DEAD MALL- Owings Mills Mall 5/16/16
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- A trip to my old mall. I practically grew up here.
The auction company selling off everything inside held a public preview this day. So I spent about 90 minutes walking around inside. It's an absolute mess.
The mall interior closed in September of 2015, with Macy's shortly after, and then JCPenny after that. I'm not sure when it will be demolished, since bidders have until the end of May 2016 to pick up anything they've won in the auction. I assume it would be sometime over the summer.
UPDATE: Demolition has begun on the interior of the mall as of July 2016. Please do not go visit the mall expecting to go in! It is SUPER dangerous as they are doing controlled detonations inside the building. I don't want anyone to go and end up getting hurt!
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This is awesome! Thanks, Carrie!
+This is Dan Bell. please go to this mall when they demolish it or after they demolish it and after they rebuild it would love to see the whole before and after.
+Bobby and Dana Majors I'm hoping to learn the demolition date the next time I go over. going to try and film them knocking it down.
+Carrie Wood that would be cool to watch.
I wanna go so bad
have you ever been to union station mall? in MO
Outstanding job Carrie! Thank you for your stories about this mall in its final days. Like you, I grew up in mega malls, so their passing is like loosing a good old friend.
Hope you make more of these. Your voice and pacing are awesome. 😆🖒
Thanks! I don't know if I'll make any more of these. I'd like to visit the Westminster Town Center just because I love how it looks - very 90s - but I'm not sure what their policy on filming is.
Fantastic video. And what a shame. I worked at the Britches Great Outdoors in ‘’87-‘88. It was at the bottom of the grand staircase. There were actually four Britches stores (2 casual, 2 dressy, for both men and women).
The Gymboree location was a Benetton when the mall first opened. I can still smell the Benetton cologne.
The three original anchors were Macys, Hechts and Saks Fifth Avenue (my best friend worked there). Lord and Taylor was not an original anchor.
A Ruby Tuesday was at the entrance to the Conservatory, near the exit doors.
Other original stores were Abercrombie & Fitch (which was preppy and sold big shirts back in the day), an old school Banana Republic (when they mostly sold safari type clothes), Liz Claiborne, Ann Taylor, Rainbow Salon (I used to get my hair cut there).
I remember working Black Friday in ‘87 and the mall was packed. It took me 20 minutes to make my way through the Conservatory to get to work.
There was the occasional fashion show on the grand staircase, which of course was right outside my store. I remember hearing Roxette “The Look” and Sheena Easton “Strut” while women in overly-shoulder-padded suits and dresses walked the runway.
This sure brings back memories. Moved to Owings Mills for Kindergarten in 1985. By '87, we were skipping school, crawling through the sewer from Painter's Mill apt's to the mall and stealing from stores all day. We were terrible lil latchkey kids :)) Wish I could've made it back before it got torn down. Haven't been there since '91 :( Thank you for this! Brought me back more than any other OMM video has. Narration is great as well! You sound chill af. Cheers FF!
As you walk in, the first thing you will probably notice is the floors imported from France
It's sad to see such an upscale place come to this. This was a beautiful place that should have been preserved, in my opinion.
Great video! It's amazing to see how much it's deteriorated from Dan Bell's 1st 2 videos at OMM. It's sad to see this, yet fascinating all at the same time.
Excellent video, I always think people who film inside dead malls are so brave, I would be afraid of falling through the floor or running into shady people. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, there were definitely shady folks wandering around by the time I went back a few weeks after I shot this footage. I had won a couple of the auctions I wanted so I went back in. Lots of reports from the guys running the auction pickup of people coming in and stealing things. Some of the stuff out of one of my lots got stolen, actually. Nothing I was desperate to get, but it was disappointing. The place was totally structurally sound, though.
This is a brilliant tour of this mall. It's sad to see it has wasted away from its former glory. I guess I am lucky that both of my local malls here in the Atlanta area are still doing well, though you can tell that things have changed over the years. Record stores are gone, gift shops are gone. One still has the GameStop and a Brookstone.
Thanks for shooting and posting this. Sorry to see the place in this state. Hope you scored a few good items in the auction.
Thanks dude! Appreciate it. We have some real choice malls in the greater Baltimore area, but they aren't "my" mall as much as this was, you know?
I did get the signage I wanted, for what it's worth. Both Wizards signs are in my house right now!
That's very cool, that you got the signs you wanted from Wizards! Awesome, really.
I totally get this being 'your' mall. We all had them as kids I think. I know I had a couple. Worked in a few, too. Managed an arcade for a little while.
That being said, around 16 years ago I got into my hobby which was inspired by those years in the 80s - I have some classic arcade and pinball games. It's expensive and challenging at times, but hugely rewarding.
Very interesting! I'm from Randallstown originally so this was such a cool time capsule. Thank you!
Excellent! Like how you explained what stores used to be in the mall. I have many memories of the mall. You went into the salon I used to be a patron of like 20 years ago! Cool! So sad to see the demise of this beautiful mall..
Great footage thanks for sharing!
i love her voice.. makes me get that feeling like im learning something...had that feeling from teachers in school
Malvin Jackson *Spot on, just my thoughts too. And I do learn something! :)*
Excellent video and a nice follow up to Dan Bell's video of the Mall. Such a sad sight to see the remains of the 80's.
Thanks! I took a lot of inspiration from his OMM videos.
What a shame. The building was so nice inside.
The sadness is so obvious here... very different from Dan Bell: it's hitting close to home.
It just struck me that any plants that aren't already dead are surviving due to leaks in the roof...
It struck me as so odd that they just let so many of those plants to die. Palm trees especially are so expensive! Why wouldn't they try to sell those? Blows my mind.
Did they kill the power in there or was it still on
It was still on while I was there, which is of course now more than a month ago. So I believe they cut it sometime in early June.
Great video! I was hoping someone would do a walk-through after it closed. I'm all the way in Texas but I'm obsessed with this beautiful dead mall.
Thanks! I'm also pretty obsessed with Owings Mills Mall. I'd spend two or three days there every week playing Pokemon at the Wizards of the Coast, and I really got to sort of see it go downhill over the years. It's so sad. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with the property, but it's a huge part of my childhood that'll just be gone.
How did you get in? Would love to know, I'm fascinated with things like this.
As I mentioned in the description, the auction company selling everything off held a public preview, so the mall was open to whoever wanted to go on the day I shot this video.
I strongly recommend against going at this point, as basically the whole building was auctioned - stairways, escalators, railings included. By the time I picked up the lots I won a lot of stuff was already gone and it was just wildly unsafe to be in the building. They're going to tear it down this summer and start building a new development on the land.
Ok thanks! I just went by there today and saw what they were doing, but thanks for the reply, I won't be going there anytime soon
Have so many memories of this mall. Even held a few jobs there over the years.
Thanks for sharing this video 📸 sucks it's no longer there
Thanks for the inside view
can’t believe there was that much vandalism that quick. that’s ridiculous.
It was like 9 months since the mall had closed at that point though. Some graffiti and smashed glass isn't too terribly much as far as vandalism is concerned.
all the Brocken glass,mold,and died plants reminds me of rolling acres mall.
Unless it's demolished soon, it will be in the same condition as Rolling Acres Mall in no time. The owner's of Rolling Acres Mall kept delaying the Sheriff's sale by filing bankruptcy at the last minute. I'm not sure if Owings Mills Mall has similar foreclosure sale issues.
Zachary, they've announced what this will be redeveloped into as of last week. Plans are to demolish it sometime over the summer. The only holdup in getting an exact demo date (according to the people on-property handling the checkout of the auction items) is that BGE hasn't yet been by to turn off all the power to the building.
I was over here a few weeks ago and I couldn't get in so I just took pictures from the outside. if only I had gone earlier this week to see it on the inside :( maybe if i'm lucky it'll still be open tomorrow or so. it's amazing how similar the interior looks to columbia mall, it's basically the post-apocalypitc version of that mall
This mall was very similar to the mall in Columbia. I remember when I was a kid I'd get the two mixed up a lot. The Columbia mall is a bit bigger and better tho. I guess everyone just migrated to that mall and left this one to rot. Last time I was here was about 3 or 4 years ago and it was pretty dead. I saw the end coming. Pretty sad.
Nah, Columbia had nothing to do with it. It's way too far away to make an impact on Owings Mills.
The mall's reputation plummeted in the early 1990s after that woman got killed, and then in the mid-2000s you had a one-two punch of Towson Town Center remodeling and expanding and then Hunt Valley Mall reopening as the Town Center with Wegmans as the primary anchor. Those two things on top of the financial crisis killed OMM.
Carrie Wood Damn. I didn't hear about the woman getting killed. But I see. I've always lived in Sykesville, MD which is sort of between three large malls. Westminster, Columbia, and Owings Mills. Not to mention the Carrolltowne Mall which closed down like 10 years ago. I grew up with all of them and never really knew why the Owings Mills one went downhill like it did.
+Goctagon I actually heard while I was at the auction picking things up that the people in charge of the building had started missing bill payments and all sorts of other stuff. Seems like there were problems from top to bottom.
Hey bro
Sad but so intriguing
So depressing.
the macy's at owings mills looks eerily similar to a david jones store at toombul shopping center in my home town that closed in 2011
The store you were talking about was a Liquer stor
I remember working for B&W Tobacco and calling on that CVS store (10:43 mark). That place was a dump, but I had to park the van and go inside every couple of weeks to service the cigarette racks.
Even when the mall was still kickin that CVS was the worst, haha. I'd only ever go in there to grab a soda and a snack real quick.
A lot of great history. great video!
I have been in this mall, once....back in 1990 I think it was.
That is why it was closed down in the first place .Sad..
It reminds me of Rolling Acres Mall when it closed in late 2008. In fact, there was a shoe store at said mall that's exactly like the one at 0:54.
+DudeWithThePoop Yeah, I know that was a chain of some sort, I just cannot for the life of me remember what it was. I know OMM had a Payless and a Shoe Dept and a few others. This one is just escaping me.
+Carrie Wood that was a old footlocker.
+Bobby and Dana Majors you're totally right. I got a shot of the interior sign when I went back. it's just been so long since I've seen a foot locker in that style.
You know that the booming days of the 80s and 90s are gone, when malls are closing up like this.
I would probably argue that you know that the booming days of the 80s and 90s are gone when the year on the calendar reads "2017" but, you know.
Sure this mall was extraordinary and primarily Jewish, but once it turns into a lifestyle center or a retail park, I imagine fountains and towering trees over the parking lots. just like the nearby Foundry Row. Also don't forget to mention all that was Owings Mills is now hills and mounds of dirt and rubble.
Interesting video. Thanks.
What did you get from the auction??
I got the store contents of Power Gamer and Wizards of the Coast. So I basically took all the signage I wanted. And a couple of chairs, actually. Nothing too terribly exciting, I really just wanted to have the signage for the two stores that meant the most to me out of that place.
Who is this??
Disney store look like it was old navy
damn kids, so outta control LOL
It's kinda sad to see what the mall has become. It's starting to look like rolling acres
The difference of course is that Owings Mills will be torn down this summer and in a couple of years will be a brand-new shopping center. Rolling Acres has sat abandoned for years now.
There is so much vandalism in there
Owings mills mall. 1986-2016
suncoast went out business yrs ago
False. There's still a handful out there. A vast majority of the stores closed in about 2009 but there's a few still around - one even locally to here at White Marsh Mall.
Nice
wizard store was in my area it went bankrupted
Wizards didn't go bankrupt. In early 2003 they elected to close the stores to put more resources into game design. They're still around, and doing just fine.
Can you go back and go to JCPenney or jcpenney PLEASE i love jcpenney
I actually can't at this point. I went back again for more footage but the building in general is really dangerous now because a lot of the rails and most of the stairs have been taken out, plus people have been breaking in and stealing things. So I don't intend to go back again.
oh ok that is fine
Deb wen out of business every ware not just that deb there. Destiny USA deb turned in to Syracuse fan store with everything Syracuse