I think it looks ok for now especially compared with actually dying malls. I would be interested to see how it’s doing in early December before Christmas

A Simon all without maintenance issues? I'm shocked. It looks like a pretty healthy mall considering the mall climate we are in now.

Really nice to see this! It's funny to hear someone call it PEA-BODY like that haha. Around here everyone pronounces it like PEE-BIDDY lol

The Double Bull Restuarant location at 30:41 was originally a P.F. Changs which opened around 2008. There was a fatal stabbing in the kitchen of P.F. Changs around 2015 and the restaurant closed permanenty shortly after. There is information online if you google this. The building was gutted and remodeled into a Bankcroft and Co which was there briefly and is now The Double Bull.

I am older enough to remember before the mall was built. We had family friends with a small farm across from where the mall was built. Much of that area was farms and orchards. I remember the North Shore Shopping Center which was open air. There was a JJ Newberry store, a Paine Furniture, Jordan Marsh, Filenes, Bailey's Ice Cream. The current mall looks like every other in the country.

My grandmother used to take me here when it was North Shore Shopping Center. Other than being enclosed, it still definitely had an old school vibe at the time. Because of its dated architecture and its lack of a video arcade, I always looked at it as an older persons mall. Liberty Tree Mall had an Alladin's Castle and a Tiffany concert in the 80's. North Shore didn't get a video arcade until it became North Shore Mall in the 90's. I haven't been to either recently, but I suspect neither of them have a video arcade anymore. My favorite mall with a video arcade back in the '90s was The Mall at Rockingham Park. It was called Dream Machine, and it went out around the early to mid 2000s. Thank you for your walkthrough of that mall, as well. I have amazing memories there, too.

Northshore Mall went in reverse. The Liberty Tree mall was the hot one when I was a kid. North Shore Mall was an outdoor mall that had been covered in the late 60's or 70's? The company that owned the Burlington Mall bought both of them. They started upgrading it to a more high end mall and Liberty Tree was more the kids mall. North Shore is still growing and stays busy year round. In the 1980's the anchor stores were Filenes, Sears and Toys R' Us. The basement level use to be a complete tunnel that ran under the entire mall. One entrance was next to Toys R' Us, where Macy's is today but it was covered up. The other entrance to the tunnel is next to Tony C'. I remember going with my dad to pick up some furniture and we had to go to the shipping dock below the mall. It was surreal.

I haven't been here in over 10 years. Good to see it's still alive. Square One Mall is depressing to visit it's sad seeing your childhood fade away.

As a ex employee of this mall I can say it's far from dead on most days. Sometimes while working you'd have a better time watching paint dry due to how slow it is, but it gets stupid busy during all big holidays, and college vacation times (spring break and summer)

The Barnes & Noble was a movie theater and a bowling alley side by side.

Ugh. I remember as a kid when my Mother wanted to go to another mall besides Searstown (Whitney Field) for different stores, my Father, and I had to endure the "Double Death Nail", a trip to Northshore, then to Liberty Tree. At that time in the mid 80s, you could see Liberty Tree from Northshore. This was a single level mall, so all the 2-story sections are 90s add-ons. Things weren't as bad as teens, as we were allowed to go to Allidin's Castle at Liberty Tree. The door to the left of Kohl's heading into the mall was the corridor to it (now an outdoor corridor next to the rear of the cineplex).

The one thing that always has me questioning the owners of these malls, is all the booths selling bootleg items. I honestly don't see how it's legal for this stuff to be sold, or how the owners of the malls allow it to happen. My wife gets a kick out of checking out the bootleg stuff, and the people who run the little kiosk/booth will come out of nowhere and stand directly behind her. She's fine with it, but it creeps me right out. The Maine Mall had a booth in the early 2000s that was selling one of the bootleg Nintendo 64 units with all the NES games loaded onto it. They'd keep it on Super Mario Bros, and if you tried to play other things, they'd reset it on you. Gee, it's almost as if they knew what they were selling wasn't legitimate.....

As others have said, this mall is doing fine. I do like the different ceiling styles as you go through the mall. My guess is those are markers of the various phases of enclosure, but I could be wrong. I am a fairly regular Nordstrom shopper, and yeah, I have a feeling they’d kick you out fairly quickly if you’re filming.

I remember going there as a child in the 1960's. It was still the open air version and it was a treat to go there. They had a petting zoo and giant wooden soldiers at Christmas. My mother used to always go to Jordan Marsh for their blueberry muffins. When the first real mall opened nearby in Danvers (Liberty Tree Mall opened in the 70's) the Northshore Shopping Center became somewhat forgotten. I will always remember what fun it was to go there. Sadly, the mall culture in America is slowly fading away.

When I was a lad in the 80's, there were numerous NuTone (Proline 1 and Slimline) ceiling fans scattered throughout the mall, (Called the Northshore Shopping Center at the time). All were uninstalled during the major renovation in 1997. There were also Emerson Heat Fans in Herman's Sporting Goods, and a pair of NuTone Proline 1's in Windsor Button. I would love to see some old pics or videos which include the fans if anybody watching this has some footage.

As Always, I love your walk throughs.. This mall has changed quite a bit but is definitely not a dead mall. The nordstrom wing was never there before. After they tore down the 4 floor Jordan Marsh building they extended into what was the parking lot to build the nordstrom. This mall was all one floor besides the department stores and there was a small lower level where Filene's Basement once was. There was no wing leading up to the old Jordan Marsh/ Macy's building. I always found this mall kind of strange with its skinny main mallways. I love your videos Tom! Thanks again!

This mall is almost unrecognizable in it's current incarnation from what it looked like in the 1960's and 1970's. My cousin worked at Kiddie Towne from 1966 to 1970. It was an open air mall then and smaller with a lot of places that no longer exist (i.e Liggetts Rexall Drugs, China Sails, Conrad and Chandler, Paine Furniture, Kennedy's, S S Pierce, Fanny Farmer and many more) anymore. Although this mall does well now, I think that eventually it will go the way that many others have. A lot of the stores (mostly chains) are not "corporately" doing well including Nordstrom. It should be a LOT busier considering the enormous size it is today but like it's sister mall Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers I don't think it sees the amount of trade it was built for. Also, back then there was a Sears and Sears Auto Center next to Kresge's on the original site of Kiddie Towne. Kiddie Towne had to move to where the current Macy's is now to accomadate the building of that store and its attached Sears Auto Center. Later, Sears built a much bigger store (demolished now) with an separate larger Sears Auto Center at the Route 114 perimeter entrance that was not attached which is now the Tesla dealer shown in in the video. The old Sears became a Toys R Us store with the attached Sears Auto Center being their storage area. Northshore Shopping Center (Northshore Mall) also had a General Cinema Theater (two screens) and an attached Holiday Lanes bowling alley where the Barnes and Noble bookstore is currently. At one time Jordan Marsh had a Jordan Marsh Car Care Center that was demolished to make way for the Essex County Bank building (now the Lahey Medical Complex). At Christmas time back in the 1960's it had giant candles on top of some the stores along with giant toy soldiers everywhere.

You skipped over one of the most unique features of the maul. There is a Catholic chapel in the basement near Not Your Average Joes. It’s been there since the 60’s.

Was the Ops. Manager for several years at the Lord & Taylor at NorthShore. Good to see the mall is doing well.

I just hit the subscribe button after way this video. Thank you for creating the video in 2023.

You're a hop skip and a jump away from Liberty Tree Mall. I look forward to that video There was an old Denny's across the street from that mall I wonder if the building still stands.

Nice video

At 18:55 when you're going down the escalator that H&M store was once a Suncoast Motion Picture Co. It was my favorite store during the 90s. You can see in your video once you pass the H&M it looks like an emty store front but is actually part of H&M now.

26:40 This is where the Apple store location used to be. It opened back in September 2001. As of January 28, 2017, the store has relocated to the MarketStreet shopping center in Lynnfield.

The Jordan Marsh building was the best constructed building when this first gen. shopping center opened;.............ironic. The really innovative feature was the truck tunnel, so there is no ugly side, thus convenient access from all points of the compass.

The one and only time I was in this mall around 2010, Filene's Basement still was in that short lower floor section of the mall. Which I think was pretty much the only thing that lower floor had at that time. As far as this mall's health, it doesn't have that "dead mall" vibe. Yeah, there are closures, but not overwhelming where there's major holes in like some dead malls are dealing with.

Mall looks pretty alive to me and a good size, too! Not sure what the policies are over there but most stories don't usually mind people filming inside the store. Thanks for another video

Should have gone to the Liberty Tree Mall (its right down the street from Northshore Mall), now that is the posterchild for "Dead Malls" but is somehow still open. Great video though, but I highly reccomend going to the above mentioned mall the next time you are in the area.

The Maine Mall in Portland ME is also fairly quiet but a very nice mall and busy at times, especially when it rains

Unrelated-ish but in San Francisco we have a very lively mall and I’m happy about that at least.

This mall is pretty cool. This is the mall that I usually go to. This mall for Christmas season is very busy. It haven’t died yet but the other mall which is Liberty tree mall in Danvers looks like a ghost town with tumble weeds at times. Especially last year in the Christmas season it was very empty.

In 1990, I managed the General Cinema which was free standing in the parking lot. It's since been torn down and last I knew it was Barnes and Noble. The crime at the time was rampant. My car was stolen, and the theater was held up.

The north shore mall has a church on the basement floor

It's not dying yet because during black Friday or cyber Monday, it was pretty packed, plus it has plenty of food and beverage businesses compared to Liberty Tree Mall. It also has named brand stores, Macy, JcPenny, Victoria Secret, 21Forever, Nordstrom, etc.

I'm not even sure what evidence would even suggest a dying mall. I saw very few spaces that were not open stores. Kiosks everywhere, decent furniture people are actually using, even massage chairs. Lighting seemed a bit dark in spaces but I see that a lot in malls. Looks clean, well-maintained, fairly busy. I would say doing just fine.

Check out The Mall at Fox Run in Newington, New Hampshire. That is more of a dying mall i was there afew weeks ago i guess it has new owners not sure what there plans are if there is any at all but i would take the trip up before any changes occur

Try going to Northshore mall any time from about late October through Christmas and then tell me if it's a "dead mall". The lines at the Gongcha and the pretzel places are long, tons of people everywhere. But on a nice day in July? More people are going to be outside, maybe hitting up Brooksby Farm or something as opposed to the mall. It really depends on when you go. Liberty Tree Mall, about a mile away, on the other hand...that's absolutely a dead mall...

Not even close to dead. I drive by here every day going to work and they're adding more and more all the time to it. You want a dead mall go to Liberty Tree in Danvers.

I remember when it was an open air mall and the construction to close it in.

I remember this was my preferred mall, because it had the good stores like banana republic and apple , uniqlo, coach but like other malls.. The pea-buddy mall is slowly dying. I'm surprised to see rack room shoes still open? Nobody goes in there ..

Not dead at all, always pretty busy! And like others have mentioned there’s a chapel there as well that you need to include next time!

Agree with others on here who have said it looks relatively healthy! Nice mall with a good energy vibe!

I enjoy your mall walk throughs, but I'd like them better if you'd identify the stores, and go in some of the more unique ones (Boston Barkery?). I also would have liked to have seen more of the mini golf.

I was there as a young boy, probably about 7-8 when it was open air. Back then it was Exciting to go to the Mall. Jordan Marsh, Sears, Filenes. Now it’s All Crap.

The mall was enclosed in 1978. I remember as I was 7 years old at the time. Still a very vibrant mall.

From Arizona. I think this is the mall with the healing crystals store as featured in the ASMR videos with that lady Francesca...

the ceilings in the Simon malls are the same all around here: North Shore, South Shore, Square 1, Copley Place etc. the place is actually doing well despite anchor stores closing, far different than its neighbor Liberty Tree and as an FYI: Macy’s parent bought/merged with Filene’s parent causing them to retire the store brand and close stores or do like they did there: rebrand them as Macy’s. Filene’s Basement was spun-off and later sold several years before 2006 so wasn’t affected by the merger/acquisition of Filene’s by Macy’s…it lasted until 2011 when it went under

Peab'dy. Not "Pea Body"

Im from the South Shore. Never been to this mall but it seems pretty decent to me, not really even close to what i would consider a "dead mall." It seems like you are just there in the morning or early afternoon on a business/school day? You ever been to the Solomon Pond Mall in Marlboro, MA? There is a small quiet mall in Auburn, MA that one might consider a "dead mall" and there also a few quiet malls in Lewiston and Auburn ME as well ❤🙏🏽

Fun fact ! When the new wing was being built , I called it the international terminal I worked in construction and built the Swarovski crystal store as part of the expansion . Also there was a guy painting the ceiling and the Forman yelled “ hey ! Put your damn hard hat on “ Worker : “ dude I’m at the ceiling nothing is falling on me “ Forman : “ put it on “ Worker “ if anything I’ll probably fall on you “

I really hate the renovation of the food court. They removed the Taco Bell. The lower level of the mall is typically dead, but the upper level is always busy.

It's doing just fine for now, but it could go south if one of the big dept. stores close shop.

Have you ever visited merle hay mall in des moines iowa?

That mall is quite busy on the weekends. I think it’s in good shape.

Last time I was here, there was some construction happening northeast. If there's construction at a mall, is it considered dead? Northshore Mall wasn't a dead mall when I visited this year and last. About 90% of the shops are on the second floor, which was probably something I wasn't a fan of, but that's not saying I don't like Northshore Mall.

How are you on the fence? Every time I’ve been here I can barely move cause it’s so crowded. Even on Mondays.

I'm a North Shore guy and have been to this mall and the Liberty Tree Mall more times than I can count!

Haven't been to this mall since 2018, but I'm so unreasonably upset the Old Time Hockey store is gone 😅

I would say that mall doesn't look like a dead mall yet unlike the mall near me located in Leominster Mass very sad to see what that one has become haven't been in there since last year but I would say this mall is safe for now :)

it's not as lively as it used to be when I was a kid but seems to be doing decently

This mall is fine. I’ve worked in every mall on the eastern side of Mass, Rhode Island, and parts of New Hampshire and Maine. The company I worked with most recently has a store here and its middle of the road performing, in a good way, dollar wise. Big reason places fail, to me, is people. You get people who truly care, not just taking the company word, but care about their work quality, odds are you’ll do well, regardless of online shopping. In my decades long career this is the case 90% of the time.

When I was in high school Iin the '80s I had a moped, and it was stolen at that mall.

I kind of want to dig in more about how decisions like enclosing (or unenclosing) shopping centers are made. On the surface I feel like enclosing things would almost always increase the traffic, since then there'd be climate control. But who knows...

Do the Walpole mall

Northshore mall is the go to mall in the area since the square one mall is has less name brand stores and the Cambridge side galleria doesn't have much to offer, There's liberty tree but that is def a dead/dying mall, Other then those 3 you really gotta travel a ways to get to a real decent mall like the burlington mall or southshore

What’s the store at 13:05?

Not many people in the halls ....... this place is half dead. I remember the kiddy/funland rides at the west end of the mall ..... some 55 years ago.

looks like the l4d mall map💀

Northshore>Square One>Liberty Tree

This mall is far from dead. Millions of dollars have been pumped into this location over the last several years. I've been going here since the 80s. Lots of changes through the years. There are several separate lower levels but they don't connect. Toys R Us used to be one of the main anchor stores. It was originally just inside the entrance were Macy's women's store is now. The Macy's was built after Toys R Us moved into a standalone building out in the parking lot. It is now a PGA Tour SuperStore. The Sears store was actually located to the right of the legal seafoods restaurant. It extended out into the parking lot where they are currently still doing construction. During the week there is more foot traffic than the other local malls and the weekends can be quite busy. The Christmas shopping season is extremely busy.

I think you'd get more candy from those machines if you turned the knob much slower. The faster you turn it, the fewer pieces of candy you get.

lol this mall is by no means dead. always packed. liberty tree mall on the other hand... dead. even that one gets packed sometimes

best cheesecake factory ever

There are a lot of dead 💀 malls in the USA 🇺🇸 in 2023 because malls are unfortunately going out of business

U hit the wrong one sire lol liberty tree is the dead one

The food court shows this mall isn't even close to being dead. There's a McDonald's, Chik-fil-A, Caffe Nero...all major chains. They aren't going into dying locations. Also, too much construction occurring for a mall that is dying. They are still adding many restaurants.

Go to the malls next door neighbor.

Far from dead.

Pf chang restaurant gone last time there apple store look disappeared move to Wakefield Cambridge galleries less stores now like 20 them they remodeling new food court open ti's fall it going be labs and office building bathroom is behind the food court has move next enter the mall use be store Sq 1 is nothing to shop no more dead

It's looking good this is not a dead mall it's doing really good

No it's not a dead mall not even close.

Don't waste your money on crappy camera glasses

Not a dead mall and you pronounced Peabody incorrectly.

Northshore Mall is still a good mall. It has something for everyone so I don’t think it’s going anywhere anytime soon.