December 9, 2024 - Century III Mall Demolition
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The JC Penney court is gone. The old Rainbow and Shoe Department stores are visible from the outside.
Sadly, I couldn’t locate the round skylight, so I’m going to say it was destroyed.
Awsome keeping up on the updates. Than you.
I was kinda expecting for the entrance of that zone to be destroyed already but nope still its good progress keep up the work!
So when the time comes, do you predict that the main entrance Century 3 Mall sign on Route 51 (as well as the one on Route 885) will be carefully removed and stored somewhere safe, or do you think it will be destroyed like the rest of the mall?
@@GabetheSlacker probally salvaged for parts
They demolished Entry D the next day.
@@MrTsolar hoping you can get a update soon! even tho you do it every like 5 days but still! im guessing macy's will probally be next
@@jaxonl19 I'd like to, but the short evenings and my work schedule don't allow me to get out there too often. It's dark before I even leave work nowadays. Besides, I'm starting to run out of decent vantage points. The hill worked great for the parking deck, but the mall is going to continually get more difficult to film and see the interior. I was hoping that demolition would start with Sears and work the other direction.
Macy's has several mirrors broken on the exterior, plus a rooftop HVAC unit was dragged off and is laying on the ground, so it's likely to come down soon. It was already gutted to a fair degree even when the mall was open.
If you know about 800 more people who could subscribe and binge my channel so I can monetize it, that would help. Just kidding, but seriously, lol.
I actually had the pleasure of visiting this mall back when it was open, still can't believe its gone now, so crazy 😔😔
They made it into the actual mall. Jcpenney is gone. Crazy.
It looks like the round skylight that was right by JCPenney has been smashed!
Yes, confirmed.
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@@MrTsolar Which store do you think will be the last to be knocked down at the mall? Do you think it'll be Montgomery Ward, or Sears?
Wow, they sure are going faster than we thought
The mall lives on as a realm in the backrooms
Wow, that happened quick…
This WAS the place to go in the 1980s. I bought my snow skis at the skiing store. Was it called “The Ski Rack”? I forget…
Its gonna be gone before we know it.
When Century 3 Mall got deemed uninhabitable due to Moonbeam's ultra poor maintenance decisions in 2019 (turning off the heat, not fixing the broken fire sprinklers, etc.), since Dick's Sporting Goods and JCPenney were on separate sprinkler systems and were still open, did they just have the gates for the mall closed in those stores like JCPenney did after the mall permanently closed 4 days after reopening to the public?
The heat and A/C were turned off in mid-2018. The only heat sources in the mall that winter were from the handful of open stores. During this time, Dick’s had their gate open (it was perforated metal and offer no insulation from the cold mall), but Penney’s only had the lower gate open about 2 feet, which was just wide enough for people to walk through. Their gate was solid plastic and kept the heat in the store. The 2nd level gate was closed for the majority of 2018, perhaps even longer.
Dick’s and Penney’s closed their gates after the mall closed, never to be open again for the remaining duration of those stores (I was there the last day for each store, hoping a gate might be open). After the sprinkler line break in February, 2019 closed the mall, it never re-opened to the public. Only store employees could get in to move their things out.
@ So basically, when the mall was deemed uninhabitable, it was already permanently closed?
Honestly, Moonbeam Capital Investments shouldn’t have bought Century 3 Mall, because they promised to make the mall great again, but all they did was lie, and they killed Century 3 Mall!
@@GabetheSlacker The day the notices went up is the day the doors were locked. I drove out to the mall that evening and the mall was closed. Moonbeam allegedly tried to repair the sprinkler lines over several days (according to posts made by the owner of New Dimension Comics), but then handed out eviction notices.
@@MrTsolar So do you know why they turned off the fountain after Macy's closed?
Try your best to get another update!
And it looks like on the main Century 3 sign, you can kind of see where they once had Macy's on there!
The mall built in the early 80s by Ed Dibarttolo suffered the fate of all malls. Gangs crime theft shootings hangout. Stores could not find emplyees willing to put up with the hassle.empty store fronts. The original owners sold out to moonbeam they never planned to run it. Pittsburgh and Allegheny Co.is adrift if U.S. steel goes it will be bad.
I have a book from there.
My family bought a lot of stuff at Century III over the years, but my last purchases were a couple of shirts from Dick’s during their last day. From Penney’s, a suit the last time I was there when the mall was open, and one of the chairs scattered around the store during their liquidation sale.
I was also fortunate enough to secure one of the stars that hung over the fountain from Neiswonger. Turns out that they are made from fiberglass, roughly three feet wide, and were originally painted metallic gold as part of Simon’s Christmas decorations that they hung under the skylights. Moonbeam re-painted them before hanging them over the fountain.
@@MrTsolar wow that's cool. Thanks for sharing those final purchases at Century 3. Been a little depressed over the holiday season because many of our local malls are either closed or closing down soon. Just feeling the sense of nostalgia for malls lately. I miss the malls and just don't have the motivation to do Christmas shopping online.😢
IF your gonna post a video like this please have the decency to tell the viewers where this was located, Country, City, State or province. People from the entire planet have no idea where this is unless you tell them. Thanks.
3075 Clairton Rd
West Mifflin, PA 15123
United States
@@MrTsolar Thank you. Hello from Budapest, Hungary