DEAD MALL - Uptown Scottsbluff (Monument Mall) - Scottsbluff Nebraska | ERA_Productions

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  • Hello everyone, welcome to Uptown Scottsbluff Mall in Scottsbluff Nebraska! Originally opening as the Monument Mall in 1986, this property would be the only mall in a 100 mile radius, and we have a successful start serving the western Nebraska region. Original anchors would consist of Walmart, JCPenney, and Herberger's. The interior would have enough space for up to 40 in-line tenants, and would even receive a movie theater in 1996. The start of the mall would be pretty successful, until 2002 when Walmart relocated to a supercenter a few miles away, and left their space at Monument Mall vacant for a decade. This would cause the mall to struggle, and things would not get any better when JCPenney closed in 2012. However, the Walmart space would eventually get filled in with a Dunham sports, hobby lobby, and a dollar tree. 2014 would see Rockstep Capital based out of Texas takeover for management. They would try to fill in a lot of the empty store, friends with local tenants, however, it wouldn’t be enough. 2018 would see Herberger's close as Bon Ton stores Inc. filed for bankruptcy and closed all locations. By 2020, the mall would be renamed to Uptown Scottsbluff, and they would try to focus on more community oriented things. Today, the mall does not stand with much left inside. Let’s take a walk through this gem of the 80s!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 42

  • @ERA_Productions
    @ERA_Productions  Рік тому +3

    What are your thoughts on Uptown Scottsbluff, and what do you think it’s future holds?

    • @cardphins68
      @cardphins68 Рік тому +2

      This is a Zombie Mall, lol. The only real question is how long before it is shuttered?

  • @FaithiinJesus
    @FaithiinJesus 5 місяців тому +4

    Grew up on a farm not far away. Remember seeing a sign go up in the field announcing "Coming Soon Monument Mall." Of course, the first few years were amazing. Could tell you many stories, including losing our young son in a very busy Walmart store. Left the area in 1996. Been back a few time, seeing the place with fewer and fewer stores knowing it would probably not last. Thanks for the memories!

  • @ZeeMann_Retail
    @ZeeMann_Retail Рік тому +4

    Dude, that SMOOTH JAZZ in the intro! That alone set the tone!
    Great video overall, as always! This looks like a nice place!

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  Рік тому +1

      I know, right? Anyway, thank you man! It was a really nice mall!

  • @ThresholdDreamer111
    @ThresholdDreamer111 Рік тому +5

    Sweet looking vintage mall with a lot of charm!
    Excellent work covering it. This is what it's all about, getting out to places nobody else has covered before.

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  Рік тому +1

      Thank you very much! I’m glad I was able to get coverage of this mall. It was on my radar for a couple years and I’m shocked no one else has filmed it before me.

    • @freerbt4839
      @freerbt4839 Рік тому +1

      So sad to see it empty... it will be gone soon like the others ones 😥

  • @greggabel7238
    @greggabel7238 4 місяці тому +4

    I am originally from Gering,Ne. My family moved to Wyoming in 1982. The mall opened in 1986. I made my 1st visit in 1987. Over the years stores came and gone. They need to get more stores badly. Open a Zumiez in Scottsbluff.

    • @josiahmontanez1997
      @josiahmontanez1997 9 днів тому

      @@greggabel7238 zumiez, Spencer’s, anything really. I miss going to the mall as a kid and there being stuff to do. Now it’s been reduced to Dunhams sports and a couple small shops. I remember tiger king being there when I was very young.

  • @RayOutThere
    @RayOutThere Рік тому +2

    What a gem! Those plants!!!!

  • @cuddlesthetiger-mallsnmore
    @cuddlesthetiger-mallsnmore Рік тому +3

    This mall is the very definition of "hidden gem". Awesome video!

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  Рік тому +1

      Fr man! It’s been on my radar for a couple years, and I’m shocked, and no one else came out here just to film the mall. It was absolutely worth the drive out here for me. Thank you!

  • @soapmanforu
    @soapmanforu 6 місяців тому +2

    I live two blocks from this mall. They have just done major work and put in a T J Max. Not giving up. Nice video. I remember when it was thriving...

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  6 місяців тому

      Glad to hear about new life coming to the mall!

  • @hallmt
    @hallmt Місяць тому +1

    Radio Shack was right by where the Walmart entrance into the mall. It blows my mind, it’s the only Walmart I have ever seen that you could exit into the mall. Oh that Radio Shack was AWESOME!! Across the way there was “the Meat Shoppe” so random but cool.

  • @slightlymadmom6532
    @slightlymadmom6532 8 місяців тому +2

    When I was a kid, there was a Wal-Mart attached to the mall. People would walk the mall while waiting on photos and such. When Wal-Mart moved to a new building is when the mall died. Some followed Wal-Mart and built next to them. I remember the mall being crazy busy until then.

  • @BoratWanksta
    @BoratWanksta Рік тому +1

    Wow, this mall is really beautiful! I'm glad you went well out of your way, to visit this mall. I hope this mall can hang on, and not be demalled.

  • @Sinn0820
    @Sinn0820 7 місяців тому +2

    I live in this area and I can confirm this is how the mall is 24/7

  • @Optopolis
    @Optopolis Рік тому +2

    Ah yeah this is what I've been waiting for.

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  Рік тому +2

      Glad you enjoyed it man!

    • @Optopolis
      @Optopolis Рік тому +2

      @@ERA_Productions Looks pretty dang good overall. Glad to see it in more recent times. Maybe the current owner can one day get life back into it.

  • @Optopolis
    @Optopolis Рік тому +2

    That Subway though. I see you went in by the theatre. In the video clip I never yet released, I went in through the entry by Dunhams. Looks about equally as full as in my visit, just with a few different stores now than then. It's weird as heck to me that Sears Hometown had a store here, moved out, then moved back into the mall. Lol in my visit, the Dunhams sign kept turning on and off. You'd come back 10 or 15 minutes later and the sign would be back on or back off.... and I didn't notice before that the m and a were combined like that. Fun fact, the Uptown Scottsbluff website encourages mall walking.

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  Рік тому +2

      Did not know that Sears’s Hometown actually came back for a time. That’s really interesting. It’s nice to see a mall that actually encourages mall walking!

  • @Thedford-Halsey
    @Thedford-Halsey Рік тому +1

    Scottsbluff is awesome ❤

  • @samtron5000
    @samtron5000 10 місяців тому +1

    My hometown. I grew up in this mall. It was dead back then too lol

  • @Racingboy-lh3vr
    @Racingboy-lh3vr Місяць тому +1

    Reminds me a lot of hilltop mall in Kearney Nebraska

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  Місяць тому +1

      I hope to see Hilltop sometime in the near future! I believe they were developed by the same company

  • @huntertomlin3523
    @huntertomlin3523 4 дні тому

    Did this mall had a fountain ⛲️

  • @mallaholicretailadventures
    @mallaholicretailadventures Рік тому +1

    I love these small town malls but unfortunately they are going by the wayside because a lot of small cities have suffered job loss in the past and have never recovered. And plus surrounding development as well. These type of malls have a charm to them that you don't see at Suburban malls

  • @LostDepartments
    @LostDepartments Рік тому +3

    Adding "Uptown" to the mall's name is so generic. It's like they're saying "Please come here! This is not an indoor mall!"

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  Рік тому

      For real. That was probably a terrible choice for the company that owns this place to make. They did it with the Janesville mall as well in Wisconsin.

    • @Optopolis
      @Optopolis Рік тому

      Just like the shift from calling pedestrian malls what they are, pedestrian malls. Lol. I don't disagree with them that "mall" has some negative connotations to it these days, but that being said, I do find it interesting at the least they chose to do that.

    • @Optopolis
      @Optopolis Рік тому +1

      ​@@ERA_Productions Side note, and hopefully YT will mention @LostDeparments on this. It turns out they rebranded a whole shlew of malls across the midwest with the Uptown branding. So you'll have Uptown [insertname] for the name of many malls now.

    • @ERA_Productions
      @ERA_Productions  Рік тому +1

      @@Optopolis I noticed that. My buddy @EvansExplores covered the Uptown Virginia mall and Uptown Willmar Mall in Minnesota, which went through the same thing.

  • @MrBaskins2010
    @MrBaskins2010 Рік тому +1

    spooky but frozen in time

  • @Se7enmax9
    @Se7enmax9 8 місяців тому +1

    That’s the obama/biden economy. “All you need is walmart”. The “70’s” Scottsbluff now your talkin. On broadway you had A&W drive-in, Ben Franklin, Bluffs theater, Godfathers pizza, JCPenney, LB. Murphy company, the Midwest theater, Woolworth’s and many many others.

    • @greggabel7238
      @greggabel7238 4 місяці тому

      @@Se7enmax9 I was born in Scottsbluff,Ne in 1963 at the old hospital on East side of Broadway St. I was born just a short walk from the Midwest Theater

    • @hallmt
      @hallmt Місяць тому

      @@Se7enmax9 I remember all of those places. This place was dying a long time before any of that mess, or the current mess started. I miss those days, simpler times. I remember getting toys at Woolworths and going to Montgomery Wards.