Ocean County Mall - Raw & Real Retail
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- This is our walkthrough of the Ocean County Mall in Toms River, NJ from May 2, 2019. This is a thriving mall owned by Simon Property Group in central New Jersey. This is a real good case of blandening, as it was once a very stylish DeBartolo mall, now a very white utilitarian mall. There are very few remnants of the original design near a couple entrances, but for the most part, has been redesigned beyond recognition. That being said, it does well, and has no problems with inline vacancies or keeping anchor tenants. Despite differences of opinion regarding design choices, this mall is doing quite well.
Songs used in this video (in order):
James Clarke - Car Patrol, Title Sequence
Jean Schulteis - Halloween Man
The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Theme From King Kong
Steve Gray - Wonder Groove
Steve Gray - Reach Out
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I'd like to say a few words about being an ambassador to your local malls. We have been taking the time to visit all the malls within a reasonable driving distance to check up on them and see how they are doing. Also filming an updated video every year or so, regardless of the lack of many changes, just so there is a video record of the health over time. We think this is an important thing to keep tabs on, especially in these wildly turbulent times. The current health emergency has accelerated the impending Retail Apocalypse we've all been talking about these last several years. This was already a big problem, but the shutdowns and restrictions have made the issue 5x worse and likely hastened the death of the enclosed shopping mall.
I know we've all been on pins and needles wondering how bad the fallout is going to be from all of this.
There really is no way to know exactly unless we ALL go and do our small part to make it known how it turns out. I implore you, if you have the means to pick an area you would like to be an ambassador for, and go document your local malls. Whatever your medium, it doesn't matter, any and all documentation is necessary and vital in this day and age. Whether it be on Social Media, Flickr, UA-cam, any platform gets it out there and preserves it for posterity. We can't paint this picture unless we all grab a brush...
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Wow this was my childhood mall. Doesn't seem to be doing very hot as I thought. I haven't been in there in a very long time. Thank you for this video 😊🙌
Mine also I miss NJ sooo much
I went to the grand opening of this mall as a kid in 1976 when I first moved to Toms River.
I was at this mall today. Looks like a healthy mall. Very Few vacancies, the former Sears was redeveloped into a mini strip shopping center. The 3 remaining anchors there Boscovs, Macys, JCPenney are still intact and don't appear to be in any danger of closing.
Ocean County Mall is located on Hooper Avenue in Toms River, NJ, near to NJ Route 37 and the Garden State Parkway. Toms River a prosperous growing outer suburb at the Jersey Shore located approximately 60 miles south of Manhattan, 60 miles east of Philadelphia and 50 miles north of Atlantic City. Ocean County has been growing in population over the past 40 years and for much of that time it has been New Jersey's fastest growing county. Going south and west of Toms River the area is more lightly populated and there is room to expand.
Ocean County Mall is not competing with any other major malls in Ocean County. The two closest malls in Monmouth County to the north are Eatontown Mall and Freehold Raceway Mall, both a half hour to 45 minute drive away depending on the volume of traffic. (Traffic is heavier in the summer when there are many visitors and second home owners at the Jersey Shore.). Ocean County Mall has been kept up nicely, it is clean and there is a good variety of stores to appeal to both older shoppers and younger more fashion conscious shoppers. Ocean County Mall should continue to do well since it is in a prosperous growing area and it is well maintained and does not face competing nearby malls to siphon off customers.
I grew up going to this mall. I have since moved out of state. It looks like it’s thriving.
Losing Sears was actually a positive for the mall as they were able to redevelop the space into a town center. Plus with the addition of PF Chang's and Turning Point coming soon, I think this mall will get even more foot traffic at least during summer.
It looks very clean there
A healthy mall means there's not much Spot the Difference to be had:
0:28 - They're putting a breakfast spot in the empty space straight ahead; Turning Point
7:07 - Coach is gone
9:25 - Music Makers is gone
now vr and, Sunstar Arcade!
This long time remember too . I am glad build new la fitness next to mall and tea place!!!!
Went there once that mall is small
Do they charge for the carts to ride in
It seems like all malls in new jersey do well
There are a few dead ones around, but there are a LOT of dollars to be chased in New Jersey.
Yes people joke about New Jersey but the truth is New Jerseyans have high levels of college education and high incomes. NJ is very expensive to live in either very high property taxes so there are a lot of wealthy people that can afford that there.
I want to like this mall, but I can’t. I want to hate this mall but I can’t either. As such I’m left sitting on the fence, which can be quite painful. The place appears successful and can’t be faulted for loosing Sears. In fact in my books loosing Sears can only make a mall better. Unless it’s the only surviving anchor, I guess. We have here a standard Simon mall. Strip it of personality, fill every space you can with a store or a kiosk. Or as is with this case multiple Coke machines. At the end of the day this mall is successful and I’m sure strong ownership has a lot up do with that.
Look up old pictures of this mall. It is a completely different place, full of those funky old tiles you see in Concord Mall in Indiana. The amount of blandification this mall has seen is heartbreaking.
Raw & Real Retail Not surprised with Simon, whoever is in charge with their mall aesthetic and design department is probably a millennial democrat
@@RawRealRetail this mall used to be so damn cool looking on the inside then Simon made it bland as fork and if they had kept it looking original with some tasteful updates it would have been neat . But obviously who ever decided to do this to it has no taste.
Thanks
OMG. Where is that bradless? I thought I had been to all of the remeining buildings!
That was in Hazlet, NJ.
@@RawRealRetail I went there when I was 10 in 2019
It’s a small mall only one floor
I went there on my 10th birthday in 2019
This mall is not particularly busy. The anchor stores do ok. It has seen much busier days, that's for sure!
A mall named after a county? I never saw that before until now. Naming a mall after the county is a good way to make the mall sound like a jail.
Not bad
Glad my taxes are not supporting this mess