“Yes! Let’s build a Walmart shopping center right on top of a landfill!” 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄😒

I never tire of watching videos on this property Anthony. So glad you made it out here... it's one of those 'WHAT WERE THEY THINKING' moments in retail history for sure. Clearly the $$$ blinded them to what I think everyone should have known was going to happen. Thank you for providing your take on this project.

Really interesting. Found through research the Walmart has already been closed for 10 years and was only open barely 2. Sounds like this place never should have been built.

seeing a dead mall that built in the 70s or 80s is one thing but something chilling about seeing such a recent built place in this state , shows that greed and building too much too fast without proper planning can end very badly very quickly

There is a Walmart (and several other stores, doctors offices, restaurants, hotels, etc.) that were built on a landfill. Many have been there for 25 plus years without this problem. There are the vents (PVC pipes in an upside down J shape) like is shown here. My dad has always been worried about something like this but for whatever reason it has never happened and has held up.

Loving these Sunday uploads!

The "Times Beach" of retail! Superb video, Ace! This locale deserves multiple videos(from you👌).

I would not like to walk in alone in there! 😨You have guts Anthony 😲 Creepy place, yet so interesting 😯

Wow, this is a GREAT video! Seriously, good work. I love how you put the news report at the beginning, talked a bit about it, and then did the walk through (the quiet was a good choice too). Love the commercial at the end too. I honestly don't think it's creepy, it's interesting to me to see what happens when retail spaces are closed and abandoned and what gets left behind.

Excellent video Anthony!!! Real interesting. What an environmental mess!!

Awesome to see your take on this, love that intro, so fitting with the deterioration plus ya, its getting close to the fourth , lol. My thought going through is that it would be interesting to go back to this place 10 years from now just to see a giant crater in the ground, along with a half cracked building complex..... assuming the crater has not swallowed the complex whole by then, lol. Granted, theres been a few great places built over landfills, but this one, just no.... great ending, I actually remember this commercial airing, back before the Walmart stores here in Utah (first one in 1991) became grocery supercenters. Awesome! 😀 💜💜💜

amazing the floor inside didn't crack up like the parking lot...

I like the old classic wal*Mart logo and the video at thw end

The garden center has it's own permanent weed garden !

I was just there in February. My partner is originally from GH and we went back to see his family. He gave me the whole story about this shopping center- horrible situation.

I actually did a school project on environment change using this place as an example- Hard to believe that people didn't see the problems right away when building this place on a old landfill.

What makes this better is there is a reasonably large gas station right across the street from this building. And to top it off I have heard a few reports that Garfield Heights has no contingency plan if this place goes boom. One other thing. If you go poking around these empty places and the cities border Cleveland be careful. They are pretty hood. Maple Heights, Garfield, Bedford all full of the runoff from Cleveland.

The footage at the start should tell the city that it is not safe.... They must enjoy wasting money and putting people in danger.....Wallie also did a video on this..... scary as all hell..... Too bad the city is not in trouble with the EPA.....

You should go visit the other abandoned Walmart that literally right next to this one that was supposed to be the replacement but for some reason they left that one too. It's over at 22209 Rockside Rd, Bedford, OH 44146.

I couldn't help but think of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air at 7:05. I've wanted to check this plaza out myself, but likely not inside the Wal-Mart because of how nasty Wallie B talked about in his coverage of this store. As always, great work, and congrats on reaching 15,000 subs on here.

This bankrupted 2 if not 3 construction companies too. The developer did everything on the cheap. I still work down in the valley below this and am always reminded of this disaster.

My public school used to be a garbage dump before it was converted into a k-8 school in the early 50s. The ice and snow use to turn brown or green in spots during the winter and there use to be weird sinkholes and hot spots all over the field. It got so bad they had to come in and dig a number of methane vents into the field. This all happened in the 90s btw.

Whst an awesome video and thanks for the parental advisory about the r rated graffiti. What's great about you and wallie and the other real retail historians is each of you has your own take on a subject and still you deliver the themes of each film. One theme would be the greed and stupidity of many building a strip mall/power center on landfill . Sad thing is people dont respect the properties and waste energy scarlong nasty graffiti What I wonder is if the politicians knew they were building a Wal*mart on a potentially hazardous toxic landfill and let it happen anyway. Again love your video and the patriotic start to it.

They built many houses on a dump not too far from me and they are basically split in half

I have heard about this place. Why do people have to go in and tear these places up? GEEZE. Looks like a fairly new store too?

In 1994 I worked down in Provo Utah at a Sears Telecatalog center that was built on an old abandoned garbage dump and we would smell the most horrible smell come up in the building from time to time especially in the winter when the heating was on that turned out to be methane and when the catalog went out of business so did the building

8:37 Here comes all the Bill Cosby is in jail jokes and comments! xD

There's a reason the three most important aspects of real estate are location, location, location. This Wal-Mart - and the rest of the shopping center for that matter - fail all three!

Started building when I was like 13.. always knew some to most of it would be shut down soon after.. close friend were told they had to move from the other side of the free way so they could build on it.. Started building and stoped. Ugh so many memories running around that place.

Haha, I figured I'd see ya make a video about this walmart, a younger guy made a video of this, but it was not very interesting, and showed no history, he basically just walked through, so thank you for posting about this place, I'm excited to watch it and I know I will learn from it being from Aces Adventures.

and just what made the powers that be at the time think that as the landfill decomposes that it wouldn't settle? well duh!

Lol at the music 😂😂😂😂

don't blame WM for leaving

Building on top of old landfills or toxic waste dumps. What could go wrong? 😉 Of course it's possible but it definitely takes a lot more preparation than building on greenfield.

Walmart...low prices and possibly cancer.

Another great video!

That all intro got me all MERICA :)

HEY I DREW THAT LAST TIME I WAS THERE! 8:44! IN THE NAME OF ❤️!!!

I was there 12/09/2020 and got too close to the building where it was sunk trying to see the bottom of the foundation and when I got home I was very sick with symptoms that I googled were from Methane Gas exposure. There is a very good reason why there are a great deal of blockades around the place and East 93rd is blocked off and the only way to get to the Giant Eagle is by Transportation Blvd.off of Granger or I 480. Please do not get to close to the buildings, especially if you have hyposmia or else you could get sick. The sinking has gotten far worse. It is quite a project going from parking lot to sidewalk, more like a jump. At points the black tar line is 4 feet seperated from parking lot to building in the back.

Im surprised when you do these urban adventures you don't go with a crew as you do risk alot going out alone my thoughts though

Ace's!! Did you know that the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside you jsu had a video on. Is Also built on an old landfill with the Same problem. After Mall was finished. They Had to drill wells to extract the methane form under the parking lots. They have had to redo the SEAR's side of the parking lot 3 times since the Mall opened due to it sinking as the methane was drained. They "harvest" the methane and a tanker truck comes once a week to remove it from holding tanks that were installed.

I read where the city of Garfield Heights was planning to relocate its city hall, police station, courts, and jail to City View Center. However, I'm guessing that this will require the demolition of pretty much every building there, except for the Giant Eagle, and the land further remediated to reduce or possibly eliminate methane gas issues once the new municipal complex is built (which would replace its old, outdated, and overcrowded facility on Turney Road.

My first thought when the actual footage began was how it reminded me of Centralia!

Garfield Heights is a run down town. It appears that very poor decisions in building plans have really hurt the growth of this town. Every gas station has been robbed. A woman threatened to shoot a barber because of her son's hair cut. Shoot outs between what appear to be teenagers / gang members in parking lots. The streets are falling apart. Everyone's cars have tie rod damage on a yearly basis because of the poor condition of the roads. Many stores have closed down in the last few years. Many people lost their jobs. The restaurants that are in town do not provide very good food.It is looking more and more run down every year. I can't help but wonder where our tax dollars are going. I have inquired about the town's expenditures and was told that it was decision to build on a dump sight that put this town under. I did no grow up in Ohio. I grew up in another state in a similar suburban neighborhood. When visiting my home town, I noticed how smooth and maintained our roads are. Mind you we also have 4 seasons and deal with snow plowing every winter. It should not be an excuse for your roads to be so run down like Garfield Heights. I also noticed that the old pizza place I went to as a kid was still there. All the houses were maintained over the last thirty or so years. Many houses are now using solar panels. The wooded areas in the town have been maintained. Most people's cars are in good shape and not falling apart from rust. No businesses have closed and the town seems to thrive. Why is that? I really think the problem has to do with how they are managing the town's money.

I’ve seen this on KZfaq, your mate Wallie B26. He said on the video that the shop floor is a bit the slope, remember toxic

Good video once again Anthony! I'd say yours is one of the best far as covering this SHITHOLE. Yes it never should have been built in the first place.

Used to drive past this every day on my way to work. Had no idea that it was build on a landfill.

It’s crazy how they let him in! They never really let you trespass. I’ve been in there only to hang out with some friends.but the police was guarding that place like a hawk.!

Bubbling methane? Inappropriate images? A state that voted for Gump? I love it!

Why would anyone build a shopping center on a dangerous landfill that's what you get when you build on a landfill they should've built where the abandoned Kmart was instead of building on two 60 year old landfills I actually wanted to explore the building with my friends we were going to explore the place but then we got caught up with other stuff it's really cool to see an abandoned Walmart in Ohio kinda reminds me of the other Walmart that shut down in another state in the US

What were those noises in the back of the store? It sounded like there was someone back there. It gives me the creeps!

10:37 baking our way...every day and night.

How can Giant Eagle survive here??

Love the music at the start, does anyone know what it’s called? Great video 😊

Absolute disgrace.How mutch money crossed hands to build on that landfill site.Corruption stinks to the high heavens.🇬🇧

The entire neighborhood around the area is full with partially built structures. Someone should do a drive around the area.

Good video. Thanks.

I've visited an abandoned Walmart in my city but it was built on a landfill and I'm like are you serious like seriously why would you do that

Appears to be a human shadow on the wall at time stamp 13:23, may be the camera operator.

This is an example of people not knowing what they are doing...you can build on landfills but to do it properly costs a feck tonne of money. This is what what happens when you don't spend that money and cut corners. We have a retail park and a business centre on a landfill and it perfectly fine.

Walmart looks creepy abandoned

There was a plant next to the supermarket that refined uranium for atomic bombs in www.2

Garfield Heights is so quiet!!!

Oooh I saw my name in pretty decent letters lol 🤣

Did you actually set off fire works in there?

Good video. Did you smell any methane during your trip to Wal Mart?

Lol The Walking Dead reference on the door

Awesome channel. I love it people are doing this to show what America big mall boom looked like back in the day. Now its eating this big corporations in the ass now.

Did people not know about methane gas back then? What did they expect would happen, paving concrete over acres of decaying refuse?

looks like something out of the walking dead.

A Walmart filled with gas; who would expect?

08:55 Bill Cosby Made Me....

What's scarry is I just came from a Wal Mart a few minutes ago

I'm a fan of wallyb26 but what does b26 mean his age

Probably not a good idea to build a shopping complex where a landfill site used to be. All this place has in store is the wrecking ball and not build anything for thousands of years.

Walmart doesn't own real estate...

anything in the soda machine🔫🚬

Cool

How the hell thought it was a good idea to build anything on a former landfill? :I

I’ve been in there before and there was a bunch of graffiti and trash.

What will happen to this place and the job lose

When the city decides to build a damn Walmart on top of a highly dangerous toxic and deadly landfill all their doing was making people's lives more dangerous due to the decomposing garbage and extremely dangerous toxic methane gas and other stuff way for the city who decided to build a Walmart on top of a landfill who in their right mind would do that I must say that beginning is really astonishing reminds me of the battle we had in high school I remember that battle it was insane and I couldn't stop laughing because my friend got her ass shredded and hit with other stuff that's really scary yet dangerous how the ground is sinking that's what you get when you build on top of a landfill the consequences will come back and get you the store had electrical and plumbing and other problems and that shouldn't had been built in the first place more like waste money and live horrible that should be their slogan since they failed to comply with EPA about the situation and the methane release valves and machines are either destroyed or the fans were ripped out of the machines it's a shame to see a building be destroyed and stuff but that's what happens when you build on top of a deadly and toxic methane filled decomposing garbage landfill I think they should've built it somewhere else than a 60 year old boyas landfill that has been closed for like 50 years now I hope that landfill reclaims itself

Just another reason for putting money over lives.

Garfels haits

this becoming popluar

Yay trump