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DEAD MALL - Sarasota Square Mall - Sarasota Florida (CLOSED) | ERA_Productions
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- Hello everyone, and welcome to the Sarasota Square Mall in Sarasota Florida. The mall began life in 1977 with JCPenney, Maas Brothers, and J. Byron's as anchors as well as a 6 screen movie theater. More changes would come in 1979 when Sears would join in at Sarasota Square Mall. The mid 1980s would see J. Byron's close for a new food court, and an expansion for a Parisian. However in 1996, Dillard's would take over the Parisian, and Mass Brothers would be converted to Burdines. In 2002, Westfield would take over, and would rename the mall to Westfield Sarasota Square. A major renovation would take place in 2006, and that would also see a new food court and larger movie theater, and Macy's take over the Burdines name. However, 2009 would see Dillard's close. This space would be demolished for a new Costco. However, 2014 would the Mall at UTC open, and many stores would move out of Sarasota Square for the newer UTC Mall. 2017 would see Sears and Macy's close at Sarasota Square. Today, Sarasota Square Mall is owned by Torburn Properties and is back to its original name. The mall currently sits at less than 10% occupancy, with an uncertain future. Let's take a walk through Sarasota Square Mall in case if we never see it again!
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What are your thoughts on Sarasota Square Mall, and what do you think it’s future holds?
I’ve heard they’re putting apartments over top of it and trying to remake a part of the mail. They might be keeping the movie theater there too
My wife and I live in Sarasota close to this mall we go about every other week. Currently the Costco,theater, and JCPenney are the only locations left. Even the man cave/ pinball/pool game store has closed across the walkway from Costco. Plans are in the works to convert to apartments.
It doesnt have one. I heard its going to be bulldozed and turned into condos.
This mall was part of my childhood growing up. It's sad to see it the way it is now.
941 POSSE represent!
Bradenton/Palmetto/Sota
This mall was bought a few months ago by a development company. Plans include razing the mall but retaining JCP, Costco and the movie theatre as freestanding structures. A new open air lifestyle center will be built with restaurants and some shops. Additionally there will be apartments and office buildings added.
Sarasota is booming right now and the mall’s location sets in a very desirable and upper income area, specifically Palmer Ranch.
so is the mall still like this now or has it been closed now?
This mall is a piece of Sarasota's history. So many fond memories there, from Babbages to Dream Machine. It's really a shame, but UTC, Covid, and Amazon killed this once booming social hub. RIP Sarasota Square Mall.
@@jm37024 I’m there now, finishing off a Costco pizza. JCPenny, AMC Theater, and Costco are all that remain, along with a small Taqueria and German food vendor in the foodcourt across from AMC. More and more of the mall’s getting taped off, although the Costco seems to be consistently filling one of their side parking lots.
@@jm37024 Still like this. It's even sadder in person.
All the plans to renovate are on track and I bet within 9 months the old structure will start coming down. Agree this area is booming and only 4 miles each way N and S to two world class beaches. It will be a premier place to live and shop.
wild to see a costco embedded in a mall
Costco actually opened at Randhurst Mall, just before that place was demalled. I'm surprised they had an inside entrance here, since my memory of Randhurst(correct me if my memory is wrong), is that this Costco didn't have an inside entrance.
I was just gonna comment on that. I've never seen that anywhere else. In Mexico I saw a Wal-mart connected to a mall.
Wow, last time I was there it was booming. Wild. Crazy.
That's deader than I expected. Wild to see a Costco in there.
Yeah, I was shocked at how dead it was here too
Man, such old memories in this place as a kid...
As a Sarasota native, this was the place to be on a Friday night growing up in the 2000’s. Everyone met up with their friends or crush here and would go on shopping sprees, and hit the AMC movie theater after. I’ve been since it’s become more empty, and it’s sad to see how deserted it is. Whatever this mall ends up becoming, it was a super nostalgic and memorable place to hangout at growing up as a teen.🤘🏼
@@consumerreviews5440 fascinating story !
This is one of the first dead mall videos that actually made me feel a bit melancholic. The first hot topic I had ever gone to was in this mall around 2006-07 ish, and being a tween-ager from Small Town FL, this was a big freaking deal. My best friend's family took us all to see Star Trek on opening night in that AMC in 09, and after a doctor's appointment one day, instead of taking me back to school, my mom let me drag her to see Ninja Assassin. (She didn't like it for some reason.) The last good memories I have of that place were in December of 2015, a few months after my dad passed, I ended up getting as many Christmas presents for my mom that I could afford at the time, and I took that same best friend from 09 with me to see the premiere of The Force Awakens. There was a Sbarro there that gave me a free slice of pizza once too. Thanks guys. Seeing Sarasota Square in this condition is just a monument to fading memories. Hopefully whichever firm bought this mall can turn it into a place where people can continue to make good memories, instead of watching something old fade away.
I did actually return to Florida briefly last year, and took a trip to this mall, and had about the same experience as this video. I walked down each wing, visited the food court and saw the one open restaurant, wondered how the owner of the restaurant's money laundering scheme was going, and decided to bail.
Thanks for all the good times, Sarasota Square. Thanks for the video, Andrew.
Of course! I’m glad to have made this video, to help preserve all the memories you and others have made in the mall!
Hahaha I saw Ninja Assassin here too, a friend from high school worked AMC, so I got to see a lot of free movies 😂
the one restaurant also had a food truck and I think was using the food court space to prep food here.
I worked at the Babbage's in this mall. So many memories growing up here, seeing movies at both the inside and outside theater, eating at the Morrison's with my grandma, loitering in the arcade. It's kind of sad to see it in this state now.
Seeing this place I went to so often in the mid to late 2000s basically completely lifeless is horrifying in such a weird way. Last time I went there around 2018 the lack of Hot Topic, FYE, Gamestop and half of the food court had me confused and saddened but now. . . Man I don't know what to think.
It's just a little capitalism, man
Last time I was there was 2015. Man it's sad to see the decline
Back in the old days that place used to be Poppin but nowadays it is UTC mall getting all of the population
Used to love hitting the arcade and catching a movie there in the mid 90’s. Sad to see it go but it’s been a long time coming.
great video as always:) i love the music choice! the skylights in this mall are so nice
Thank you so much Sophia!
I'm half expecting to see the Rolling Giant popping up at any time!
I was a mallrat in the late 90s and early 2000s and this mall was my main hangout place with my friends, so many crazy memories
It should be made into a housing community for a mix of medium and low income people. Large stores can be turned into multiple units. It could be a wonderful place for families, young singles, and retirees to live together. I imagine some stores would become doctors offices, a daycare center, grocery, etc. The common spaces could have various activities and spaces for social life. I'm not a developer, so I don't know if it's feasible, but if possible it could be the answer to our affordable housing problem. The excess parking lots could have more apartment buildings so the very long waiting list of HUD applicants could have their needs met, too. I have a vision of what it could be, but not the means to make it happen.
Brilliant video amigo! 👏🏻💯 I love the historical date notation, as I remember ALL of them. The 2002 renovation was trash. I remember when this place was a HUGE deal!
Glad you enjoyed! I agree that it would be nice to have kept the mall’s original architecture.
I literally used to go here so much with my family as a kid. I know that it’s been dying for years but I’m still shocked it stood that long.
I remember when that mall used to be packed but as with most malls they’re going the way of the drive in movie theaters!
Good video! Hard to believe this mall has NOTHING left except JCPenney, AMC, and 2 food court tenants.
Thank you! Yeah, I was shocked about that
Always great seeing your videos! Great job!
That large skylight looked awesome!
Thank you! And I agree that the skylights here are awesome!
Something tells me it will become another lifestyle center. Looks quite nice though. I enjoyed the video, Andrew!
Unfortunately I can see that too
🎶 Got those hot JAMS tho!! 🔥
Grew up going to this mall as well as the now closed desoto square mall in Bradenton. It looks unrecognizable now.
It’s crazy how much renovations can change a malls look
The wood store front at 4:46 used to be a starbucks. In the early 2000s my friends and I were hanging out there during summer and I stole a frappuccino that was on the counter lol.
I used to work at this mall. I would walk through the exact same entrance you did every 5 days a week. Walking in going to your right then the second store to your left was a best buy mobile. It still has that best buy blue there. I would open and close. Alot of kiosks through the middle of the hallways were there. The traffic was way different the last time I was there in 2018 working. Still not insane. I remember saying to myself, "This mall is slowly dying" my last few months there
Another great video!🎉
Thank you!
I used to go there back in the day. Didn't know it was that old
Went to HS in Sarasota, lots of time spent there!! Working & personal!! Wow just wow
Used to shop there when I lived in Sarasota from 2012-2020. Hard to believe it's so dead now.
I live in Sarasota, about 10 minutes away from this mall. A development company bought the mall/property. Just waiting for Sarasota County to give all the OKs to the developer..and it will be gone very soon..pathing the way for more condos I'm sure.
I live in Sarasota too, I hate how they keep building more condos for people from out of state to move in without building more businesses for us pre-existing locals to work for. They somehow don't understand that there already seemingly isn't enough jobs and the roads are always congested because of overpopulation. Lived here since I was born in 2001 but now I almost dream of moving away just to escape the stress of having to leave the house 40 minutes early just to go 10 minutes up the street because I get worried I'll be late from how nuts it's gotten.
Used to go here every week... Crazy what happens in ten years.
UTC Mall basically killed all the local malls along with Amazon for most of the shopping. The Crossings at Siesta Key, DeSoto Mall and obviously Sarasota Square Mall are the largest that are quickly closing. I keep on hearing all the different possible use cases for some of these models, but we'll see.
Wow, I drive by there everyday, so many good memories there before. Sad to see it like this. It’s gunna change here now real soon. I’ve been wanting to drone over it capturing it before it gets leveled for condos. Had so many friends from high school that worked here when it was alive and thriving.
From a local…. UTC on University put the nail in the coffin; however, that mall is an upper class mall. Closest middle class mall is in Brandon, FL.
And the Brandon Mall still has
over 100 stores in it!! Unbelievable in these times!
From a local I agree
@@StrongNoah yea but it’s super ghetto now. Nobody likes going there unfortunately.
@@Xavier_Cano To the Brandon Mall? No Way! That mall is not the ghetto!
If you want a cleaner and less old looking depressing example of this, highly recommend the university mall in Tampa Florida
They probably pimped out the few bigger shops as work spaces or clubs, but the rest of the mall is a beautiful dead center with cool ass lighting
Or just hop over to the mall off university Pkwy.
Got to visit and walk around there once. Walking Dead kinda vibes, really strange.
Here in the Tampa Bay Area… my wife and I stopped going to the malls because of all the out of control teens that ran rampant in the mall yelling and acting up. We loved going to the indoor malls but one by one they started closing. I really loved the malls during the holiday seasons because of the electricity of the season. It seemed like everything was at the mall including movie theaters. You mingled around people and could actually speak with people in person and not by texting. I hope one day indoor malls come back and younger people can experience the joy of an indoor mall.
If you want to recapture that holiday magic, visit the UTC Mall mentioned in the video. Absolutely gorgeous and lively during Christmas time.
Damn yeah our mall here in Sarasota is definitely closing down for sure but should have a new Mall in with built-in Apartments on the upper level
So sad 💔😣
they have all the stuff from the old play place boarded up behind the walls, my friends and I were there to see the fnaf movie
You know you see these videos of mall closings all the time and if you live around here [Sarasota Area] you think it can't happen here...Well it is...Gulf gate mall was the first to go and now it is a open parking lot retail area...yes there were other small ones like between the movie theater and parking garage at main and 301 downtown and another at 5 points...I just don't get it we always went to the mall for the A/C. This was one of the more upscale malls in the sunshine state. Seeing it like this is really unbelievable and sad. UTC is just a fraction of what this mall was. Oh and another thing about this mall the traffic access was very well planned out unlike UTC which a 4 year old could have done a better job designing.
So sad to see this, I did not get the chance to see it in this condition. I worked here for many years, for Waldenbooks, PaperBack Booksmith, Hickory Farms, had the awesome Aladdin's Castle Arcade across from the original movie theater location.
5:00 1997 I was paid to work in that mall for $5.25 a hour
Amazing video as always Andrew! Judging by commentary here I guess the arcade shut down as I recalled it still being open last I checked. Can you confirm?
Thank you. I don’t believe it was open when I was there.
I was just there yesterday. It's gone. You can't even walk through it anymore, they have most of it closed off
Good video! Thanks!
This hurts. This mall was literally my childhood in the 90s.
The DeSoto Mall in Bradenton is just as bad if not worse
I think all Malls are doomed now.The internet has killed them.
Only in the usa
most of the sarasota square malls closes cuz they moved to utc. nth to do with internet
Probably because UTC mall took over the entire Sarasota area.
Always loved indoor malls. If you go to Orlando there are two thriving indoor malls but yes there are struggling ones too. It's sad because it was part of my childhood.
Years ago, the owner of the mall stop renewing rental space from the retailers because he wanted to sell it to a condo company... i worked in the mall before he stopped renewing contracts, it was a popular place... sad when greed ruins a community.
You should never throw away your old clothes. Someday they will come back in style
I used to deliver in the Sarasota area and I had a delivery in this mall and it looked like a scene in a horror film 🤣
Is the air condition on normal power with it being that dead
I remember this mall. I remember when all the shops were thriving. Sad to see it all close so quickly. I’m surprised that Costco, AMC and JcPenny are still open. They’re barely hanging in there. I call these zombie malls. Malls that are nearly dead, but have like a few shops still open
Check out regency square mall in henrico va. It's basically a ghost town lol.
Got my first job here back in 2003. Gonna be sad to see it go. Smh
Still cleaner than downtown LA!...i grew up here and spent a lot of time at Aladdin's Castle..before cell phones and people would talk to each other...find me a time machine now!!!
If this mall ever comes back, it may be because of this video.
Wow we will regret when all these mall is gone, kids today will not know what it like to live the mall life .
Looks like everything is already closed up?
I remember when it was largely brown and had a stepped fountain full of coins. It's been dying since they changed it.
I remember my mom taking me and my sisters here when we were little kids
Edit: I have so many dreams of this mall it’s just now hitting me that those dreams came from this my dreams look so much like this
Were they actually playing vaporwave music in the mall or did you edit that in?
I wanna know, too!
Drone racing
You know it is such a SHAME the mall went under! I used to go there a lot as a kid!!
Ohh the memories of that golden mall once:
First you had uh a Spinnakers
Restaurant in the entrance of
the mall, you had the movie
theater, you had the SEARS
store, you had Sun Coast
Videos a place I discovered that
was great! 22 years ago they had
a place in there called Big Apple T-Shirts- A place that sold
naughty shirts!
I remember and miss the
FYE store and Spencer’s Gifts!
Ohhh and who can forget about
the FOOD COURT!! Sabazzo’s PIZZA like a REAL NYC Pizza!
I always got two slices!
10 years ago I got a milkshake
from Auntie Ems and it was $8!
Wow! But dam was it good!
Now it’s all GONE!! 😡😡
Whatever happened to that
mall?
Heartbreaking
i lived across the street from there in 2022. Was totally dead then
I really liked this mall. I preferred it over UTC because unless you like Apple products, there's nothing at UTC mall but purses, makeup, women's clothes, and women's shoes. Plus UTC mall has ruined that whole area: it's gridlock 24/7 365 now. Oh well, good for the mall I guess.
The reality is that in most, but not all cases; the mall is dead. Malls in successful places will do well. We have several malls here in Las Vegas that are somewhat non traditional in that they cater to a tourist customer rather than the local market. Who wants to drive to the Strip to shop at the Fashion Show, the best local all-around-mall. The Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace which I understand is one of the top grossing malls in the whole country by sales per square foot. There is Crystal's at City Center, another high end place but not huge. The "local" off Strip malls all pretty much suck. The Galeria at Sunset in Henderson, a dump, Meadows Mall, "Ghettos Mall" old decrepit and just sucks. The Boulevard Mall, the first enclosed mall in Las Vegas - just don't. Lastly, near my home, Downtown Summerlin - a topless mall started before the great recession and languished for nearly a decade before construction resumed going from an enclosed concept to topless. Nice, but nothing to write home about. Dillard's Macy's and an Apple Store. The rest is the same stuff we've all seen before. The two department stores are smaller format with a limited selection.
This is so depressing.
Our malls are doing great up here in tampa Bay.
The UTC mall in Sarasota is still booming, this one just aged out
this mall was so weird to watch die, for the longest time they had one vendor in the food court and then none making costco the only food option. I dont understand why the university mall replaced it as its mostly upscale stores with little charm.
This mall was always mid