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Funny thing, I made a bet with someone in 2018 who said the Oaks Mall would be dead within 5 years. I won (obviously), not even a pandemic that none of us was aware of coming at the time could kill it.

I was just there. I love it.

You going to do the sangertown square mall in new Hartford New York it’s a nice little mall

I come here almost every week during the summer for the free children's movie. It is so crazy how dead it is. It's kind of funny that they have forgotten to unlock the door by the theater or turn on the elevator, which is an issue since the escalator doesn't work and the only other internal option is a service elevator (a nice janitor let us and other kids sure it). My daughter loves the little kiddie rides by the fountain post movies because there's never any line. Bonus fact, Santa was there this year. No line. I have come across something interesting about this mall. The tenants it does have can be unique. For a little while a small theater company used an old shoe store for performances, it actually worked really cool for an in the round show). Then during last month my daughter and I did run into a church renting space.

I used to visit this mall in the 90s. I had no idea it was still open! With the number of malls that have closed I figured it was already gone.

Fyi: Burdines was pronounced "bur-dynes" not "bur-deans"

Seeing these vacant malls makes me sad, it's like part of my childhood just being erased right before my eyes

I blame the Internet

W mall I went there today

If y'all need a perfume this holiday season come on down to fashion square macy's I'll tell u what's good

The redesign in the later 2000s left the mall without any atmosphere. There was a feel to Pembroke Mall that was very comforting and cozy, afterward it felt sterile and lifeless.

The closure of the nearby Naval Training Center Orlando spelled the doom for Fashion Square. The loss of those sailors with money burning a hole in their pockets was too much to overcome.

The spencer's and hot topic here were realllllll bad, but reliable. Shirts from there reeked of damp.

It's 100 degrees in Orlando today, and has been for the past week. No one in his right mind is going to park in the open sun and walk around an 'open-air power retail center' -- like the ones that replaced so many indoor malls like Fashion Square. I cannot for the life of me figure out why retailers do not flood back to these air-conditioned, comfortable indoor malls that are standing vacant.

While in high school, and a few years after, I worked at Robinson’s (1975-1981) before moving to Denver Colorado. Because of Covid and other unfortunate circumstances, I’m back in Florida and have visited the mall a few times since. IMO, Dillard’s Clearance Center was the only place worth going to and that’s been declining lately. So sad to see the rest of the mall vacant while remembering the good old days when it was a really happening mall.

Theyre building some apartment in that mall actually, its being constructed. I worked there two years ago.

Cute

This mall was already pretty dead by the time I moved to Orlando in 2013, but I still have fond memories of walking to the theater with my friends, seeing a movie, and checking out Colosseum of Comics afterward. That was a weekend staple for us. It's a beautiful building, I wish I could have seen it in its glory days.

My mom used to take us to this mall when I was a kid in the 90s. That coffee place used to be a baked potato place which was really good. They used to have an awesome arcade too. Haven’t been back to WV since 2005.

Oh it's Wilamette

12:45 I remember when that wall came up it had posters for a tgi fridays, I guess the plans fell through only after they demolished the shops on the side

Man, this is both depressing, and it makes me feel old. I remember when I'd visit this mall often with my wife and all of those stores were present, open, and the place would be packed on the weekend. We'd eat, do some shopping, maybe see a movie, and we wasted endless hours at the Coliseum of Comics that was upstairs right across from the movie theater ticket office, all of that is long gone now. The internet kind of made a lot of those stores superfluous, and of course, a mall isn't truly a good "third space" since the draw to spend money was around every corner. In fact, almost every mall in Orlando is doing poorly except the Mall at Millenia, and the Florida Mall, both of which are jampacked with tourist shoppers, and the Mall at Millennia being home to so many high end brand stores.

This was the place to be in middle school 🥲 they had a basketball court and my friends and I would go to see the boys 🤭🤭 really missing the teriyaki place rn

At one time this was a decent small mall. There were several anchor stores and special events held here(ie concerts, etc.). My band performed here.

This was never “my” mall. I grew up in the Florida Mall which shows no signs of slowing down. My first job and many subsequent jobs were there. But I spent some time at FS and have some fond memelries of it. I just went to Fashion Square a couple weeks ago to see a movie and it was depressing. Seeing these places that used to be thriving and be where all of us would hang out together is depressing. But times they are a changing.

Make sure to check out Merritt Square Mall if you haven’t

I remember coming here all the time as a kid. Even spent the night here in middle school when I was in Girl Scouts. I have so many fond memories here, hard to believe I’m 27 now. It feels like just last week I was here exploring the hot topic then going to the Chinese food place that was there. Weird to see the mall of my childhood so barren now but it was hound to happen🥲 The Claire’s, GameStop, anime store, Beya, and a few others I can’t quite think of now. There used to be a Colosseum of Comics there too

Malls are still alive and well in Central Fla. Altamonte Mall parking lot was full last weekend. This Mall's problem is location. The foot traffic has changed.

I worked at Ridgmar Mall's JCPenney and Payless ShoeSource in the mid to late 1990's. It's still a clean, bright, beautiful mall. When I want to mall-walk I go here. Yes, the switch from Carswell Air Force Base to a Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base and the rise of internet shopping devastated it. The Military Museum is worth a visit!

Wow I didn’t realize there’s an actual mall in there! I live right down the road from this and pass by it every time I go to Best Buy! lol

Awesome fountain area!

My childhood mall

This mall was my jam when i was growing up in for worth. So awesome that you covered this one <3333

Have you been to Town East Mall or Red Bird Mall yet? Two old school malls in DFW area. One thriving, one being redone.

But Detroit is now better than Cleveland.

Nice!

I hope this one makes it- I love the turtles and fountains in it.

Did you also make a stop at the Crystal Mall in CT now the only mall in CT without a anchor.

I had no idea that this mall was still standing. I thought when we lost Collin Creek Mall that this one was going to be the next one gone. It's really good to see that it's still open! Thank you so much for sharing the good news!

I was a teenager and got my first job working in this mall around 2000-2001. It was during the Christmas season and very lively. This mall has changed a lot. I also grew up hanging out at the Oviedo mall (Marketingplace) and I remember when Gap, Aeropostale, and A&F were still there.