No, it hasn't closed down but I haven't a clue how it remains open with just Planet Fitness and a handful of small boutique stores remaining. It's really sad. My childhood home is about 2 miles from where this place is. My family and I used to go there almost every week to do shopping. I remember playing demos of the latest games at Target, doing Christmas shopping there with my mom, and always getting a slice of Sbarro's pizza from the food court (They were the first store in the food court to open and the last one to close). There was an arcade on the left near where this guy walks in called "Aladdin's Castle" - my dad would give me $5 and I prided myself at how long I could make that last. One year it snowed so badly on Halloween that it got "canceled" - but the Mall organized a little trick-or-treat venue for all the kiddies which featured freebies from all the participating stores. When I got off work from my first job at Village Inn - which is just down the road and across the tracks - I'd head over there to unwind. Finally, when I came of age, I walked into the recruiter's office there and joined the Navy. I'd like everyone to know that his place used to be full of light and life and is source of many happy memories for people like me who lived there. Now it's like a graveyard.
You're absolutely right. This mall was a big feature of my childhood. Growing up about sixty miles east along I-80, in a small town in Iowa, going to Council Bluffs and the mall was a big deal. This would have been in the mid 90s. It was a pretty snazzy place. Lots of chrome...a very lively food court. The arcade was always one of the bigger draws for me. The Star Wars cockpit-style game was always my favorite. We'd do the rounds, usually end up in Target. I believe it was a fair bit later that a Panera opened up over on the east side of the front area. First one I ever went to. Sad to see places like this fade like they have, but that's history. It made for some great childhood memories that have stuck with me to this day.
I remember going to Iowa Western from 2011 to 2012 and going to this small few times to go play street fighters 3 third strike with a few friends and there was a really weird but cool car game that was there that always seemed me on FreePlay somehow don't remember the name of it but it looked like an actual car cut out for the cabinet
I remember moving to CB in 1986 and this Mall was just opening at the same time we got there. I still have a lot of fond memories of the stores and eating places that was there. A lot of good times. Kind of sad how they have let it go down hill but that's the age we live in of the Big Box stores and the Internet.
Mall of the Bluffs opened when I was in college and ws once vibrant (though it was credited with sucking the life out of rhe Midlands Mall downtown). Very sad to see it come to this.
That play area was awesome like 12 years ago. So was judging the people that walked into HotTopic from our tables at the food court. So was going to gamestop just to look at the new games or get Pokémon events Or going to sports authority RIP mall of the bluffs. It was all downhill since Target left.
GNC, check Fusion Fitness and art gallery - ''non-tradional use'' (not retail, food or entertainment) check Obviously over 70% vacant, check Not even a single food court vendor, check Yep, Mall of the Bluffs RIP
Back when I was younger Mall of the Bluffs was more life like. Had some memories when I was a child such as they had two toy stores in it. a few times they had that insulator ride. Around Christmas time where I get to see Santa. Had a big singing animatronic bear. Even the food court had more restraints open. Now it is not really like as it used to be. Like it is dying only a few store are still in their.
Was this place ever remodeled? If that's all original to the mall, then I must say, it's withstood the test of time much better than a lot of mall interior jobs; the metallic ceiling corners have a certain generic, but expensive vibe to it... In a good way! Shame that this place may inevitably close down very soon, if it hasn't already...
Sonny S , online shopping, big box too, malls arent able to compete they usually have high price leases, etc. like what happened to Crossroads, and plug the demographic, I think is a factor for crossroads, the money has continued to move towards the west in Omaha. Also heard rumors of gangs loitering the crossroads, high rents for vendors, fed the demise, just what I heard.
Damm... I think most malls actually have more tenants when the powers that be literally force the plug to be pulled on these places... Yet there's a seemingly single digit number of stores left here with the lone remaining (albeit downgraded) department store not even bothering opening the doors to the mall entrance... Replace "uncertain" at the intro with "sealed" right quick!
This mall was my playground when I was in elementary school. It’s so sad to see it in such a state.
No, it hasn't closed down but I haven't a clue how it remains open with just Planet Fitness and a handful of small boutique stores remaining. It's really sad.
My childhood home is about 2 miles from where this place is. My family and I used to go there almost every week to do shopping. I remember playing demos of the latest games at Target, doing Christmas shopping there with my mom, and always getting a slice of Sbarro's pizza from the food court (They were the first store in the food court to open and the last one to close). There was an arcade on the left near where this guy walks in called "Aladdin's Castle" - my dad would give me $5 and I prided myself at how long I could make that last. One year it snowed so badly on Halloween that it got "canceled" - but the Mall organized a little trick-or-treat venue for all the kiddies which featured freebies from all the participating stores. When I got off work from my first job at Village Inn - which is just down the road and across the tracks - I'd head over there to unwind. Finally, when I came of age, I walked into the recruiter's office there and joined the Navy.
I'd like everyone to know that his place used to be full of light and life and is source of many happy memories for people like me who lived there. Now it's like a graveyard.
You're absolutely right. This mall was a big feature of my childhood. Growing up about sixty miles east along I-80, in a small town in Iowa, going to Council Bluffs and the mall was a big deal. This would have been in the mid 90s. It was a pretty snazzy place. Lots of chrome...a very lively food court. The arcade was always one of the bigger draws for me. The Star Wars cockpit-style game was always my favorite. We'd do the rounds, usually end up in Target. I believe it was a fair bit later that a Panera opened up over on the east side of the front area. First one I ever went to. Sad to see places like this fade like they have, but that's history. It made for some great childhood memories that have stuck with me to this day.
i remember that storm it was 96 or 97 iirc. so bad we coulnt even make it out that way.
@@JosiahKillion when i was a kid i think there was a place called the golden fork? it was a buffet, and a pretty damn good one.
I walked through last year, it was heart breaking, it used to be awesome.
I remember going to Iowa Western from 2011 to 2012 and going to this small few times to go play street fighters 3 third strike with a few friends and there was a really weird but cool car game that was there that always seemed me on FreePlay somehow don't remember the name of it but it looked like an actual car cut out for the cabinet
lived in CB for 3 years around this time not sure how it isn't closed, use to be my fav. place as a child.
I remember moving to CB in 1986 and this Mall was just opening at the same time we got there. I still have a lot of fond memories of the stores and eating places that was there. A lot of good times. Kind of sad how they have let it go down hill but that's the age we live in of the Big Box stores and the Internet.
I went there when I was a teenager going to Omaha for the weekend and there used to be a an old Navy that's horrible
This place was legit my childhood did anyone remember jeans toys if you know what happened to him
Mall of the Bluffs opened when I was in college and ws once vibrant (though it was credited with sucking the life out of rhe Midlands Mall downtown). Very sad to see it come to this.
That play area was awesome like 12 years ago.
So was judging the people that walked into HotTopic from our tables at the food court.
So was going to gamestop just to look at the new games or get Pokémon events
Or going to sports authority
RIP mall of the bluffs. It was all downhill since Target left.
GNC, check
Fusion Fitness and art gallery - ''non-tradional use'' (not retail, food or entertainment) check
Obviously over 70% vacant, check
Not even a single food court vendor, check
Yep, Mall of the Bluffs RIP
Does anyone have a pick of the giant white tv they used to have hanging with the food
I saw 'dumb n dumber' opening weekend here. Cant say i had found memories, but at least all stores were full.
Back when I was younger Mall of the Bluffs was more life like. Had some memories when I was a child such as they had two toy stores in it. a few times they had that insulator ride. Around Christmas time where I get to see Santa. Had a big singing animatronic bear. Even the food court had more restraints open. Now it is not really like as it used to be. Like it is dying only a few store are still in their.
Adam Brooks Crime, recession, and ONLINE killed the mall.
I used to work there as a kid. My last year in the area 2002 was very booming. Sad
almost identical to the surviving Columbia Mall in MO
The parking lot is the only good thing left
Was this place ever remodeled? If that's all original to the mall, then I must say, it's withstood the test of time much better than a lot of mall interior jobs; the metallic ceiling corners have a certain generic, but expensive vibe to it... In a good way!
Shame that this place may inevitably close down very soon, if it hasn't already...
the mall in Sioux City is doing just fine.
M Miller its a DEAD MALL!
Sonny S , online shopping, big box too, malls arent able to compete they usually have high price leases, etc. like what happened to Crossroads, and plug the demographic, I think is a factor for crossroads, the money has continued to move towards the west in Omaha. Also heard rumors of gangs loitering the crossroads, high rents for vendors, fed the demise, just what I heard.
There were no gangs at the Crossroads. Mall security was harassing folks for no reason.
Damm... I think most malls actually have more tenants when the powers that be literally force the plug to be pulled on these places... Yet there's a seemingly single digit number of stores left here with the lone remaining (albeit downgraded) department store not even bothering opening the doors to the mall entrance... Replace "uncertain" at the intro with "sealed" right quick!
Pretty sad, really. hopefully it is properly repurposed. It is one hell of an eyesore off the i-80.
Trump is about twenty years too late for these malls. It's the demise of disposable family incomes, Walmarts, and online shopping .