterior and an interior mall entrance and held on until the Bradlees chain folded. Dicks now occupies Bradlees. Also, in the Sears wing, there is actually a basement that was originally a large Filene's Basement, similar to South Shore Plaza. I remember my grandmother digging through those bins in FB for hours. To get down there, there were escalators in the floor in front of that closed Best Buy (formerly TJMaxx) in the middle of the corridor as well as an elevator where the Best Buy entrance was. When Filene's Basement went under, it became a Tuesday Morning thrift shop, but it didn't survive long. The escalators were eventually removed and the floor tiled over. The theater was originally a Hoyts and the crowds it drew were impressive. I'll remember the streams of people coming up and down those stairs on a Friday or Saturday night in the mall's better days. To this date, some of the original store entrances remain like Structure (even after Express bought them) next to the closed JCP on level 2. In the end, it just couldn't stand the test of time and regional pressures from places like Emerald Square, Providence Place and the ever-enduring South Shore Plaza.
Was Ground Round the closed restaurant across the hallway, from what obviously once was Ruby Tuesday? Now that closed restaurant makes sense to me, if that was the case.
I worked there for a short time in 2001....the nights were always dead. Its sad to see it go. Lots of good times spending the day with my nieces...doing shopping,eating and a movie.
I notice a theme with malls that were built (or even renovated) in the late 1980s/early-mid '90s (especially the '90s) that they always seemed to have some sort of greenhouse/conservatory look to them with lots of skylights and I mean LOTS of skylights, triangle pitched roofs over the main concourse or hallways in a mall, and lots of glass. Have you noticed that? Like for example: The former Irondequoit Mall/Medley Centre, both the York and Johnstown Gallerias, The Mall at Greece Ridge (even though that was originally two separate malls that were built in the 1960s but were attached in the 1990s), the current Shoppingtown Mall, Palisades Center, even possibly the Walden Galleria! Also I kinda find it ironic that after the 1990s in like the mid-2000s (at least slightly before that whole stretch of time where barely any NEW enclosed malls were ever built in the US which was, I believe, between the years 2005/'06-2012/'13--especially during the Great Recession) all the new malls that were built at the time had WAY FEWER skylights or natural sources of light and looked more like a ugly-ass cavernous wearhouse industrial looking place (like Pittsburgh Mills). Any reason why?
I have so many memories of this mall growing up and it still bums me out it's been demolished. Shocked to see the House of the Dead arcade cabinet in the food court was still there from when I was a kid, used to play that while waiting for my grilled cheese and vanilla frapp from Brigham's Grille (RIP). That huge arcade and bowling alley was a somewhat "recent" addition, by the way, the mall was pretty much already dead prior to it being added. There were talks for almost a decade of turning it into a casino/demolishing it and putting a casino in it's place but that never came to fruition. I miss this place so much.
When I used to go there first thing I do eat at the Japanese food ( Sarku ) or B king and then take a walk around the stores . I watched 8 mile there ( my first movie in US) . Things were différents people were humble and Taunton were cleaner .
Nick Manning same it hurts to see it close because you know... it doesn’t feel good to have a place where you spent your childhood and or teenage years just close and it’s pretty sad ngl.
I was sad to hear that they began demolishing the mall over a year ago. I spent a lot of my youth here with my friends. Pretty much every weekend in the mid/late 90s. It was thriving back then. Last I went there, it was virtually barren, unfortunately. I miss this place.
Have to confess when I saw the name of the mall I thought you were filming in Nevada where the same Silver City covers casinos, hotels, everything. Another terrific video as always. I feel you need to include the dark, real life sides of these properties (the news clips.) This is as much a part of the history of the mall as much as the stores that populated it. Crime can be a factor in accelerating the death of a mall. I think this mall is on it's last breaths when even smaller stores are closing. Charlotte Russe is dead and I suspect other stores will follow. The arcade, though mostly empty, I think keeps the mall breathing. Probable gamers and others come later in the day for fun. The bowling alley looks awesome, Wallie B would be at home there.e Don't know how much life this place has left. If Dicks closes it's done. And ashame it has some decent design features and looks bright and airy. Other than the dead wings. Bertuccis is one of my favorite sit down restaurants. Either before or after the stabbing, and unrelated, they filed for bankruptcy and closed a number of locations. They are New England and Mid Atlantic based. They had a restaurant in my hometown, Jersey City for over 15 years. Then got an email they were closing in FIVE DAYS so asked fans to come over and say goodbye. THe manager told me they raised the rent to such a ridiculous level Bertuccis corporate did not want to pay it. Claimed a new and hip restaurant was coming in soon. THat was over a year and a half go. If you get to an open Bertuccis try the in house made pizzas and pastas.
I worked in that mall as a hairdresser during that stabbing incident and years before that. That mall was already SOOOO dead years before that incident took place. I remember growing up how awesome this mall was, and it was packed. Now with everything moving to online shopping, these malls just can't compete. It makes sense too, you can sit on your coach and shop at majority of those stores in the mall and a bunch of others while your at it, all with the tap of your finger. Malls don't have a fighting chance.
You are right to a certain degree,but malls have been thriving/dying even when I came to existence in the mid seventies. Certain malls like this mall was dying and now defunced in 2020 and demolished in 2021. This is because it was a c or d mall. Malls like South Coast Plaza, Tysons Corner Mall are thriving because they are categorized under the A mall or upscale malls.
Looks like a nice mall too bad it appears to be wasting away. We recently got our first Round One in the Milwaukee area at Southridge Mall taking a part of the old Sears space ( Dick’s took the other part).
You're right that crazy things happen in malls, I was working at the now defunct GetHappy candy store in Woodfield Mall in 2019 when the SUV crashed through Sears and knocked over a bunch of kiosks, thankfully no one was hurt or killed (the guy planned out his attack with over 116 Google searches of the interior prior to him ramming it with his TrailBlazer)
George Heath, the man who was stabbed and killed in this mall, was my teacher for a short amount of time in GNB Voc Tech.. I took the exploratory program, and one of the classes I previewed was visual design, which I took for a bit before taking classes in other fields to decide what vocation I wished to pursue (I chose IT). Heath taught us during that short period of time. He was a good guy. It was really shocking when I found out he was killed so brutally.. To me, he'll always be "Mr. Heath".
I have been walking this mall once a week or so for the past 12 years So sad. To see how many stores have left and gone out of business. I can still walk around and name what every vacant space used to be
I live in this area and grew up going to this mall. It had been declining for quite a few years before the attack at Macy’s and Bertucci’s, and while the eventual full decline wasn’t immediate after it, it did sort of seal the deal. I can’t imagine this mall will ever see a new tenant again. Part of it is now used as the Taunton campus for the local Bristol Community College, and part of it has that Round 1 and a Regal Cinemas, both of which are extremely new (no older than 4-5 years) and in great shape.
There’s photos on labelscars webpage of this mall back in 2006, where it looks like it’s seems to be thriving in those photos. Also that Kaybee toys labelscar are at 10:57 is sick
Welcome to my mall! I live in Taunton and its been a down streak for 10 years. The shooting just iced the cake. The house where he shot the lady, is right down the street from where I live.
Im going to miss going to Round 1, fye and eating at the food court with the guys on a weekend. If only we did this more often. We didn't know what we had.
I moved less than a mile down the road only two years after this mall opened. The place was at or near full occupancy, and it jumped. So many great Friday night memories with my first wife at the Suncoast Video, and the Ground Round for dinner. The Great Recession did a real hatchet job on it, and the mall never recovered. Even as it was dying, there were still minor upgrades, and the structure was well maintained to the bitter end. The one store I'll remember was FYE, one of the last open anywhere in America, I gather (still open winter 2020).
I had a mallwalker berate me here for, in her observation, only taking pictures of areas with no people, claiming it wasn't dead. This was on a Saturday afternoon.
@@basillah7650 Blaming the mall walkers for mall's decline ain't it, chief. Most of the mall walkers until the pandemic hit usually come inside the mall to walk around until the mall opens up. The reason why the mall is dead is because of online shopping and was financially in trouble since the depression in 2008 and the stabbing incident. Mall walkers are not to blame, there are malls that are still open but dying financially..... online shopping is more to blame than mall walkers plus the pandemic has hurt the malls financially as well. Bottom line: Don't blame the mall walkers.
First time I went to the USA was way back in 2003 to visit relatives in Fall River. They took me several times to this mall, have fond memories of it. It's a shame knowing that it was demolished relatively recent.
The food court is down to ONE place to eat. It's called "Bourbon St Grill" but instead it just serves bad Chinese. As of January 2020, American Eagle, Olympia Sports, Game Stop and Hot Topic are all in the middle of "store closing liquidation" sales. Other stores are in clearance sales but aren't saying "Closing" The only stores that don't fall under those categories are the Nail Salon, Cel Fashion repair store, and other one-off stores. The WOW gym, movie theater and Round One game room/bowling alley seem to be where the action is. Dick's Sporting Goods also seems to be surviving. Ninja Marshmallow and the Gundan Pros? shop are interesting additions, but probably not enough to save this mall. It the mall management had any sense, they'd move all the remaining stores to the area in between the theater and the arcade , which would make it look more alive than it is, then close off the rest of the mall and redevelop it. As it is now, it's not worth walking all the way to the other end of the mall only to discover there's 3 open stores on that entire end. The Taunton area cannot support a mall like this, which feels like it's out in the middle of the woods. Also, the escalators are frequently broken, and then closed off, making you have to walk all the way to at least the middle just to change floors. The way things are going, I give this mall 6 months, tops.
What a beautiful mall. It's a shame to see it in such a critical state. I especially love the arcade. One of the nicest I've seen yet in a mall. This said, moving forward, I wish the mall the best. Thx for sharing, Anthony.
holy shit, this is insane. i grew up with this mall, and have so many vivid memories of me and my friends hanging out here, just walking around. i remember when they remodeled the whole thing, and to see such potential for such a beautiful building go to waste is heartbreaking. ive seen the beginning and the near end of this mall, and honestly i dont have many words for the shit that's gone down at this place. i had so much hope for it, and to see that it's officially gone for good brings me to tears a bit. not to say that this is a surprise, because it truly isn't. it had it coming since the start, but it still sucks to see it go. all those happy little memories gone and replaced with whatever they put in its place, if they choose to put anything at all. beautifully made video though, didnt think this mall would ever really be recognized for the forgotten piece of work that it is.
When the Swansea Mall started to be too depressing it was nice coming here to a more lively mall even in the early 2010's but after that stabbing, this video is very much a typical day there. I've seen more life in there around the Christmas season and the food court is very nice. Some days are better than others, though. There might be a chance for this mall to make a comeback. They have to do something about the exterior, though. As nice as the inside is, the outside looks very dated and the parking lot feels like it hasn't been paved since the 80's.
@@redwingscuj031 heard it from people working in the mall. I asked when it looked like every store was having a closing sale. I think it's pretty obvious the place is closing unless it plans on just being a Dick's and Round 1 with a huge storage place that used to be a mall.
Another follow up: Tennants received eviction notices and the main entrance is locked. Odd behavior for a mall that isn't closing. Nothing to see here.
I live near this mall and have been going there ever since I was little, it's so sad to see such a great mall fail and die. Actually when the current owners bought the mall out in 2014, the mall actually saw a face lift and was slowly coming back to life but that didn't last long because of the stabbing that you talked and the casino plans not going through which was going to go across the street from the mall. I really hope this great place come back to life, but at least they still have a few good things life!
I've been to the Silver City Galleria countless times. I remember going to when it was still brand new. I went to a regional high school in the area and it was a convenient central location for my friends and I to meet. We began as "mall rats" and many ended up working there.It's sad to see the place in such a state of decline. In the 90s and early 00's it was booming. It had everything you could want, a robust food court, a 10 screen movie theater, several restaurants, and solid anchor stores. There were hardly any vacant suites and if there were they wouldn't stay empty for long. I would say the major decline began with the recession in the late '00s. By the time the shooting happened it was already limping along but that tragic event was literally a death knell. The location was ideal as you mentioned it is right at the intersection of Route 24 and 140. Far enough from the Independence Mall, Hanover Mall, and South Shore Plaza in Braintree. It certainly hurt the old Taunton mall (which is referred to as Mill River Mall in this video). The other mall that would have been heavily impacted was the Westgate Mall in Brockton, MA which at one point was essentially a dead mall but it somehow has made a comeback and while only a shadow of it's former self seems to do well enough. There was literally nothing in that area just farm land and residential areas. Heading north on Route 140 where it's all built up now with Home Depot, Target, Kohls, aand restaurants etc. that was all built after the mall. At one point the property was under consideration to be turned into a casino after casino gambling was legalized in Massachusetts. Very recently the current management company began doubling/tripling the rent there effectively forcing out most of the smaller tenants. I believe the plan is to now convert it to living space and or office space.
It’s sad but fascinating to see the slow decline of these malls. And this one’s not really that old, wow! Thanks for including the news story as a point of reference. We are new to your channel and enjoy seeing the dead mall videos. Our local mall in Wichita, Kansas just went up for sale. It’s not quite dead yet but headed towards it. We made a vlog about it, if you’re interested. All the best, Keith & Abby 😊
This used to be the hottest mall in the region. It's death spiral started accelerating 2015-2016 when all the major anchors started pulling out one after another. Place was practically a ghost town whenever I went in. The only reason I even go to the mall is for Dicks, Round 1, and the movie theater which they kept.
That bowling/arcade place looked awesome. Have not seen anything on that scale in years. Also fun to see the movie theater actually inside the mall, I always liked that. Too bad it's all fallen on hard times for various reasons.
I hope round 1 stays around somehow..... since I discovered this mall, this mall seemed always dead but it was a awesome looking mall. Not much to do on Cape Cod, so round 1 was a small getaway for a day hanging out with the guys. Its sad. Welp. Wish never granted sadly it closed and the mall was demolished....im going to miss going here.
Surprised to see such a recent video on this place. I was there a day before the "incident". Haven't been there in a few months as I don't recognize a few of the stores. A big part of my childhood was made here. Family owned a small jewelry place. It closed down not long after, along with the other businesses. Still go to the Round1 arcade whenever I can. The cinema and arcade is tying this place together, for sure.
That breaks my heart seeing that arcade with so much potential and looking like a neon glow ghost town. Malls are dying and arcades are too. 😔 And I have a pretty cool idea for you! Why not see about getting reproduction prints of mall layouts (you are here) maps and sell them? Would be a way for people that love the mall atmosphere to invest in some cool memorabilia. Just a thought.
I was there today. 5/27/2019. It is very much alive. True a few stores have closed. However it's not dead. We can't keep dwelling on the past! I beg to differ. Ups n downs r part of life 🙂
Is that a peep show that Anthony was in at the end? lol. Amazing that a big arcade/bowling alley would want to be in a dead mall. Here in Michigan, the only location Round One's in is at the successful Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills.
Round 1 has opened at other malls that are showing signs of struggling, like Stratford Square in Bloomingdale, IL. And I was really shocked how dead the one at Silver City Galleria was per Ace's vid, since whenever I've been to Stratford, the Round 1 there always seems to have at least some customers playing the games inside there.
The mega arcade/bowling thing usually works for drawing traffic back to malls and making use of dead anchors. I wish they would do that here in Colorado Springs as we have two dying malls. Interestingly enough, they're putting one (not sure of the brand but it's not Round One) in a recently deceased standalone K-Mart, although it's in an awkward part of town so I'm curious as to how it will do. The Citadel Mall has had a huge dead Macy's for 10 years and now they're turning it into a K-8 charter school! Anthony if you're ever in Colorado Springs go check out The Citadel Mall. The fountains in the food court are beyond fabulous.
I going to miss this place, but the stabbings isn't the only reason this mall is closing also because the owner thought there was going to be a casino moving into the mall, so the owner raised the rent and none of the stores could pay it. So a lot of the stores closed and people didn't shop there anymore. Also they sold the mall for 7.5 million dollars.
I was at the mall monday the day before xmas eve and I could not believe how dead it was maybe 40 cars out front it looks lovely inside very clean and well decorated for Christmas wasnt looking for anything in particular it's great for those comic book type stores fye and another model shop was open the arcade blew my mind how much stuff is in there and how big it is just hardly any people it was eerie and weird so much of it is boarded up they should move everything that's open closer together I walked both floors to see what was left and huge chunk of bottom floor beside Victoria's secret was just nothing and upstairs was the same Santa's grotto was set up in the middle and no line and saw 2 kids total with santa. The food court had 2 options open, asian buffet and Burger King a line of 4 people in front of me was probably the most people I saw there in one place and it wasnt until I ordered there that I realised Burger King was open hidden behind a column for the building . It's such a shame to see a really nice looking mall so abandoned I'll still go there to support the place
Online shopping has put a major hurt on Malls, coupled w/the previous recession. Although I generally avoid going to MA anyways. The last time I went to a Mall in MA was when I was helping w/a store remodel for Ames Dept stores in Hanover.
I have noticed that the latest trend in dying malls is to get one of these bowling/bar/restaurant/arcade places to open and take a good number of storefronts. So far, the ones I have seen don't draw much of a crowd.
This mall is now being actively torn down. They did update it several years which is why it looks so nice (and because I'm sure it's been as dead since then). The 2016 stabbing wasn't the first one, there was another murder maybe in 2005. As many other said I spent a lot of time and a lot of money in that mall. There was originally 2 grand staircases in the center as well. When it's gone this is the only way we'll be able to visit again!
I went to the Food Court and ate at Bourbon Street then went to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at Regal Theater in March 2018. I was a patient at the VA in Brockton MA and they took us there on an outing. It was dead that day too. We were the only ones there
Closing by the end of February 2020. I was there yesterday (Jan. 19) Almost everything is gone and closed already. Everything is 50% off at Hot Topic, Bath and Body Works is having a good sale. Yankee Candle is practically giving away what's left. If you happen to see this before then and live in the area I suggest you go soon. Otherwise, its pretty dead. FYE still overpriced as all hell with phony sales like "buy two used CDs get one for $1" oh wow what a deal...
Omg this is my local mall. It’s very dead and we need a bump up here. Remember when I was little the mall was beautiful and now it’s dead ready to close down. I really hope the mayor of Taunton someday would so something to this mall I remember so many happy and great memeores but also some sad and terrifying memories the shooting defintley made the mall decline even more. When I was little there was JCPenny and Macy’s and Sears also Best Buy all of them gone Round 1 was very popular at first when it came to the mall and now it’s very dead like you mentioned in the video. I remember the Disney store in the mall now forever closed. So sad to see my childhood mall going down the drain. I’m only 13 and this mall is going to last maybe only 2-3 years until it’s done. Hope they turn it into something fun for the City children to do. Best mall around to go to is Dartmouth mall and Emerald Square mall Swansea Mall has closed last month and it was so sad to see that mall go to but I’ve heard they are planning to turn the mall into something better for the town. Great video and love how someone has finally came to Taunton see the disaster of a mall we have!!!
Yeah but I bet it didn't make matters better for the Green. Hopefully if this closes which it will, they will clean up the Green and bring it back to its former glory
I worked in this mall in various locations over 20 years, it's crazy how insane it was compared to how dead it is now. It was the first of its kind in the area, and basically was the biggest mall around for like 5-10 years until Providence place opened (1991 or 1992?). After that you could see the parking lots were about 2/3rds full that holiday season. Then a few years later they fixed up the North Dartmouth mall and route 6 area and that dropped it down to 1/3rd or less full parking lots. That plus the internet and the city of Taunton allowing multiple big box stores surround it pretty much killed it. A few years ago there was a chance of redemption in the form of a casino across the street that would have worked with it in a variety of ways, but a handful of people fought against having it in their neighborhood, thus nailing its coffin. It's a nice place to walk during the day, with the exception of workers or students(yes there's a college in it) you might only see 10 people. The arcade/bowling alley and theater are really nice, but not enough to save it.
I live 15 minutes south of the mall and have been waiting for you to do this. It was a big deal when the mall opened. Celtics players and other actors showers up for the grand opening. Mall has been dean for years though and the Dartmouth mall that people thought would go out of business because of the popularity of this mall is still going strong. ....used to go here with my boys to talk to girls.
What a shame... this is a great looking mall. I would have thought 12-15 years ago it would have been a bustling place. The United States is overmalled and that was a major reason for much of the dead or now repurposed or demolished malls. But now Amazon is keeping people home and Walmart is feeding at the bottom of the barrel. There's very little left for the average brick retail business. That arcade and bowling alley is really excellent... it's sad to not see group of people there using it.
Wow... Round1 in this video is depressingly dead. We are getting a Round1 as well as a Hobby Lobby in the former Sears at my local mall. The store is supposed to open in 2020. My local mall is always busy so it makes sense to open a Round1 there. But it makes no sense to me to open a location in a dead mall like this. I looked at the companies financial reports and this location at Silver City is one of the lowest performers, which doesn’t surprise me.
A lot of money got thrown in this property, yet it felt sketchy and claustrophobic the two times I went there. Been too long, but seems to me two anchors left early in the game, one of them Lechmere. Meanwhile, nearby Dartmouth built into quite a power center -- not too many from the southeast trekked up to Taunton. There was talk of putting a casino nearby. Why not here? Retail will probably not rebound on this property.
I knew co workers who knew the attacker. I was working 4 miles away and remember hearing the sirens. The man who died in Bertuccis was the shop teacher across the hall from my shop in high school. Mr Heath was a really nice guy. Its still surreal these years later.
Honestly I go to this mall relatively regularly and it's not as horribly super dead as this makes it out to be, Sunday's are just like this. Round 1 and the Movie's are filled with people on Fridays and Saturdays and there's a pretty large crowd walking around usually for a Mall like this.
The mall is dying but as a local as well, I gotta say that it gets unusually filled up on Fridays and Saturdays since that's when people are off of work/school.
The architecture of this mall seems very, eerily similar to the South Park Mall in Strongsville, OH. Wonder if this was the popular style of architecture around the time these were built.
It's so sad to see this mall the way it is now I have never been to this Mall but remember hearing on the news what happened there with the stabbing in the resturant Sadly Malls are becoming extinct now that the online shopping is available. I live in Massachusetts I live near Leominster where The Mall at Whitney Field is used to be called Searstown Mall that one is also on the decline and probably won't be open much longer JcPenny and Burlington are the only big stores left a lot of stores have left that mall haven't been in there since the Summer they did do a remodel but they def need to get some stores in there I used to love to go to the mall now I stay home a lot and shop online :)
I'm a Taunton local. Never knew all of this about my local mall...but I can tell you, it's fully closed now. From what I've heard, all the stores have moved out and it's to be torn down and made into some sort of housing? I don't know if you ever do revisits of smaller places like this, but if you do...I'd love to see this place one last time.
Damn I’m from Taunton, I spent my teen years walking the mall and watched the malls slow death, it’s really sad to see honestly. Especially there’s no where in Taunton for kids to hang out or go.
I personally really like your news and old commercial extras, but even if I didn't, you should still do what is your style and preferences 'cause you come through and makes it personal.
How strange. This place looks like it's getting ready for its grand opening rather than in a state of decline. It's in great shape physically.
This is the mall I go to frequently, yeah it’s been like this forever but store after store have been closing for 10 years
Is it abandoned yet?
David Griffin i’m pretty sure, i think it’s only just been a months since the last stores closed. Round 1 is still open i’m pretty sure and idk about the movie theater
Independence mall wasn’t even close in proximity to this mall
@@ocbee6175 yeah it's been dying for quite some time. Another video from February stated that the mall closed with COVID and likely will now be confirmed dead. I rather enjoyed walking this one.
Silver City has always fascinated me since I was a little kid going there with my parents and grandparents from the time it opened back in 1992 to when I left for college in 2008. It was an incredible mall that managed to hold its own against South Shore Plaza until about 2008. It used to be packed on Friday nights with teens (myself included) shopping, going to movies and just hanging out. Prior to these renovations, the mall was DRENCHED in neon along the skylights and in the food court with mirrors on the ceilings to complement the angular design. There also was an aesthetic af giant neon SCG sign in amazingly 90s fashion that hung in that large food court window that overlooks the parking lot. Center Court had a few giant potted palm trees prior to the renovations that gave us New England folk a taste of CA or FL. They used to have a variety of events in Center Court as it is absurdly large. The original anchors were Sears, JCPenney, Filene's, Lechmere, Bradlees and Hoyts Cinema, which seems to have been erased from the Wiki. For restaurants, there was Bertuccis, The Ground Round and Ruby Tuesday.
Lechmere was the first domino to fall at this mall, as it was only accessible from the exterior and the chain was on its way under in general. Round1 now occupies the Lechmere space, but that space actually was completely vacant from when Lechmere left in the mid 90s to when Steve & Barry's moved in, in the mid-late 2000s, and then laid vacant again until Round1 came in a few years back. Bradlees above had both an exterior and an interior mall entrance and held on until the Bradlees chain folded. Dicks now occupies Bradlees. Also, in the Sears wing, there is actually a basement that was originally a large Filene's Basement, similar to South Shore Plaza. I remember my grandmother digging through those bins in FB for hours. To get down there, there were escalators in the floor in front of that closed Best Buy (formerly TJMaxx) in the middle of the corridor as well as an elevator where the Best Buy entrance was. When Filene's Basement went under, it became a Tuesday Morning thrift shop, but it didn't survive long. The escalators were eventually removed and the floor tiled over. The theater was originally a Hoyts and the crowds it drew were impressive. I'll remember the streams of people coming up and down those stairs on a Friday or Saturday night in the mall's better days. To this date, some of the original store entrances remain like Structure (even after Express bought them) next to the closed JCP on level 2.
In the end, it just couldn't stand the test of time and regional pressures from places like Emerald Square, Providence Place and the ever-enduring South Shore Plaza.
Was Ground Round the closed restaurant across the hallway, from what obviously once was Ruby Tuesday? Now that closed restaurant makes sense to me, if that was the case.
Actually the lot where Lechmere's was actually became a Steve and Barry's at one point but it didn't last too long.
@@Robloxnoob214 Good point! I had forgotten about Steve & Barry's. Edited my OP.
@@BoratWanksta Yeah. The Ground Round was across from Ruby Tuesday in the Sears wing on Level 1.
@@datadyne007 Thanks for answering my question.
Good job, son.
I worked there for a short time in 2001....the nights were always dead. Its sad to see it go. Lots of good times spending the day with my nieces...doing shopping,eating and a movie.
I notice a theme with malls that were built (or even renovated) in the late 1980s/early-mid '90s (especially the '90s) that they always seemed to have some sort of greenhouse/conservatory look to them with lots of skylights and I mean LOTS of skylights, triangle pitched roofs over the main concourse or hallways in a mall, and lots of glass. Have you noticed that? Like for example: The former Irondequoit Mall/Medley Centre, both the York and Johnstown Gallerias, The Mall at Greece Ridge (even though that was originally two separate malls that were built in the 1960s but were attached in the 1990s), the current Shoppingtown Mall, Palisades Center, even possibly the Walden Galleria!
Also I kinda find it ironic that after the 1990s in like the mid-2000s (at least slightly before that whole stretch of time where barely any NEW enclosed malls were ever built in the US which was, I believe, between the years 2005/'06-2012/'13--especially during the Great Recession) all the new malls that were built at the time had WAY FEWER skylights or natural sources of light and looked more like a ugly-ass cavernous wearhouse industrial looking place (like Pittsburgh Mills). Any reason why?
I have so many memories of this mall growing up and it still bums me out it's been demolished. Shocked to see the House of the Dead arcade cabinet in the food court was still there from when I was a kid, used to play that while waiting for my grilled cheese and vanilla frapp from Brigham's Grille (RIP). That huge arcade and bowling alley was a somewhat "recent" addition, by the way, the mall was pretty much already dead prior to it being added. There were talks for almost a decade of turning it into a casino/demolishing it and putting a casino in it's place but that never came to fruition. I miss this place so much.
Thanks for the upload. This was biggest and best mall around growing up
When I used to go there first thing I do eat at the Japanese food ( Sarku ) or B king and then take a walk around the stores . I watched 8 mile there ( my first movie in US) . Things were différents people were humble and Taunton were cleaner .
The electricity bill for the arcade !!!!! and no-one there !!!
was thinking the same thing. it will be gone next year if it keeps going like this
Oh round 1 does great on the weekends!!!wild mad busy
We have places like this down the shore in jersey, dead and empty on weekdays but packed on weekends! That just arcades for ya
@@bigliftm its been going on for 4 years already
Free Saxon oh no it’s busy alright, just on weekends
It kills me to see this. I spent my teenage years here as a mallrat between 2002 and 2005. Got my first job at the Hot Topic here.
Nick Manning same it hurts to see it close because you know... it doesn’t feel good to have a place where you spent your childhood and or teenage years just close and it’s pretty sad ngl.
I was sad to hear that they began demolishing the mall over a year ago. I spent a lot of my youth here with my friends. Pretty much every weekend in the mid/late 90s. It was thriving back then. Last I went there, it was virtually barren, unfortunately. I miss this place.
Have to confess when I saw the name of the mall I thought you were filming in Nevada where the same Silver City covers casinos, hotels, everything. Another terrific video as always. I feel you need to include the dark, real life sides of these properties (the news clips.) This is as much a part of the history of the mall as much as the stores that populated it. Crime can be a factor in accelerating the death of a mall.
I think this mall is on it's last breaths when even smaller stores are closing. Charlotte Russe is dead and I suspect other stores will follow. The arcade, though mostly empty, I think keeps the mall breathing. Probable gamers and others come later in the day for fun. The bowling alley looks awesome, Wallie B would be at home there.e
Don't know how much life this place has left. If Dicks closes it's done. And ashame it has some decent design features and looks bright and airy. Other than the dead wings.
Bertuccis is one of my favorite sit down restaurants. Either before or after the stabbing, and unrelated, they filed for bankruptcy and closed a number of locations. They are New England and Mid Atlantic based. They had a restaurant in my hometown, Jersey City for over 15 years. Then got an email they were closing in FIVE DAYS so asked fans to come over and say goodbye. THe manager told me they raised the rent to such a ridiculous level Bertuccis corporate did not want to pay it. Claimed a new and hip restaurant was coming in soon. THat was over a year and a half go. If you get to an open Bertuccis try the in house made pizzas and pastas.
This mall was in such great shape and it’s a shame they tore it down! I miss this place so much 😢
thank you! I really enjoy your videos.great work.
This was a fantastic treatment of this sad subject. Another home run, Ace!
I worked in that mall as a hairdresser during that stabbing incident and years before that. That mall was already SOOOO dead years before that incident took place. I remember growing up how awesome this mall was, and it was packed. Now with everything moving to online shopping, these malls just can't compete. It makes sense too, you can sit on your coach and shop at majority of those stores in the mall and a bunch of others while your at it, all with the tap of your finger. Malls don't have a fighting chance.
I hope they come up with VR malls. That would be cool
You are right to a certain degree,but malls have been thriving/dying even when I came to existence in the mid seventies. Certain malls like this mall was dying and now defunced in 2020 and demolished in 2021. This is because it was a c or d mall. Malls like South Coast Plaza, Tysons Corner Mall are thriving because they are categorized under the A mall or upscale malls.
Looks like a nice mall too bad it appears to be wasting away.
We recently got our first Round One in the Milwaukee area at Southridge Mall taking a part of the old Sears space ( Dick’s took the other part).
Also round 1 is bumpin on Fri and Saturday. It already getting a bit ratchet!! Good fun tho.
Chris S yeah it’s sad
in person it’s actually kind of gross
This is my favorite mall I went here all the time during my childhood
You're right that crazy things happen in malls, I was working at the now defunct GetHappy candy store in Woodfield Mall in 2019 when the SUV crashed through Sears and knocked over a bunch of kiosks, thankfully no one was hurt or killed (the guy planned out his attack with over 116 Google searches of the interior prior to him ramming it with his TrailBlazer)
George Heath, the man who was stabbed and killed in this mall, was my teacher for a short amount of time in GNB Voc Tech.. I took the exploratory program, and one of the classes I previewed was visual design, which I took for a bit before taking classes in other fields to decide what vocation I wished to pursue (I chose IT). Heath taught us during that short period of time. He was a good guy. It was really shocking when I found out he was killed so brutally.. To me, he'll always be "Mr. Heath".
I have been walking this mall once a week or so for the past 12 years So sad. To see how many stores have left and gone out of business. I can still walk around and name what every vacant space used to be
I live in this area and grew up going to this mall. It had been declining for quite a few years before the attack at Macy’s and Bertucci’s, and while the eventual full decline wasn’t immediate after it, it did sort of seal the deal. I can’t imagine this mall will ever see a new tenant again. Part of it is now used as the Taunton campus for the local Bristol Community College, and part of it has that Round 1 and a Regal Cinemas, both of which are extremely new (no older than 4-5 years) and in great shape.
There’s photos on labelscars webpage of this mall back in 2006, where it looks like it’s seems to be thriving in those photos. Also that Kaybee toys labelscar are at 10:57 is sick
Welcome to my mall! I live in Taunton and its been a down streak for 10 years. The shooting just iced the cake. The house where he shot the lady, is right down the street from where I live.
I gotta check this mall out since it's in my area!
Mr.HalloweenHaunter please do, you’ll have the time of your life. Just watch out for security there because there a bunch of you know whats
It look like square one mall at Lynn ma
Im going to miss going to Round 1, fye and eating at the food court with the guys on a weekend. If only we did this more often. We didn't know what we had.
The designs of this mall is pretty cool
I moved less than a mile down the road only two years after this mall opened. The place was at or near full occupancy, and it jumped. So many great Friday night memories with my first wife at the Suncoast Video, and the Ground Round for dinner. The Great Recession did a real hatchet job on it, and the mall never recovered. Even as it was dying, there were still minor upgrades, and the structure was well maintained to the bitter end. The one store I'll remember was FYE, one of the last open anywhere in America, I gather (still open winter 2020).
That arcade/bowling place is epic! Pretty sure it’s bigger than the one we have here at the Mall of America
I had a mallwalker berate me here for, in her observation, only taking pictures of areas with no people, claiming it wasn't dead. This was on a Saturday afternoon.
The Caldor Rainbow weird, malls are thriving in my hometown, LEXINGTON, ky. And lots of high end stores, $450 Oxford shirts anyone? Me neither.
The mall is dead because of the stupid mall walkers they are annoying they just walk around and never buy anything.
@@basillah7650 Blaming the mall walkers for mall's decline ain't it, chief. Most of the mall walkers until the pandemic hit usually come inside the mall to walk around until the mall opens up. The reason why the mall is dead is because of online shopping and was financially in trouble since the depression in 2008 and the stabbing incident. Mall walkers are not to blame, there are malls that are still open but dying financially..... online shopping is more to blame than mall walkers plus the pandemic has hurt the malls financially as well. Bottom line: Don't blame the mall walkers.
The end was hilarious! Great catch!
When I was young (90’s)this mall was so packed you could barely move. Strange how society has changed
First time I went to the USA was way back in 2003 to visit relatives in Fall River. They took me several times to this mall, have fond memories of it. It's a shame knowing that it was demolished relatively recent.
The food court is down to ONE place to eat. It's called "Bourbon St Grill" but instead it just serves bad Chinese.
As of January 2020, American Eagle, Olympia Sports, Game Stop and Hot Topic are all in the middle of "store closing liquidation" sales. Other stores are in clearance sales but aren't saying "Closing"
The only stores that don't fall under those categories are the Nail Salon, Cel Fashion repair store, and other one-off stores.
The WOW gym, movie theater and Round One game room/bowling alley seem to be where the action is. Dick's Sporting Goods also seems to be surviving. Ninja Marshmallow and the Gundan Pros? shop are interesting additions, but probably not enough to save this mall.
It the mall management had any sense, they'd move all the remaining stores to the area in between the theater and the arcade , which would make it look more alive than it is, then close off the rest of the mall and redevelop it.
As it is now, it's not worth walking all the way to the other end of the mall only to discover there's 3 open stores on that entire end. The Taunton area cannot support a mall like this, which feels like it's out in the middle of the woods.
Also, the escalators are frequently broken, and then closed off, making you have to walk all the way to at least the middle just to change floors.
The way things are going, I give this mall 6 months, tops.
What a beautiful mall. It's a shame to see it in such a critical state. I especially love the arcade. One of the nicest I've seen yet in a mall. This said, moving forward, I wish the mall the best. Thx for sharing, Anthony.
It's demolished now. Rumored to be turned into a FedEx facility. Ugh.
holy shit, this is insane. i grew up with this mall, and have so many vivid memories of me and my friends hanging out here, just walking around. i remember when they remodeled the whole thing, and to see such potential for such a beautiful building go to waste is heartbreaking. ive seen the beginning and the near end of this mall, and honestly i dont have many words for the shit that's gone down at this place. i had so much hope for it, and to see that it's officially gone for good brings me to tears a bit. not to say that this is a surprise, because it truly isn't. it had it coming since the start, but it still sucks to see it go. all those happy little memories gone and replaced with whatever they put in its place, if they choose to put anything at all. beautifully made video though, didnt think this mall would ever really be recognized for the forgotten piece of work that it is.
When the Swansea Mall started to be too depressing it was nice coming here to a more lively mall even in the early 2010's but after that stabbing, this video is very much a typical day there. I've seen more life in there around the Christmas season and the food court is very nice. Some days are better than others, though. There might be a chance for this mall to make a comeback. They have to do something about the exterior, though. As nice as the inside is, the outside looks very dated and the parking lot feels like it hasn't been paved since the 80's.
Update: This mall will close by the end of February 2020.
Doom Reverb Not true...I’ve got family in the Managment company, where’d you hear that? Some more stores are leaving but it’s not closing..
@@redwingscuj031 heard it from people working in the mall. I asked when it looked like every store was having a closing sale. I think it's pretty obvious the place is closing unless it plans on just being a Dick's and Round 1 with a huge storage place that used to be a mall.
Another follow up: Tennants received eviction notices and the main entrance is locked. Odd behavior for a mall that isn't closing. Nothing to see here.
Beautiful mall. 💙 I wish I could have the Round 1 arcade all to myself lol😹
Thank you for sharing
It was sad to walk through there in the final days , what a ghost town . Bye Silver city Galleria. Ty for the good times
go to it on a friday night, i live in taunton and it gets a lot of people usually
Yeah. I remember last time I went there for a movie with a friend on either Saturday or Friday night it was packed
yea fr it started going downhill after 2018 tho now not many people go there
my friends and i would go on friday’s or saturday’s and it was always empty :/
That mall is big. But smaller than Northridge mall in Milwaukee. I think Round 1 is a Japanese owned arcade? Great job on the video!😁📸
Round 1 is Japanese owned.
It’s also a bowling place
I live near this mall and have been going there ever since I was little, it's so sad to see such a great mall fail and die. Actually when the current owners bought the mall out in 2014, the mall actually saw a face lift and was slowly coming back to life but that didn't last long because of the stabbing that you talked and the casino plans not going through which was going to go across the street from the mall. I really hope this great place come back to life, but at least they still have a few good things life!
I've been to the Silver City Galleria countless times. I remember going to when it was still brand new. I went to a regional high school in the area and it was a convenient central location for my friends and I to meet. We began as "mall rats" and many ended up working there.It's sad to see the place in such a state of decline. In the 90s and early 00's it was booming. It had everything you could want, a robust food court, a 10 screen movie theater, several restaurants, and solid anchor stores. There were hardly any vacant suites and if there were they wouldn't stay empty for long. I would say the major decline began with the recession in the late '00s. By the time the shooting happened it was already limping along but that tragic event was literally a death knell.
The location was ideal as you mentioned it is right at the intersection of Route 24 and 140. Far enough from the Independence Mall, Hanover Mall, and South Shore Plaza in Braintree. It certainly hurt the old Taunton mall (which is referred to as Mill River Mall in this video). The other mall that would have been heavily impacted was the Westgate Mall in Brockton, MA which at one point was essentially a dead mall but it somehow has made a comeback and while only a shadow of it's former self seems to do well enough. There was literally nothing in that area just farm land and residential areas. Heading north on Route 140 where it's all built up now with Home Depot, Target, Kohls, aand restaurants etc. that was all built after the mall.
At one point the property was under consideration to be turned into a casino after casino gambling was legalized in Massachusetts. Very recently the current management company began doubling/tripling the rent there effectively forcing out most of the smaller tenants. I believe the plan is to now convert it to living space and or office space.
i miss that mall, beautiful place.
This was a great Mall at one time! I used to drive there from Cape Cod to shop!
It’s sad but fascinating to see the slow decline of these malls. And this one’s not really that old, wow! Thanks for including the news story as a point of reference. We are new to your channel and enjoy seeing the dead mall videos. Our local mall in Wichita, Kansas just went up for sale. It’s not quite dead yet but headed towards it. We made a vlog about it, if you’re interested. All the best, Keith & Abby 😊
I remember this place when I was small now that I live in Portugal Azores I never knew it's gone sad but we had beautiful memories.
Very nice footage, pretty clean mall
This used to be the hottest mall in the region. It's death spiral started accelerating 2015-2016 when all the major anchors started pulling out one after another. Place was practically a ghost town whenever I went in. The only reason I even go to the mall is for Dicks, Round 1, and the movie theater which they kept.
That bowling/arcade place looked awesome. Have not seen anything on that scale in years. Also fun to see the movie theater actually inside the mall, I always liked that. Too bad it's all fallen on hard times for various reasons.
i would go to that mall once or twice a week growing up its sad that it fell apart.
I hope round 1 stays around somehow..... since I discovered this mall, this mall seemed always dead but it was a awesome looking mall. Not much to do on Cape Cod, so round 1 was a small getaway for a day hanging out with the guys. Its sad. Welp. Wish never granted sadly it closed and the mall was demolished....im going to miss going here.
Surprised to see such a recent video on this place. I was there a day before the "incident". Haven't been there in a few months as I don't recognize a few of the stores. A big part of my childhood was made here. Family owned a small jewelry place. It closed down not long after, along with the other businesses. Still go to the Round1 arcade whenever I can. The cinema and arcade is tying this place together, for sure.
Some say you can still hear Junt complaining about the soda machine that ate his money to this day on the lot.
That breaks my heart seeing that arcade with so much potential and looking like a neon glow ghost town. Malls are dying and arcades are too. 😔
And I have a pretty cool idea for you! Why not see about getting reproduction prints of mall layouts (you are here) maps and sell them? Would be a way for people that love the mall atmosphere to invest in some cool memorabilia.
Just a thought.
Arcade family fun centers are dying if they are part of a mall. They aren't doing too bad if they are in their own spaces.
I was there today. 5/27/2019. It is very much alive. True a few stores have closed. However it's not dead. We can't keep dwelling on the past! I beg to differ. Ups n downs r part of life 🙂
Is that a peep show that Anthony was in at the end? lol. Amazing that a big arcade/bowling alley would want to be in a dead mall. Here in Michigan, the only location Round One's in is at the successful Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills.
Round 1 has opened at other malls that are showing signs of struggling, like Stratford Square in Bloomingdale, IL. And I was really shocked how dead the one at Silver City Galleria was per Ace's vid, since whenever I've been to Stratford, the Round 1 there always seems to have at least some customers playing the games inside there.
I'm genuinley surprised to see this mall in such a state. I always liked this mall a lot more than Emerald Square.
What a beautiful arcade and bowling center.
Used to be one of my favorites growing up :(
Same tho 🖐
The mega arcade/bowling thing usually works for drawing traffic back to malls and making use of dead anchors. I wish they would do that here in Colorado Springs as we have two dying malls. Interestingly enough, they're putting one (not sure of the brand but it's not Round One) in a recently deceased standalone K-Mart, although it's in an awkward part of town so I'm curious as to how it will do. The Citadel Mall has had a huge dead Macy's for 10 years and now they're turning it into a K-8 charter school! Anthony if you're ever in Colorado Springs go check out The Citadel Mall. The fountains in the food court are beyond fabulous.
I going to miss this place, but the stabbings isn't the only reason this mall is closing also because the owner thought there was going to be a casino moving into the mall, so the owner raised the rent and none of the stores could pay it. So a lot of the stores closed and people didn't shop there anymore. Also they sold the mall for 7.5 million dollars.
This mall reminds me of the Galleria at Tyler mall in Riverside, CA.
The mall has as of recently been reduced to rubble. Torn down completely leveled. I have some photos of it if you want them.
I was at the mall monday the day before xmas eve and I could not believe how dead it was maybe 40 cars out front it looks lovely inside very clean and well decorated for Christmas wasnt looking for anything in particular it's great for those comic book type stores fye and another model shop was open the arcade blew my mind how much stuff is in there and how big it is just hardly any people it was eerie and weird so much of it is boarded up they should move everything that's open closer together I walked both floors to see what was left and huge chunk of bottom floor beside Victoria's secret was just nothing and upstairs was the same Santa's grotto was set up in the middle and no line and saw 2 kids total with santa. The food court had 2 options open, asian buffet and Burger King a line of 4 people in front of me was probably the most people I saw there in one place and it wasnt until I ordered there that I realised Burger King was open hidden behind a column for the building . It's such a shame to see a really nice looking mall so abandoned I'll still go there to support the place
The arcade is so cool its sad the mall is gone now
A few years ago I commented on one of your videos saying that you should do this mall...
Man that arcade looks amazing. That would be the best arcade ever
Online shopping has put a major hurt on Malls, coupled w/the previous recession. Although I generally avoid going to MA anyways. The last time I went to a Mall in MA was when I was helping w/a store remodel for Ames Dept stores in Hanover.
I have noticed that the latest trend in dying malls is to get one of these bowling/bar/restaurant/arcade places to open and take a good number of storefronts. So far, the ones I have seen don't draw much of a crowd.
we have one here and it does really well.
This mall is now being actively torn down. They did update it several years which is why it looks so nice (and because I'm sure it's been as dead since then). The 2016 stabbing wasn't the first one, there was another murder maybe in 2005. As many other said I spent a lot of time and a lot of money in that mall. There was originally 2 grand staircases in the center as well. When it's gone this is the only way we'll be able to visit again!
I went to the Food Court and ate at Bourbon Street then went to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at Regal Theater in March 2018. I was a patient at the VA in Brockton MA and they took us there on an outing. It was dead that day too. We were the only ones there
Closing by the end of February 2020. I was there yesterday (Jan. 19) Almost everything is gone and closed already. Everything is 50% off at Hot Topic, Bath and Body Works is having a good sale. Yankee Candle is practically giving away what's left. If you happen to see this before then and live in the area I suggest you go soon. Otherwise, its pretty dead. FYE still overpriced as all hell with phony sales like "buy two used CDs get one for $1" oh wow what a deal...
@@Halo71Freak I think that operates separately from the mall and will remain open. Same goes for the cinema and I think Dick's.
Omg this is my local mall. It’s very dead and we need a bump up here. Remember when I was little the mall was beautiful and now it’s dead ready to close down. I really hope the mayor of Taunton someday would so something to this mall I remember so many happy and great memeores but also some sad and terrifying memories the shooting defintley made the mall decline even more. When I was little there was JCPenny and Macy’s and Sears also Best Buy all of them gone Round 1 was very popular at first when it came to the mall and now it’s very dead like you mentioned in the video. I remember the Disney store in the mall now forever closed. So sad to see my childhood mall going down the drain. I’m only 13 and this mall is going to last maybe only 2-3 years until it’s done. Hope they turn it into something fun for the City children to do. Best mall around to go to is Dartmouth mall and Emerald Square mall Swansea Mall has closed last month and it was so sad to see that mall go to but I’ve heard they are planning to turn the mall into something better for the town. Great video and love how someone has finally came to Taunton see the disaster of a mall we have!!!
Yeah but I bet it didn't make matters better for the Green. Hopefully if this closes which it will, they will clean up the Green and bring it back to its former glory
For anyone wanting an update, the Mall has officially closed although the Arcade is still open running out the anchor location.
I worked in this mall in various locations over 20 years, it's crazy how insane it was compared to how dead it is now.
It was the first of its kind in the area, and basically was the biggest mall around for like 5-10 years until Providence place opened (1991 or 1992?). After that you could see the parking lots were about 2/3rds full that holiday season. Then a few years later they fixed up the North Dartmouth mall and route 6 area and that dropped it down to 1/3rd or less full parking lots.
That plus the internet and the city of Taunton allowing multiple big box stores surround it pretty much killed it.
A few years ago there was a chance of redemption in the form of a casino across the street that would have worked with it in a variety of ways, but a handful of people fought against having it in their neighborhood, thus nailing its coffin.
It's a nice place to walk during the day, with the exception of workers or students(yes there's a college in it) you might only see 10 people.
The arcade/bowling alley and theater are really nice, but not enough to save it.
nineteensixtythree clothing yeah that’s true and very well stated
I live 15 minutes south of the mall and have been waiting for you to do this. It was a big deal when the mall opened. Celtics players and other actors showers up for the grand opening. Mall has been dean for years though and the Dartmouth mall that people thought would go out of business because of the popularity of this mall is still going strong. ....used to go here with my boys to talk to girls.
Diggin' the outros lately.
I like the into!
I had no idea that SCG was failing this badly. Westgate Mall in Brockton is the next domino to fall along this corridor.
What a shame... this is a great looking mall. I would have thought 12-15 years ago it would have been a bustling place. The United States is overmalled and that was a major reason for much of the dead or now repurposed or demolished malls. But now Amazon is keeping people home and Walmart is feeding at the bottom of the barrel. There's very little left for the average brick retail business. That arcade and bowling alley is really excellent... it's sad to not see group of people there using it.
Mark Innes people still come, but the mall is too big to sustain a profit
Wow... Round1 in this video is depressingly dead. We are getting a Round1 as well as a Hobby Lobby in the former Sears at my local mall. The store is supposed to open in 2020. My local mall is always busy so it makes sense to open a Round1 there. But it makes no sense to me to open a location in a dead mall like this. I looked at the companies financial reports and this location at Silver City is one of the lowest performers, which doesn’t surprise me.
Collin don’t worry, it’s only like this in the morning and on weekdays
A lot of money got thrown in this property, yet it felt sketchy and claustrophobic the two times I went there. Been too long, but seems to me two anchors left early in the game, one of them Lechmere. Meanwhile, nearby Dartmouth built into quite a power center -- not too many from the southeast trekked up to Taunton.
There was talk of putting a casino nearby. Why not here? Retail will probably not rebound on this property.
I knew co workers who knew the attacker. I was working 4 miles away and remember hearing the sirens. The man who died in Bertuccis was the shop teacher across the hall from my shop in high school. Mr Heath was a really nice guy. Its still surreal these years later.
I usually go to the Round 1 arcade there and play the Japanese games.
Elijah Parker lmao
Honestly I go to this mall relatively regularly and it's not as horribly super dead as this makes it out to be, Sunday's are just like this. Round 1 and the Movie's are filled with people on Fridays and Saturdays and there's a pretty large crowd walking around usually for a Mall like this.
Nu Gundam i beg to differ there is a whole wing that has literally no stores
The mall is dying but as a local as well, I gotta say that it gets unusually filled up on Fridays and Saturdays since that's when people are off of work/school.
The ending was awesome.
That's what she said.....
The architecture of this mall seems very, eerily similar to the South Park Mall in Strongsville, OH. Wonder if this was the popular style of architecture around the time these were built.
It kinda does. But after watching enough of these they all look the same.
That’s a huge gorgeous mall
If it’s got a Round1, then there is hope for this Mall yet 🎳👾🕹
Curt Wakeman it replaced another arcade though that died hard
It's so sad to see this mall the way it is now I have never been to this Mall but remember hearing on the news what happened there with the stabbing in the resturant Sadly Malls are becoming extinct now that the online shopping is available. I live in Massachusetts I live near Leominster where The Mall at Whitney Field is used to be called Searstown Mall that one is also on the decline and probably won't be open much longer JcPenny and Burlington are the only big stores left a lot of stores have left that mall haven't been in there since the Summer they did do a remodel but they def need to get some stores in there I used to love to go to the mall now I stay home a lot and shop online :)
Dead Malls and Homelessness, sounds like an opportunity to me.
Yeah, why not?
That's a great idea.
I'm a Taunton local. Never knew all of this about my local mall...but I can tell you, it's fully closed now.
From what I've heard, all the stores have moved out and it's to be torn down and made into some sort of housing? I don't know if you ever do revisits of smaller places like this, but if you do...I'd love to see this place one last time.
I actually opened the first Arcade here, this was one of my stores.
Up across from food court near sears entrance? Next to game store?
Just got word via WJAR the Galleria will be staying open, the new owners sealed the deal.
What an awesome arcade. In the 90s you wouldn't be able to move in there
Damn I’m from Taunton, I spent my teen years walking the mall and watched the malls slow death, it’s really sad to see honestly. Especially there’s no where in Taunton for kids to hang out or go.
wow havent thought abought this mall in like 10 yrs i live north of this state but used to go there for work a lot to bad to see it dying
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