Dang the one day I’m not working! Huge fan of your videos and always keep my eye (and ear) out for you! Definitely worried abt the Namdar sale and it seems the town is as well. Buckland is no Westfarms, but it’s definitely not dead. It’s pretty mid-range in terms of traffic and such.
Ikr! I’ve been thinking the exact same thing for awhile now w JC. There’s quite literally nothing they sell you can’t find elsewhere for way less money.
They may have signed a lease with terms that say it would cost them more to break the lease than it does to stay open. My local Ill Will is still open for just that reason. I expect them to close when the lease ends. They already chased off all of the resellers, who made the place profitable.
Great channel. It is interesting and sad to see how so many of these malls are dying out. You do great work at archiving the history of the malls and providing your insight and commentary.
Tom, you just made me very sad. I used to shop at the Buckland Mall all the time. I haven't been through the mall since the pandemic hit. As we were coming out of the pandemic, I had a problem and needed back surgery, so I can't walk around like I used to since I need to use a walker now. I was really so surprised at all the changes. I don't even recognize so many of those stores in there now and most of the stores or restaurants that we used to go to are no longer there. I hope the whole mall doesn't close. There's not much else around. It looks like the strip mall down the hill is doing better that the actual mall now. Thank you for this video. 🙂🙃🙂
I lived in Connecticut back in the 80s Westfarms reign days. Buckland was the new popular mall when i left in the eary 90s. The traffic took 15 minutes just to get in the mall. This was the mall that was putting Westfarms to shame. We still had Crystal, Enfield and Meriden Square, which did well also. We even had a tiny mall in New London ( made that trip to get an Orange Julius slushie). A further drive would get us the holy grail of malls - Holyoke Ingleside. Its amazing to see whats happening to all the malls i grew up with
I feel old now!! I can remember when there was no mall, and Pioneer Parachute was still on the hill. My grandmother worked there. I remember friends climbing that water tower on a drunken escapade. I remember going to lunch with my bff at Ruby Tuesday's all of the time and shopping for all of those acid washed jeans when they first built that mall. Good times. 😊
You're the first person I thought of when I heard this news. Namdar is getting a really good deal it seems, so I can't blame them for buying the mall. Buckland Hills Mall has potential and can sometimes be quite busy. I fear that Namdar will let the mall go just as they did with Enfield, though.
Y’all the sale hasn’t been finalized yet!! There’s still hope! Email the town of Manchester, CT about your concerns of the sale to Namdar!! I did that yesterday. We the people have to make our voices heard!
I remember when this was a golf course in the 80s. Used to party up there at night as a teenager, there and the Nike site. Evergreen walk , all the way to Burr corners was completely undeveloped then, all tobacco fields.
I just missed ya! I was at that mall with my girlfriend last Monday and I was talking about how it would be funny to run into you guys 😅 i love this mall i hope it’s not the beginning of the end! 😢
I really hope the court will stop Namdar from purchasing this mall, and I hope Namdar gets shut down by the government for letting malls go into disrepair putting the public at risk. And Namdar negotiates low prices to purchase the mall and they profit off the remaining tenants as well as investing very little into maintaining the mall. If the town issues a citation for structural deficiencies to Namdar like Enfield did to the Enfield Square Mall due to roof issues, I wouldn’t be surprised.
I used to go to this mall when my aunt lived in East Hartford Ct. I recall there used to be a very large Dream Machine arcade somewhere near the food court back in the 90's.
I remember being surprised when Dicks Sporting Goods closed cause it was a 2 floor store with a batting cage inside. Love the videos Tom. Currently addicted to your flea market videos, even watched a few with my mom. All the Best Tom 🤘
I'm nearing 30, and it's pretty sad to see so many malls dead. It's so much more fulfilling to go shopping in person and see the items you wanna buy. Shopping online just doesn't hit the same. I hope something can happen that can revive these types of places.
OHHHHH! Yea I concur 100% w you on that, bc If they own the Crystal Mall which I’ve been to many times than its really only a matter of a very short time before they close completely. Buckland hills was probably the largest mall I’d been to before I started driving to NY & NJ malls. Paramus is just massive & so far has always been very busy when I’ve gone but it was also the holiday season.
I remember driving up to this mall site in the late 80s when it was being built. It was just a dirt hill and was hard to believe a mall would be there someday. All throughout the 90s it was an incredible mall! I spent alot of time there. So many great stores back in the day. You named a few, Sun Coast Video, Electronics Boutique. I think there was a Walden there too if I'm not mistaken, (although that could have been the Enfield Square).
The Dicks Sporting Goods that was in the mall is now at The Plaza at Burr Corners. Grew up in South Windsor in the 90s to Mid 2000's and mostly avoided the actual mall area and went to Best Buy, Bobs, and other stores in the area. When I was a teenager kids used to get in fights in the mall and ironically now those happen at the nearby Urban Air where Marshalls and Bobs were located until the late 2010's. The mall and shopping areas South Windsor never wanted decades ago has now crawled into South Windsor and nowadays Evergreen Walk + Costco has more in demand shops than most parts of the Buckland area of Manchester.
Yeah I’m right up the street from this mall, it’s too bad because the last couple of years saw a little bump after the rough last few years. This is it from the looks of it
Ah that is an absolute shame if Namdar takes it. They will surely kill it. Do they own any malls that have remained successful that you know of? I’ve been to this mall many times and it was always one of my favorites. So interesting that they have that comedy club. I’ve never been in there but I’m glad it’s hanging on.
My most recent visit to this mall was a couple days after Thanksgiving, on my way home from a visit with family in Hamden. I'm from Maine. I like Track 23 and they recently closed on of the two stores closest to where I live. The one at Square One Mall. I was there in mid November and it was already closed, but it was still open 3 months earlier. Another memory I seem to have is that AAO might have been in that space across from where Dick's was.
@ 4:58 that used to be Friendly's back in the day! Also, after Electronic Boutique, across the hall which is now the "Snipes" store was K.B. Toys (stopped at 5:05 to post this, I may be back with more info)
Not true. Newbury came in after Suncoast closed in March 2006. They later expanded whenever the store next to what was originally Suncoast, right next door, closed. I remember it clear as day. Newbury came in immediately following Suncoast's closure and expanded later on to renovate/upgrade to a larger location after that second store closed. I can't recall exactly what that store was though. Maybe CVS? I know CVS was somewhere around where KB Toys used to be in the mid 2000s.
@@IchigoKurosakiIt was a CVS to the left of KB Toys and then Newberry Comic on the end. Once KB closed, Newberry expanded. I just remember the old Newberry being so tiny and dark and I always used to go into KB Toys whenever my mom needed to go to CVS
Looks like Spencers remodeled back to closer to what they used to look like. For many years they switched over to that abandoned garage look on the outside and it never looked like people went into it. The Newbury comics was actually very small when it first opened and they expanded into the bigger store. I miss the smaller one, it had a different feel to it. And all the employees were really great, but they've all since moved on. That godzilla I had the original large one with the shooting arm, i sold it a few years ago at the Mansfield Flea Market.
Grew up in the area. So many memories I would hate to see it leave. Cajun cafe has been there since the mall opened. Miss ruby Tuesdays also. Time out arcade was the best used to put are quarters up on machine to play next like killer instant MK etc. memories
That was a long time ago. 90s i think. I remember going in there when i was a really little. They had some creepy modern art sculptures that creeped me out and the anchor store at the end had wide stairs going down to a dark place. I remember shopping at the kaybee and eating at the smoke filled Friendly's in the early 80s
This place was incredible in the 90s! I remember thinking it was the coolest place on earth when I first went there as a kid! I grew up in Enfield and only knew the Enfield square, which was a good mall itself back then. But Buckland Hills blew my 12 year old mind!! 😂
The vacant spot across from Barnes and nobles was friendlys restaurant for awhile, then it became a T-shirt printing place for a little while and it's sat vacant for years Passport candies is newer. Good selection Hungry pot is alright. Wasn't a fan of the way they set up Korean BBQ but would be willing to try the hot pot
Despite quite a few empty store fronts, this is actually seems like a nice mall. I can imagine myself as a teenager hanging out in that comic shop with friends, heading up to the game store to check the games, and then grabbing a bite to eat at the Korean BBQ place.
IIRC I was in the Sage Allen on the day they closed. I may even have a copy of the Certificate of Occupancy (just a photocopy) here somewhere. They thought I was weird to want it...then.
I was there last Tuesday. I found the Macys cosmetic floor oddly empty. I checked the Chanel counter and the fixtures where there. Just a little inside baseball...Chanel removes all branded fixtures as soon as a closing is announced. I found it sad that the ladies shoe dept. was all open sell. Is that standard for Macys?
23:31 Jay Jewelers was Game Stop and then down the hall on the left before the doors was the PCGA (PC Gaming Arena) and across from it was Ruby Tuesday's
The mall is being sold as " As is condition " And the mall has a loss to all the vacant stores they have. And that is why they are selling the mall at that price.
One of those punching bag games showed up in a weird spot in our local mall in NC recently. I don’t know who those are for. I guess for someone real confident because if you wiff everyone is going to see and hear it.
Can you please do a video about the mall in Middletown? It’s called Main Street Market. It used to be called the clock tower shops. I’d like to hear your thoughts. Thanks
The officials of Manchester, CT are very concerned about NAMDAR possibly buying this mall. It was news online over a week ago. And YES, D&L was in Buckland in the early 1990s. A very nice store, with other branches, like the one in Vernon in Tri City Plaza.
It's sad to think that all the clothing stores from my youth are long gone. G Fox, D&L, Sage Allen. We rarely shopped there but they were always present in any Connecticut mall.
I remember that Godzilla figure - I had the large one. It was part of the "Shogun Warriors" line of toys from Mattel. Wish I still had it; I looked on eBay and those old ones from the late 1970s sell for quite the pretty penny.
I used to love coming to this mall when I first got my license. They just got Sonic so we'd roadtrip and hour to spend the day up here. I haven't been in years and its shocking how much this has fallen in less than 10-15 years. Think it's one of those cases where the mall isn't what it used to be so the clientele has shifted and the place feels unsafe which turns off customers and families. Great example of this is Providence Place, I couldn't believe how bad it has gotten. I'd never go again.
I really hope that Namdar don’t end up getting the mall because I have a lot of memories in that mall and there are a lot of good stores in that mall! I’m really hoping they don’t fuck up the mall like they did the Enfield mall
I've been going to Buckland Hills all my life. It honestly makes me sad that they're selling the mall off to the slum-mall-lord of the state, but I'm hoping if they do anything, they turn it all into apartments. There's enough shopping in the surrounding area, so I don't think the mall itself is necessarily the big draw over there.
This mall had the best arcade in the 90's. Now it smells like pot and they're using space heaters in anchor stores, that's bad. Read the Manchester Health department reports online before eating at any restaurant in the food court.
That is terrible news. Namdar actually owns 4 of Connecticut's malls. They own the Trumbull Mall as well so this acquisition would be number 5 for them.
As far as I know the Trumbull Mall is doing okay. The same for the South Shore Mall on Long Island, which Namdar bought in the same transaction. They may be trying to get past their reputation as a dead mall vulture.
It probably wasn't worth the $45 million. More stores might have closed since October 2024. The second floor arcade looks like something you see in Japan. I like that one.
Hi Tom it’s Rena I was just wondering if Dave & Buster’s arcade and restaurant is part of the Buckland Hills Mall or if it’s a separate building outside of the mall.Please let me know thank you.
I’ve been saying Buckland isn’t a dying mall for awhile now but I think it’s finally hitting that point. There’s a lot of dead space. No Cash 4 Gold stores yet at least.
It includes the hotel nearby and I believe the Dave and Busters. Even if it's just land leases that generates some revenue. But it's prime land and a lot of it.
Hey, you have the old Steger's and Sage Allen anchor stores mixed up. Sage Allen was where the original Dicks would open in I believe 1995 or 1996. Dicks then demolished the original Sage Allen store in 2003 to replace it with a new bigger and modern dicks store. The Steger's store closed and the building was remodeled and expanded slightly to become Lord & Taylor in 1996. You can clearly tell where the building was added to by the new addition having much less support pillars than the original part of the building, Macy's home and men currently occupies this space today. Anyways, I really enjoy your channel :)
Namdar owns Trumbull which wasn't as screwed as Meriden/Crystal/Enfield so maybe this one will keep plugging along alright. I don't have high hopes though.
@@MrCraigblazeI walked through there Monday around noon and there wasn't a single store open in the mall part. Only the few restaurants at the one end and target. Oh yeah. GameStop was open. Haha. And Party city was selling off its furniture.
One of the problems that Buckland had was the clientele changed to a more urban ghetto hood type of client and there were several fights and gangbangers were coming in and starting riots in Malay’s, and the Manchester police did nothing so the families went away because they were afraid on the way and never comeback
@@nycmaverick My parents never let me hang in the mall during my middle school years and I appreciate it because i avoided those dumb fights. There is a trampoline park (Urban Air) down the road from the mall with limited staff and unfortunately the same fights and pulling if weapons I heard about as a kid happens there nowadays in the evening hours. It’s a shame because the trampoline park is a great place for younger kids to release steam in the winter.
@ that’s exactly what was happening. There was a riot of 50 savages that was coordinated on social media. It’s a shame because it used to be such a nice family place with good food and clean facilities. I hope WestFarms doesn’t have the same fate fall on it. But I’m starting to see a shift in the shoppers there now.
Hey! My wife and I made it into the video 😂 We were there on Sunday and so I looked for us in there, that's so funny
Dang the one day I’m not working! Huge fan of your videos and always keep my eye (and ear) out for you!
Definitely worried abt the Namdar sale and it seems the town is as well. Buckland is no Westfarms, but it’s definitely not dead. It’s pretty mid-range in terms of traffic and such.
Love mall videos, and especially yours, as you are one of the only tubers that drives around the outside. I like to see what surrounds the mall.
I swear JC Pennys are staying open out of spite at this point.
Ikr! I’ve been thinking the exact same thing for awhile now w JC. There’s quite literally nothing they sell you can’t find elsewhere for way less money.
They may have signed a lease with terms that say it would cost them more to break the lease than it does to stay open. My local Ill Will is still open for just that reason. I expect them to close when the lease ends. They already chased off all of the resellers, who made the place profitable.
I have no idea how ours at Beass Mill is still open. Half of it on the inside is closed off so it's half a JC Penny.
Lol
Right that's actually funny.
Great channel. It is interesting and sad to see how so many of these malls are dying out. You do great work at archiving the history of the malls and providing your insight and commentary.
Was just at westfarms last weekend and it was PACKED!! TONS of people!!
Hopefully that sale won't go through. Namdar DESTROYS every mall that it touches.
the goal is mixed use with all of them, esp Enfield
I remember going to this mall the first month it opened. It blew my 13 year old mind because it was absolutely huge.
The store next to Claire's that is vacant was a Friendly's, then a shirt printing store.
A comedy club inside of a mall is something I've never seen before. Nice walkthrough, thanks.
Tom, you just made me very sad. I used to shop at the Buckland Mall all the time. I haven't been through the mall since the pandemic hit. As we were coming out of the pandemic, I had a problem and needed back surgery, so I can't walk around like I used to since I need to use a walker now. I was really so surprised at all the changes. I don't even recognize so many of those stores in there now and most of the stores or restaurants that we used to go to are no longer there. I hope the whole mall doesn't close. There's not much else around. It looks like the strip mall down the hill is doing better that the actual mall now. Thank you for this video. 🙂🙃🙂
I lived in Connecticut back in the 80s Westfarms reign days. Buckland was the new popular mall when i left in the eary 90s. The traffic took 15 minutes just to get in the mall. This was the mall that was putting Westfarms to shame. We still had Crystal, Enfield and Meriden Square, which did well also. We even had a tiny mall in New London ( made that trip to get an Orange Julius slushie). A further drive would get us the holy grail of malls - Holyoke Ingleside. Its amazing to see whats happening to all the malls i grew up with
I feel old now!!
I can remember when there was no mall, and Pioneer Parachute was still on the hill. My grandmother worked there.
I remember friends climbing that water tower on a drunken escapade. I remember going to lunch with my bff at Ruby Tuesday's all of the time and shopping for all of those acid washed jeans when they first built that mall.
Good times. 😊
You're the first person I thought of when I heard this news. Namdar is getting a really good deal it seems, so I can't blame them for buying the mall. Buckland Hills Mall has potential and can sometimes be quite busy. I fear that Namdar will let the mall go just as they did with Enfield, though.
Namdar recently purchased our local mall in Joliet, IL and we're already noticing a decline.
Great video! Seems like there's alot of empty shops and less than mall type stores. It's definitely a pattern you see before it gets bad.
I just saw the news about the sale of the mall. I will be watching what these slumlords do?
Y’all the sale hasn’t been finalized yet!! There’s still hope! Email the town of Manchester, CT about your concerns of the sale to Namdar!! I did that yesterday. We the people have to make our voices heard!
What is NAMDARs goal? Why purchase mall then ignore maintaining it?
Nice seeing activity and hearing people enjoy the mall experience. Doesn’t scream ‘thriving’ but definitely isn’t dead.
Compared to how it was in the 90s and early 2000s, it looks like a dead mall to me, so sad. Had so many memories in that mall.
@@Wan_Mata very sad
I remember when this was a golf course in the 80s. Used to party up there at night as a teenager, there and the Nike site. Evergreen walk , all the way to Burr corners was completely undeveloped then, all tobacco fields.
I just missed ya! I was at that mall with my girlfriend last Monday and I was talking about how it would be funny to run into you guys 😅 i love this mall i hope it’s not the beginning of the end! 😢
I really hope the court will stop Namdar from purchasing this mall, and I hope Namdar gets shut down by the government for letting malls go into disrepair putting the public at risk.
And Namdar negotiates low prices to purchase the mall and they profit off the remaining tenants as well as investing very little into maintaining the mall.
If the town issues a citation for structural deficiencies to Namdar like Enfield did to the Enfield Square Mall due to roof issues, I wouldn’t be surprised.
I used to go to this mall when my aunt lived in East Hartford Ct. I recall there used to be a very large Dream Machine arcade somewhere near the food court back in the 90's.
I haven't been to this mall in years, so this is a very nostalgic video. Nice.
Always great videos for us thank you.
I remember being surprised when Dicks Sporting Goods closed cause it was a 2 floor store with a batting cage inside. Love the videos Tom. Currently addicted to your flea market videos, even watched a few with my mom. All the Best Tom 🤘
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
@fleabittenadventures Thank you Haven't been in this mall since before Christmas.
I'm nearing 30, and it's pretty sad to see so many malls dead. It's so much more fulfilling to go shopping in person and see the items you wanna buy. Shopping online just doesn't hit the same. I hope something can happen that can revive these types of places.
OHHHHH! Yea I concur 100% w you on that, bc If they own the Crystal Mall which I’ve been to many times than its really only a matter of a very short time before they close completely. Buckland hills was probably the largest mall I’d been to before I started driving to NY & NJ malls. Paramus is just massive & so far has always been very busy when I’ve gone but it was also the holiday season.
I remember driving up to this mall site in the late 80s when it was being built. It was just a dirt hill and was hard to believe a mall would be there someday. All throughout the 90s it was an incredible mall! I spent alot of time there. So many great stores back in the day. You named a few, Sun Coast Video, Electronics Boutique. I think there was a Walden there too if I'm not mistaken, (although that could have been the Enfield Square).
Namdar killed the Shops at Ithaca mall.
The Dicks Sporting Goods that was in the mall is now at The Plaza at Burr Corners. Grew up in South Windsor in the 90s to Mid 2000's and mostly avoided the actual mall area and went to Best Buy, Bobs, and other stores in the area. When I was a teenager kids used to get in fights in the mall and ironically now those happen at the nearby Urban Air where Marshalls and Bobs were located until the late 2010's. The mall and shopping areas South Windsor never wanted decades ago has now crawled into South Windsor and nowadays Evergreen Walk + Costco has more in demand shops than most parts of the Buckland area of Manchester.
Oh no, even Dick's!
Yeah I’m right up the street from this mall, it’s too bad because the last couple of years saw a little bump after the rough last few years. This is it from the looks of it
I was just there this past Saturday to return an item to H&M and was pretty surprised how busy it was.
I used to live in the huge apartment complex across the street around 2003-2004 time. I loved that mall. That is so sad to hear about it being sold.
The Pavilions?
Buckland Hills was Red Rocks golf course until 1990.
At at that time Evergreen walk was truly green with farmland and tobacco.
Restaurant 94 right off the Highway!
Ah that is an absolute shame if Namdar takes it. They will surely kill it. Do they own any malls that have remained successful that you know of? I’ve been to this mall many times and it was always one of my favorites. So interesting that they have that comedy club. I’ve never been in there but I’m glad it’s hanging on.
My most recent visit to this mall was a couple days after Thanksgiving, on my way home from a visit with family in Hamden. I'm from Maine. I like Track 23 and they recently closed on of the two stores closest to where I live. The one at Square One Mall. I was there in mid November and it was already closed, but it was still open 3 months earlier. Another memory I seem to have is that AAO might have been in that space across from where Dick's was.
Nooooooo!
NAMDAR is the path to the retail grave.
😢
That’s what I said
The radio shack is an escape room? That's pretty cool. I work up the street but i haven't been in there in at least 10 years
@ 4:58 that used to be Friendly's back in the day! Also, after Electronic Boutique, across the hall which is now the "Snipes" store was K.B. Toys (stopped at 5:05 to post this, I may be back with more info)
That vacant store bottom level across from bn used to be a friendlys restaurant
You also missed where Newbury is today used to be kb toys
I don’t remember KB occupying that corner end unit with 2 entrances. I think KB was down one
@christophercaldwell3963 Newbury used to be smaller before they revamped the location
Wasn't there a Walden books too?
Not true. Newbury came in after Suncoast closed in March 2006. They later expanded whenever the store next to what was originally Suncoast, right next door, closed. I remember it clear as day. Newbury came in immediately following Suncoast's closure and expanded later on to renovate/upgrade to a larger location after that second store closed. I can't recall exactly what that store was though. Maybe CVS? I know CVS was somewhere around where KB Toys used to be in the mid 2000s.
@@IchigoKurosakiIt was a CVS to the left of KB Toys and then Newberry Comic on the end. Once KB closed, Newberry expanded. I just remember the old Newberry being so tiny and dark and I always used to go into KB Toys whenever my mom needed to go to CVS
@@christophercaldwell3963yes and no. Suncoast was the corner store, Newbery took it and later expanded into the space that was KB.
Looks like Spencers remodeled back to closer to what they used to look like. For many years they switched over to that abandoned garage look on the outside and it never looked like people went into it.
The Newbury comics was actually very small when it first opened and they expanded into the bigger store. I miss the smaller one, it had a different feel to it. And all the employees were really great, but they've all since moved on.
That godzilla I had the original large one with the shooting arm, i sold it a few years ago at the Mansfield Flea Market.
Grew up in the area. So many memories I would hate to see it leave. Cajun cafe has been there since the mall opened. Miss ruby Tuesdays also. Time out arcade was the best used to put are quarters up on machine to play next like killer instant MK etc. memories
Unfortunately the sale did go through. As of January 23 2025 ..
Awesome looking mall! Some definite early 90’s vibes.
Got any video or pics of the Farmington Valley Mall when it was an indoor mall?
Nope. I've looked and can't find any.
That was a long time ago. 90s i think. I remember going in there when i was a really little. They had some creepy modern art sculptures that creeped me out and the anchor store at the end had wide stairs going down to a dark place. I remember shopping at the kaybee and eating at the smoke filled Friendly's in the early 80s
What a beautiful mall! It must have been fantastic in it's heyday. With the same owners as Crystal I'm not optimistic for it's future, sadly.
This place was incredible in the 90s! I remember thinking it was the coolest place on earth when I first went there as a kid! I grew up in Enfield and only knew the Enfield square, which was a good mall itself back then. But Buckland Hills blew my 12 year old mind!! 😂
The vacant spot across from Barnes and nobles was friendlys restaurant for awhile, then it became a T-shirt printing place for a little while and it's sat vacant for years
Passport candies is newer. Good selection
Hungry pot is alright. Wasn't a fan of the way they set up Korean BBQ but would be willing to try the hot pot
Thanks for the info. I used to deliver weekly not far from there in early 2000's. Evergreen Walk maybe is the name. Is that still there?
Despite quite a few empty store fronts, this is actually seems like a nice mall. I can imagine myself as a teenager hanging out in that comic shop with friends, heading up to the game store to check the games, and then grabbing a bite to eat at the Korean BBQ place.
IIRC I was in the Sage Allen on the day they closed. I may even have a copy of the Certificate of Occupancy (just a photocopy) here somewhere. They thought I was weird to want it...then.
Most of the stores look to have decent inventories but there are very few customers. This can not be tenable.
5:26 - Beautifit was Abercrombie, later on you mention the Hollister, but right after the "Ziya" was American Eagle
Across from the Abercrombie was Hot Topic
Old Hollister stores are on the same level as old Pizza Huts - the structure is very noticeable!
I was just at this mall this past sunday!
I was there last Tuesday. I found the Macys cosmetic floor oddly empty. I checked the Chanel counter and the fixtures where there. Just a little inside baseball...Chanel removes all branded fixtures as soon as a closing is announced. I found it sad that the ladies shoe dept. was all open sell. Is that standard for Macys?
Will you do a revisit of the SONO Collection? It just turned 5 years old last year.
Is that that Mall that in Norwich ??
Norwalk @@MrCraigblaze
Sad to hear that Namdar is buying it.
The Sears building is so sad.
Man I absolutely haunted this place in 2016-2018 😭 sad to see
I feel for any mall that is bought by Namdar. They owned my local mall and it was torn down for a hardware store.
@@AnimeJSaysBah the first thing Namdar is going to cut is security guards and then the savages will really start coming back.
Why are malls in the US so quiet? It's no wonder there are so many dead malls when there are no people using them.
23:31 Jay Jewelers was Game Stop and then down the hall on the left before the doors was the PCGA (PC Gaming Arena) and across from it was Ruby Tuesday's
The mall is being sold as " As is condition " And the mall has a loss to all the vacant stores they have. And that is why they are selling the mall at that price.
One of those punching bag games showed up in a weird spot in our local mall in NC recently. I don’t know who those are for. I guess for someone real confident because if you wiff everyone is going to see and hear it.
Can you please do a video about the mall in Middletown? It’s called Main Street Market. It used to be called the clock tower shops. I’d like to hear your thoughts. Thanks
Is that an indoor mall? I've never heard of it. Thanks.
@ yes indoor. It’s a fabulous mall. Very busy and thriving. Main Street Middletown Connecticut
Thanks. I had no idea this place existed.
The officials of Manchester, CT are very concerned about NAMDAR possibly buying this mall. It was news online over a week ago.
And YES, D&L was in Buckland in the early 1990s. A very nice store, with other branches, like the one in Vernon in Tri City Plaza.
It's sad to think that all the clothing stores from my youth are long gone. G Fox, D&L, Sage Allen. We rarely shopped there but they were always present in any Connecticut mall.
@John_Locke_108 I did a lot of shopping in the early 1990s at D&L stores.
I remember that Godzilla figure - I had the large one. It was part of the "Shogun Warriors" line of toys from Mattel. Wish I still had it; I looked on eBay and those old ones from the late 1970s sell for quite the pretty penny.
19:41 and 23:56 that AT&T location was originally Pacific Sunwear back in the 90s
It’s a dying mall, it’s only a matter of time
I used to love coming to this mall when I first got my license. They just got Sonic so we'd roadtrip and hour to spend the day up here. I haven't been in years and its shocking how much this has fallen in less than 10-15 years. Think it's one of those cases where the mall isn't what it used to be so the clientele has shifted and the place feels unsafe which turns off customers and families. Great example of this is Providence Place, I couldn't believe how bad it has gotten. I'd never go again.
That former Hollister still smells like Hollister inside. No lies lol
The reason they are selling cheap is that in general, malls don't thrive anymore and nobody wants to spend more than that.
This is my mall. I will be so sad if it goes.
I really hope that Namdar don’t end up getting the mall because I have a lot of memories in that mall and there are a lot of good stores in that mall! I’m really hoping they don’t fuck up the mall like they did the Enfield mall
I wonder what is the point of buying a mall like this and do nothing to bring it back?
How in the heck do any of the WOW arcades stay open??
I was there today as well as West Farms Mall. I hope they don't sell it to them UGH.
When namdar steps in it’s just to speed up the process of a failing mall 😂
And leave the town to pay the delinquent fees and taxes. 😂
I've been going to Buckland Hills all my life. It honestly makes me sad that they're selling the mall off to the slum-mall-lord of the state, but I'm hoping if they do anything, they turn it all into apartments. There's enough shopping in the surrounding area, so I don't think the mall itself is necessarily the big draw over there.
If Namdar gets Buckland it will be the end.
How is this mall now
This mall had the best arcade in the 90's. Now it smells like pot and they're using space heaters in anchor stores, that's bad. Read the Manchester Health department reports online before eating at any restaurant in the food court.
That is terrible news. Namdar actually owns 4 of Connecticut's malls. They own the Trumbull Mall as well so this acquisition would be number 5 for them.
As far as I know the Trumbull Mall is doing okay. The same for the South Shore Mall on Long Island, which Namdar bought in the same transaction. They may be trying to get past their reputation as a dead mall vulture.
It probably wasn't worth the $45 million. More stores might have closed since October 2024.
The second floor arcade looks like something you see in Japan. I like that one.
A few miles from my house. I still miss the Rolly Polly that used to be in the food court.
Hi Tom it’s Rena I was just wondering if Dave & Buster’s arcade and restaurant is part of the Buckland Hills Mall or if it’s a separate building outside of the mall.Please let me know thank you.
It's a separate building.
I’ve been saying Buckland isn’t a dying mall for awhile now but I think it’s finally hitting that point. There’s a lot of dead space. No Cash 4 Gold stores yet at least.
I can't explain why it's being sold for so much! It's dead. It's sad. At it prime it was a great experience.
It includes the hotel nearby and I believe the Dave and Busters. Even if it's just land leases that generates some revenue. But it's prime land and a lot of it.
when you see a sale offer to pay full price to help that store.
Hey, you have the old Steger's and Sage Allen anchor stores mixed up. Sage Allen was where the original Dicks would open in I believe 1995 or 1996. Dicks then demolished the original Sage Allen store in 2003 to replace it with a new bigger and modern dicks store. The Steger's store closed and the building was remodeled and expanded slightly to become Lord & Taylor in 1996. You can clearly tell where the building was added to by the new addition having much less support pillars than the original part of the building, Macy's home and men currently occupies this space today.
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Namdar owns Trumbull which wasn't as screwed as Meriden/Crystal/Enfield so maybe this one will keep plugging along alright. I don't have high hopes though.
Nothing can be as bad as the Enfield Square. 😂😂
@@MrCraigblazeI walked through there Monday around noon and there wasn't a single store open in the mall part. Only the few restaurants at the one end and target. Oh yeah. GameStop was open. Haha. And Party city was selling off its furniture.
30:06 on the first floor to the right of the Spa was the dog place... forget the name right now.
One of the problems that Buckland had was the clientele changed to a more urban ghetto hood type of client and there were several fights and gangbangers were coming in and starting riots in Malay’s, and the Manchester police did nothing so the families went away because they were afraid on the way and never comeback
@@nycmaverick My parents never let me hang in the mall during my middle school years and I appreciate it because i avoided those dumb fights. There is a trampoline park (Urban Air) down the road from the mall with limited staff and unfortunately the same fights and pulling if weapons I heard about as a kid happens there nowadays in the evening hours. It’s a shame because the trampoline park is a great place for younger kids to release steam in the winter.
yeah putting a mall on a busline is a death knell
The mall went downhill when they got rid of Time Out arcade.
I know several women that were followed out of the mall and robbed walking back to their cars because they had a nice purse.
@ that’s exactly what was happening. There was a riot of 50 savages that was coordinated on social media. It’s a shame because it used to be such a nice family place with good food and clean facilities. I hope WestFarms doesn’t have the same fate fall on it. But I’m starting to see a shift in the shoppers there now.
Sale finalized. We'll see where this mall is in 5 years.
oh no
I emailed The Manchester city hall to tell them to stop this sale as I know what Namdar can do
I enter the mall between The Macy's and the old Bob's. Store.