I love me some FF3/6 music while watching a guy walk around a dead mall in the middle of a desert.

I love Arizona. A lot of people say the desert is ugly. But it's very beautiful. Hidden beauty. Sunsets are just breathtaking. The flowers in desert are pretty and every cactus has its unique shape with peculiar arm shapes lol. Too bad many people can't see past the dirt.

How sad, it looks beautiful and peaceful.

Interesting video about this mall. Some of the background music you chose is unique and absolutely perfect for a mall that appeared to be on the brink of Life Support. LOL.

sunsets in the summer are probably so aesthetic 😍🔥💜

Architectural dreamscape turned retail failure. It is truly a spectacle, yet somewhat dated in appearance. I did enjoy watching the tour because in a way... I was simultaneously imagining a sort of time warp back to the 80's and 90's with moderate, well dressed patrons walking about the centre amongst an early evening sunset sky of red and blue.

This mall is unlike anything I’ve ever seen! It’s crazy how something so unique can be forgotten so easily.. Keep up your good work! I love to see your channel grow and grow 🧡 Much love from Florida 🍊

"What happened here; we used to come here to eat in 10 years and now it's gone" ... It amazes me why people wonder why some places close when they (and many others) haven't bothered to eat/shop at a place in several years Lol ..

I remember shopping here before it was dead. I loved this oasis in our community. I hope it is resurrected someday.

*cries irl through this video* i have lived in Scottsdale AZ since i was a baby and that mall was a huge part of my childhood between this and the toys r us video this channel has officially killed my childhood

That's a wonderful looking mall, kinda reminds me of something from a theme park. But it's a shame that malls go for utility over any personalty in their design. BTW you totally need to use music from the CD-i version of Tetris in your videos, it would fit perfectly!

Nice landscaping

I just thought about this mall for the first time in years. When I first moved to Scottsdale 15 years ago, I sometimes went up there to wander around. It was already dying the last time I went there, which was probably 10 years ago.

Kinda reminds me of the Viejas Outlet Center in Alpine, CA. I highly recommend it if you're ever in the San Diego area again.

looks like it would make a great farmer's market and food stall site

I like the soundtrack music that you picked out for this is very Tastefully done.

So glad to have Wi-Fi again. This was something I missed most.

"What happened, I came here to eat 10 years ago?" That's an interesting quote, cause it answers its own question. Like when major places close down or go bankrupt. Radio Shack was the first one for me, then I stopped an though...oh ya I hadn't gone to buy anything from there for ages, then Sears, K-mart, so on. When you stop to think about it it makes sense.

I was taken to this place my first time visiting AZ back in 1994 and I was so impressed! I have lived out here now for 20 years and had forgotten about this place for 15. I guess that’s why this place went dead.

I love the fountain

We just stayed at the Boulders this past weekend and they golf carted us over here for dinner. Why didn’t you mention and film The Spotted Donkey restaurant? It and its Cantina predecessor have been here for many years. We’ve been up here quite a few times since the early 90s and have had lunches and dinner there. We stopped at the gallery where the artist was painting at the window. The boutique is fairly large, carrying higher end purses, clothes ($149 for a skirt) and many other things than golf shirts. They had quite a few last season purses and wallets on clearance. The ladies were very sweet. Yes, we became customers. The phone to the resort was working. The cantina remains popular although the resort has two other nice restaurants. This mall was mostly galleries when we hung out there. But many art pieces, including jewelry, could be affordable. Same with the boutiques. We usually went to the cantina but the restaurants were high end, not lasting too long. I wasn’t thrilled with the bakery. The workers were never too friendly and there weren’t a lot of choices. I seem to remember the ice cream place was once Cold Stone Creamery. I never saw this plaza as really bustling. It appears that Some of the areas act as overflow meeting rooms for the many conventions. As you mentioned, Carefree/Cave Creek is a bit of a drive. They even get snow. We plan on visiting again sometime soon. The kids haven’t been to the cantina for a long time. One note: we’ve stayed at the Princess and other nice places. I would highly recommend the Boulders, especially with summer rates. It’s now our favorite. They push the cantina for dinner but I would love to see El Pedregal really come back.

Ahhh yes, love the Final Fantasy VI music, so many feels and memories...amazing video as always!

This is a beautiful and interesting mall

Immediately liked the video before I watched it. I always do, I’m never disappointed.

What a shame. It's beautiful.

Thank for the Valentine's day gift

I loved the music you used in this. It sounds like it is from a video game.

Used to go to the concerts called carefree Sunday at elpedrgal the jazz bands were amazing not many shops were open about 6 years ago every one was there for the music and the 2 food places open

awesome music choice dude

What a great looking mall...

Oh wow I've been to this mall before! I completely forgot about it. I stayed at the Boulders resort with my family during march break in 2013 when I was in high school (don't go there, super expensive and very shitty for the price, my bathroom had carpet in it lmao!) and we went to a Mexican restaurant there at the recommendation of the hotel, and it was super super busy actually! I remember how noisy it was lol. I was kind of shocked when the video started and I realized this was that mall we went to only five years ago. I'm pretty sure the pizza place was open then and I definitely remember the Ben & Jerry's that was there. So crazy that its dead now, I wonder how the resort is doing these days. The resort felt like it was in the middle of nowhere, I can't imagine too many people aside from resort guests would have been going to that mall.

So much potential and charm in this mall really hope it gets some life again, so all that beauty doesn't go to waste!

This one reminds me of the Flintstones.

Used to all the way up there to get my birthday ice cream at the B&J.

Love the music choices in this video 😍

I drove up to this mall to see my friend Robert Lang play guitar on the stage. There were a lot of people in the courtyard for live music. I also remember a really nice kitchen store on the second level, and the bakery had an excellent cafe mocha.

Some very nice, aesthetic colors. Music felt like some retro choices. Catchy tracks.

This is such a cool mall ;~;

We have a mall here in muncy pa, its doing ok and definately populated but some things closed. You can visit if u want to

I love how you have video game music playing as you explore places

IF you know any of the old tenants like I do, they will tell you that the Waldorf Astoria owners at the time chased everyone off with over priced leases. Plus they said they really needed a robotic tram or connection with the resort so people could come and go without waiting for their people to come get them, since they are on opposite sides of the Granite Mount.

I live in the area and used to go to the salon featured here. It was called salon Mila. They closed that location about 2 years ago( the original, I believe) but still have 3 others in the area. It’s sad what happened to this mall, but a mall can’t exist on nearly identical galleries alone and that’s kind of all it was toward the end.

YES! I need my Dead Mall fix! So stoked when I see these on my feed! Neat looking mall shame it is still doing so terrible.

Someone needs to buy it and lower the lease price and promote it like crazy!

You could say it was... deserted.

ive lived by this place for years. Ive never been in it. I didnt even know it was a mall.

Kinda makes me wonder if the resort plans to repurpose that space into something else (perhaps meeting rooms or a conference center or something) or demolish it and expand a new building or more rooms or something else. I wonder if they are not renewing leases to get everyone out.

Shopping and dining...maybe they'll add offices and entertainment options (along with other places, like a fitness center or martial arts center) and create a mixed-use environment.

Years ago El Pedregal was one of the few things to do in Carefree. Plus it was very remote(relatively speaking), Scottsdale Road was a 2 lane highway north of Frank Lloyd Wright, it was just about all desert till you got there. The area has really been built up in the last 20 years. Which I'm sure is the reason for it's decline. It's too bad you were not able to capture the old Rawhide, but that was a bit before your time(at least on youtube). There is still a number of old sites around Phoenix, it will take a bit of detective work, since a lot of them have been renovated.

Nicest mall I've seen

if you ever get out to Virginia you need to check out the Patrick Henry mall. Its super cool because its largely a pretty retro mall but they added on new wings and restaurants to it. its definitely not dead, but its still super retro. One of the anchors, a Dillards, has this big glass front to it that looks straight out of the 90's.

Man this made me sad, after watching this video, this made me realize about my mall near me that is about to die. The mall was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana call the Mall of Cortana.i had memories about that mall.back like in 2007 or 2008,I’ll always get candy apple,go to sears,RadioShack,Chick-fil-A and JC penny and always go to gamestop to see what’s new to play.but recently I went to that mall like a week ago to buy shoes but the mall is kinda dead.There was no more candy apple,Sears,JC Penny,RadioShack but they still had GameStop but GameStop is dying too.nowadays I go to the Mall of Louisiana,but the Cortana mall will be a special place for my heart ❤️

That mall looks so tranquil and beautiful... what happened to it? I would love to shop there and see what the performances were like. I really love the palm tree and cacti aesthetic. As someone who so far spent majority of their life in Northern Illinois, I'm fascinated with those plants as I've only seen palm trees once outside the internet when I went to Florida. I love the designs of these outdoor malls you have out there in the South. We obviously can't have any of those were I live because of the brutal winters. In fact, we're finally starting to get out of the 20s as of this week as we had a nasty winter negative degrees and over a foot of snow. This is another reason why I love watching your videos because it takes me out of my cold area into a more temperate climate.

Interesting overall mall design. I feel if anything, it would be a good place for offices to go into depending on if any businesses would want to be out there. Also, as others have already pointed out, you have good taste in video game music, sir. I recognized a lot of the JRPG tunes throughout.

My quick scan of the map suggests about 12 miles from the nearest interstate -- that's probably contributing..

This is a beautiful mall!!! I love how you live in Arizona to explore, because I live here too! I swear I’ve stayed at that resort too..

Great Video! Sorry to see that this place is abandoned...The resort should turn all of the old stores into motel room or apartments.

I Love that type of Architecture, Beautiful place.

That would be a cool ass airsoft or paintball map

I remember going here a long time ago for a Beatles cover show. I think the band was called Marmalade Skies.

Inside, gossip , they may turn the retail spaces into rental condos

Phantasy Star 4, looks like the bigger cities architecture in the game

Dat ff6 music tho.

Keep us updated on what this may become in the future.

Cool video! I really liked the music. I kept waiting for the regulators to ride up. Certainly a shame to waste such a place. Idk- with a stage I thought maybe a cult could move in there. Hahaha the mnd wanders after third shift! Keep up the good work

I hope someone was still looking after the koi!

This would be great to convert to residential as each store turned into an apartment.

Great stuff as always Mr. Erik! Thank you!

This music makes me miss the old Runescape.. time to log into the 2007 server lol.

If you are still interested in knowing more about this place...I managed an art gallery/design studio here for 12 years. I can help💜

This reminds me of Viejas Outlet Center in Alpine, CA and that's a goldmine of a mall.

It had alot in common with the Borgata on Scottsdale Rd.

The mall has a good look to it. Not that bad looking from the outside.

As a kid I thought this place was magical! But my dad would never take us back because he didn’t like taking us out so I forget the name and location. Cool I want to go before they completely close down. Reminds me of Sedona

Looks like a really nice mall. It's surprising it went down hill with the successful resort and nice residences surrounding it. I was also surprised the koi pond was maintained. I would have thought a Brazilian blowout was the same thing! 😁

Good choice of music for this one. Arizona has some cool looking malls compared to New Jersey.

Omg beautiful this and that underground mall is on my bucketlist of things to do.

I truly wonder why they're not marketing this as office space. As fancy as it is it seems like a med spa or retail stockbroker would be interested.

I love places like this. It's like people just packed up and left one day, never to return. The art gallery didn't get the memo!

This is such a cool space; it would be a great place for those unique boutiques that aren’t chain stores, the art galleries, a eclectic coffee shop, & restaurants. This looks like it had less chain stores. It’s a shame what’s happening....

Such a beautiful place.

What music is in the background? I really love it.

Nice music selection!

This place doesn't look like a mall. Hilton could easily expand the resort into the mall or turn it into apartments.

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The website shows that they conduct functions in the mall so that would be one of the reasons why its kept in perfect condition

wonderful tour. there's a once dead mall here in Atlanta that has been renamed Fiesta Mall and it's now a thriving shopping and cultural center for the hispanic community here. I think someone should do a video on it. I go there sometimes and it's like visiting south america.

Wonder if this is the future of all the casino malls in Las Vegas.

I prefer the jazz and vaporwave music, but I like your great video!

can i ask the name of the music at the 11:00 point and the one after, please & thank you ? I really appreciate that you use midis in your videos. theres so much amazing music composed by some major unappreciated talent thats sadly become almost forgotten.

This is what I call a "deserted" mall.

This location would be a beautiful backdrop for outdoor wedding venues. It would be nice to have the stores cater to guests at the spa and to the venue a flower shop, decorations, gowns/tuxes etc.

One of your best videos Eric - as we're freezing nice to see some sun 😎

That final fantasy background music though 😂😂

What a shame this Mall is closed, it is beautiful!!!! I would definitely go there!!

The Latin-style pan pipe music fits the desert setting well.

The place seems to be well maintained.

I only got to see this notification while playing Dungeons and Dragons. And I won't lie, I finished my game before watching this.

That's a beautiful mall I would totally go there if it was open !

Litterly 3 minites from my house