This is all so much fun to watch since I was a huge mall rat at Merle Hay when I was growing up. It's so sad to see it now, but I always dreamed about walking around all these areas that are blocked off now. Great videos!
The mall has been trying to lease it for around 5 years, so really, it isn't actually "abandoned". An over-used term in these videos. They still do short-term leases for Spirit Halloween each fall, or until the space is FINALLY leased - maybe to the Des Moines Buccaneers, but who knows.
This is all so much fun to watch since I was a huge mall rat at Merle Hay when I was growing up. It's so sad to see it now, but I always dreamed about walking around all these areas that are blocked off now.
Great videos!
Wow, incredible video!
Thank you!
The mall has been trying to lease it for around 5 years, so really, it isn't actually "abandoned". An over-used term in these videos. They still do short-term leases for Spirit Halloween each fall, or until the space is FINALLY leased - maybe to the Des Moines Buccaneers, but who knows.
Yonkers had been closed down for years due to online shopping, which makes a lot of sense
How do you get in and out?
Incredible video, im surprised to see inside the store after it closed.
Thank you!
I miss younkers i hate shopping on line
were y’all able to go in that door in the wooded hallway?
I don’t believe so - I think we got through every door when we were inside but not remembering a wooded hallway
the wooded hallway in 9:21
@w00pszoip ah! Yes we did end up getting through, but it led to an upstairs exterior exit of the mall
I thought they were making that into the Bucks skating arena.
Fell through last I heard.
Can you say Back Rooms? Seriously, should be rented out as a photo studio.
Where are you at inside the mall it's like you are going around in circles here
We were trying to find an entrance to the Merle Hay Mall basement
@@Man-MadeArchaeology oh I love to see the inside that mall someday
@@Man-MadeArchaeology I think I found a way down into the basement. I can show you where to go if you show me how to get into the younkers.
Why did it close why?
Younkers as a whole went under.
Bon-Ton (Parent Company Of Bergners, Boston Store, Carson’s, Elder Beerman and Younkers) Went $14M On Debt And Filed For Bankruptcy