North Dekalb Mall (Abandoned

North Dekalb Mall (Abandoned | Documentary)

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Nestled in the heart of Decatur, Georgia, stands a monument to the changing landscape of retail in America. Welcome to North DeKalb Mall, a place where memories are woven into the fabric of time, and where the echoes of bustling shoppers once filled its corridors.
Aside from being one of the first enclosed malls in the Metro Atlanta area, this shopping mall has seen its share of ups and downs along with many redevelopment attempts.
Today we will be going over the Fascinating History of North Dekalb Mall.
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Beginning
3:27 - Expansion
4:27 - Store Changes
7:22 - New Ownership
8:31 - More Store Changes
9:21 - New Owner
10:22 - Redevelopment Plans
12:15 - Closure
13:33 - Filming Destinations
14:15 - Today
16:47 - Outro
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Public Meeting: • North DeKalb Mall meeting
Rich's Commercial: • Rich's-Macy's
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Lulah Hlls Website: edens.com/property/lulah-hills/
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@kima8670 3 ай бұрын

I lived on both N. Druid Hills Rd and Clairmont Rd in the 80s and have been here many times back when it was really nice. Man, do I miss Rich's...no department store can ever compare!

@wesleybarton3871 23 күн бұрын

Part of Clairmont considered part of Virginia Highlands was a nice area to live. I left in 1996 so i bet it's gone downhill now

@jaywestbrook2169 18 күн бұрын

It's being demolished today

@rushionsapp9858 11 күн бұрын

I feel ya

@Linda-gr8lt 10 күн бұрын

It’s called macys!

@wesleybarton3871 10 күн бұрын

@@kima8670 I remember the Christmas tree lighting Rich's had every year.

@bookerlo1977 Ай бұрын

Damn. So many memories in that place.

@undergroundretail Ай бұрын

Same here 🤟🏾

@dashasmith30 Ай бұрын

Wow! this was so nostalgic, I loved shopping at N. Dekalb. It was always quiet, I could get in and out and they had nice clean stores.

@undergroundretail Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! What a time to be alive back then for sure

@triciabramblett1409 3 ай бұрын

I grew up hanging out at this mall through the major renovation and then working at it for several years in the late 80’s and early 90’s. It was a great place to be. This video makes me so sad. ❤

@jatall2797 23 күн бұрын

Man, my elementary school chorus would sing Christmas Carols every year at night as an annual field trip! I remember being such an excited second, third, fourth grader etc. Children love Christmas.., and it would be so exciting to dress up and sing for everyone! My mom always took me every year, such sweet memories! I was in elementary school from ‘74-‘81. Been shopping there up until the end, I still go to that Marshalls sometimes, stayed at that Burlingtons until it closed, still go to that AMC every now and then. I live in the Lavista/Druid Hills area.. 55 now.. God has kept me.., God is Good.., great memories :-)…….

@undergroundretail 23 күн бұрын

That is an amazing story. It’s awesome you stayed loyal to the shopping center your whole entire life 😃

@nae2987 3 ай бұрын

I love it! I tell my kids all the time about my fond memories at this mall! Many first were had at this mall!

@PostMortar 3 ай бұрын

Quite the operation. Wow.

@donnap1208 3 ай бұрын

Great video!! Loved hearing the full history. Would have loved to have seen it in the early days!! I started going to North Dekalb @ 2000. I love older malls so really enjoyed shopping there. Liked the old school Macy's that had the most amazing staff. Sorry to see the condition it is in now. So many of their stores closed nationwide (Pharmor, Uptons, Lechmere, Rhodes). That made it really difficult. I loved this mall and shopped there up until Macy's closed. Still miss it.

@pastersnacks 2 ай бұрын

Im a student at a nearby university and so many students still go to the AMC 16 at the North Dekalb Mall even though the rest of the mall is falling into disrepair and abandoned

@blissauras 16 күн бұрын

So great to read everyone’s stories - I lived near by and later my kids too… best arcade growing up, I saw Rush Hour 1 and 2 and Money Talks at that AMC theater, so many dates and run in with friends from school, even after high school.... Saw all those stores come and go, great memories with my mom, family and kids… it was the best place to go shop without the big crowds… Good times good times; boy o boy I miss the old Atlanta! Thanks for the accurate story time. That was the best Marshalls to get stuff at so many summer fits came outta there!

@hank5747 9 күн бұрын

Loved going here as a kid! I liked seeing the hamsters in Woolworth and my mom would let me hang out at challenges. Finish it off with either chick fil a or potato bread from the food court

@EthanCrossMedia 2 ай бұрын

Wow, as a Loud House fan, I’m familiar with this place used for the filming location of A Loud House Christmas (a pilot to the then upcoming live-action TV series based on the cartoon, A Really Loud House).

@EthanCrossMedia 23 күн бұрын

The Really Loud House I mean, the actual title based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon, The Loud House. Now the series is filmed in Albuquerque, NM instead of Atlanta for the Christmas TV movie.

@scpatl4now 13 күн бұрын

FYI, they began demolition of the mall on June 26th Marshall's and the AMC will be all that remains. The rest is being torn down as I am writing this.

@paigeallen6918 3 ай бұрын

I do not live near this mall!!! But if I did live near it I would shop in this mall when it first opened up!!! It looked like a nice place to shop at!!! I feel sorry for all the workers that worked at the mall!!! I hope they found another job to work at!!!❤

@LatitudeSky Ай бұрын

Used to haunt that mall in the early 90s. One of the original prototype DollarTree stores opened in that mall. And it had a PharMor. Really miss that chain.

@JulietteAHawk 15 күн бұрын

Enjoyed the history. Thanks.

@dem20233 3 ай бұрын

My whole family shopped at this mall for years. Rich's, Friedman's Jewelers, and Upton's were my mother's go to store. My father and myself had our stores. Woolworth's, Challenges arcade/comic book store, sometimes K-B toys, Burlington Coat Factory for my church clothes, and AMC Theatres 16 . Soon as my mother died in 2002, then Upton's and Macy's closed its doors and my father passed in 2018. Then the mall started dying slowly. I wish the mall didn't have to come to the end. I'm not sure how this Lulah Hills will turn out. In God's will if I live around in the year of 2028 to see it happen.

@lord.d1_ Ай бұрын

My favorite pair of glasses were there, until at one point, some guy ran into them and broke them all. He was being chased down into the food court, where a huge karate beat down occurred there.

@undergroundretail Ай бұрын

Oh My! What year was this?

@lord.d1_ Ай бұрын

@@undergroundretail I assume you never watched Cobra Kai before

@mx0x0 21 күн бұрын

Loved going to AMC and then Applebees after. Could hardly find a parking spot. Would grab lunch in the food court random days later on and loved the huge Burlington. Will miss it.

@undergroundretail 18 күн бұрын

I enjoyed going to the AMC and ticket prices was always affordable! I never made it to the Applebees, but have had my share of eating in the Food Court.

@JulietteAHawk 15 күн бұрын

My Bridesmaid luncheon was at Rich’s in 1967. I took my children there. Much of my furniture was bought there and there’s no way to count how many times we ate at the restaurants and in the food court. It was sad to see it decline.

@shampooh8r 3 ай бұрын

We used to have two malls in Corpus Christ, TX. One is La Palmera, which used to be called Padre Staples, and it's still thriving, we even have a Dave and Busters and a Cheesecake Factory built in it. The other right across it was Sunrise Mall that was popular in the 80s since it was used in the movie "The Legend of Billie Jean", sadly Sunrise Mall closed down in 2013. You can find some videos about people exploring it on KZfaq.

@OutlawJJ80 18 күн бұрын

Needed more DEKA!

@sabishiihito Ай бұрын

I used to love coming here to Challenges arcade, which I later found out was a Capcom test site and would get the latest 2D fighters pretty early in the 90s.

@maleahthompson6412 Ай бұрын

I used to work in Kids Footlocker there. Literally helped put the fixtures on the walls in the early 2000's. They also had our high-school cheerleaders pictures hanging up in the Applebee's. That mall used to be the hangout spot back then. 😢

@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy 6 күн бұрын

DHHS?! 😊

@davidcouch6514 14 күн бұрын

The Rich’s building looks identical to Rich’s at Greenbriar; there were five floors but only three were utilized. The areas around each mall went to hell.

@hurtspublishing3906 2 ай бұрын

Man i go to north DeKalb mall once month. The cheapest theatre in atl. You can get a ticket for $8. I hope whoever osns ot now they mordernize it. I like the old school feel to it. Maybe they need to lower the rent to get more stores in it. Bit its a pretty mall

@undergroundretail Ай бұрын

They probably will make it a Dine in AMC with high prices someone recently told me.

@PurplePuppy2006 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for doing a history on this mall… this is one of my childhood malls in the 2010s I still remember when the Macys and Burlington Coat Factory were still open… however as I’m glad that others are trying to turn this place around I’m actually really worried about Lulah Hills traffic in Dekalb county will be so bad!!! Also the name Lulah Hills sucks I don’t like it honestly… I think this project is gonna have major problems when it finally comes around… otherwise great video. You know you should do a history video explaining every Georgia Mall including thriving ones too List of the enclosed shopping malls in Atlanta Georgia from 1959 - 2001 Perimeter Mall (1971) Northlake Mall (1971) North Point Mall (1993) Augusta Mall (1978) Arbor Place (1999) Southlake Mall (1976) Lenox Square (1959) Phipps Plaza (1969) Town Center At Cobb (1986) Mall Of Georgia (1999) Mall At Stonecrest (2001) Sugarloaf Mills (2001) Savanna Mall (1990) Olglethorpe Mall (1969) Galleria At South Dekalb (1968) Valdosta Mall (1973)

@mybigfatpolishlife Ай бұрын

I don't think the Valdosta mall is in atlanta

@zenoslayer9618 3 ай бұрын

1967,68 69 my dad owned a enco gas station on n. Druid hills and a entrance street to the mall. Dekalb was dry county then. Later 80s and 90s I would stop at chick filet for lunch there.

@mx0x0 21 күн бұрын

Traffic in ATLANTA is horrendous!! Not just one area of town. Kills me that one area of town feels they should be exempt over another without contributing to some sort of alternative mass transit option to substitute. Just pushing the problem to other areas of metro. Where do they think the cars go? But hey, not in "my neighborhood".

@undergroundretail 18 күн бұрын

Agreed! I rather it be a Shopping Center and not just more apartments with little to no retail options.

@jeffcook6457 6 күн бұрын

Dang, I forgot about RICH'S 🤯!

@normandy25houz Ай бұрын

Lulah Hills? What an odd name.

@undergroundretail Ай бұрын

Agreed!

@mx0x0 21 күн бұрын

Omg..like a retiree home! Also want to change an unincoprated part of Dekalb to Lavista hills.

@jrussellcase 3 ай бұрын

I'd bet whoever built this mall also built the old Big Town Mall in Mesquite TX. The architecture looks the same, it looks like they even used the same floor tile and that same pattern. It was built in 1959 as well. Sadly, Big Town is no more.

@RemixUSA 15 күн бұрын

They are demolishing it now, the old Burlington is completely gone now.

@mrfingerlakes8735 Ай бұрын

What a shame and if they haven’t started demolishing the property bye now it’s never gonna happen

@undergroundretail Ай бұрын

June 26 is the projected date decaturish.com/2024/06/demolition-day-set-for-north-dekalb-mall-setting-stage-for-lulah-hills/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2y0ELWw8ztPLf9vCLn3dnlHODmCcgMYbPe6XQp2sz-_3hEZtCUOLuiKFc_aem_AdnE3Akao6jMAdEAwOigGRe_TszAz-aFe3QqI-VZzsGqm8EdUt0kgNL3CV393A8XDKf7bR7ABZhiRfXe6L8xuGjH

@codybrandoncargle3129 3 ай бұрын

Honestly if the area didn’t go to hell: North Dekalb Mall like Cobb Center to Smyrna, Georgia could have been enclosed if better well kept it could have landed more than Macy’s: It could have attracted Dillard’s, Belk, Jcpenney’s in it’s prime, Kohl’s could have picked up this mall instead of the failed locations, and idk what the income was like for this area prior to now, it could have opened upscale stores such as: a third Bloomingdales, a forth Nordstrom’s could have also opened, a second Neiman Marcus, a second Saks Fifth Avenue, a fourth Von Maur to name a few and those malls could have been 2 to 3 stories, I used to live near Arbor Place Mall, Town Center at Cobb, and Cumberland Mall at one time, and 2 of those malls have also seen better days, now I live now near the abandoned Panama City Mall in the exact same situation as North Dekalb and Cobb Center, only difference Dillard’s and Jcpenney’s are still open, but again like Pier Park and Governor’s Square out of Tallahassee, they could have attracted Burdine’s that became Macy’s and like if the income in my area was higher like it is in the Florida Peninsula those same upscale stores I mentioned, a lot of mistakes with those stores, I am honestly more amazed that Mervyn’s at North Dekalb didn’t become Jcpenney’s or Parisians, shockingly enough I guess they thought the area went to hell already which sadly it did, but anyways the new development planning to replace it sounds good on paper but in long term it will just be like Atlantic Station no good! 😅

@deanquinto3207 18 күн бұрын

That mall and that area of Atlanta is ghetto. Costco dodged a bullet by not opening a location there. The lulah hills place will also be a flop. There is no saving that area.

@scpatl4now 13 күн бұрын

That area isn't that bad at all. I think you have it confused with somewhere else.

@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy 6 күн бұрын

It's about to become Atlantic Station part 2.

@marcuspatton3921 4 күн бұрын

It is not "in the heart of Decatur, Georgia."

@undergroundretail 6 сағат бұрын

Maybe the “Kidney” or the “Lungs” of Georgia 🙃

@JulietteAHawk 15 күн бұрын

The new plans sound nice, but the name does not reflect anything about DeKalb county. It is not at all appealing. There’s a farm community in Hall County named Lula. The name Lulah looks as if the person who thought it up wanted it to sound like a country bumpkin who doesn’t know how to spell, or it’s named for one of the developer’s family members. At least that wouldn’t sound made up.