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River Valley Mall - Lancaster, OH | Slowly Dying
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2023
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Today we visited the River Valley Mall in Lancaster, OH.
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when I was a little kid, I remember going to that place and loving it. there was a Payless, a justice, a subway, a tiny train kids could ride on all around the mall, etc. I go there still about every weekend and everything seems so empty. kind of like the end of an era situation. usually me and my friends go there just to look around but every time I go, it seems like something is missing. it’s like that innocence the mall had is now gone and the mall is slowly dying.
I agree now when I go there barley anyone’s there and mostly just for like Dicks Sporting Goods or like JCPenney or even old navy
River Valley Mall opened when I was in high school, and it was EVERYTHING to a teenager in the '80's. You couldn't go without seeing someone you knew... and there was so much to do! I saw so many movies there and pumped countless quarters into the arcade, which was one of the best arcades anywhere south of Columbus.... good times, sad its dying along with the rest of the malls.
Yeah this mall was at 50% vacant when I used to go there when I lived in Ohio
I worked for Fun 4 U from 2003 to 2006. The store I managed was in Heath but I made it down to Lancaster every now and then to work at that store. I’ll never forget the first day the Heath store made less than $100 in a day happened under my watch. Malls and arcade businesses were even declining back then and we had a Sears open next to us at that time. Foot traffic is such a big thing. The store in Lancaster had an anchor beside it but I can’t remember if it was a Sears as well or something different. When those anchors go, it hurts. Food court is definitely bare. I remember a Wendy’s and Coldstone Creamery that don’t appear to be there now.
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I live in Lancaster now. Every time we see a new vendor pop up here, it is gone a few months later. The parking lot and roads surrounding the mall are full of crater sized potholes. I wish the city would do something to help this place rebound but I doubt they have the $ or resources to do it.
I remember when this mall used to have a bunch of beautiful fountains. I miss them!
It's so sad. I remember this place booming and the place to go on weekends and Holiday Shopping . It still looks nice. Such a shame the malls are dead.
My grandma took me and my cousins there in 1994
I remember when this area as one big corn field. Now if the mall is dismantled, will they return it to being a cornfield again?
Great video!
Was just there yesterday, and can agree.
This footage is borderline eerie
Epic Fail sign is ironic
it's always so sad going here and seeing how soulless and lonely it now. most of the stores are closed now
I would mall here than Tuttle Polaris and Easton
I have to say, I really liked te display at 3:21. Looked very pleasing.
I live in Zanesville and was just there last weekend. I remember going there with my buddies on the weekends because lancaster had a better mall than we did (or so i thought anyways) it is sad that these malls used to be the place to go to when we were young and now they're all dying
Yep, this was the place to be in the 90s and 00s. Saw a ton of movies at that Regal Cinema and eventually bought an engagement ring at the Dunkin’s Diamonds that used to be in there.
Despite it's situation, there's no mistaking it hasn't ever been enriched.
I live right across 33 by the canes..im 31 this place was booming when i was 16-25 i stopped going after teenage years but i kno they continued for few years
It looks better than most old malls inside. Lancaster it still a nice town unlike where most old malls are in ghettos now.
Guessing Namdar Realty Group is bad?
@craigoutdoors30 Yes, it is. That's the reason the mall is failing.
That one wing looks about completely abandoned. That is the way Virginia Centers Commons used to look
NAMDAR? Say no more.
Did he call spencers a hobby shop?
No, I didn't. There is a hobby shop in the mall next to Spencers.
@@JeremysRetailExploration oh ok I guess I never noticed it
It’s called smoke stack
@@Kc8qdq it was a cool hobby shop. I also visited the location in town.
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Did they for sure demolish something? I was a little confused here.
Yes, they demolished the former Hill/Ames/Steve & Barry's space for Cinemark.
@@JeremysRetailExplorationThat is correct, and your assertion was also correct that the former anchor location was directly accessible through those doors.
I had no idea@@JeremysRetailExploration
I think they came under new management this past year?
Yeah they did, I talked about it at the end of the video.
My curiosity is up. "Rick & co-pilot Frank Gerwer" had at least two shows that first appeared on Vice and are now on UA-cam. One show examined the death of Route 66, and another dealt with abandoned malls.
Is that what you are doing? Are you traveling around to document places that are slowly dying or are already gone? If so, I look forward to more shows?
Also, are you from this area of Ohio or somewhere else? I can see advantages to both when it comes to reporting.
Yes, that's what I'm doing. I live in Pennsylvania.
@@JeremysRetailExploration Thanks for the information. You're doing a great job, and I look forward to viewing your other entries.
By the way, I view the Midwest malls as a metaphor for the decline of most of the Midwest. Yes, the region is still here, but it is nothing similar to what it was before what I call The Great Death of Manufacturing in the 70s and 80s.
Two final items:
1. The question mark in "If so, I look forward to more shows?" was a typo. It should have been a period.
2. I posted another item this morning about a nonfiction book entitled "Glass House." Now, it is not here. Did you see it at any time today?
@@BurtinLancaster I did not see it
@@JeremysRetailExplorationThanks. That's odd. Perhaps its disappearance was due to my providing a url for the book.
A book about Lancaster, Ohio, that I can recommend is "Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town." However, I think that the book applies to most - if not all - small factory towns in the Midwest.
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Another Ohio mall dying. What the heck , doesn’t anyone in Ohio get out and shop.
We do but now it’s only dancers who go to the mall because our studio is in there and teens aren’t allowed in there without a adult