Greenville NC native here, Welcome! Had i known you planned hitting here, i would've been stoked to give you all the insight you tried so hard looking for & even been your guide. (sorry if this is alot to read in one whole comment, hope it's informative!) At one point, our city had 2 malls: the first one across town, the Carolina East Mall & the "new" one that you're walking thru. Alot of locals get the history of these malls confused or backwards so it's understandably hard to research...even as a native. This one was modernized sometime during my generation before anyone had foresight malls would die...then that old Carolina East mall was torn down several years after this one killed it off...as how that goes. Got my first used PS1 from the EB Games in the old mall, great times! Anyway, i used to work outside this current mall at the mellow mushroom pizzeria (outparcel) during covid so it was wild seeing this place not flatline, but become booming again as you seen. When you walked out, that red-orange wall you see, is an enclosed family cemetery plot of which once was just a farm before the city started rapidly expanding into the countryside, similarly to the Wilson mall. pretty wild! I too would also like to see more events here but there's been a recent shooting there that hurt it's image again & the mall ofcoarse has sense stepped up its security presence. I'm amazed nobody stopped you while filming, on that note. Mr Beast lives in greenville still n' has done videos at the mall so they're weary of youtubers to a degree. With a vibrant downtown & university that's willing to hold any event, it's really lessened the need for any being held here. yet it remains ideal for all age events, since greenville is a party town from hell & struggles to find that separation lmao. Sidenote i was gonna upload my video on the Tarboro mall but you happened to beat me to it lol. So i decided to keep coming back to film every few months to show its progression, being that there's not much to see with it being so small. i had many memories there, as well. I still support the Parkhill Mall cinema, as opposed to hitting greenville's modernized AMC theatre. It's been owned 30+ years by the same people since they build the theatre addition to the Parkhill Mall, thus holding onto its namesake from the now "Riverside Plaza." I'd definently like to chat with ya sometime if you wanna pick my brains. love your content, safe travels! -Stoney Sills.
My grandparents lived in Winterville and we would go there about 8-9 times a year to visit. I remember going to both malls, and I have to seeing this video I’m surprised to see Greenville Mall looking this good.
@@mindfulnessbytheocean I miss the demolished mall so much & I can't find many photos of it beside a 480p holiday promo up here. Winterville on the other hand has been getting more & more ppl moving there so I'm due to see how different it is lol
I use to live in Havelock/Jacksonville around the mid 2000's. Jacksonville mall was the mall of my teen years and hope to see you do a video on it as well as other malls in NC. I feel the state is overlooked as far as mall explorer's are concerned.
I think this mall should keep surviving because it has Belk, Bath and Body Works, JC Penney and Dunham's Sports. Hopefully I think it will. On another note, I couldn't stop replaying the music in the introduction. Good video Doomie.😊
This mall looks like it is holding on well, for occupancy. And the center court doesn't look bad, to me. Even if isn't the most interesting design ever, I'd pick this design over say some(very likely bleached) Simon mall, or ANY mall owned by Hull or Cafaro(only Hull malls look more boring).
This mall looks like it just may survive all of this "demalling". Citadel mall in SC has changed ALOT but is still chugging along. Maybe sometime you might make it to Northwoods Mall??
This is the first mall I see that has 2 Belk stores. I see the other Belk store sells exclusively women's and children's clothes and accessories. That's a new one for me.
Greenville used to have two malls the plaza the crappy mall and the west end mall which had lots of cool stores and eateries like the k &w cafeteria and lots of stores geared too teens and college students. It died because developers wanted the property for something else
I surprised you didn’t mention the cemetery in the parking lot. You ended your video walking out of the mall towards it. I’ve always been intrigued by the mall in Washington NC, just down the road from Greenville. The Washington Square mall used to be an indoor mall, but renovations changed the design and it became more of an outdoor strip mall.
There was indeed a Rose's at Pitt Plaza! Pitt Plaza is also where a locally famous bakery, Diener's, was originally located. They used to have "Moonlight Madness" sales that my grandmother loved to go to. I'm pretty sure it was converted into a closed space mall to compete with the first mall built in Greenville a few years earlier off Memorial Blvd. That first mall died years ago and has been razed.
Well, I know we shouldn't tell strangers where we live... But I live in Greenville. There actually used to be two malls here, within two miles of each other. The Greenville mall ended up surviving so far. The other mall was the East Carolina Mall, many stores shut down until all that was left was sears.. the rest of the mall was torn down and Sears became a stand alone business until sears went under a few years ago.
Greenville mall is not a super original name but it sure beats one of those pretentious modern overblown mall names like "the portfolio at Greenville place"
It seems many mall managers just don’t make it easy to use all their empty space with community events… pop up stores events for small biz, having town meetings at the mall partnered with local businesses, food truck events and maybe converting some stores to meeting spaces? We had pop up events when the block at north way was renovated on McKnight in Pittsburgh, but there’s soooo much retail jammed in that corridor, it fizzled out after a while.
Some of those hallways are unforgiving in terms of empty storefronts. Movie night on the bricks outside an empty anchor might be a fun thing for a smaller mall.
Not doomie, but I always liked pastel colors. Wish those could be used, on mall designs even to this day. Although pastel colors, were more like a brief 80s/90s(?) trend. And I always like 70s mall designs, that were like Concord Mall in Elkhart, IN.
While I disagree with a lot you said. The one thing I must point out is OUR HOSPITAL SUCKS. Just ask any local who has had to deal with them for anything more serious then a few stitches. They kill people at vidant , or just let you die….
craziest thing about this mall in the middle of the parking lot behind the Carolina al house restaurant is a whole graveyard haha instead of transporting them they built a wall around it and put a gate up
I hate when malls put these buisiness stands in the mall, it’s always cell phone accessories, tacky fake jewelry and perfume. And they harassed you when you walk by one. Makes me not even want to come back. I also notice a lot of malls cater towards the black population. If they would mix it up and cater to everyone Malls might would make a come back.
You must went to that over a year ago bc right beside JCPenney now is a arcade name extravaganza that’s in the old trafix store and the space beside it
Sorry hit the mute button on the sound-don’t want to listen to the music track. Could we have narration instead? I know what I see here but others may not.
The Greenville Mall does itself no favors with it's no conceiled handguns policy, though it dosen't seem to bother the gang banger wannabes.. Greenville is helped by the student traffic from East Carolina University. I think Belks moved from downtown after the city's policies pretty much killed downtown shopping. (you can't shop where you can't park) There was another mall to the south that died but several strip malls exist. Rose's did not go out of business as there are still a few in other towns.. The University, the medical system it supports, the ECU school of medicine (which UNC-Chapel Hill tried it's best to kill before it was born) attracted the pharmaceutical and medical instrament companies located in town. Add in some other manufacturing and shipping companies and Greenville sucked the life out of neighboring towns like Kinston, Wilson and to maybe to a lesser degree Rocky Mount and Washington. Between the locals who don't care, the college students who may not care and don't know where they are going, the elderly who don't drive so well anymore and the sick trying to find their way to some doctor's office or medical location, Greenville is a rather dangerous place to drive. Greenville used to have many movie theaters but the virus and poor Hollywood creations have killed all but one. In North Carolina anything east of I95 is seen as a slum by the rest of the state, a place to pass through as fast as possible on the way to the beach. Hurricane Floyd in 1999 with the flooding probably had many people move away and the older generations are dying out and the youger ones moved to where the jobs are.
As a native myself growing up where there was both malls that existed I was excited for the expansion of the Plaza as we called it for short but sad for the dying off of Carolina East Mall as I always thought both had their own draw. I heard the expansion happened with the blessing of the Evans family which owned a good portion of the land long as they kept the family cemetery which is enclosed in front of mall where the mini cement wall is behind where most recently was the Ale House and music store Tracks. Anyway glad to see we still have one and thriving stores. It’s not the same though. Covid and a different kind crowd has lessened it
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Greenville NC native here, Welcome! Had i known you planned hitting here, i would've been stoked to give you all the insight you tried so hard looking for & even been your guide.
(sorry if this is alot to read in one whole comment, hope it's informative!)
At one point, our city had 2 malls: the first one across town, the Carolina East Mall & the "new" one that you're walking thru. Alot of locals get the history of these malls confused or backwards so it's understandably hard to research...even as a native. This one was modernized sometime during my generation before anyone had foresight malls would die...then that old Carolina East mall was torn down several years after this one killed it off...as how that goes. Got my first used PS1 from the EB Games in the old mall, great times!
Anyway, i used to work outside this current mall at the mellow mushroom pizzeria (outparcel) during covid so it was wild seeing this place not flatline, but become booming again as you seen. When you walked out, that red-orange wall you see, is an enclosed family cemetery plot of which once was just a farm before the city started rapidly expanding into the countryside, similarly to the Wilson mall. pretty wild!
I too would also like to see more events here but there's been a recent shooting there that hurt it's image again & the mall ofcoarse has sense stepped up its security presence. I'm amazed nobody stopped you while filming, on that note. Mr Beast lives in greenville still n' has done videos at the mall so they're weary of youtubers to a degree. With a vibrant downtown & university that's willing to hold any event, it's really lessened the need for any being held here. yet it remains ideal for all age events, since greenville is a party town from hell & struggles to find that separation lmao.
Sidenote i was gonna upload my video on the Tarboro mall but you happened to beat me to it lol. So i decided to keep coming back to film every few months to show its progression, being that there's not much to see with it being so small. i had many memories there, as well. I still support the Parkhill Mall cinema, as opposed to hitting greenville's modernized AMC theatre. It's been owned 30+ years by the same people since they build the theatre addition to the Parkhill Mall, thus holding onto its namesake from the now "Riverside Plaza."
I'd definently like to chat with ya sometime if you wanna pick my brains. love your content, safe travels! -Stoney Sills.
My grandparents lived in Winterville and we would go there about 8-9 times a year to visit.
I remember going to both malls, and I have to seeing this video I’m surprised to see Greenville Mall looking this good.
@@mindfulnessbytheocean I miss the demolished mall so much & I can't find many photos of it beside a 480p holiday promo up here. Winterville on the other hand has been getting more & more ppl moving there so I'm due to see how different it is lol
I use to live in Havelock/Jacksonville around the mid 2000's. Jacksonville mall was the mall of my teen years and hope to see you do a video on it as well as other malls in NC. I feel the state is overlooked as far as mall explorer's are concerned.
You missed the cemetery out front...
Greenville is hopping. The mall will stay strong . Lots of college kids with plenty of money. GVegas baby
This Mall has more activity than any mall I've seen in a year or so!
I think this mall should keep surviving because it has Belk, Bath and Body Works, JC Penney and Dunham's Sports. Hopefully I think it will. On another note, I couldn't stop replaying the music in the introduction. Good video Doomie.😊
My few visits to it this year were on weekend evenings where it’s pretty lively
This mall looks like it is holding on well, for occupancy. And the center court doesn't look bad, to me. Even if isn't the most interesting design ever, I'd pick this design over say some(very likely bleached) Simon mall, or ANY mall owned by Hull or Cafaro(only Hull malls look more boring).
This mall looks like it just may survive all of this "demalling". Citadel mall in SC has changed ALOT but is still chugging along. Maybe sometime you might make it to Northwoods Mall??
I thought Citadel Mall was closed. It's the one that had the closed hotel, right?
Military Circle had a closed hotel, I don't think Citadel ever did
This is the first mall I see that has 2 Belk stores. I see the other Belk store sells exclusively women's and children's clothes and accessories. That's a new one for me.
It's just one, with a couple really nice entrance's that makes it seem like there's 2.
I’ve been there twice this year, but both times were weekends during the evening where it’s much more lively than what was seen in this video.
You do your research very well, and quickly 🙂
Mall need a food area plus a place to watch movies
There used to be a decent food court and arcade at this mall in the 90’s. It also had a detached cinema with several screens, but that was demolished.
I just drove past that JC Penny, go pirates!
Greenville used to have two malls the plaza the crappy mall and the west end mall which had lots of cool stores and eateries like the k &w cafeteria and lots of stores geared too teens and college students. It died because developers wanted the property for something else
I surprised you didn’t mention the cemetery in the parking lot. You ended your video walking out of the mall towards it.
I’ve always been intrigued by the mall in Washington NC, just down the road from Greenville. The Washington Square mall used to be an indoor mall, but renovations changed the design and it became more of an outdoor strip mall.
this is the best window shopping ever......saves me time and money... THANK YOU DOOMIE❤❤❤❤
There was indeed a Rose's at Pitt Plaza! Pitt Plaza is also where a locally famous bakery, Diener's, was originally located. They used to have "Moonlight Madness" sales that my grandmother loved to go to. I'm pretty sure it was converted into a closed space mall to compete with the first mall built in Greenville a few years earlier off Memorial Blvd. That first mall died years ago and has been razed.
No Dieners Bakery was always on Dickinson Ave. Jerry's Sweet shop started at Pitt Plaza.
I think an interesting mall surviving this mall downfall is Glenbrook Mall in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Well, I know we shouldn't tell strangers where we live... But I live in Greenville. There actually used to be two malls here, within two miles of each other. The Greenville mall ended up surviving so far. The other mall was the East Carolina Mall, many stores shut down until all that was left was sears.. the rest of the mall was torn down and Sears became a stand alone business until sears went under a few years ago.
Carolina East was our hangout at ECU in the 80s, loved the cafeteria. Guess it makes sense the one closer to the university survived.
Wow. Weatherscan music playing in the background.
That old restaurant space STILL is vacant?!?
Greenville mall is not a super original name but it sure beats one of those pretentious modern overblown mall names like "the portfolio at Greenville place"
Anytime I have visited this mall it’s well attended compared to so many others.
You missed the Cemented Cemetery as you exited the building, but good job!
Dig that old school “shoe show” sign! I wonder how long that’s been there. Rare to see the old fonts and colors in any mall today.
It seems many mall managers just don’t make it easy to use all their empty space with community events… pop up stores events for small biz, having town meetings at the mall partnered with local businesses, food truck events and maybe converting some stores to meeting spaces? We had pop up events when the block at north way was renovated on McKnight in Pittsburgh, but there’s soooo much retail jammed in that corridor, it fizzled out after a while.
Some of those hallways are unforgiving in terms of empty storefronts. Movie night on the bricks outside an empty anchor might be a fun thing for a smaller mall.
Doomie, if you were going to design your own mall what colors would you choose besides gray and blue? A sunny yellow might be okay.
Not doomie, but I always liked pastel colors. Wish those could be used, on mall designs even to this day. Although pastel colors, were more like a brief 80s/90s(?) trend.
And I always like 70s mall designs, that were like Concord Mall in Elkhart, IN.
While I disagree with a lot you said. The one thing I must point out is OUR HOSPITAL SUCKS. Just ask any local who has had to deal with them for anything more serious then a few stitches. They kill people at vidant , or just let you die….
craziest thing about this mall in the middle of the parking lot behind the Carolina al house restaurant is a whole graveyard haha instead of transporting them they built a wall around it and put a gate up
New Bern Mall didn't even make the list of ENC Malls, that should tell you how bad its doing.
Yeah, without Tj Maxx and Chik fil A, might as well close it.
I love gray!
I hate when malls put these buisiness stands in the mall, it’s always cell phone accessories, tacky fake jewelry and perfume. And they harassed you when you walk by one. Makes me not even want to come back. I also notice a lot of malls cater towards the black population. If they would mix it up and cater to everyone Malls might would make a come back.
You must went to that over a year ago bc right beside JCPenney now is a arcade name extravaganza that’s in the old trafix store and the space beside it
Why not change the mall into outlet
I bet the Australian company was not LJ Hooker right? 😂😂
Sorry hit the mute button on the sound-don’t want to listen to the music track. Could we have narration instead? I know what I see here but others may not.
Cute
great mall!!!...please go check out jacksonville mall too!...no one has done a video for it:)...cute mall
Such a bad mall ... Dead for decades😅
The Greenville Mall does itself no favors with it's no conceiled handguns policy, though it dosen't seem to bother the gang banger wannabes.. Greenville is helped by the student traffic from East Carolina University. I think Belks moved from downtown after the city's policies pretty much killed downtown shopping. (you can't shop where you can't park) There was another mall to the south that died but several strip malls exist. Rose's did not go out of business as there are still a few in other towns..
The University, the medical system it supports, the ECU school of medicine (which UNC-Chapel Hill tried it's best to kill before it was born) attracted the pharmaceutical and medical instrament companies located in town. Add in some other manufacturing and shipping companies and Greenville sucked the life out of neighboring towns like Kinston, Wilson and to maybe to a lesser degree Rocky Mount and Washington.
Between the locals who don't care, the college students who may not care and don't know where they are going, the elderly who don't drive so well anymore and the sick trying to find their way to some doctor's office or medical location, Greenville is a rather dangerous place to drive.
Greenville used to have many movie theaters but the virus and poor Hollywood creations have killed all but one.
In North Carolina anything east of I95 is seen as a slum by the rest of the state, a place to pass through as fast as possible on the way to the beach.
Hurricane Floyd in 1999 with the flooding probably had many people move away and the older generations are dying out and the youger ones moved to where the jobs are.
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It looks to be fully occupied
As a native myself growing up where there was both malls that existed I was excited for the expansion of the Plaza as we called it for short but sad for the dying off of Carolina East Mall as I always thought both had their own draw. I heard the expansion happened with the blessing of the Evans family which owned a good portion of the land long as they kept the family cemetery which is enclosed in front of mall where the mini cement wall is behind where most recently was the Ale House and music store Tracks. Anyway glad to see we still have one and thriving stores. It’s not the same though. Covid and a different kind crowd has lessened it