I think everyone still does. It’s like the Coca Cola Starplex and Wet N Wild. You can call it something else, but you’ll be pointed out as the outsider.
Not going to call it "Music City". That's ridiculous. It's Vista Ridge. The mall is definitely more dead now (in 2023) than it was when this was filmed but Zion Market is still cool.
When was that? It was very active in the 90s. In 1998 they opened Grapevine Mills, and a few years later, Stonebriar Mall and Willow Bend. Prestonwood Mall was the first to die off, then Valley View Mall, but really, Valley View was just one block away from The Galleria. No idea how North Park Mall and Golden Triangle survived. In the early aughts, most stores were vacant, and tenants were using it as office space. I did data entry in North Park Mall. Now the mall is TWICE it’s size, all with retail tenants. No idea how. Golden Triangle is doing pretty good too, considering.
I only started living in Lewisville in 2006 when I first went there I was 5 I remember that there was a movie theater that wasn't a cinemark one that it is today
@@danithegamer7992 I was pretty sure there had ALWAYS been a cinemark in that mall. It was originally located in the malls center, directly below the food court, where the elevators and escalators are. That main floor area would sometimes host theatrical release events, though small and lame. But mostly just a stage for various other lame events and the malls Christmas tree. At some point in the aughts they boarded it up, and to this very day, still remains a vacant boarded up theater. The late 90s was a strange period for malls and movie theaters, as so many would spring up over night. The shopping center across the street, they built a second stand alone Cinemark, but it was crap even during its opening year and quickly became a $1 theater. I think it finally closed a year or two ago. Across the highway, they built a United Artist theater near Cavenders and Motel 6. It too suffered, and became a rather poor Studio Movie Grill in the early 10s. At some point, in the mid aughts, Cinemark built a brand new theater on the Macy’s side of the mall rather than reopen the very dated theater. This location originally was just an empty lot, where care flights would land during the annual 4th of July fireworks. It was topographical strange because that lot was on the first floor, but everything surrounding the south and east of the lot was on the 2nd. Very steep hills.
This was pretty cool to see. When I lived in DFW in the 2000's I used to hang out at Vista Ridge all the time. I'd do a little shopping, then go see a movie or two. On one hand, it's kind of sad to see what's happened to it. There used to be so many great stores and the place was always busy. But I'm glad to see it's still alive and fighting.
3:18 I want them to tear down those walls behind that stage! That used to be a Cinemark. A real popular one... ...you know... ...before two more theaters opened up nearby. They boarded it up in all its 90s glory, and then right as Vista Ridge was on its last leg, Cinemark reopened. ...building a brand new theater on vacant land. Just open it up, as is, and charge admission! It would be cool!
Over half the businesses profiled in this video have closed since then. Almost everything is a discount dealer, whole mall is becoming nothing but a giant bargain bin. JCPenney is closing. Macy’s is still open, but it’s not being restocked. And the real shocker: even GNC had enough and closed shop.
I remember the movie theater where the floor was spaced theme and I don't think it was cinemark but it was a movie theater. Plus the fountain where the stage is
The ZION Market and its food court are worth the visit. I always buy around $80 of Korean food and other items that I don't need but I have to learn about the culture. I've never seen 50 brands of Kimchee and 100 options of Ramen in one location. Cheers from Lewisville!
I was just there yesterday, Saturday, and it was packed. I also went to the Dillard's Clearance store when they were having a special sale going on a few weeks ago and got so many men's dress shirts for $10 each. I'm going to the Zion Market again today.
Takes me back, though....the stores have changed, but when my ex-wife and I both lived in Denton, this place was THE mall to see movies & get quality stuff....much better than Golden Triangle Mall in Denton......we watched Matrix: Revolutions here (the 3rd movie)...and I got a speeding ticket on my way driving back to Denton....it was a late showing and we got out after midnight.
replace the museum with a gamestop, remove the axe throwing and install an arcade/bowling alley, allow hispanic street food venders to have their own kiosks, remove the local shops and replace them with outlets like Nike, Adidas, Reebok, etc. Oh and the comic book shop has gots to go, just add a normal book shop, and for the tool shop?? say hello to Red Robin burger joint.
@@RealJohnnyDingo I mean, more power to them, but my best friend and I have been going to this mall for years and it's always been humorously empty. My favorite stores keep dying and most spots are empty.
@@genericfriend2568 Yeah, same here in Oklahoma. some malls just faded away. I'm glad somebody's using the space for something cool instead of just letting it rot.
Its a nice mall.The cat store is the bezt😆😆30yrs ago it was a nice mall.They need to bring 5and below there.Get rid of the expensive toy stores.maybe a dollar store.no california stores.market is bad.people have less money these days.Bring in a mcdonalds,wendys,pizza places.
last time i went here was with my ex and her friends, ive been here so much that it's completely boring to me now, nowadays the stores are leaving and all around lewisville businesses are closing, we're basically turning into a ghost town here
That side of lewisville has really gone down hill - the mall used to bring in so much foot traffic, but as the mall has deteriorated- the surrounding businesses haven’t been able to survive - very worrying!
It was on its last breath before the pandemic. Now the last nails in the coffin are being hammered in. Will people really have money to go shopping there anymore? The city will have to raise taxes to make up for all the fiscal mismanagement over the years and this will surely hurt all the retailers in there.
I’m still calling it Vista Ridge Mall
We had a Lewisville native tag along for some of this footage and he kept calling it that too!
Same here
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I think everyone still does. It’s like the Coca Cola Starplex and Wet N Wild. You can call it something else, but you’ll be pointed out as the outsider.
it’s music city mall
This mall is now turning in to Korea Town if you go there right now
awesome 👍
LMAO! 1:57 “How about axe throwing?” (Shows what once used to be a Disney Store)
Hi, I'm at this mall right now and this shit is always a graveyard
Ah, so this *is* Vista Ridge Mall. I went there often from '92-98.
I explored a dead UA-cam channel
Not going to call it "Music City". That's ridiculous. It's Vista Ridge. The mall is definitely more dead now (in 2023) than it was when this was filmed but Zion Market is still cool.
All my favorite stores are all closed it's a faaaar cry from what it was in 2011.
i’ve just been there. i feel REALLY bad for the charming cat corner. they are such a very nice place in a dying mall.
That military museum used to be at Valley View Mall in Dallas, before it was demolished.
This mall was dead as hell when I use to live in Texas. RiP Vista Ridge Mall 👀
When was that? It was very active in the 90s. In 1998 they opened Grapevine Mills, and a few years later, Stonebriar Mall and Willow Bend. Prestonwood Mall was the first to die off, then Valley View Mall, but really, Valley View was just one block away from The Galleria. No idea how North Park Mall and Golden Triangle survived. In the early aughts, most stores were vacant, and tenants were using it as office space. I did data entry in North Park Mall. Now the mall is TWICE it’s size, all with retail tenants. No idea how. Golden Triangle is doing pretty good too, considering.
I only started living in Lewisville in 2006 when I first went there I was 5 I remember that there was a movie theater that wasn't a cinemark one that it is today
@@danithegamer7992 I was pretty sure there had ALWAYS been a cinemark in that mall. It was originally located in the malls center, directly below the food court, where the elevators and escalators are. That main floor area would sometimes host theatrical release events, though small and lame. But mostly just a stage for various other lame events and the malls Christmas tree.
At some point in the aughts they boarded it up, and to this very day, still remains a vacant boarded up theater. The late 90s was a strange period for malls and movie theaters, as so many would spring up over night. The shopping center across the street, they built a second stand alone Cinemark, but it was crap even during its opening year and quickly became a $1 theater. I think it finally closed a year or two ago. Across the highway, they built a United Artist theater near Cavenders and Motel 6. It too suffered, and became a rather poor Studio Movie Grill in the early 10s.
At some point, in the mid aughts, Cinemark built a brand new theater on the Macy’s side of the mall rather than reopen the very dated theater. This location originally was just an empty lot, where care flights would land during the annual 4th of July fireworks. It was topographical strange because that lot was on the first floor, but everything surrounding the south and east of the lot was on the 2nd. Very steep hills.
I remember when I used to go here sometimes before they gave it the name "Music City Mall"
Our Dillard's at our mall here in texas is going out of business slowly the malls are dying off.
This was pretty cool to see. When I lived in DFW in the 2000's I used to hang out at Vista Ridge all the time. I'd do a little shopping, then go see a movie or two. On one hand, it's kind of sad to see what's happened to it. There used to be so many great stores and the place was always busy. But I'm glad to see it's still alive and fighting.
I wouldn't call it alive and fighting. It's on hospice care, hooked up to every life-support machine where every day could be its last.
So many memories growing up there. From shopping with my family to my first job at the theater. That Zion market use to be Sears lol.
3:18 I want them to tear down those walls behind that stage! That used to be a Cinemark. A real popular one... ...you know... ...before two more theaters opened up nearby. They boarded it up in all its 90s glory, and then right as Vista Ridge was on its last leg, Cinemark reopened. ...building a brand new theater on vacant land. Just open it up, as is, and charge admission! It would be cool!
Over half the businesses profiled in this video have closed since then. Almost everything is a discount dealer, whole mall is becoming nothing but a giant bargain bin. JCPenney is closing. Macy’s is still open, but it’s not being restocked. And the real shocker: even GNC had enough and closed shop.
I remember when it was built...that was the place to be back in the day.... remember Tilts arcade?
I remember that place as a kid, it was next to the food court.
I remember the movie theater where the floor was spaced theme and I don't think it was cinemark but it was a movie theater. Plus the fountain where the stage is
Without Cinemark and Zion Market, this mall would close in a matter of months
I KNOW THAT MALL THST WAS MY CHILDHOOD😢
The studios use to be a justice
The ZION Market and its food court are worth the visit. I always buy around $80 of Korean food and other items that I don't need but I have to learn about the culture. I've never seen 50 brands of Kimchee and 100 options of Ramen in one location. Cheers from Lewisville!
Thanks for the video!
Now, the mall is filled with a bunch of uninteresting stuff?
I was just there yesterday, Saturday, and it was packed. I also went to the Dillard's Clearance store when they were having a special sale going on a few weeks ago and got so many men's dress shirts for $10 each. I'm going to the Zion Market again today.
You did a great job with this video. I’m gonna go to Vista Ridge soon!
This was the mall when I was a teen. The ax throwing place was the Disney store.
A liminal space in the making.
I went here a few weeks ago, there was a good bit of activity
...during a pandemic? That’s pretty impressive.
I'm going. I still have so much to do in DFW.
wow..it honestly looks like a really nice mall i must say
JCPennys is closing for good soon. It’s a shame. That was the place to be when I was Jr high
Takes me back, though....the stores have changed, but when my ex-wife and I both lived in Denton, this place was THE mall to see movies & get quality stuff....much better than Golden Triangle Mall in Denton......we watched Matrix: Revolutions here (the 3rd movie)...and I got a speeding ticket on my way driving back to Denton....it was a late showing and we got out after midnight.
Two years ago this mall was really dead. It looks like they are trying to claw their way back up.
Wow! And here I thought the mall of my childhood was dead! This is awesome!
I went there before covid I only saw like 5 People and the worker taking my order sounded depressed q
It’s a nice mall tho But they need more grown adult clothing stores There is way too many size 0-10 Clothing stores for young people. Sad
replace the museum with a gamestop, remove the axe throwing and install an arcade/bowling alley, allow hispanic street food venders to have their own kiosks, remove the local shops and replace them with outlets like Nike, Adidas, Reebok, etc. Oh and the comic book shop has gots to go, just add a normal book shop, and for the tool shop?? say hello to Red Robin burger joint.
And how do you expect that to work? The place has a tube in its throat for years, it's time for it to die
if you saw how crowded the h-mart area is in Carrollton, you'd understand why it's going to be Korean mall very soon
@@RealJohnnyDingo I mean, more power to them, but my best friend and I have been going to this mall for years and it's always been humorously empty. My favorite stores keep dying and most spots are empty.
@@genericfriend2568 Yeah, same here in Oklahoma. some malls just faded away. I'm glad somebody's using the space for something cool instead of just letting it rot.
I live near Music city mall but it’s not the best
Its a nice mall.The cat store is the bezt😆😆30yrs ago it was a nice mall.They need to bring 5and below there.Get rid of the expensive toy stores.maybe a dollar store.no california stores.market is bad.people have less money these days.Bring in a mcdonalds,wendys,pizza places.
This mall dead as heck ngl
last time i went here was with my ex and her friends, ive been here so much that it's completely boring to me now, nowadays the stores are leaving and all around lewisville businesses are closing, we're basically turning into a ghost town here
That side of lewisville has really gone down hill - the mall used to bring in so much foot traffic, but as the mall has deteriorated- the surrounding businesses haven’t been able to survive - very worrying!
Uploaded Feb 2020......ohhh, ooh nooo.........RIP, Vista Ridge Mall aka Music City Mall (OK, WTF?)
It was on its last breath before the pandemic. Now the last nails in the coffin are being hammered in. Will people really have money to go shopping there anymore? The city will have to raise taxes to make up for all the fiscal mismanagement over the years and this will surely hurt all the retailers in there.
Lease the stores to families. Someone will want to live there.
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