This is the mall of my childhood and teen years. For most of my life, Northgate Mall was a vibrant and bustling staple in northwestern Cincinnati. I still live here, but haven’t shopped there in decades. I remember how it looked before the ‘88 refurbishment and the ‘93 expansion. Lots of good memories here for me.

It's so fucking weird to see this place online. It's surreal.

I spent most of my childhood in this mall. My parents took me to the Disney store at least 3 times a week and they would buy all my clothes from Sears. My dad would always get a coffee from the Gloria Jean's kiosk and sometimes he'd buy me something too. Those were good, simpler times. I used to work at that Macy's for almost 2 years until it closed in late March 2020. I was there working that night when those teens invaded the mall and food court.

Same thing happened to TriCounty, Forest Fair Mall and now Beechwood Mall

I live right near there in Fairfield, my mom actually grew up RIGHT BEHIND the mall and was able to walk over to it during her childhood, she was born in 1972. She has tons of stories to tell about this place. I've only been a few times and now that I'm an adult it's really dead. The only malls still running are Liberty Center in West Chester and Kenwood Mall which is very high end for me, it's a "high class" from my perspective. It's still nice to go and walk around and just look around though. I go to Liberty Center the most and have been there many times. It's a dying breed, it really is. I do love the feeling of empty malls. We used to love going to Forest Fair before it closed for the vibes. I live about 10 mins from Forest Fair.

My family moved to the area in 1968, I remember the grass airfield before the mall was built. I joined the Air Force in 1977, in those days the mall was always packed, at Christmas time just finding a parking place was a challenge.

A trip down memory lane, I spent a lot of time in this mall growing up, and I can still probably name most of the stores that were there. I think out of all the malls, I liked Forrest Fair because of the size of it. That Northgate Mall had a Sears auto repair facility in the back next to the parking garage years ago.

Commenting just because you told me to. Great video. You can always spot that raunchy 1990s Sears wall tile in the mall!

Used to go here in the 70's and 80's, dead grandparents loved it there back then, would just people watch while we shopped/ate. The haunted house was over-the-top but the best around. Plenty of movies seen at the adjacent Cinemas as well. Great memories.

Great video. This mall seems to me like a good example of how even relatively modern looking U.S. malls are struggling since it doesn't look very dated but it's still so empty.

I used to live near a Northgate Mall in Seattle - which closed in 2019 (to make room for a now-open Seattle Kraken Family Ice Skating Facility and a planned redevelopment) and has since been mostly demolished. Sad these Northgate Malls are dying off, haha. Great video, Jeremy! I have really enjoyed your growth in your production and narration skills since your channel's beginnings!

Spent a ton of Time here with my friends growing up through the 2000's From Spencers and Hot topic, To Scifi City where all the Wargamers played. Sbarro pizza and Goldstar Chili in the Food court. used to be a cool place that sold Swords too, aswell as the typical mall stores. When they added the Movie Theater finally. it was Decent, but was plagued by the Local Communty. Northgate as a neighborhood has Declined in the past 25 years. Drugs, Theft, Mismangement by Trustee's. All led to the Locals being disruptive. Curfews had to be put in place at the mall. Like you said, Due to the 100 Kids storming the mall... Lots of Memories from thousands of Teens who spent money there..

You’re always rocking that Muzak version of the old Janice Ian song… that was truly one of the the big light hits in the late 70s before music changed into the 80s

That mall was still popular when the others were barely hanging on. Late 90's into the mid 2000's it was still elbow to elbow at times. It's taken a steep fall in the last 5 years to where now as shown in the video there's virtually nothing left there that's interesting to see. Now that the Movie Theater and Sears is gone it's really been a ghost town. The last time I was there last summer there was a mentally disturbed lady in the food court yelling and at the entrance a guy was trying to sell bootleg CD's.

This was my home mall in the 80, and 90s. Got my prom dress from Wendy's, which was a store in he mall for many years. So many memories. So strange to see it like this. Every once in a while my husband and I will walk through. Generation X retirement home needs to be a old school mall with living quarters!! Lol

Less Nessman did not know turkeys could not fly, as he threw many from the chopper as an event. THAT was THE funniest episode.

You can add Seattle Northgate mall to that. Azteca just closed down last week.

Sad to see it in this shape. Rewind the clock to the 80’s to I’d say around 2005 and this was a great mall to get some really good deals on just about anything. One of the things that hurt Northgate was the newer Stone Creek shopping center not even a mile down the road from there. Once the huge Penney’s left around 2005 other stores slowly started closing one by one. I don’t see this place lasting another 5 years unless a miracle happens.

That’s so weird how that one jewelry store is now just a random sitting room you can walk through like it’s a glitch in a video game…😢

Every time I see an abandoned mall now I imagine being trapped there and chased around by a giant rolling statue of a 19th century botanist

This was the mall of my teen years. It's sad to see it like this

I work at this mall! I’m at work rn as I’m typing this lol, most recently the Marshalls, Journeys and now the Xscape movie theater are all gone from the mall. The movie theater shut down Dec 17th.

I take piano lessons there at Northgate. That store is still open. Forest Fair was my home mall. They had a game arcade and movie theater by the food court Was such a fun place when i was a kid Ol mini golf and mortal combat after a philly cheesesteak...those were the days 🫅

Nice tour Jeremy! Seems like a happening Mall in it's hay day, to bad it's on life support now! Keep hope alive, maybe it will have a come back! You take care and stay safe! Thanks for sharing!!

Great video! I hope this mall won’t have the same fate as FFV and Tri County

Used to work here at the kiosk in the middle. Did very well in the early 2000's.

Brought back a lot of memories!

Our Northgate Mall closed last year or so. It’s a very interesting transition.

I can’t believe there are restaurants in the food court.. Good video!

I agree it is a dumb idea. Years ago outdoor malls were be converted into indoor ones. Why the trend the other way? Who wants to shop in the cold during Christmas time?

Maybe it's bc u can only hear it the music at this mall, but Northgate is regularly playing the best old pop/classic rock music. Cheap Trick and Van Halen playing insanely loud while walking from Marshall's to hot topic is an A+ mall experience

Spent a lot of time their in the late 70’s. Hopping place back then.

Awesome video 😊

Bevis Oh. Use to run the Dunkin Donuts down the street. Spent a lot of time their with the family.

I’m from and live in Cincinnati and I can confirm this mall was the 💩 in the early 90’s and 2000’s after I graduated from high school in 2013 it died had alot of memories here!

I’m from the area. Colerain as a whole is doing pretty well as far as retail goes, probably in part due to the Meijer and massive Walmart nearby leading people to do errand runs around there, but Northgate has a bad reputation. There are two malls relatively close that are doing very well, being Kenwood and Liberty Center, and it’s a double edged sword. They do great, but that fact is killing every other mall in the area. When it comes to mall stores, most people would rather either go to Liberty or Kenwood due to their high activity, unique stores on top of the regular mainstays, and better reputations. If a place decides to open up a location in Colerain, they’ll go for somewhere outside the mall if they can afford it.

I used to take guitar lessons at willis music in the late 90's. Looks to be a mattress store now 9:30

My favorite place

my wife ran a photography studio here in the late 90s early 2000s. (the picture people which was located beside the jewlery store at 3:14 ) this place used to be the place to be, but the area of colerain is so bad now people cant go without getting robbed or shot at. This is a "culture" issue in the area, too many little boys who've never had a dad around, thinking they're men by waving guns around

Steve & Berry's and Media play are missing. Those were the best!

Why did I watch this entire tour when I'm at this Mall a few times outta the month... I live 10 minutes from this place lol

WKRP in Cincinnati!!!!!!!!

6:53 was an old musicland/suncoast

Wait…. Did the mall management just plywood off those motorized entrance doors or were they smashed? 😢

Nice music, what is it?

I used to go to this place all the time live about 20 minutes away but I had no idea it had closed down Forest fair mall not far away from this one also closed and was torn down

York steakhouse😊

Wow, time-warped Ugly Duckling Girls!!! Amazing music for this video!

lol.. I lived in a CBUS suburb from 1998 to 2010 and not once did we ever go to this mall’s CBUS cousin - Eastgate Mall - it was trash stores and trashy customers even then… the REIT that owned this and plenty of other retail strip shopping centers and 2nd rate malls, which IIRC, was also based on Central Ohio, must have gone bankrupt or given the properties back to the investors/lenders

0:00 Always Miss The Great American Cookies

Is Bath and Body Works still open there? They always seem to be the last store standing in Cincy area malls

The mall isn’t in a good area. Cincinnati Mills and Tri County are now closed. This mall is also on its way.

Could you please go to the Cincinnati Mall, it’s stuck in the early 200’s with some pretty awesome art. I think it only has one store now. It’s at 1023 Cincinnati Mills Dr., If you type in Cincinnati Mall it doesn’t come up, but it’s there. It’s attached to Outdoor World Bass Pro Shops. :)

My wife grew up just a mile from this mall. I don't think we've been there since 2014?

Omg...my mall....All souls of my generation looking/feeling like this. Almost empty & dying. Which seemed to be the theme for us even when this place was alive & bustling. 😔 And the only store still thriving...Bath & Body Works. But of course. No Cincy Gen X woman could allow that store to die. This is depressing. Even the food court is gone.

can we get an updated video GREAT VIDEO

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I have been here a handful of times. Definitely was very boring in my opinion. It was never thriving when I went. Just my experience though. My go to was always Florence KY mall over any of the surrounding.

I miss scifi city

Why is that shopping mall... dead?!

McDonald's parking lot across the street. Most of the folks who hung out there ended up in prison or working for one.