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It's so weird yet cool to see your own city and mall that you've walked through a hundred times on a TH-cam video...
Unfortunately, I'm not as nostalgic as my parents were about the mall, as I was born in 2005, way after the boom of malls and at the start of online shopping. And that really sucks, as I kinda would like to see how this place was in the 80s and 90s. It's depressing to see how online shopping has wrecked the mall industry.
The Horrocks is still in progress as far as I know, and I think it's gonna be a pretty hefty anchor for the mall as Horrocks is a pretty popular market within Battle Creek... Lakeview Square Mall still has some years left in it!
Anyway, this is a wonderful video, and I can see the amazing effort you put into it! Thanks for visiting Battle Creek.
I went to this mall recently and had to make a huge effort to buy something since there were 3 stores. Got Nike pants at DTLR. Mall walking is a real thing, pay my dues by buying stuff. Usually I go to Twelve Oaks.
Glad to see this mall getting mixed use. I especially like the fact that they have a skate park in the building.
Came for the dead mall, stayed for the crane games!
I would love a skate park at my local mall, that's actually a really cool idea!
I did a video on this mall almost a year ago and it looks even worse now. The abandoned Sears is cool! Happy to see the JCP and Sears being repurposed. The history footage is Awesome! Great video!
The internet has done a number on the malls in America..... It's sad to see them go. Amazing to look back at the 80s and see how different things were. People were out and being active, now we just have empty streets and a bunch of recluse people sitting at home staring at screens.
I used to work in this mall at the Journeys show store. When I was a kid everyone would go to the mall and hangout. Now it's just an eyesore. A place of memory's that society has changed, maybe for the worse.
you were so close to where I live, could have stopped by and visited.
You could've put the kettle on 🤣
@@greywebs1944 yes, yes I could have lol
So awesome see our small town get some love thanks for the video!
I spent so much of my teenagehood running around this mall with my friends! Getting pretzels from Auntie Anne's, hanging out with this weird guy from Kenya who owned the quarter machines, we called him the mall man, such good times
Great video! This is a cool mall!
I live two miles from this mall and even used to work out there in a couple of different stores back in the late 80's. Back then they had some sort of special event going on every weekend, side walk sales, new cars or boats, coin show.......you name it. Now they don't do any special events at all. There's has to be something more to get people out there then to just shop the few stores that remain or it will never make it.
The videos where you guys show old clips are amazing, my favorite channel in this genre by far! So underrated
The Food Court used to have about a dozen restaurants. There was a The Great Wall, Orange Julius, Sabbaro's, a place that only made potato stuff and a number of others I no longer remember. Sears still had the same devour in the electronics area they did when the store opened (in 83 I think). Horrock's in downtown Battle Creek is in the old Sears Store (they moved from there to the mall).
I used to work at Hudson, and I helped open the store
Used to go all the time for school clothes!
Malls can still survive...if they have stores which people shop at. Young people today don't want to shop at Sears or the clothing stores from early to mid 2000's anymore. The mall can easily survive if they have an Adidas originals store, Urban Outfitters, FILA, etc. If people today want quality clothing from 90's style, they go to thrift stores.
Add an actual arcade or barcade with good pizza and classic games like street fighter. People want to hang out and have a good time.
That, and they need to be realistic about rental rates. The market for mall real estate isn't really as in-demand, and they need to face the reality. Malls can easily adapt, but they choose not to. They don't have to go the route of Applebees or unused NYC commercial real estate.
i’ve never known this mall as not dead as long as i’ve known
I used to work there for the shelter. They had rented out a small space and I would bring animals daily for adoption. The rent on that small space was outrageous. You think they would of given a shelter some type of break on rental price.
This is my childhood mall. The food court was renovated multiple times before the wings spot. Used to be a large U shape and contained all of the 80s mall food court staples. I'm pretty sure where the Applebee's is was a chi chis.
By the time the theater opened the mall was already in decline imo. There was a fantastic fountain in the center court yard area that was in front of what was originally Hudsons.
It's really only a shell of what it once was. Not unique in that certainly.
Macy's is what became the storage facility.
Fun fact: Barnes and nobles doesn’t rent out the space at the mall. They own it. So it would be interesting to see what would happen if they had to tare the mall down.
I seen a mini van being stolen from there once. By time security made it out he was gone!
Precinct in the town I come from in England built in 1979 is slowly declining. Big names have gone or gone elsewhere. And already plans for flats being built on it. It's a shame but the internet is the main problem when it comes to retail.
Now they made a horrocks in it
This is every mall in small town America. No state is different. The malls that are still surviving are in the major cities with 1 million plus population.
Are mall here in Battle Creek only gets like 950 people a day
Once malls take out the trees and fountains they lose character and become boring. Replacing them with video games and massage chairs doesn't work
I went to this mall and was very disappointed. Seem like they spend more money paying utilities bills than revenue coming in. It's a waste to me.
Horrocks is open now
I miss the arcade.