A Visit to New Towne Mall AND Monroe Centre (OH)
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- čas přidán 21. 04. 2022
- This double-feature takes us to New Philadelphia OH, home to two malls. One struggling, and one that's long since died, but found a new life as a business center. Come join me for this double-feature.
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Both malls are very nice looking, but West Towne is like the Pre-show to Monroe’s 70’s wood grain aesthetic. Amazing video!
Where is West Towne?
I want to see malls make a comeback! I miss in person retail therapy.
Hello! Found you on Facebook and came to watch your video and subscribed to your channel. Halfway through it and just wanted to say that's a beautiful Mall. Never been to Ohio! Now, I'll get back to the second half of your video. Really enjoyed your video!
Thanks, Doomie. I have never heard of Monroe Center. Without people like you, places like that could be lost to history
I do not know there was A new Philadelphia Ohio I thought the only Philadelphia was in Pennsylvania
If the rent wasn't so high, more stores would've stayed in our mall. This was the place to be when I was a teen. But as a child I used to shop with my family at Monroe mall. Most of my clothes came from Schwartz Klines. I also liked to go to the YumYum tree and Marlows pharmacy. But the BEST thing about Monroe mall was the tree that had phones. You could put in a quarter and "talk" to one of the seven dwarfs that lived in the tree.
New Town’s fine.
Monroe though? Great story, love that it’s still around as a local haven for business (albeit evolved) and that 70s aesthetic is still pretty evident.
Great video! Loved the wood ceilings in the second mall. Thanks.
16.35 … wow .. such retro ceiling lighting…..I do like the free standing light fixtures with the grey glass … new Towne mall looks like it could start to lose national tenants quite quickly
Is there a nearby town with a larger mall ?
Belden Village Mall is about 30 - 45 minutes north, and Ohio Valley Mall is about 45 minutes east.
@@DoomieGruntVentures What is the population of New Philadelphia?
This feels like the exact situation with Mountaineer Mall and the newer mall. It killed the old mall, but the old mall was successfully repurposed and now the "new" mall is fading out.
Great video man!! Haven’t really been the Monroe property yet, but New towne seems like it’s been struggling but will potentially come back to life
this is kind of sad, man...so many stores are just empty now. new towne mall is the new mall where I was growing up. "new town mall, a great time anytime, new towne mall, this town is your town!"
Doomie doomie, he's our man, if he can't do great videos, nobody can.
You must be here during mall walker hours again? It is hard to tell what is closed and what is out of business. I always look forward to your Friday videos. This one is longer than your usual 10 minutes
As someone that grew up most of there life attending this mall and works in one of the tenants, from what I can tell the leases were slashed and local businesses popped in some places, such as Christopher & Books, GameStop, and finally a replacement of Auntie Annie's.
ALSO: I never actually *knew* Monroe Centre had an inside, I thought it was just a glorified strip mall!
Thanks for giving me my fountain fix. Also respect to the owner for repurposing Monroe and keeping the aesthetics.
I remember the New Towne Mall very well back in the 90s I was a teenager back then I worked at Arthur treacher's in their food court I miss those days they had a cool arcade in a good movie theater and it was definitely the place to be to hang out with your friends
The first mall I loved! Second mall "like." The blue and orange didn't go with the warm charm of the second mall. Need to get rid of those wierd colors.
I moved to Dover in 2012. At that time the New Town mall was bustling. Now in 2023 there are a few decent stores to shop in if you want to shop local. Not much else around these parts without driving to Canton. There was a movie theatre prior to Marshall’s. When that was kicked out the mall lost a lot of the foot traffic drawn in by the theatre.
Monroe Centre reminds me of the former Blue Hen Mall in Dover, Delaware. It's been de-malled and is now called Blue Hen Corporate Center.
I remember going to Monroe mall as a kid. Fond memories of that place. However I wandered through the mall last time I was at the BMV and didn't realize how small it was. I have even more memories of New Towne mall and the many stores and transitions. Where Marshall's is used to be Regal Cinema. An arcade was across the hall from it and beside it used to be an Italian restaurant. The restaurant was replaced by KB Toys.
I mean the Towne Center can be saved with a few small stores like a round 1, Rainbow, Five n below and so on and as for the ugly elder berman why not a indoor go cart track and a Dave & Busters or a theater. But more then likely the Monroe Center would be my pick not only is it a smaller mall and cheaper to revive as less space to fill with things like local mom-and-pop and hell why not even revive the old Schwartz's Kilines name and have that anchor the mall just some thoughts
God I would _love_ to see what the Monroe Centre looked like with actual retail tenants...
Fun fact there used to be a BlockBuster/GameCrazy outside of the mall forever ago.
It was a Hollywood Video I thought?
It is a lost cause and I wish it wasn't. Never mind the social aspects it and the Covid which will never go away, it all comes down to cost which will be further exasperated when the crash occurs.
It was nice mall early-mid 90's. I went there regularly. I wasn't familiar with Monroe. New Town was an important place for all the small communities outside of New Philly, as I'm sure Monroe was.
MC sort of reminds me of the tiny little mall that used to be in Sturgeon Bay , WI
I will add that I went through the Dover/New Philly downtowns recently and noticed the radically changing demographics that result from using cheap illegal labor to work the meat plants.
I live go shopping at New Towne Mall & Me and my friends after church at mosaic (inside Monroe Center Mall) today decided to run around and found a Daycare Center that looked abandoned.
make Monroe Center a roller rink at night It would be a hit
Me and Maddie clark love it there at the new towne mall in New Philadelphia Ohio
I like the first mall the best. The design and layout of the mall is appealing to me. The second mall was too tiny to give it anything besides charm.
Are we sure this mall opened in 1988? I don't remember it existing till well into the early 90's. Really nice, clean, quiet area with good schools where kids can still play in the street at night and you don't have to panic if you forgot to lock the door. Most homes (especially Dover) are brimming with kids so the schools are still well funded. The populating is aging though as the good jobs get farther and farther away so that might change soon as people immediately start voting down school issues the moment their kids graduate... Very fast growing South American population as the limited low wage jobs are being filled by illegals hired by greedy, unscrupulous plant owners unwilling to pay a living wage. They mostly keep to themselves though.
Yes it was 1988, there is news paper articles on its opening
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Monroe Centre screams 1973! Outdated everything. Terrible colors, and floor design. If a tree falls in there, is there sound?
As a local new Phila do not eat the chant at the Chinese restaurant in the mall gave me food poison last time I ate there