BBC News last night - Empty Mall in Ohio

[Andrew[MG]]

Did anyone see this news item? The BBC made it seem like the Mall had been affected by the credit crunch and asked it's one remaining tenant what had happened there. What the BBC didn't emphasise what that the place has been on the decline from the early 1980s! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Park_Mall

As an aside, how awesome would it be to have the run of that place - very creepy!

[craggers]

Yeah saw that last night. Only one car parked in mega car park.

[toastboy]

That would make a great paintball venue.

[sadako]

places like that would make for awesome laser quest or paintball venues. This is why the one at the tricorn in portsmouth was so good, it was almost post apocalyptic

[vixen1700]

Reminded me of Dawn of the Dead, without the zombies.

Quite chilling if that becomes the UK in 15 months or so's time.

[mark69sheer]

Could solve the coucils housing crisis.

Just keep open the video shop and the mcdonalds.

Convert the shops to self contained homes and lock the outside gates.

We would never have to see another chav again...

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Its a funny thing really....

when you think about it...the way to stop this so called "recession" is to get out there and spend our money!!

The media are hyping sooo far out of proportion all for the purpose of a storyy, and we are all being suckered in. Yes times are a little harder atm, and thats all down to market confidence. So how do we bring confidence back to the market.....SPEND SPEND SPEND!

[Yertis]

vixen1700 said:

Reminded me of Dawn of the Dead, without the zombies.

Quite chilling if that becomes the UK in 15 months or so's time.

Bust as the OP states, the BBC implied that the place had gone tits-up overnight, which is obviously (and unsurprisingly) untrue.

[blindswelledrat]

Andrew[MG] said:

Did anyone see this news item? The BBC made it seem like the Mall had been affected by the credit crunch and asked it's one remaining tenant what had happened there. What the BBC didn't emphasise what that the place has been on the decline from the early 1980s! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Park_Mall

As an aside, how awesome would it be to have the run of that place - very creepy!

That makes me so angry.
I've felt for a while that the media have had a significant impact on the housing/credit crisis so for the BBC to start sensationally lying make me furious.
It is the one establishment that I would expect to rise above the tabloid sensationalism.
wkers.

[chunkymonkey71]

toastboy said:

That would make a great paintball venue.

How good would that be? Amazing for skateboarding too!

[JuniorD]

Saw this and thought the same myself.

First the shot of the huge carpark, empty bar one car.
Then inside: there are virtually no shops just empty retail units. The one shop, the owner mostly keeps closed.

No fking wonder the car park is empty.

[CooperS]

sadako said:

places like that would make for awesome laser quest or paintball venues. This is why the one at the tricorn in portsmouth was so good, it was almost post apocalyptic

Go up there after 18:00 after the all the high street shops were closing for the night and everyone is leaving... yes a really creapy place... saying that i think it was always a creapy building not just becuase it was empty and i cant see how it ever had a night club?

There use to be a gold shop on one of the sides facing the shops which if you looked over the boarded up shop window still had the glass cabinets inside!!

Wonder if they'll sell it to make it a paintball venue? I've always wanted to go to the paintball venue in London which is based partly in the underground (i think) but you need your own kit so that wont happen.

[Andrew[MG]]

blindswelledrat said:

Andrew[MG] said:

Did anyone see this news item? The BBC made it seem like the Mall had been affected by the credit crunch and asked it's one remaining tenant what had happened there. What the BBC didn't emphasise what that the place has been on the decline from the early 1980s! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Park_Mall

As an aside, how awesome would it be to have the run of that place - very creepy!

That makes me so angry.
I've felt for a while that the media have had a significant impact on the housing/credit crisis so for the BBC to start sensationally lying make me furious.
It is the one establishment that I would expect to rise above the tabloid sensationalism.
wkers.

I almost felt compelled to send a complaint about what was a very dubious story. No idea where this would get sent to....

[shadowninja]

chunkymonkey71 said:

toastboy said:

That would make a great paintball venue.

How good would that be? Amazing for skateboarding too!

I like your thinking. Climbing venue, too, although it doesn't look high enough. Car park could have an open street section for skaters/bmxers.

[mark69sheer]

I have had a look at the pictures and to my mind the place looks a bit dodgy for paintballing or skating , lots of sharp edges..
I have wracked my brain and decided that it would seem to be an ideal place for businesses to have shops. There seem to be units that would be ideal for placing merchandise in. Has someone thought of this?

[speedy_thrills]

Spiritual_Beggar said:

SPEND SPEND SPEND!

I've done my bit today , basic surround sound system and a very nice cordless phone.

[youngsyr]

Talking of Skateboarding, didn't that mall feature in one of the Tony Hawks games on the PS2?

[Surfr]

Some interesting photos on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=Randall+...

[MK4 Slowride]

Reminds me of the Mall in Vice City.

As has been said that would be top drawer for paintballing.

[MrVelox]

Oh FFS. Malls die all the time and Cleveland is like many other cities in the "Rust Belt" which have been declining long before the recession started. Like lots of big cities over here, suburban areas rise and fall and that's what happened here.