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November 2024 by Travis Plaiss
This mall's security is straight trash. I wish this mall would be torn down already. Trash ?
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November 2024 by Alex
I genuinely question why this mall is even still open. I went with a friend of mine to see just how bad it was, and it was so much worse than I had anticipated. It was honestly heartbreaking to see how awful this place is. The beautiful art and design for the "Washington Square" sign, long since faded, peeling, and falling apart. The massive buildings with intricate decorative designs on the outside walls, boarded up and scarred with graffiti. You can tell at one time this place was thriving. Unfortunately that time has long since passed.
The parking lot is riddled with massive pot holes. Nearly every piece of signage we saw was practically falling apart. I would guess at least 70% of the store fronts that had entrances/exits leading outside are currently boarded up or closed. We saw a massive light post that had fallen over and just been left there in one of the parking lots. It looks completely abandoned from the outside, but it was in fact still open to the public.
After driving around the entire mall, we only saw one (1) way to get in and out of the mall. As we had driven around, we had taken pictures of the worst looking parts of the property. Specifically all the boarded up doors and windows and the decrepit old signs around the parking lot and above the only entrance we saw.
As soon as we walked in, the security guard was immediately hostile and said "We do not allow photos or videos, so you need to delete all the photos you took on your way in." I can understand not wanting your business to be perceived as being run down and unmaintained. I would have completely understood them saying "please stop taking photos, we don't allow that here." They are entirely within their right to say that since the mall is in fact technically private property. I also would have understood if they had simply asked us to leave, because, again, it is private property. If the security officer had told us to stop photographing and leave, we would have gladly done so.
What was not acceptable was the fact that the security guard did not even ask us to stop photographing the run down and dilapidated state that everything was in, but instead simply demanded that we had to delete the photos we had already gotten before we had walked in.
FYI, not even law enforcement can force someone to delete photos/ videos under any circumstance, and law enforcement officers have actually faced felony charges for obstruction and theft in the past for doing so. They can't even confiscate or view someone's digital photos or videos without a warrant. I imagine a security officer (a private employee who has even less authority or protections than an actual law enforcement officer) would face similar penalties.
With that said, this security officer would have been entirely in the right to tell us to stop and to leave. If she hadn't actively tried to escalate the situation by initially saying we weren't allowed to leave until we deleted the photos we'd taken, photographing us as we were leaving after refusing to delete the photos, or saying "I've called the authorities, and they are on their way" when she had in fact not called law enforcement, but just the guy who owns this pitiful mall.
If you don't want people to show how dilapidated and neglected the building is, maybe it would be better to put money into improving the building rather than yelling at people saying they aren't allowed to record how awful it is.
If businesses and customers aren't coming in, then maybe the mall could pivot to something else. Maybe rather than being an empty retail center almost entirely devoid of shops and customers, it could instead be something like a community center that rents space to different organizations and runs social programs to try and improve the community.
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November 2024 by k l1
Kimani Lashley
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October 2024 by SANDY HARMON
The attendees were great. And the sweet boy that delivered to car.
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October 2024 by Taylor Jackson
Went to make a documentary video of the mall and the minute I walked through the door the guard demanded I delete everything on my camera. She was immediately hostile and called police on me. I told her I would leave and she told me to stay so I could talk to police but I was confused as to how we got to that point when all I did was had a camera in my hand. I didn’t return hostility, instead I just left the property.
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October 2024 by Cassius Helmick
Still has some good stores
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September 2024 by Stephanie Fox
Take out is Great!
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September 2024 by Jason Goodnight
Great great food
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September 2024 by Kathleen Goldstein
Great food steaks are well seasoned, and don't forget the loaded sweet potato. Fantastic!
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September 2024 by Manuel salvador Jucup macario
Chuchin chats in case you need materials for remodeling, good prices, they speak English and Spanish.
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September 2024 by Rita Bird
Not like it used to be!
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August 2024 by Marilyn Jenkins
Didn't shop here at this nearly deserted mall.
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August 2024 by Charlie Tremaine
I've been there back in the 80's. It's a pretty good mall.
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July 2024 by KAATJE
Food was yummy and the waitress was nice but it took forever to get our check
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July 2024 by Ryan Simpson
Unfortunately this place has gone significantly down hill. There is a lot of trash around the parking lots and pot holes. It also does not have a good reputation for safety.
