Rosedale Commons (Roseville, MN) - a strip mall with a secret dead mall
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- You may have seen plenty of strips malls, but how many have you seen with a basement dead mall inside? Rosedale Commons has only a few empty tenants outside, but it has a nearly empty dead mall in its basement with a mere two tenants.
Rosedale Commons used to have more enclosed tenants but it was partially demalled during its last remodel.
Come check out this secret dead mall a mere half mile from the large Rosedale Center!
Update (12/28/23): YIKES! Even more of this mall has been de-malled. The southern part of the mall is now a two-story furniture store. At least it's being put to use.
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I should’ve searched “dead malls minnesota” sooner because there is SO MUCH underutilized/over abundant retail space in minnesota and I’ve wanted to see some good dead mall content in the area
Back in the 90s, there was Lava Links Mini Golf was in the basement. It was a fun place to bring a date or what not.
EDIT: Actually that may have been Rosedale Crossroads, I never could keep them all straight lol.
I live near here and had no idea this was also an indoor mall! Roseville has so many of these
Have you been inside Hamline Center? They have short hours and I’m trying to find a good time I can get in when they aren’t having classes.
That mall is kind of famous for having "garage doors" that are closed in the winter. The bottom level was originally a outlet mall for Irwin Jacob's retail brand that sold return items. I know because I bought an x86 computer there. That space in the basement later became a women-only workout place. Up above there was a Shinder's magazine store which specialized in comic books and porn. There was also a vacuum cleaner store and a clothing store where Old Navy is.
I live in Roseville and my mom said it’s been a strip mall since she was in high School
I remember that CompUSA. Their nerdy computer guy was fun to watch. He was so condescending towards customers. Then again, I would be too if I was pelted with computer questions all day.
Could he have been on the spectrum? Many struggle socially while being good with technology.
I remember a furniture store called Elements located in the basement of that mall in the mid - late '90s
I was thinking the same thing!
Was Elements a two-floor store? I definitely remember it at least on the downstairs level, possibly in the late 80s. (For the uninitiated, Elements sold fast furniture before fast furniture was a thing.)
Oh man, I used to hang out in this mall back in the 1980s, and I absolutely remember the long enclosed hall. I always thought this was a unique kind of mall that was a hybrid indoor-strip mall. I also totally forgot there was a lower level! That store "Urban Traveler" used to be in the Crossroads Mall where Kohl's, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Best Buy are. That mall actually used to be another indoor mall, but it got gutted and turned inside out for Gordman's (most recently). There used to be like 5 or 6 screen UA theater in there. That Urban Traveler store (now in Rosedale Commons) has been around for at least 3 decades!
This mall was previously Lohman's Plaza
I believe there used to be a movie theater multi screen in the basement years years years ago
Are you thinking about the theater across the street in the Crossroads Mall? I saw a couple of movies there.
I remember going here all the time when i was younger when there was still an old country buffet i didn't even know they got rid of the hallway that went to the former old country buffet i thought they had left it for lucky pub
I was a sophomore in college when I drove to gamestop there. Thought the garage doors were pretty cool. When I came back to the area much later I was bummed when I saw the garage doors were gone.
I went back a few months ago and the place was de-mailed further. I’ll eventually film it, but it was a bummer to see its further de-making.
Literally have gone there all of the time and even noticed the little mall thing inside of the entrance to old navy. Didn’t realize that it had more space though downstairs. That’s wild. You should check out valley creek mall in woodbury.
The area where the Comcast store is and other stores are used to be CompUSA for about a decade. At one point there was CompUSA, ComputerCity (where Guitar Warehouse? is), and Best Buy at its current location. Very nice if you were into computers!!
Wow. CompUSA is a name I haven’t thought about in ages. We had a big store at my local mall in West Nyack NY. I bought my CD burner for my old Quantex computer at the CompUSA store. Newegg just killed them. It was nice checking things out when they were open. Long gone now.
The gamestop there used to be the funcoland before the rebrand. I think compusa got replaced by petsmart than ps got replaced by something else.
Now why wouldn't they have restrooms available to the public? Isn't that required by law?
The Cellar there is my gym, take Muay Thai and BJJ there. Awesome gym with awesome trainers and staff.
And it also had one of the best comic stores in the state
all the shops are closing downtown mpls. are on the edge of closure. where are people going to shop
Probably online... it's not the same ☹️
there was a lifetime fitness in the basement at 5:58. women only. looks like it closed.
Yeah, my wife used to go there. A bit back, my gym The Cellar bought its space and moved there around 2020. You can see our logo there and all that. Awesome place.
amazon shut all malls down for good---the end of shopping have a good time from home because thats soon to be the only place safe to go
Been here many times. The downstairs part of mall is not really a secret. 😂
Unfortunately, it's not much of an enclosed mall anymore either with the new furniture store taking over half of it!