When the arcade closed, I realized that it was ending. It's sad, since I spent most of my childhood with those stores being my end-all stop for things. Now it's empty except on the holidays. Feels bad, man.

I live in Racine and this mall is completely dead. I never go to this mall Because there are no good stores. Its pretty sad that Racine locals like me aren't even going in there anymore.

Anyone remember the arcade back in 2009

I’m from Kenosha, WI originally. This mall was my childhood in the 90s. The waterfall in the middle of the mall….they had, IMO, one of the best Chinese restaurants in it. The old corn dog stand with the best fresh lemonade. Funcoland, EB Games. And afterwards, we would go to Toys R Us right next door. It’s sad seeing it this way….so many many many great memories there….

breaking ground was in the fall of 1978. The mall opened on August 5, 1981.

Dang i live there

chick- fill-A was the last and only reason to go there.

I have worked and shopped in this mall for decades! Worked in a RadioShack there in 2003. As a kid in the 90s, Riding up what used to a single laned greenbay road, driving past the old farmer markets by KR. Something I will say doomed this mall from the beginning was the fact that many of todays "anchors" that still exist never had a home in the mall. Best buy was across the street, curcuit city too. Toys R us was also stand alone, just a building or two away. Not to mention food options were better outside the mall, than inside. By the late 90s the writing was already everywhere. Yet to this day the mall still stands!

Thank you for showing this video. 👍❤

Regency Mall was great all the way up until 2008. I worked here as an sales associate at a Cellphone store from 2006 and 2007 When I moved up to a lead position I made my booth the #1 selling location out of 500 stores nationwide. The decrease came from management control who always said that they did not want to hire people from the community of Racine and instead hired from outside. Over time companies found it hard to find experienced workers and to make things worse the economic crash of 2008 made regency mall the way it is today. People up until today have not recovered from the affect of the crash and instead of treating themselves have to struggle to pay for household bills

Was just here on Saturday Both Boston store and sears are closed A sure sign it is struggling is when odd ball stores go into what had major tenant spots Supposedly a developer has brought it to try to revitalize it

I live in Racine. I can say with certainty that the mall did not open until after 1980, not in 1975.

Dude tons of content youve been uploading, awesome.

Excellent video. The filming and narration are excellent. I really like your dying mall series. You are up there with Dan Bell as far as I'm concerned. Thank you for uploading.

And now the Boston Store has gone bankrupt and closed too.

I used to go School shopping at Regency Mall years ago in the late 80's. As at that time I thought the mall was going good! I used to go into the J.C. Penney's entry. So many memories of shopping there. Thanks for sharing.

That place would be so packed on the weekends in the 80's if fell down you probably would get stepped on. It was amazing!!! Wasn't ever the best mall but it was our mall.

I live in Mount Pleasant, I would love to know of Urbex spots in the Racine area.

After watching the other video that someone else uploaded that's a little more recent, I'm still surprised that the T-shirt store has held on as long as it has. I can still recall going there back in I want to say 1985 to get McKinley Vikings sweatshirts.

recent update, the have carpet, better lighting, and hid all the empty stores behind walls as well as got rid of the kiosks, however, no new stores and just lost boston store. sad.....

I have some really good memories of that place, it's shame to see it dying... :'(

When I was in a school job program, we went on a weekly field trip to the mall there was always a new store open where an old one just started the week before and the next week later one or a couple of the stores that just opened were empty and vacant. Sad. Even in my childhood this mall was a bit slowed in traffic but it is getting worse. :(

I wish someone had pictures of the original layout. This mall was great back in the 80s. Hot Sams (when it was real), Hickory Farms and Chick Fil A gave out great samples everyday, Aladdins Castle , Kay Bee Toys, Spencer Gifts, it was awesome. I lived across the street and went there all the time with family and friends. Used to have York Steak house in there and you could get a steak dinner for $2.99 and it was legit. Sorry to see those days gone. If anyone has picks or video of the original mall please post them.

i remember coming here when i was like 10, the whole mall was bustling with lots of people in it every day. now they cut half the mall out and i barely see any more than 100 people in the entire mall at one time. shame what happened here.

Weird looking back at this video, it’s almost completely dead now. I rarely see anyone in the actual mall part other than people who go to the Planet Fitness there now.

That's not what the mall looks like there's nothing in it anymore!

I lived right by the bike path that went to this mall, I remember going here as a kid and I’m 17 now...

This mall is getting better they added carpeting and added posters on the walls about racine history.

7:08 the spot on the right hand side there with the red border, they used to have the best warm chocolate chip cookies you've ever had in your life! 😊

I can remember the south parking lot being full when we would drop my sister off in the late 80's. I can remember traffic jams in the parking lot. If you had a store in there you had to try to lose money. There was so much foot traffic.

2:17 a lot of the spots where there's walls like over on the right hand side, there's empty stores and hallways to empty stores behind those walls.

I'm from Wisconsin I miss their big fountain they use to have inside but they remodeled and they have big fountains this time

I know the anchor stores have all closed up for the most part, and that always hurts a mall, but this mall sits on an extremely busy intersection. The traffic is insane. So I don't understand why people aren't going inside the mall to shop anymore?

So sad. I remember when the mall was built and it opened. I used to bring my kids there alot

The opening clip is Metrocenter in Phoenix. This was the mall used for filming of interior mall scenes of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

was born and grew up in Racine. loved my childhood and bicycling to downtown, and as I got older street racing on the main drag... sadly malls have been the demise of small town America, I refuse to shop in a mall and frequent my local stores...

I remember it's boom days. Boston sore, Sears, JC Penney, Eitel's, that awesome buffet Chicken restaurant, Gantos, Olga's kitchen, Prange's then Bergner's,, Walgreens, Orange Julius, the restaurant where planet fitness is now that served the sink full of icecream, the Mexican restaurant, Things Remembered. Was always packed with people. Quality went down, prices went up, jobs went away, crime increased and people didn't feel safe there anymore.

It's crazy because I was like raise in this mall and back then everything was way better and fun and loud but now its is actually really dead

1:22 the T-shirt shop over on the right hand side has been in the mall since at least 1987 but the location may have been moved around.

I worked at this mall and hung out there for many years. I feel privileged (in a very odd way) to have worked in a mall in its hey day. I think I worked there off and on from 1994-2000. We used to have birthday parties at the arcade. They were awesome. Private parties, unlimited tokens. We went to that arcade right up until it closed. They had a travel agency across from a Hot Sam’s pretzels. Right near where the closed Subway was. I think the most recent closures, or soon to be, are Lane Bryant and Gymboree.

great job on the videos keep it up I'm from Iowa originally but now in Colorado springs CO our Sears are in bad shape

Lots of retro storefronts in this mall. I see a lot of chain stores still left from struggling companies so things more than likely will continue to get worse. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for this video its so sad to see these malls go guess its a sign of the times.

music is creepier than video! I live there in Racine. That mall has now been completely renovated and is a nicer vacant mall!

Anyone remember the bathroom at the corner of the mall.

6:35 that was E-Z Fit Alteration which moved to another part of the mall.

It’s all remodeled now I live 2 min from this place and it’s all updated

I still love this mall! Almost nothing there anymore. If you don’t want to be bothered with large crowds it a good place to go. Just don’t know how much longer they will be around.😕

This mall is always empty when I go

As a general comment to all these mall videos (which are great BTW), in many cases a lot of the dead malls seem to have turned the corner in a bad way around 2008. While online shopping certainly has played a part in the decline of malls, I wonder how much of the decline is because we've never really recovered from the Great Recession of 2008.

cool music really ties in with this video.

What mall is featured at the very beginning? That's not Regency Mall.

I got yelled at about 9 years ago for taking pictures in there when it was a bit more active. Guy walks up to me “You taking pictures?” “Yes” “Not in the mall.” Guess it doesn’t matter anymore. Mall has new owners and they own malls that are in a lot worse shape. Last time I was in there was to grab pictures of Boston Store before it closed. At that point they were remodeling the rest of the mall.

Why go to expensive yuppie mall with a Super Walmart and a Menards not far away?

9:04 on the right-hand side was the video game arcade.

Unlike Janesville mall this one is actually dead

The closing of AMC had nothing to do with causing Racine's down turn. AMC was located in Kenosha. Converted to a Chrysler plant and maintained a large portion of the workforce into the 80s (laying off almost 6k people in 1988 (75% of staff)). Racine made some interesting investments and changes in the 80s and 90s that set them up for this failure. Racine has a present day example of this as well! FOXCONN. Kenosha was able to move past the AMC/Chrysler plant closing no different than Brass or other large shut downs in the area. Racine and Kenosha are based RIGHT on a main corridor and easily can make boat loads of money. The cities financial issues stem from bad leaders and decisions. Not a company.

Racine has been dead for at least 20 years.

Where are the supermarkets in America? Where do y’all buy food? 🍞

i miss the arcade

Seems like any mall named regency is dead. One in Florida and another in VA, but I know that one is being redeveloped.

AMC was in Kenosha and not Racine

This is so sad!😭 we used to go there and Chick-fil-A was packed and all of the tables in the walk way were filled and it was hard to walk through and now it is just DEAD!!

I used to go to this mall, I could walk to it from my grandparents house on Illinois st.

The fmr JCPenny was filled by a Ross Dress for Less and a JoAnn Fabrics. Struggling yes but if you can fill empty spaces there is hope.

Now Boston Store is gone.

6:24 that used to be Sears.

Now this is more of a dying mall. Not like Northbrook Court in Northbrook, Illinois where it serves the wealthy NorthShore area and the wealthy Northern Suburbs.

Well made video.

😂😂😂😂😂🤕 been here it looks just like this 🤧

It’s getting busier

you should see it now :(

6:28 that was Payless Shoes.

so funny cuz we got a mall like ths in jacksonville fl...named regency square...lol

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I rode my dirt cycle thru there before it was finished.

omg! i live there! well... in Racine...lol

Yeah our mall is pretty ass🤣

My mall

Old as fuck. Its worse now. Boston store hasnt been around in years. The mall jas been bought recently. The director stood down. He retired. This mall needs customers with money or it wont survive.

I worked for 40 years managed stores , its pretty simple the baby boomers packed these store s , then got old , their dead now or in nursing homes or retired like me , I haven't been in a MALL in 15 years , They were FUN but NOW 90% of people shop on-line. Even in there hey day 60-80s it was hard to make a profit with 80% of the stores LOSING MONEY 9 months a year , RENTS were INSANE AND SHOPLIFTERS SOLE $$$$ Millions every day . BUT it was the BABY BOOMERs that got too OLD to WALK THOSE MALLS ! that spelled there END !

The only reason I ever walked in here was for chick-fa-la after that the mall is dead.

the mall started dying the year of 2018 sad i love that place and they had a chick fill a that was all ways pack good mall sad to see it die no lets try to bring it back to life

Wow

Pretty grim. The music doesn't help that.

Me too

I only go there for shoes😂

The mall opened in 1981 not 1975. If you're going to do videos get the facts correct.

sad to see

Fire Up the DOZERS !!

The unions and democrats are killing this town!