Used to go here with my grandmother in the early 2000's. I'll never forget the mosaic-esque design on the Foley's/Macy's anchor. It's what comes to mind when I think about the mall. A lot of nostalgia there. From what I remember, the area around Valley View is older and all the new development was slowly burying the older buildings. It's sad to see a building that holds so many memories for people slowly awaiting its destruction.
I remember Music Land, Chess King, ......this mall was my childhood, was excited to go to Valley View mall on pay day, while I was working part time during high school. I took my kids here often.......ate lunch in the food court, bought books at the bookstore there. I forgot the name...... Thanks for posting this video.......
I truly am sad this mall is dead, it was a place I visited since I was 1. No joke, I took photos there, and ate Auntie Ann’s Pretzels. I went into Macy’s and Dillard’s, and always walked through JCP. I am so incredibly sad, it’s been with me all my life.
Wait hold up, there used to be an auntie Anne's pretzels at the valley view? How could i have forgotten! Its almost as if everything moved to the galleria.
Omg I loved this mall I remember the radio station 97.9 the beat was in there & they had a big window so when stars would come In you could watch them being interviewed!
This video is so depressing. Pictures of my favorite mall, along with the beautiful soundtrack tear me into pieces. I will never forget the good memories I had visiting this mall frequently with my dad. (I was born in 1999 by the way, and I got to enjoy the last of Valley View's good days.)
Thanks for this. I used to go to this mall frequently in its heyday. The Foley's/Macy's you show was originally a Sanger Harris department store, from 1973-1987, when Sanger Harris was bought out by Foley's. This mall was a nice one in the 1970s-80s. I'm glad it's still hanging on even if in "dying" condition.
Was wondering if anybody was going to explain about Sanger Harris (which was, long before Valley View Mall ever existed, a merger of Sanger Bros. and A. Harris).
I used to work in cosmetics at Sanger Harris before it was Foleys. Miss Sangers. Thanks for showing the old cosmetics dept! AND jcp was Bloomingdale's 1st . Worked there too
Circa 1988' - 1990 summmer my buddies & I literally grew up in that arcade. Also the AMC Theatre after school was our ritual/chill spot. Everyone who lived by Valley View like myself attended John J. Pershing middle school. We were always hanging out there. Priceless memories growing as a kid in the area, North Dallas salute.
Valley View mall was torn down this yeat beginning of May 2019, after several attempts to stop it. Lot of posted signs says visit our store at Collin Ceeek Mall. That mall is being demolished as of July 2019.
Sad for me, as when I lived in Dallas, this was my mall. Even when I worked at North Park, I still went here to shop and socialize. I even worked here one December for a friend that needed experienced help. I just can't believe that it is just about dead, as I remember the crowds--always many people, all year. And I remember the incredible salesgirl at the Sunglass Hut--so out of my league, but I tried; Boy did I try. Oh well, and sad.
I remember when the mosaic decorated store was Sanger Harris. I used to love to go there when I lived in Dallas in high school. I really enjoyed the Friday's restaurant, where we went for birthdays and ice cream sundaes, and also the 5-7-9 clothing store, which was kind of a challenge to fit into when you're going to Friday's a lot for ice cream sundaes, lol. I loved that mall. They're all going downhill. I guess the internet is why.
The AMC 16 has been literally carrying this mall for years. The films there are a great bargain too - first run $3.99, $6.99 in Real 3D. Fun Fact: the Sears at Valley View was the first ever Sears in the Metroplex - it was built in 1965, predating the mall which opened in 1973.
Olla Podridas...I'm so sad to hear that this closed down, my Grandmother took me here when I was little, some where I read that it was open for 25 years, it was open way longer than that. I cherish the memories of going here with my grandmother to me it was a wonderland, I wish it could have been preserved.
Double-checking that you know that was a different mall - not very far from this one - that did also close, though many years earlier. Such wonderful memories of Olla Podrida.
I used to love this mall. I remember shopping at Valley View when Bloomingdales was there prior to JC Penney's. The mall used to have a good variety of stores all in one place. Even though the Galleria was less than a half a mile away, the tenant mix was different. Valley View had Dillard's, Sanger Harris, & Bloomingdales. The Galleria had Macy's, Marshall Fields, Saks, and some small high end retailers.
Valley View also had Sears. Oh and Prestonwood was also about 3 or so miles away. Again, it also had a different tenant mix especially since the anchors were JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, and Joske’s. The main reason Valley View failed is because Bloomingdales closed, and Foley’s became Macy’s. It reinvented itself after Bloomies left, but then Foley’s was acquired by Macy’s which was already right down the street at the Galleria.
When I lived in Dallas, this Macy's was Sanger-Harris. Lots of fun Saturdays shopping/having lunch there to buy a new outfit to hit the clubs in that night. The Internet and Social Media is killing our society piece by piece.
I still remember being taken to Foley's with my parents when I was very young. I was perplexed when it became a second Macy's store in the block in august 2006. There was already a macys at nearby Galleria. I was even more perplexed when it closed in march 2008. Too bad this store was the first to hit the wrecking ball. It had the most beautiful eye-catching mosaics in town.
Great yet sad video. As a child of the 80's my family and I spent a lot of time here. It had great history but as a fan of new development I am looking forward. Scott Beck's Midtown project will look beautiful. This area will be gone but will be replaced with something truely great. Search dallas midtown on here or on the rest of the net. There's already been approvals. Hopefully the first tower should go up in a few months. The Galleria with this area might be the next hotspot.
So weird to hear people call North Dallas "Midtown." Even stranger than when they call it Far North Dallas, as if all that stuff past Frankford weren't the real FND.
Years ago one morning I was walking through the mall and saw Tom Landry the coach of the Dallas Cowboys walked by me with his classic sport coat tie and hat and it was like God walking next to me.
Wow I remember my friends and I used to have so much fun here. Movies. Chilling. Shopping. Me n my friends even took photos at that image shots back in 2005 ! I went here in 2011 for driving school at the Sears. The mall was dead then still had a food court tho but escalators where off 😩😩😂 OMG nostalgia.
I went to this mall as a teenager and took my wife and kids there too. Back in the days when there were hundreds of shoppers, it was a cool place to shop and hang out. Same thing happen to Preston wood mall in Addison. I had good memories ice skating there as a kid. The other mall hanging on by a thread is Vista Ridge mall. Sadly, I don't think it will be around in the next 5 yrs.
I’ve gone to malls in Dallas since I was a kid. And I cannot fathom these new generations dislike for indoor malls. I dislike strip malls. They are fun places to go on the weekend for a relatively cheap date. And if the weather is bad you don’t have to hop from one store to the next.
Ran into this place on the way to the Galleria today, had to take a look. Place is massive but the AMC is the only real draw and the Sears wing is kind of ratty and full of weird tenants. Rest of the place overlooking center court is cut off by a temporary wall. Beyond that wall, the power is off and the place littered with trash. They were doing some demolition on one of the anchors when I was there and it was all pretty ominous. Going to the Galleria after that was pretty strange.
I wonder how many remember when VV mall had ramps in the middle of the mall, by the food court, prior to being replaced with escalators. I always thought that was nicer, it had a great aesthetic quality. So, as of summer of 2018, the demolition has halted. I was by VV mall a few weeks ago, and the Nabors demolition equipment is there, but things appear to have halted after the destroyed the front of the Sanger Harris, the entrance pictured in this video with the cool tile art. I wonder what is going on.
... ... ...i walked under those arches, as a boy, and was at all at the Sanger Harris buildings Art Work, way before Foleys existed... this should be kept as a "time~piece" ; the arches and artwork!!! In The Natural Physical Realm not just this video...The new developer can tear it all down and build "his midtown", ... ... ...but the former SANGER HARRIS, foleys, macy's, etc. FACADE SHOULD BE USED AS A TIME PIECE IN THE NEW DEVELOPEMENT!!!!!!! llove for dallas texas!!! 💘 llove Brother brent!
ive been in that mall sence i was a baby cause i used to go everyday single saturday and im so sad about the situation cause that mall used to be super full😭😭😭😭😭i leatirly star dedicada crying 💔💔💔lol
I used to go this and Prestonwood mall with my mom and grandmother when I was 3 4 years old didn't valley view have a toy store child's something I remember it having a red balloon on the logo
I love this mall very very very much and worked at two or three Men's Stores there which had high class Menswear. Such a shame that it's all gone now well that's progress.
This mall was out of style in 1980 when Prestonwood mall opened (which Prestonwood was leveled in 2000 but it was the place in the 80's). Macy's tried to revive Valleyview, but this mall has been a complete dump since 1990 and the apartments around were always terrible. The hay day for this mall was 1070-1978. This should have been the first mall to be demolished. The Foleys store was Sanger Harris and the arches with the mosaic was the Sanger Harris signature front. In addition, to Prestonwood and Galleria being close by, there was also the forgotten Ola Padrida. ValleyView was the mall you went to when you did not want to get into traffic because you knew most people would be at the other malls.
The leases on the lower level have since been terminated. The leases on the upper level will be terminated this September. Dallas Midtown project cost: $290M+
to all of you who dont live in dallas Valley View is currently being torn down to be turned into a village type shopping area and th mosaic on the macys was kept and will be put in to the new village. also a major reason this mall wasnt doing good was because just a few blocks down is the Galleria Dallas which is very nice compared to this mall
You're the second person to say that the Galleria was the reason, but it wasn't *the* reason, because they coexisted just fine for 10 to 20 years. I think a bigger piece may be what happened nationwide to the anchor tenants of VV vs. Galleria.
It will be. Dallas just officially approved the redevelopment plan to start early next year for their "Dallas At Midtown" idea, with outdoor shops, restaurants, apartments, offices, etc.
wow if only you had the insight to get some shots from the 80s or 90s have this place you probably would have been working for National Geographic or something
The arches was originally Sanger Harris. They heyday for this mall was the early 1970's until Prestonwood was built in 1979. Macys tried to restore some dignity to this place. Prestonwood was the premier mall of the 1980's. Then the Galleria in late 1980's. Valley View is now a gross place with a lot of Crime. Lots of bad apartments around there. I have a friend who had their car stolen their. Remodeling in my opinion is not a good idea. Valley View and the apartments around it are the sore spot in that part of town in that area. Of-course its in Dallas so the city does not care if its a dump. Had this been in Addison, Carrollton, Richardson, it would have been gone a long time ago in my opinion. Collen Creek is also at a point where it could die, not as bad Valley view but starting to empty out.
A city has little control over what is done with a private property if the owner keeps it up to code and pays their taxes. The mall will not be remodeled. It is being replaced with a new development. Dallas moved quickly to approve the master plan and implement everything on their end. Beck, the developer: "Getting it done in four, five years is a miracle. It should have taken a decade." That included tax increment financing (TIF). Tens of millions of that will go to the south to redevelop the area around Red Bird Mall. That will be a waste because the economics don't support it. But that's the political reality of getting things done in a big city like Dallas. The aging apartments around Valley View should be ripe for redevelopment too. At the NE corner of 635 and Montfort, Ross Perot Jr's Hillwood Urban is planning on constructing a high-rise, luxury apartment building.
Serge Blain Prestonwood seemed pretty top tier. They had a neimans and a bunch of other designer type stores that moved to Willowbend once Prestonwood closed down.
It really is insane how short a lifespan Prestonwood had. And if you look at where it once stood you'd never know a mall was once there. Still kind of surprised Valley View and Golden Triangle Mall still exist. Vista Ridge is anchored by the bajillion restaurants that surround it
Comments on DeadMallsdotcom indicate teenagers from all over Dallas would hang out at PRESTONWOOD TOWN CENTER b/c there was a DART transportation hub by it. Some of them "would walk very slowly and would spread out over the entire walking space so that it was intimidating to try to get around them." One also notes that "when a minor epidemic of teen heroin use spread across north Dallas, it became hip to shoot up in the elevators and squirt your leftover blood on the walls."
Wrong! I drove past it yesterday (14 october 2018) and the only demolished part was the former Sanger-Harris/Foleys/Macys, which was demolished in 2017. The Midtown project has been a few years behind, only a fraction of the near-vacant mall took the wrecking ball, and that pisses me off. Not because only one anchor tenant was demolished, but because it happened to be the Sanger-Harris/Foleys/Macys. That store had the iconic mosaics from when it was a Sanger-Harris. Those were some beautiful, eye-catching mosaics, but in there place now lies a gray eyesore that looks like an earthquake hit. I mean if the mall would be spared a few years, at least let us keep the mosaics for now. They could've just demolished the Dillard's instead, but not the beautiful Sanger-Harris. Sorry.
I never liked this mall. the moment you put a foot on the door you sense a negative vive,. Valley View Mall Is a depressing place.... Why go to Valley View mall when you have the Galleria right next to it. No comparison. Best mall in dallas is NorthPark...
I have always loved the mosaic.
Used to go here with my grandmother in the early 2000's. I'll never forget the mosaic-esque design on the Foley's/Macy's anchor. It's what comes to mind when I think about the mall. A lot of nostalgia there. From what I remember, the area around Valley View is older and all the new development was slowly burying the older buildings. It's sad to see a building that holds so many memories for people slowly awaiting its destruction.
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the mural is actually from when it was a Sanger-harris, from 1973 (the mall opening) to 1987 (when foley's moved in)
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I remember Music Land, Chess King, ......this mall was my childhood, was excited to go to Valley View mall on pay day, while I was working part time during high school. I took my kids here often.......ate lunch in the food court, bought books at the bookstore there. I forgot the name......
Thanks for posting this video.......
Waldenbooks? B. Dalton Booksellers? Both were there in the 1970s and 1980.
I truly am sad this mall is dead, it was a place I visited since I was 1. No joke, I took photos there, and ate Auntie Ann’s Pretzels. I went into Macy’s and Dillard’s, and always walked through JCP. I am so incredibly sad, it’s been with me all my life.
Wait hold up, there used to be an auntie Anne's pretzels at the valley view? How could i have forgotten! Its almost as if everything moved to the galleria.
Did u see a big guy with like tree hands and a red face?
Omg I loved this mall I remember the radio station 97.9 the beat was in there & they had a big window so when stars would come In you could watch them being interviewed!
That's awesome! I've never seen a radio station housed within a mall. That's actually a pretty cool idea.
Steve Harvey had his radio show broadcast from there. Live. It use to be a movie theatre
This video is so depressing. Pictures of my favorite mall, along with the beautiful soundtrack tear me into pieces. I will never forget the good memories I had visiting this mall frequently with my dad. (I was born in 1999 by the way, and I got to enjoy the last of Valley View's good days.)
I remember this mall as part of my childhood, and yet, it’s sad to see it demolished.
I remember going to this mall, the Prestonwood mall and the Galleria in the eighties as a child.
Thanks for this. I used to go to this mall frequently in its heyday. The Foley's/Macy's you show was originally a Sanger Harris department store, from 1973-1987, when Sanger Harris was bought out by Foley's. This mall was a nice one in the 1970s-80s. I'm glad it's still hanging on even if in "dying" condition.
Was wondering if anybody was going to explain about Sanger Harris (which was, long before Valley View Mall ever existed, a merger of Sanger Bros. and A. Harris).
The Macy’s exterior design was a holdover from the Sanger Harris Brand of the 80’s.
I used to work in cosmetics at Sanger Harris before it was Foleys.
Miss Sangers. Thanks for showing the old cosmetics dept! AND jcp was Bloomingdale's 1st .
Worked there too
Circa 1988' - 1990 summmer my buddies & I literally grew up in that arcade. Also the AMC Theatre after school was our ritual/chill spot. Everyone who lived by Valley View like myself attended John J. Pershing middle school. We were always hanging out there. Priceless memories growing as a kid in the area, North Dallas salute.
The best gaming store in the D/FW area used to be here. RIP Game Chest! We'll miss you!
Amen, Niles.... It was a superior haunt of mine... All things gaming!!!!
Valley View mall was torn down this yeat beginning of May 2019, after several attempts to stop it. Lot of posted signs says visit our store at Collin Ceeek Mall. That mall is being demolished as of July 2019.
Sad for me, as when I lived in Dallas, this was my mall.
Even when I worked at North Park, I still went here to shop and socialize. I even worked here one December for a friend that needed experienced help.
I just can't believe that it is just about dead, as I remember the crowds--always many people, all year.
And I remember the incredible salesgirl at the Sunglass Hut--so out of my league, but I tried; Boy did I try.
Oh well, and sad.
I remember when the mosaic decorated store was Sanger Harris. I used to love to go there when I lived in Dallas in high school. I really enjoyed the Friday's restaurant, where we went for birthdays and ice cream sundaes, and also the 5-7-9 clothing store, which was kind of a challenge to fit into when you're going to Friday's a lot for ice cream sundaes, lol. I loved that mall. They're all going downhill. I guess the internet is why.
Before it was Foley's..... It was Sanger Harris
The AMC 16 has been literally carrying this mall for years. The films there are a great bargain too - first run $3.99, $6.99 in Real 3D.
Fun Fact: the Sears at Valley View was the first ever Sears in the Metroplex - it was built in 1965, predating the mall which opened in 1973.
DallasHammster Foreal AMC is the only thing keeping this mall alive which is sad
Lol, take a look at the AMC at the Six Flags Mall. It's literally the only thing in the mall.
Olla Podridas...I'm so sad to hear that this closed down, my Grandmother took me here when I was little, some where I read that it was open for 25 years, it was open way longer than that. I cherish the memories of going here with my grandmother to me it was a wonderland, I wish it could have been preserved.
Double-checking that you know that was a different mall - not very far from this one - that did also close, though many years earlier. Such wonderful memories of Olla Podrida.
I used to love this mall. I remember shopping at Valley View when Bloomingdales was there prior to JC Penney's. The mall used to have a good variety of stores all in one place. Even though the Galleria was less than a half a mile away, the tenant mix was different. Valley View had Dillard's, Sanger Harris, & Bloomingdales. The Galleria had Macy's, Marshall Fields, Saks, and some small high end retailers.
Valley View also had Sears. Oh and Prestonwood was also about 3 or so miles away. Again, it also had a different tenant mix especially since the anchors were JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, and Joske’s. The main reason Valley View failed is because Bloomingdales closed, and Foley’s became Macy’s. It reinvented itself after Bloomies left, but then Foley’s was acquired by Macy’s which was already right down the street at the Galleria.
Parts of the mall are being demolished this week. The beautiful mural on the old Sanger Harris/Foleys building is now gone forever.
😭 rip
Good memories of this mall. ❤
I like the Taylor swift piano instrumental lol
When I lived in Dallas, this Macy's was Sanger-Harris. Lots of fun Saturdays shopping/having lunch there to buy a new outfit to hit the clubs in that night. The Internet and Social Media is killing our society piece by piece.
I still remember being taken to Foley's with my parents when I was very young. I was perplexed when it became a second Macy's store in the block in august 2006. There was already a macys at nearby Galleria. I was even more perplexed when it closed in march 2008. Too bad this store was the first to hit the wrecking ball. It had the most beautiful eye-catching mosaics in town.
This mall has mostly been demolished.
After KanePixels video I can not even look at this and not feel a kind of weird vibe
Before Foleys, it was Sanger Harris.
Great yet sad video. As a child of the 80's my family and I spent a lot of time here. It had great history but as a fan of new development I am looking forward.
Scott Beck's Midtown project will look beautiful. This area will be gone but will be replaced with something truely great. Search dallas midtown on here or on the rest of the net. There's already been approvals. Hopefully the first tower should go up in a few months. The Galleria with this area might be the next hotspot.
So weird to hear people call North Dallas "Midtown." Even stranger than when they call it Far North Dallas, as if all that stuff past Frankford weren't the real FND.
I loved Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour at this mall.
Years ago one morning I was walking through the mall and saw Tom Landry the coach of the Dallas Cowboys walked by me with his classic sport coat tie and hat and it was like God walking next to me.
The mall of my childhood... R.I.P. Valley View. U_U U_U
Wow I remember my friends and I used to have so much fun here. Movies. Chilling. Shopping. Me n my friends even took photos at that image shots back in 2005 ! I went here in 2011 for driving school at the Sears. The mall was dead then still had a food court tho but escalators where off 😩😩😂 OMG nostalgia.
I went to this mall as a teenager and took my wife and kids there too. Back in the days when there were hundreds of shoppers, it was a cool place to shop and hang out. Same thing happen to Preston wood mall in Addison. I had good memories ice skating there as a kid. The other mall hanging on by a thread is Vista Ridge mall. Sadly, I don't think it will be around in the next 5 yrs.
I’ve gone to malls in Dallas since I was a kid. And I cannot fathom these new generations dislike for indoor malls. I dislike strip malls. They are fun places to go on the weekend for a relatively cheap date. And if the weather is bad you don’t have to hop from one store to the next.
Ran into this place on the way to the Galleria today, had to take a look. Place is massive but the AMC is the only real draw and the Sears wing is kind of ratty and full of weird tenants. Rest of the place overlooking center court is cut off by a temporary wall. Beyond that wall, the power is off and the place littered with trash. They were doing some demolition on one of the anchors when I was there and it was all pretty ominous. Going to the Galleria after that was pretty strange.
Great video! Can’t help but notice the Taylor Swift music lol
I wonder how many remember when VV mall had ramps in the middle of the mall, by the food court, prior to being replaced with escalators. I always thought that was nicer, it had a great aesthetic quality.
So, as of summer of 2018, the demolition has halted. I was by VV mall a few weeks ago, and the Nabors demolition equipment is there, but things appear to have halted after the destroyed the front of the Sanger Harris, the entrance pictured in this video with the cool tile art. I wonder what is going on.
I go there to practice taekwondo every day. It's sad to see how big of a place it was, it will forever be missed.
... ... ...i walked under those arches, as a boy, and was at all at the Sanger Harris buildings Art Work, way before Foleys existed... this should be kept as a "time~piece" ; the arches and artwork!!! In The Natural Physical Realm not just this video...The new developer can tear it all down and build "his midtown", ... ... ...but the former SANGER HARRIS, foleys, macy's, etc. FACADE SHOULD BE USED AS A TIME PIECE IN THE NEW DEVELOPEMENT!!!!!!!
llove for dallas texas!!! 💘
llove Brother brent!
ive been in that mall sence i was a baby cause i used to go everyday single saturday and im so sad about the situation cause that mall used to be super full😭😭😭😭😭i leatirly star dedicada crying 💔💔💔lol
They still have that Japanese store where I bought a samurai sword and dbz poster though
Used to live right by it and the Galleria. I actually feel bad for AMC - they just remodeled their movie theater there in like 2007.
AMC is getting a new building as part of the redevelopment deal. They have a long term contract with the mall that would cost too much to break.
@@Ncyphen Valley View lives on (through AMC theater) in a way-
#ReviveValleyView
I used to go this and Prestonwood mall with my mom and grandmother when I was 3 4 years old didn't valley view have a toy store child's something I remember it having a red balloon on the logo
toy store by Dillard's (Titche's originally) when it opened 1st-may have been 'Toys R Us'-
I'm pretty sure they use the department stores as storage now.
I love this mall very very very much and worked at two or three Men's Stores there which had high class Menswear. Such a shame that it's all gone now well that's progress.
You can't hold back progress :/
This mall was out of style in 1980 when Prestonwood mall opened (which Prestonwood was leveled in 2000 but it was the place in the 80's). Macy's tried to revive Valleyview, but this mall has been a complete dump since 1990 and the apartments around were always terrible. The hay day for this mall was 1070-1978. This should have been the first mall to be demolished. The Foleys store was Sanger Harris and the arches with the mosaic was the Sanger Harris signature front. In addition, to Prestonwood and Galleria being close by, there was also the forgotten Ola Padrida. ValleyView was the mall you went to when you did not want to get into traffic because you knew most people would be at the other malls.
This video is about to blow up lol
The leases on the lower level have since been terminated.
The leases on the upper level will be terminated this September.
Dallas Midtown project cost: $290M+
I wished I could’ve experienced the time of my life at this mall, too bad I wasn’t born in the 1980’s.
to all of you who dont live in dallas Valley View is currently being torn down to be turned into a village type shopping area and th mosaic on the macys was kept and will be put in to the new village. also a major reason this mall wasnt doing good was because just a few blocks down is the Galleria Dallas which is very nice compared to this mall
You're the second person to say that the Galleria was the reason, but it wasn't *the* reason, because they coexisted just fine for 10 to 20 years. I think a bigger piece may be what happened nationwide to the anchor tenants of VV vs. Galleria.
UPDATE 2022: AMC 16 permanently closed, and the Dallas midtown project is still stalled.
10 October 2022
Macy's closed in 2008 right here in the valley view Mall
It closed 15 years ago
This is Completely Demolished😭😭😭😭 Already
Department stores are now becoming a thing of the past. Yet Walmart still exist and it is nothing fancy like most high end department stores.
I always went there to shop at Cignal Men's Store
I just went here today and it's getting ready to be remodeled.
I heard it will be torn down.
It will be. Dallas just officially approved the redevelopment plan to start early next year for their "Dallas At Midtown" idea, with outdoor shops, restaurants, apartments, offices, etc.
OWS Crazy1 I visited last weekend, it's even more dead than before. Go check out my vid lol
When's the tear-down date
Demolition has begun on the old Sanger-Harris, later Foley's, most recently a Macy*s in February.
Dillard's closed in December 2008
It closed 15 years ago
😢
1:54 a Cadillac STS I seen on sale
JCPenney Closed in April 2013
It closed 10 years ago
That was and is a sad thing,
I go there to learn karate
wow if only you had the insight to get some shots from the 80s or 90s have this place you probably would have been working for National Geographic or something
i think its the galleria mall that made this mall dead
Nah, they coexisted easily for years because Galleria aimed for the $$$$ folks and Valley View for a more middle-class clientele.
The arches was originally Sanger Harris. They heyday for this mall was the early 1970's until Prestonwood was built in 1979. Macys tried to restore some dignity to this place. Prestonwood was the premier mall of the 1980's. Then the Galleria in late 1980's. Valley View is now a gross place with a lot of Crime. Lots of bad apartments around there. I have a friend who had their car stolen their. Remodeling in my opinion is not a good idea. Valley View and the apartments around it are the sore spot in that part of town in that area. Of-course its in Dallas so the city does not care if its a dump. Had this been in Addison, Carrollton, Richardson, it would have been gone a long time ago in my opinion. Collen Creek is also at a point where it could die, not as bad Valley view but starting to empty out.
The Galleria opened in late 1982. It has been the premier from the time it opened. Prestonwood and Valley View were mid-tier. Galleria is upscale.
A city has little control over what is done with a private property if the owner keeps it up to code and pays their taxes. The mall will not be remodeled. It is being replaced with a new development. Dallas moved quickly to approve the master plan and implement everything on their end. Beck, the developer: "Getting it done in four, five years is a miracle. It should have taken a decade." That included tax increment financing (TIF). Tens of millions of that will go to the south to redevelop the area around Red Bird Mall. That will be a waste because the economics don't support it. But that's the political reality of getting things done in a big city like Dallas. The aging apartments around Valley View should be ripe for redevelopment too. At the NE corner of 635 and Montfort, Ross Perot Jr's Hillwood Urban is planning on constructing a high-rise, luxury apartment building.
Serge Blain Prestonwood seemed pretty top tier. They had a neimans and a bunch of other designer type stores that moved to Willowbend once Prestonwood closed down.
It really is insane how short a lifespan Prestonwood had. And if you look at where it once stood you'd never know a mall was once there.
Still kind of surprised Valley View and Golden Triangle Mall still exist. Vista Ridge is anchored by the bajillion restaurants that surround it
Comments on DeadMallsdotcom indicate teenagers from all over Dallas would hang out at PRESTONWOOD TOWN CENTER b/c there was a DART transportation hub by it. Some of them "would walk very slowly and would spread out over the entire walking space so that it was intimidating to try to get around them." One also notes that "when a minor epidemic of teen heroin use spread across north Dallas, it became hip to shoot up in the elevators and squirt your leftover blood on the walls."
fucking recession dude :(
It's turning into a shopping senter
As of 08/24/2018, they tore down all of Valley View Mall
Wrong! I drove past it yesterday (14 october 2018) and the only demolished part was the former Sanger-Harris/Foleys/Macys, which was demolished in 2017. The Midtown project has been a few years behind, only a fraction of the near-vacant mall took the wrecking ball, and that pisses me off. Not because only one anchor tenant was demolished, but because it happened to be the Sanger-Harris/Foleys/Macys. That store had the iconic mosaics from when it was a Sanger-Harris. Those were some beautiful, eye-catching mosaics, but in there place now lies a gray eyesore that looks like an earthquake hit. I mean if the mall would be spared a few years, at least let us keep the mosaics for now. They could've just demolished the Dillard's instead, but not the beautiful Sanger-Harris. Sorry.
I live across LBJ from Valley View and they are starting to tear down everything now. There was a delay because of a lawsuit by the city.
All the anchor tenants were finally gone by the summer of 2019. It took longer than expected.
@@Aurora666_yt people are still going to the movie.....
@@robingd the amc 16 movie theater will stay open at least until 2021.
Thanks Amazon.com :(
I go there to play soccer
Oh man that’s sad
Sad to se3 this but I we don't have disposible income to shopping after ten biils good kids 0$
is a ly because I went yesterday to the valley view mall
I never liked this mall. the moment you put a foot on the door you sense a negative vive,. Valley View Mall Is a depressing place.... Why go to Valley View mall when you have the Galleria right next to it. No comparison. Best mall in dallas is NorthPark...