DEAD MALLS OF TEXAS 2 - Collin Creek Mall - Plano
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- This video just randomly deleted itself... So this is a re-upload. Anyways here is my second video in my series of Dead Malls of Texas! Sorry for such a huge gap between this one and my last one (Valley View) completely forgot about Collin Creek and didn't expect it to be as dead as it was! If you know of any dead malls in the DFW area or even in neighboring states please let me know so I can film them! Please check out my other Urban exploration videos!
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If you are unable to understand what I'm saying at certain parts because the music floods out my voice, I've now added captions so please turn them on! :)
I know I'm late af but no, the music wasn't playing in the mall lol I just added it in.
@@zeroxlulu please dont do that anymore...quite annoying when the video and your narration is all that is needed
This is just heartbreaking. I grew up at this mall.
What's heart breaking is that you actually grew up in a mall...
I lived in the neighborhood just behind the mall. I can remember us having to walk to the mall during the Christmas shopping season because there would not be a single parking space left.
Have you seen the rolling giant?
@@lourdespachla6516that times was't not because is people in here and the rolling gigant is later
I remember when it was just a huge field. We used to to live across the street in what was then called Creekwood Apts. Nice apts back then, now it’s a dump. I started working at Luby’s in the mall in 1983 when I was 18.
Did you ever go to the Belz factory outlet mall in Allen?
My dad was a co-owner of that arcade at 10:50
it's since gone out of business, but alot of great memories were made hosting local gaming events there
there is no way, dude, i LOVED your arcade so much. me and my dad used to play there every time we visited
i was in this mall on opening day 1981. i was 15. hastings records and camelot music were my favorite stores, bought many many records there. my first girlfriend and i walked for hours in this mall, would run into friends all the time. im truly sad to see how its changed...
The "Village of Shops" of which you spoke was really on the lower level, below the food-court. The Food Court has always been in the upper-level central point of the mall where it is now.
The "Village" on the lower level was reachable from the food-court directly via the elevator on the opposite side of the the dining area or from the stairway next to the anchor space (formerly Dillard's).
This is so sad. I remember when they broke ground to build CCM in 1979. The first store to open was Sanger Harris over on the SW "corner" with the mosaic decorative on the outside. I think it opened in 1981. Lots of happy memories there. Malls for us high school aged kids weren't about shopping, per Dr, it was about the socializing. This was pre- Facebook, internet, cellphone...neck , we didn't even have computers!
Yes! There was a river walk! There was a river that connected the fountains. The main place we hung out was at the river walk under the food court, which was on the upper level. You could get to it by escalators or an elevator, or stairs.
I actually had a job at Germans, they sold leather jackets and stuff like that. It was upstairs . If you were walking towards the food court , before you got to the escalators, Bermans would be on the left , about your 8 o'clock position. In not sure but it looks like that Zales at 6:39 is almost directly below where Bermans was. No! I couldn't see the name clearly , "Charlette Russe?", THAT was directly below where Bermans was, but the Charlotte Russe wasn't there then, something else was.
Man, back in the 80s this mall was always packed! We haunted this mall, Richardson Square Mall, Valley View Mall, and Prestomwood Mall!
Man, Collin Creek is so iconic for me, especially that entrance you can see at 19:20. My mom took me when she went shopping there so many times when I was a kid. My first pair of glasses was from that LensCrafters near the Sears, and I remember seeing that mini golf course every time I came in through that entrance once a year for an updated glasses prescription. I think we still got clothes from either the Sears or Dillard until a few years ago. Really sad for me personally that it’s nearly all gone now, but I guess it really was inevitable.
6 year old vid. So crazy. I remember going to Collin Creek mall in 80s and 90s. There was a great Mexican restaurant there for decades, Tino's. I think of that place every now and then.
I would also like to confirm that there are redevelopment plans in place for the mall and surrounding area; they're not unlike what's happening to valley view but with 100% less demolition. The mall is to stick around for the foreseeable future.
The mall is closing on 31 July 2019. The planned redevelopment looks good, and I hope it breathes new life into the space.
If you need more malls to look at in Dallas, check out Ridgmar Mall, Irving Mall isn't doing well either, and Vista Ridge is empty too.
Yes, the mall did have a large "Creek" flowing throughout the mall, From the middle section of the mall was a large two-tier waterfall which connected to the elevator all the way through to Dillards. It also had smaller areas of water as well throughout the mall. Basically everywhere a seating area is, there use to be a "creek" there.
While not a dead mall, this one is certainly on life support. You may have noticed what I call "corridors of doom" - hallways that seem to be off the main footpath of the mall, usually leading into a closed anchor store's entrance.
You may want to check out some of the malls that sprouted up on the I35 corridor for other places that are moving along in their decline. Vista Ridge and Golden Triangle Mall come to mind. Irving Mall has hit some skids as well, with the only original anchor left being Sears, with a Burlington Coat Factory having replaced the JCPenney that left years ago. It appears to be trying to reinvent itself as an 'urban' mall now, with various ff-brand and ethnic-themed stores taking over from the national brands hat were there when the mall opened in the mid 70s.
Crowdfunding Hell i go to UNT and live across the street from golden triangle. It is SO depressing.
Honestly? I like it. I've lived in Plano all my life and it's part of history. Yes, it's considered "bad" for some of us but for me it's just another part of our history. I went a few days ago and there were alot of people. It's definitely not the best but if you don't have time to go anywhere else, it's a good place.
Another dead mall that I have a connection to.
I used to work at an apartment complex right across the street. I went into this mall not more than five times, but used to go to many of the restaurants/bars on its periphery. The first book I ever bought on the Internet was at a bookstore attached to this mall.
Sad.
This is so insane to me.. I remember going to see santa at this mall when I was a kid. I’m gonna have to visit before summer ends for a sad walk down memory lane.
That personalizing and embroidery store by Sears upstairs used to be a Footaction. I was a part timer there in HS. Lots of memories at this mall. Now its a mixed use space.
Sears at Collin Creek is closing in March 2019 :(
JCPenney & Amazing Jakes are the last 2 anchors remaining after that.
Now they are gone
JCPenney's is staying after the rebuild
Oh my God what the Amazing Jake's part is making me so sad because it is now completely gone
I helped open the Vans store in 2006 or 2007 & it was already a fairly dead mall then. It had a distinct ammonia smell. Many closed stores and I think at least one closed anchor. The 2010 footage actually looks more populated than I saw it when I was helping the store open.
there are so many people in the Plano/Collin County area it is sad this mall is taking a dive. DFW WAY overbuilt on their malls and shopping so now people want the "newest".
With this location in Plano the mall should really be a solid performer still. And the design inside is quite nice. I remember going to this mall in the late 1990s when I was driving through. I have lived in McKinney since 2006 and this was the mall to go to then but not so much now!!!
I grew up about a mile and a half from the mall. I spent a ton of time there in the 80s and 90s. My mom used to drop me off at the daycare center that was in the creekwalk area in the early-to-mid 80s. After I outgrew that (or it closed), I'd go hang out at the Waldenbooks or the B. Dalton or the Babbage's next to Dillard's (yes, I was a nerd). The first time I ate Chick-Fil-A was in the food court. Did driver's ed at Sears in the early 90s. I don't think I've been back to the mall in 20 years. I'm pretty sure the food court had a McDonald's last time I was there.
The daycare center you mentioned....I have a very vague memory of it. It was called 'Kalamazoo' and was located just outside of JC Penny as you entered the Village Walk. There was a fake tree with a face on its trunk as soon as you walked into the daycare. Does any of that ring a bell by any chance?
Collin Creek did indeed have a creekwalk. They sealed it off, but the actual, literal Collin Creek still runs under the mall.
Woah, I didn't even know it had an actual creek running under it, that's actually a cool little fact.
zeroxlulu happy to help.
Wonder why they sealed it off. Where was it located?
Yes i visited this mall in the 80’s i do remember a lot of water and going down to a lower level to a small candy shop. I was 13 or 14 Years old
Thanks for making the interesting video. Nice looking mall. Still has quite a few stores. Liked the architecture.
damn. classic fuckin mall. loved this place.
I remember the Riverwalk.
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it did have multiple fountains making a sort of river through the main center of the mall.
Don’t have any pics but I grew up in Plano in the late 80’s-90’s and yes it is true the mall used to have a much more extensive “water garden” I guess you could call it. Little creeks and fountains all connected. They removed them for whatever reason and just had a few fountains here and there afterwards. Not sure why they did it, the more expansive water works were much cooler.
The floor is so nice and shinny!! Cant beleive this mall is empty. It looks mordern and clean and nothing looks old or degradeted! Strange...
It was remodeled sometimes in the early 1990's and got another face lift around 2005
Me and my grandma used to come here as a kid, my absolute favorite place there was Lisa Frank. Oh, and of course limited too.
Wow. I worked the midnight security at this mall back in the mid-00s, so I saw empty all the time. It was already starting to falter then.
Ate at the food court with my first boyfriend 1985 and just ate at the food court with my last boyfriend 2018. So sad how dead this mall is. I grew up going here. 😢
I'll miss this place.
No way NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY.Bruh.... I am leaging that place its REAL.The oldest view is REAL.
People are trying to redevelop Collin Creek, but some of the land holders and store owners don't want to sell.
I've only been there to go to T-Mobile, but that store has closed. There is a good shoe repair shop there and other local businesses, but national chains have pretty much left.
Wow, just saw a video of this mall just 3 years later and it's gone!
I worked at that Foley's for over 2 years.
Yea back in the 80s Collin Creek mall had a river like set up. And shops that were off of it. The whole side that heads down to Sears was pretty much unchanged.
good lord - that intro, tho... nice walk down memory lane. Should have gone into the games archade. Haven't been in one for years, myself. be interesting to know if there is still a 3rd level. Not sure if they still program in level scores; ppl gotta move up in the world somehow.
Collin Creek had a 3rd floor? I never remember that at all... then again I've only been there like 3 times in my whole life. I didn't see any remnants when I filmed this showing signs of a 3rd floor.
Dillard's had a third floor penthouse.
Woah really? If only I could've seen it before it closed down.
The Dillards store at Valley View had a similar set up, except Valley View was 3 floors and had a 4th floor penthouse. Both stores were built in 1979, and Valley View added a third floor to its store.
Haha I live by this mall. 10 years ago it wasn’t even as bad as it is now, I still go to the jcpennys but I hear they’re about to remodel the whole area so we will see what they do with it!
its no longer a hot topic but we have that style hot topic here in clay new york grate northern mall. the hot topic was turned in to a gift shop but because grate northern is a dyeing mall it was shut down for good. with the new owner taking over i do not know what they are going to do with it
I did plenty of shopping there in the mid 90's when I lived in Plano. what time did you shoot this video and the day of the week. enjoyed the video
Maaaan if I only I could've seen it back then! I believe it was a Saturday around 6-7PM
I remember coming here late 2014 for a birthday party at Amazing Jake's. It's seriously changed so much since then!
Our local Job Lot store has Fidget Spinners for $1.99, so they must not be in anymore.
better shape than Sharpstown Mall and West Oaks Mall in Houston lol
I always thought they would be around forever.
You should visit sikes senter mall in Wichita Falls on a weekday
Is this place known for being pretty slow/dead? Do you know if it would be pretty empty on a Saturday morning? Thinking about maybe going.
Too bad we can't understand a word you're saying. Dump the music.
It sounds completely fine on my phone but watching it on my TV I see what you mean. Probably going to re-edit it.
I’m guessing you watch Dan Bell?
This mall is Dying, while not dead yet, it is in a sad state. I go here every week to walk since it is fairly dead and quiet, and since this video was shot, several more stores have closed or are closing. The employees of stores look bored and literally are doing nothing. Spencers is also closing down and selling things at 50% off, including the store fixtures. During the day even, this mall is on its last legs, the word is it will be likely torn down and made into a mixed use type of facility. This mall is in a prime area with other shopping already close, so something else will be used on this spot.
Oh my goodness all of the stores are now closed down they will be tearing them all down within a few weeks.. for new development
The guy in the left was me in the bunch jump trust I'm board but I get pages well
Lmao so at 5:31 that was really you there?
just so you know, i like bomberman.
And Valley View mall has dead mall too
Zone 2 all soul shards
Not dead yet. You can walk into any mall at 10:00 AM on a weekday and it looks dead.
Eric K trust me it's dead.
Except it was like 6PM... on a Saturday.
As amberlynn said, this mall is dead. I was just there last night to get a few things, and 3 days before Christmas, it looked like it was the middle of the day when everyone was at work, there was hardly anyone there.
I still see people
Stranger things malllll
different mall
I see people