It’s funny when they blame the closing in the recession, but don’t mention the sky-high rent and the restrictive rules every store had to follow as reasons stores left.
@@decayingmidwest He's trying to make an argument that regulations are the cause of the recession, don't listen to him. Without regulations out work places would look like the 1800s again.
I saw a documentary, on how all of the old stores in a mall, were made into apartments. It was really cool and really nice inside too. So now every time I see an abandoned mall, that's what I think of.
its cool but really small, i wanna see these big 1970s malls turned into apartments/third places with the original skylight and 70s/90s designs they had instead of some boring neo-modern 2020s era building
I think another major reason for Northridge closing was a stabbing in the parking lot. That and the surge in violent crime in the area in general. It’s sad seeing an end like this.
It's crazy how Brown Deer used to be good middle class area to live. Even the PGA had Greater Milwaukee Open tournament not too far from there which Tiger Woods would compete in every year. Then, one guy who murdered his wife/girlfriend in the Applebee's parking lot that was outside Northridge. Said it was gang related. Which made people get scared to go there. Then the good Brown Deer population moved out and the bad took over. Now Mayfair is getting all the bad crap happening while Southridge is having issues with high tenant rents that is causing lot of store closing.
If you grew up in Milwaukee, north ridge mall was a staple in the community. It was so sad to see that mall go down the way it did. Now it looks like a ghost town.
I used to work there. I quit the day a bunch of gang bangers threw a kid over the railing from the food court. He landed at my feet dead. The reason the place closed was that the neighborhood was bad and the clientele was worse. I also had someone steal my purse with my rent in it that day from a cabinet in the office behind a locked door.
That death alone is reason enough to demolish it I miss malls greatly, but in this case, that boy's death, also considering the mall employee's death by electrocution, it would be disrespectful to bring that mall back to life Best tear the entire building down Still a shame on so many levels
We knew that, Heather. It's happening all over the United States as gangs and drugs turn this country into a third world ghetto. Since I grew up in East St Louis Illinois I saw this first hand. Today, East St Louis Illinois is ranked as the sixth most dangerous city in the world.
My idea for old malls is make them senior living!! With everything from grocery stores, clothing, doctors etc.. it's not far fetched since seniors love walking laps in them lol
I always find it sad when places that were usually fun and often popular places end up like this. I remember malls in the 80s being the go to place for my childhood, now when I get a chance to go hardly anyone is there
Hum, here in Brazil there arent many malls, like one medium mall for citys over 100k pop. And big ones for the capitals. This means malls are full, theres a big mall in my state capital that is always full, in happy that here in Brazil malls are fun and full
The mall use to be the city square in many cities, where there were huge crowds on the weekend and during the holidays, teens would go to meet and mingle, and it had a great vibe.
Milwaukee Northridge mall, everything on the north side of Milwaukee looks like this now, the decline started in the early 90s this mall was pretty much done by the early 2000s, it wasn't recessions it was high crime that did it in.
its called postmodernism, good architecture, its also combined with the malls original 1970s design its like modern architecture but with traditional rules (the skyscrapers have shapes of art deco and neo-gothic but windows and the buildings smaller designs were more modern)
In fact, this mall was not opened in 1970, this mall opened in 1896 From the Borges Decade and the mall opened on July 7, 1896, but unfortunately this mall was not abandoned in 2003 and it was abandoned in 2015 because the mall no longer had A project for the shopping mall to become bigger and more famous, that was the new project, but it is unlikely today that this new type of project that I mentioned was canceled because of the shopping mall doing it in the shopping mall Mall was abandoned in 2015Shopping mall was abandoned in 2015 if the mall were in 2044 the future the future I'm early for the love of God but I'll come back to my comment The public was saying through the FBI there was no way to return the mall but it depends on today the mall was demolished😮In July 2015 they did a great job, I forgot what the mall was before and now try before and after It would be cool if the mall came back, right? I'm tired of commenting a lot of comments like this, so I'm going to do part 2 in the comment at the beginning, okay, bye!
What's sad is that most malls were built in the mid-1980s when neighborhoods we're doing really well and then in the mid-90s to the early 2000s the neighborhood's get crime-ridden and go downhill and then no one wants to come shopping there anymore
Who is going to renovate it to multiple residential apts? Can you afford a bunch of kitchens and a bunch of bathrooms and a bunch of water heaters? Who is going to pay rent for heating and cooling?
@@jumpmomongaable that is a quandary, because a lot of homeless are not addicts, they just need help getting on they're feet. Especially now with housing prices out the wazoo
@@d0wnboy not wrong at all...rent along with many other issues absolutely caused this...in the future, you should not comment like you know something when you don't due to it making you look ignorant af lol
@@bonniej You don’t know what the fuck I do or don’t know so yours is the comment that shows ignorance. Now, go back to bed until noon and try not to stay up all night hitting the pipe.
@@d0wnboy WRONG! The comment obviously shows your ignorance like I already stated...and AGAIN commenting on things you don't know and are WRONG...I'm not poor so I snort the expensive sht not hot a cheap ass pipe with trash in it ( but this shows your level you are on) and I wake up around 2pm NOT NOON...you should really stop commenting like you know what you are talking about when you don't and are ignorant af lol
For the same reason the stores didn’t stay. Way too expensive to run, heat and manage. The 10 year cost would be cheaper to bulldoze and rebuild into actual apartments that would be able to equalize the cost per square foot inside of 5 years. Provided they were paying renters vs government subsidized rent control.
It might be the same as a school- it’s less expensive to get rid of it than it is to get it up to code when you expand (if you change part you need to update handicapped codes/electric of the entire building, not the changed part).
@@YoungFly07684 yeah but new 2020s buildings are just so ugly, we should preserve the mundane yet important suburban architecture of the late century era
Just for everyone too young. The recession he is talking about was very minor one in the start of the 2000s. The GREAT recession you learn in school happened years later in 2007-2009.
With so many abandoned malls litering the country, why don't they just turn them into affordable housing units? With the housing market being as insane as it is with rent & mortgages skyrocketing everywhere, some sensible relief efforts are much needed.
Took me a second to realize what you meant by shocked to death. I thought you meant that he walked in one day, saw vacant stores, and it made his heart stopped.
How about taking all the many county agencies that occupy many buildings in prime locations and move every one of them into this mall? One place for the public to go for service, plenty of parking, mass transit nearby, money into the county coffers from the sale of the current buildings and the property would be purchased at an unbelievably low price. San Diego did this using an abandoned warehouse in the late 1970’s. Win, win, win, win, win!!!!!
I knew this would start happening in the late 1990s when groups of teens were basically banned from going to the mall without chaperones. I was in my twenties when that started happening and I knew that as a teenager, I wouldn't have gone to the mall out of spite. Honestly, I can't say I feel bad about this sort of thing anymore. I saw it coming years ago.
Think I remember seeing the Proper People go through this place. Either that, or it's just one of the liminal spaces that you always seem to recognize even if you've never seen them before.
It’s sad how they can’t turn it into something new and it becomes abandoned and demolished instead imagine all the good memories that these people once had and all the good stores that were there
great video, I wished it wasn't demolished, a lot of memories about that Mall 😢, I remember going up and down the escalators 😊, I had visited that Mall a few times during my life 😊, instead of demolishing the green bay Mall, they should have converted it into apartments 😅, like Old Fort Square that is going to be converted into a market place 😊, in my opinion I think that the Mayor should keep the old buildings 😊🎉🎉❤❤, my vote for keep the historical buildings in Green Bay 😊, go pack go 😊🎉🎉❤❤
It’s funny when they blame the closing in the recession, but don’t mention the sky-high rent and the restrictive rules every store had to follow as reasons stores left.
I just said what Google said lol
@@decayingmidwest He's trying to make an argument that regulations are the cause of the recession, don't listen to him. Without regulations out work places would look like the 1800s again.
Due to recession probably lolol. Just like what is happening right now. Any day now, We are all fucked
If a store isn't open when the mall opens, they get a fine or something.
That's wat happening to our mall.THE MALL OF MONROE.
It looks just like the one from stranger things
That’s exactly what I was thinking
yess starcourt
Immediate reaction as well 🤣
I thought it was!
@@racha7290 could be. Movies that take place somewhere like that are usually filmed in abandoned places like jurrasic world
I saw a documentary, on how all of the old stores in a mall, were made into apartments. It was really cool and really nice inside too. So now every time I see an abandoned mall, that's what I think of.
Buffalo i think
Ye
its cool but really small, i wanna see these big 1970s malls turned into apartments/third places with the original skylight and 70s/90s designs they had instead of some boring neo-modern 2020s era building
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Before they demo anymore, they can reconfigure them into affordable housing , if , you can vote in local politicians who actually care !
I think another major reason for Northridge closing was a stabbing in the parking lot. That and the surge in violent crime in the area in general. It’s sad seeing an end like this.
It's crazy how Brown Deer used to be good middle class area to live. Even the PGA had Greater Milwaukee Open tournament not too far from there which Tiger Woods would compete in every year.
Then, one guy who murdered his wife/girlfriend in the Applebee's parking lot that was outside Northridge. Said it was gang related. Which made people get scared to go there. Then the good Brown Deer population moved out and the bad took over.
Now Mayfair is getting all the bad crap happening while Southridge is having issues with high tenant rents that is causing lot of store closing.
Back in the 2000s you hear stories about kids getting robbed there i dont know if it was this mall or another one
If you grew up in Milwaukee, north ridge mall was a staple in the community. It was so sad to see that mall go down the way it did. Now it looks like a ghost town.
Is this the one downtown?
@@baddoc69 No on the north west side by 76th and Brown Deer.
Also a popular place to eat heart
@@ReaIlyAnd collect skulls!
They said they were gonna start demolishing in October, is it still up?
This was Northridge mall. It was our favorite for many years. I remember that every time my grandmother came to visit...it was mandatory to visit.
Is it still there I wanna go inside
@@edanthue5174 sure is
Was a great mall, RIP
but the kept southridge
@@rice_pp well unfortunately Milwaukee is hella racist. And where is south ridge?
Simple solution: Turn it into an Airsoft arena
Or skatepark... hell, could do both, that kind of space!
@@melhawk6284 imagine a bike with an Airsoft RPK turret on the front casing you down a hallway
@@harrywardle7028 get outta my head, 😆!
And then make it a Call of Duty map.
It was an airsoft arena 2-3 years ago. Dutch the Hooligan was an airsoft youtuber... he did airsoft in this mall. So as Alfonse.
Skatepark, apartment complex, homeless community, movie set for dead rising. I don’t I’m just riffing.
I used to work there. I quit the day a bunch of gang bangers threw a kid over the railing from the food court. He landed at my feet dead. The reason the place closed was that the neighborhood was bad and the clientele was worse. I also had someone steal my purse with my rent in it that day from a cabinet in the office behind a locked door.
wow that's terrifying.
Classic 414 shi coming i heard of guys like you dont wanna mess with them they got Star of David tats and two pitchforks on they skin
That death alone is reason enough to demolish it
I miss malls greatly, but in this case, that boy's death, also considering the mall employee's death by electrocution, it would be disrespectful to bring that mall back to life
Best tear the entire building down
Still a shame on so many levels
We knew that, Heather. It's happening all over the United States as gangs and drugs turn this country into a third world ghetto.
Since I grew up in East St Louis Illinois I saw this first hand. Today, East St Louis Illinois is ranked as the sixth most dangerous city in the world.
Should I guess the demographic of said gang bangers? Because I think I know.
Let me know, thanks!
I miss malls! Sadly the younger generation doesn't understand how cool it was to hang out at the mall.
Nope. That was never cool...
Robyn Sparkles even wrote a hit song about the mall.
I do and I’m 15 and we still have them
We know what a mall is….
We still have malls and we still hang out in them though
I got serious backrooms vibes from this
My idea for old malls is make them senior living!! With everything from grocery stores, clothing, doctors etc.. it's not far fetched since seniors love walking laps in them lol
I agree but sometimes these places close down bc of the environment. I used to go to this mall n’ bruva it was definitely because of the ppl bro
I always find it sad when places that were usually fun and often popular places end up like this. I remember malls in the 80s being the go to place for my childhood, now when I get a chance to go hardly anyone is there
Hum, here in Brazil there arent many malls, like one medium mall for citys over 100k pop. And big ones for the capitals. This means malls are full, theres a big mall in my state capital that is always full, in happy that here in Brazil malls are fun and full
We were fed consumerism as if it were normal. Not ain't.
Honestly that would be a great movie set
Day of the living dead was filmed there.
@@gwpattrick Great movie.
Even zombies can ice skate.
As well as Stranger Things.
Stranger things 😜
What about a liminal space
The mall use to be the city square in many cities, where there were huge crowds on the weekend and during the holidays, teens would go to meet and mingle, and it had a great vibe.
Milwaukee Northridge mall, everything on the north side of Milwaukee looks like this now, the decline started in the early 90s this mall was pretty much done by the early 2000s, it wasn't recessions it was high crime that did it in.
The same thing happened to the Best Buy in that Area too, because it was too Many People Stealing from the Best Buy Store 🏬 in the same Area.
Okay but the way it's built is SO COOL...if you like dreamcore this is a dream mall
its called postmodernism, good architecture, its also combined with the malls original 1970s design
its like modern architecture but with traditional rules (the skyscrapers have shapes of art deco and neo-gothic but windows and the buildings smaller designs were more modern)
except the fact that someone spray painted 6 different male genitals on the walls☠️☠️☠️
In fact, this mall was not opened in 1970, this mall opened in 1896 From the Borges Decade and the mall opened on July 7, 1896, but unfortunately this mall was not abandoned in 2003 and it was abandoned in 2015 because the mall no longer had A project for the shopping mall to become bigger and more famous, that was the new project, but it is unlikely today that this new type of project that I mentioned was canceled because of the shopping mall doing it in the shopping mall Mall was abandoned in 2015Shopping mall was abandoned in 2015 if the mall were in 2044 the future the future I'm early for the love of God but I'll come back to my comment The public was saying through the FBI there was no way to return the mall but it depends on today the mall was demolished😮In July 2015 they did a great job, I forgot what the mall was before and now try before and after It would be cool if the mall came back, right? I'm tired of commenting a lot of comments like this, so I'm going to do part 2 in the comment at the beginning, okay, bye!
Go cart racing / paint balling / bmx n skate / basketball/ mini golf. Countless fun on different levels...... Also a pool big asf.
Get a loan and get moving! Why wait for someone to do something?
What's sad is that most malls were built in the mid-1980s when neighborhoods we're doing really well and then in the mid-90s to the early 2000s the neighborhood's get crime-ridden and go downhill and then no one wants to come shopping there anymore
I remember the mall days, when you would talk to people in person, you know, face to face
Did they do that? How revolting. 😳
Wow really? No way! 🤯
Wow
Woahhhhhhhh whatttttt
Ong?
I'd buy it and turn it in to a house and open it up for the homeless
Who is going to renovate it to multiple residential apts? Can you afford a bunch of kitchens and a bunch of bathrooms and a bunch of water heaters? Who is going to pay rent for heating and cooling?
We can use some of the money that we throw at the military
@@josephgreen2824 yes and the money that we throw at the government too
That will make it to drug dealing facility. At least in America.
@@jumpmomongaable that is a quandary, because a lot of homeless are not addicts, they just need help getting on they're feet. Especially now with housing prices out the wazoo
Northridge mall in Milwaukee. Iv been there alot as a teenager
Oh wow! I was wondering which mall this was. I used to work there! Wow.
Looks like port plaza
@@shiragoldberg7744you worked there and didn't recognize it??????
This looks like the mall from my childhood town, which was also in Wisconsin
Maybe it is maybe it is
How sad. Back in the day we were so excited to see them go up and later to shop there.
This is Northridge Mall. A piece of my childhood comes back when I see it. This mall is in Milwaukee in browndeer😒🥺
Now its reduced to being used as a cdl training lot lol.
Everyone gangsta UNTIL THE ROLLIMG GIANT APPEARS
I remember when it was built, that was back in the days that we will never see again
That's where they filmed Wonder woman 1984
this gives me stranger things vibes
Yesssssssss
Trying to fix "it."
What, the whole mall?
Something electrical for the mall
Reminds me of Last of Us 1 when Ellie was in that mall
Nah You Mean CARTOON CAT
Flashback in the early 2020's
I'm thinking high rent caused this!
Your thinking is wrong.
Along with many other issues
@@d0wnboy not wrong at all...rent along with many other issues absolutely caused this...in the future, you should not comment like you know something when you don't due to it making you look ignorant af lol
@@bonniej You don’t know what the fuck I do or don’t know so yours is the comment that shows ignorance. Now, go back to bed until noon and try not to stay up all night hitting the pipe.
@@d0wnboy WRONG! The comment obviously shows your ignorance like I already stated...and AGAIN commenting on things you don't know and are WRONG...I'm not poor so I snort the expensive sht not hot a cheap ass pipe with trash in it ( but this shows your level you are on) and I wake up around 2pm NOT NOON...you should really stop commenting like you know what you are talking about when you don't and are ignorant af lol
Still don't know why they don't turn these places into apartments.
For the same reason the stores didn’t stay. Way too expensive to run, heat and manage. The 10 year cost would be cheaper to bulldoze and rebuild into actual apartments that would be able to equalize the cost per square foot inside of 5 years. Provided they were paying renters vs government subsidized rent control.
How the f**k are you gonna turn a mall into apartments!? It would literally cost more to retro it than knock it down and build new.
That reconstruction cost wouldn’t make sense it’d be way too much and they would cost as much as luxury apartments
A mall in my area converted to a hospital. Turned out very nice.
It might be the same as a school- it’s less expensive to get rid of it than it is to get it up to code when you expand (if you change part you need to update handicapped codes/electric of the entire building, not the changed part).
Looks like the Star Court mall from Stranger Things almost
Why demolish it? Convert it to housing
Easier to destroy it and sell the land than repair it, buy new stuff and higher staff
@@YoungFly07684 yeah but new 2020s buildings are just so ugly, we should preserve the mundane yet important suburban architecture of the late century era
That looks exactly like the one form the last of us when they are in a snowy mall
Just for everyone too young. The recession he is talking about was very minor one in the start of the 2000s. The GREAT recession you learn in school happened years later in 2007-2009.
Yep
CZcams always brings me back to "This abandoned mall...". Love your narration and your videos ❤❤❤❤❤
What a beautiful mall. So much natural light and I love the architectural details. Sad to see it decay like this
Man it look terrifyingly well preserved
the 70s 80s 90s stuff is better built than today.
With so many abandoned malls litering the country, why don't they just turn them into affordable housing units? With the housing market being as insane as it is with rent & mortgages skyrocketing everywhere, some sensible relief efforts are much needed.
Thats true n’all but in places like this mall, they cant bruv. The crime rare is too high😕
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Took me a second to realize what you meant by shocked to death. I thought you meant that he walked in one day, saw vacant stores, and it made his heart stopped.
How about taking all the many county agencies that occupy many buildings in prime locations and move every one of them into this mall? One place for the public to go for service, plenty of parking, mass transit nearby, money into the county coffers from the sale of the current buildings and the property would be purchased at an unbelievably low price. San Diego did this using an abandoned warehouse in the late 1970’s.
Win, win, win, win, win!!!!!
Such a beautiful mall
That's in Milwaukee
It would make a great retirement living community with doctor's offices, grocery store and apartments.
looks like a level out of Tony Hawk
Looks like stargate mall in stranger things
Perfect place to house the homeless!
I didn’t see your comment 😂😂😂😂
No
No they can go to a concentration camp
POV: This is the set made for the Backrooms movie
There was an abandoned mall in Utah. Someone shot the place up and no one shops there no more.
Wow!!!
* giant demigorgon bursts through wall *
Dude filming: 👁👄👁
WTF IT LOOKS IDENTICAL TO SOMETHING I HAD IN A NIGHTMARE A FEW YEARS AGO, AND IM SHAIKING NO CAP
Sad a lot of this will happen again to current malls
I find it that this mall design looks much better than nowdays mall and I love it.
I knew this would start happening in the late 1990s when groups of teens were basically banned from going to the mall without chaperones. I was in my twenties when that started happening and I knew that as a teenager, I wouldn't have gone to the mall out of spite.
Honestly, I can't say I feel bad about this sort of thing anymore. I saw it coming years ago.
Amazon is a huge factor
Pandemic and the combo of Amazon plus crime you hear stories of kids grtting robbed there
they could legit just make this into a homeless shelter and a community center
You should donate your salary to make it happen
Legit move some homeless people in your house. I’m sure they’re gonna love a nice little girl to keep them warm and safe!
That's a great idea
@@heyitsme1534 you're disgusting
Considering our money is going to fight Russia..just 1% of all our money thrown to a place we should not be in would make this happen.
They did airsoft in this abandoned mall. Dutch was both an airsoft player and a CZcamsr.
I hope they could fix it. Mostly they won’t and it will be demolished :(
Think I remember seeing the Proper People go through this place. Either that, or it's just one of the liminal spaces that you always seem to recognize even if you've never seen them before.
They did go through it
That's the mall from the last of us left behind dlc
I was looking for this comment
It’s sad how they can’t turn it into something new and it becomes abandoned and demolished instead imagine all the good memories that these people once had and all the good stores that were there
Looks pretty good for being abandoned since 2003
That'd make a great airsoft field
They did that too.
I swear ive been there in one of my dreams
Why does it look like the mall frank west goes to in dead rising 1 🤨
Looks pretty good for being abandoned so long!
It would make a good school....
Lol
I know what mall that is...its weird & sad
I am from Milwaukee and worked at this mall and have so many great memories… Northridge Mall… ❤😢❤
Why do I feel cartoon cat lives here
Open it for a national skate park! That would be sick!!! X-Games 2024!
that should be a brutalist building, so many godamn ramps and railings some of the best skating spots in london were brutal
Bro the wall saying "🍆 ← TrumP" ☠️☠️☠️
Everyone gangsta until cartoon music is heard
great video, I wished it wasn't demolished, a lot of memories about that Mall 😢, I remember going up and down the escalators 😊, I had visited that Mall a few times during my life 😊, instead of demolishing the green bay Mall, they should have converted it into apartments 😅, like Old Fort Square that is going to be converted into a market place 😊, in my opinion I think that the Mayor should keep the old buildings 😊🎉🎉❤❤, my vote for keep the historical buildings in Green Bay 😊, go pack go 😊🎉🎉❤❤
the eventual fate of all malls…
Truuuueeee it’s all about online shopping nowadays
Turn this into a airsoft field
nice pfp
Yeeeesssss
It is
It looks like it’s a level in the Backrooms!
Bro bouta see the rolling giant
That’s what happens when mall owners get greedy.
Isn't it the one from Stranger Things?
I don’t think so
@@decayingmidwest Sure looks like it either way
It’s not that mall was filmed in Gwinnett mall in Georgia
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It’s giving stranger things
Dawn of The Dead" Mall😜
Is it that i knew it looked familiar
The fact I’m on vacation and in Wisconsin rn and I see that exact mall 😭
its sad that people want to demolish like every liminal space.
Why didn't they turn it into apartments.
Shitty neighborhood
Giving me back rooms vibes
It's a map for Dark Deception 👌🏽
Stranger Things mall vibes.
So many memories left behind, lost in history.
Everyone would be fine until a giant comes rolling in
Wow ten ants leased property. I knew ants were productive but not THAT productive
They should make a horror film about some paranormal investigation
Some malls like this one are unique in their architecture, and should be turned into an amazing condo structure!
Looks kind of like better call Saul
The drawing in the back 😭😞
honestly just make a skate park out of it. I don't skateboard but this would be a cool ass idea.
Dang, they closed the mall 10 years before I was born...
Same!