I have been laughing all day about the McFarland Mall website- certainly nice for someone to have his own shopping center, but not good to use a personal site on home.comcast.net to make the mall's website; pitiful! Mall websites have to be intuitive- like eastlandmall.com and the like.
Thanks to all for the info on these poor shopping centers!
Worst Southern Mall?
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, Feb 23 2006 07:08 PM
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Posted 10 March 2006 - 11:00 AM
I'm shocked no one has mentioned The Galleria in Rock Hill, SC. This one gets my vote for the "Saddest, Most Depressing Mall in America".
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Posted 11 March 2006 - 01:06 AM
charlotte_bon_vivant, on Mar 10 2006, 12:00 PM, said:
I'm shocked no one has mentioned The Galleria in Rock Hill, SC. This one gets my vote for the "Saddest, Most Depressing Mall in America".
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Posted 14 March 2006 - 03:52 PM
StevenRocks, on Mar 11 2006, 02:06 AM, said:
I've nver been to that one. I'm sure it's plenty sad though.
What is so sad about it?
Missing anchors, dated design, etc.?
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Posted 14 March 2006 - 04:04 PM
Monroe Mall is pretty bad, I don't know how it compares with these other malls though.
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Posted 14 March 2006 - 04:10 PM
It can't be sadder than Pennrose Mall. I wish I took my camera with me that day 
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Posted 13 May 2006 - 12:20 AM
1. Shannon Mall
2. South Dekalb Mall
3. Southlake Mall
2. South Dekalb Mall
3. Southlake Mall
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Posted 15 May 2006 - 10:40 AM
University Mall - Little Rock, AR
For a "dead mall" this place had lots of traffic this past weekend when I was there. The mall is across the street from Park Plaza (the king mall in LR). University Mall has 2 anchors: JCPenney and MM Cohn.
MM Cohn was once the high end department store of Little Rock and even had some locations here in Memphis. MM Cohn is now a part of the Dunlap Stores family. The store was a disgrace and looked like an indoor yard sale. Someone needs to go in and buy that chain and restore it to its former glory. You could tell it was nice at one point.
Amazingly enough - there were a lot of people shopping there.
For a "dead mall" this place had lots of traffic this past weekend when I was there. The mall is across the street from Park Plaza (the king mall in LR). University Mall has 2 anchors: JCPenney and MM Cohn.
MM Cohn was once the high end department store of Little Rock and even had some locations here in Memphis. MM Cohn is now a part of the Dunlap Stores family. The store was a disgrace and looked like an indoor yard sale. Someone needs to go in and buy that chain and restore it to its former glory. You could tell it was nice at one point.
Amazingly enough - there were a lot of people shopping there.
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Posted 15 May 2006 - 10:53 AM
memphian, on May 15 2006, 11:40 AM, said:
University Mall - Little Rock, AR
For a "dead mall" this place had lots of traffic this past weekend when I was there. The mall is across the street from Park Plaza (the king mall in LR). University Mall has 2 anchors: JCPenney and MM Cohn.
MM Cohn was once the high end department store of Little Rock and even had some locations here in Memphis. MM Cohn is now a part of the Dunlap Stores family. The store was a disgrace and looked like an indoor yard sale. Someone needs to go in and buy that chain and restore it to its former glory. You could tell it was nice at one point.
Amazingly enough - there were a lot of people shopping there.
For a "dead mall" this place had lots of traffic this past weekend when I was there. The mall is across the street from Park Plaza (the king mall in LR). University Mall has 2 anchors: JCPenney and MM Cohn.
MM Cohn was once the high end department store of Little Rock and even had some locations here in Memphis. MM Cohn is now a part of the Dunlap Stores family. The store was a disgrace and looked like an indoor yard sale. Someone needs to go in and buy that chain and restore it to its former glory. You could tell it was nice at one point.
Amazingly enough - there were a lot of people shopping there.
No kidding. Everyone's waiting for that one to be torn down and has been for a decade.
Simon built the mall on leased property, currently the land is worth MORE without the mall on it than with it there. The property owners are suing them to try to get them to leave so they can tear it down and sell the land.
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Posted 24 June 2006 - 11:03 AM
Very good topic. If you have a few minutes please go to discover malls and tell us about your favorite worst mall. Thanks in advance if you do! 
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Posted 24 June 2006 - 07:38 PM
charlotte_bon_vivant, on Mar 10 2006, 01:00 PM, said:
I'm shocked no one has mentioned The Galleria in Rock Hill, SC. This one gets my vote for the "Saddest, Most Depressing Mall in America".
Whoa, I just saw this. Now Galleria isn't a SouthPark by any means, but it's FAR from being the "saddest, most depressing mall in America." It's just small; it has the typical anchors (Belk, JCPenney, Sears) and typical stores, and is getting more. Since the mall came under new management, new life has been breathed into the mall. Making the mall two stories would do wonders. If you ask me, Galleria is simply a smaller version of Carolina Place, which is your standard, run-of-the-mill mall.
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Posted 27 June 2006 - 04:54 PM
Eastland Mall isn't that bad.
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Posted 27 June 2006 - 07:37 PM
I'd have to say 100 Oaks Mall. Built in the 70s, it was Nashville's first mall.
Now there isn't one store that is worth anything.
and I don't think anybody shops there, unless they are really desperate.
Now there isn't one store that is worth anything.
and I don't think anybody shops there, unless they are really desperate.
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Posted 19 July 2006 - 08:11 PM
Cloverleaf Mall in Chesterfield County just outside of Richmond... Talk about being dead. No anchors left, about 20 non-chain stores inside... In it's hayday it had 3 anchors and over 70 stores. Compared to the newer malls is town like Short Pump Town Center and Stony Point Fashion Park, it's just downright pitiful.
Plans are to tear it down and create a 70 acre mixed use 'new urbanism' development
Plans are to tear it down and create a 70 acre mixed use 'new urbanism' development
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Posted 19 July 2006 - 09:34 PM
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I take it that a Mr. McFarland runs this mall and just used a branch of his personal webpage to make the mall webpage.
The mall is the state's 5th oldest & is still owned by the family.
I went to school and church with Mr. McFarland's son.
It is still hanging on somehow (mainly because Tuscaloosa is so severely "underretailed" that no new shopping centers of decent size have opened in the last quarter century, despite a growing population and record low unemployment), but I'm guessing it will be converted entirely to a big-box format at some point. As it is, a couple of the stores are only accessible from outside.
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Posted 19 July 2006 - 10:37 PM
Bob Wiley, on Jun 27 2006, 08:37 PM, said:
I'd have to say 100 Oaks Mall. Built in the 70s, it was Nashville's first mall.
Now there isn't one store that is worth anything.
and I don't think anybody shops there, unless they are really desperate.
Now there isn't one store that is worth anything.
and I don't think anybody shops there, unless they are really desperate.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 09:00 AM
I second Shannon Mall. It was pretty nice when I went there as a little kid, now it's in terrible shape
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 02:10 PM
memphian, on May 15 2006, 11:40 AM, said:
University Mall - Little Rock, AR
For a "dead mall" this place had lots of traffic this past weekend when I was there. The mall is across the street from Park Plaza (the king mall in LR). University Mall has 2 anchors: JCPenney and MM Cohn.
MM Cohn was once the high end department store of Little Rock and even had some locations here in Memphis. MM Cohn is now a part of the Dunlap Stores family. The store was a disgrace and looked like an indoor yard sale. Someone needs to go in and buy that chain and restore it to its former glory. You could tell it was nice at one point.
Amazingly enough - there were a lot of people shopping there.
For a "dead mall" this place had lots of traffic this past weekend when I was there. The mall is across the street from Park Plaza (the king mall in LR). University Mall has 2 anchors: JCPenney and MM Cohn.
MM Cohn was once the high end department store of Little Rock and even had some locations here in Memphis. MM Cohn is now a part of the Dunlap Stores family. The store was a disgrace and looked like an indoor yard sale. Someone needs to go in and buy that chain and restore it to its former glory. You could tell it was nice at one point.
Amazingly enough - there were a lot of people shopping there.
haha i have to agree with you there...i live in Arkansas and i HATE that mall...its awful
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 08:44 PM
Until a couple years ago, Central Mall in Texarkana, TX was really bad... drab and very 70-ish. I don't know when it was originally built, but it was pretty rough.
Pierremont Mall in Uptown Shreveport is pretty bad... it's been updated somewhat and contains mostly upscale shops, boutiques, a restaurant, and Stein Mart, but it's a TINY mall. It's definitely the smallest enclosed mall I've ever seen. It's LESS than 100,000 square feet.
This was Shreveport's first enclosed shopping mall, which was part of the success of Uptown while it helped lead to the demise of Downtown by dragging shoppers out into the suburbs (it's inner-city now, though.)
Pierremont Mall in Uptown Shreveport is pretty bad... it's been updated somewhat and contains mostly upscale shops, boutiques, a restaurant, and Stein Mart, but it's a TINY mall. It's definitely the smallest enclosed mall I've ever seen. It's LESS than 100,000 square feet.
This was Shreveport's first enclosed shopping mall, which was part of the success of Uptown while it helped lead to the demise of Downtown by dragging shoppers out into the suburbs (it's inner-city now, though.)
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Posted 21 July 2006 - 06:44 AM
Wow....I guess we've been lucky in Orlando....our two original malls were torn down in the 90's......I'd say my least favorite is Seminole Towne Center but it is far from dead has Dillard's, McRaes, Sears, JCPenney and Macy's as anchors, the reason would be it is the least "urban" in the area and was built in the 90's but still has that 80's pink and teal decor, it needs to be updated!
