The crimes at Greenpoint Mall calmed down. There is nothing left to steal.

So many dead malls but for some reason the mall in The Woodlands Texas is crazy busy all the time. It’s like back in the 80’s in there everyday. 😂

Greens point shut down basically during the 08 crash. Macy’s was the last big box store and it left that mall around 2012. The movie theater was rebuilt back around 2015 and shut down after the pandemic.

This mall was built in 76, have a lot of memories going here as a kid and teen. They used to have fireworks during the 4th and New Year. It had a Central Park theme with live tress inside which would be decorated with lights during the holidays. There was a fountain with large pipes that filled with water and made music, a statue with a boy on a swing and these tubes kids could play in. The mall was sold and renovated in the late 80s and much of what may it unique was removed. The part of the beginning was a Foley's owned by May Department Stores and became a Macy's in the late 90s. The mall was still cool in the 90s, but the apartments in the area became low income and the area deteriorated rapidly. The area would get bad once the sun went down. It got the name Gunspoint after a female officer was murdered there in the late 80s.

The boarded-up store entrance with the glass awning was originally a Foley’s and later a Macy’s. I grew up frequenting this mall and in the late 70’s and early 80’s it was a major shopping hub in North Houston.

Lived here my whole life and never once even thought about going there.

This is misinformation. Greenpoint closed itself, the reputation scared customers away. I wouldn't say all malls are doomed. This was an older mall that never got modern updates like Willowbrook or memorial city, it just stayed the same like northwest mall. It brought in the wrong customers and scared customers that actually keep the mall open.

Gunspoint Mall. U brave.

Green Point= Gun Point, that was what I was told growing up.

That Movie theater was definitely not a main attraction at that Mall, it was built near the end of the malls life. It was built as a last resort type decision to keep them in business but the theater kinda sucked. The only thing keeping that Mall still alive is that Fitness connection Gym and the Carnivals they have every now and then on the spot where he stood next to that sign.

It’s sad to see this type of stuff spent alot at the mall in my youth. I feel bad that kids these days won’t experience the mall like I did.

That theater was only 10 years old. Opened in 2010, closed due to the Rona.

You be careful! Get the hell out of there. I live in a small town lately I've noticed homeless people hanging outside of a dollar store. I never imagined having to ask for employee assistance to my car

All of those apartments being built will be just as bad as the mall. Gunspoint used to have a HPD unit stationed there because the crime was so bad. This is a very dangerous area to drive around, and to live in that area is totally out of the question.

People slowly stopped shopping there because they were always robbing people in the parking areas. When Exxon relocated their offices, at least six multiple story buildings, away from there to protect their employees and to get lower taxes, the entire area swiftly declined. Many other businesses in the area, not just at the mall, were filing bankruptcy or selling the locations due to lack of customers and the increase in robbery and theft. Grocery stores have also moved to areas with less chance of robbery and theft. Now, even the police storefront has left the mall.

The San Jacinto Mall in Baytown was very nice in the "old days" but was also demolished because it went bankrupt and now used to build "mixed use" commercial residential housing.

The movie theater wasn’t ever really an “attraction” at the mall, it opened in 2011 after they tore down the abandoned JCPenney (Closed since 1998). By the time the movie theater opened, the mall was already far into its downward spiral…

These dead malls videos are some of my favorite KZfaq channels

Very spooky lol. Not sure if its creepier to be at the completely abandoned mall or the nearly empty one. Glad the video's uploaded so we know you made it back safe 😬

Malls need to add restaurants and entertainment attractions. That is something amazon can't stop.

Gunspoint shut down when the city started those section 8 projects near the mall. The crime went through the roof. I knew one of the local restaurant owners over there and they said they had to close because they just got tired of being robbed.

Unbelievable to see. I was born in the Houston Heights in the 1950's and left Houston in 1982. I lived in North and Northwest Houston and went to this mall quite often in the 1970's and early 1980's and over the years I have followed the decline of Greenspoint Mall as well as other businesses around the city. Very sad to see this but it has happened to malls all over the country. What happened from the 1960's through today. Back then there were very few homeless people on the streets and even in Houston it was fairly safe as long as a person minded their own business. Has civilization really declined this much? I would say, yes! Thanks for taking me back to have a recent look.

The loss of anchor tenants like Sears, Penneys, Macys, Dillards and packs of roving "teens" have destroyed the mall in most big cities.

This is not a typical mall failure. Greenspoint crashed and burned beginning in the early 1980s. Here's some history on Greenspoint Mall. The mall was built and the area thrived during the oil and gas boom in the 1970s. Oil and gas companies hired massively. People moved to Houston from the Rust Belt in drives. There was massive housing and apartment construction. Then oil and gas prices crashed. There were massive foreclosures. The area transitioned from middle and upper middle class to lower income working class and plenty of habitually non-employed people. Gang and criminal violence exploded. And customers and merchant disappeared.

Lol yep! There's a reason why we in Houston refer to Greenspoint as "Gunspoint" 😆 You do NOT, and I repeat, you do NOT want to be in that area anywhere after 8pm (or when it gets dark).

Absolutely bonkers! You're brave for going down there my friend.

Lol, you actually went. I haven’t been in such a long time. I usually go to Wllowbrook mall and have seen a lot of places close in the last few months. Those lease renewals are killing them

Yup I advised many people to stay the hell away from Gunspoint area. Started going downhill mid 80's. I lived on Greens Rd back then and like someone flipped a switch it started getting very dangerous so I moved.

😮😮😮 Omg... 🤔 I recall going to this same Mall and the Movie Theater in Travis video while I was attending a conference at TSU - Houston, Texas back in 2006. I recall the mall looking very empty and in need of a major face lift & draw back then too. This is crazy and sad... 😢

In Austin ACC Austin Community College took over most of Northcross Mall. It has been a pretty good utilization of a what would have been desolate failing property.

Ours got torn down and replaced with Amazon distribution center. How ironic is that?

Growing up in the era of malls was awesome. My fave rote was the all you can eat restaurants. These days you could go and have fun all day. Also Christmas time was wonderful with all the decorations. Wards, pennys, Macys, mervyns , sears were the staples. You could buy anything you wanted. We are not in a better place today. We have ruined America in so many ways

Greenspoint Mall died because the gangs that moved into that area destroyed the whole Greenspoint area, most of the people that used to shop there moved away because of all the crime. Then a similar situation happened to Northwest Mall, Northwest Houston turned into Southwest Houston practically overnight!

In Bellevue and Redmond WA, two cities east of Seattle, Euro-style buildings with boutique shops on the ground floor with luxury apartments for lease or condo space for sale.

I regularly went to the JCPenney and macys while i worked at my first jobe nearby. I bought most of my office wardrobe from thier clearance sections while making less than 13 an hour. That being said, there was a really bad storm while I worked there and after that the stores all smelled like mold and mildew around 2016/2017. I think there was a some damage to the mall as a whole, many of the large stores started closing very shortly after. We always parked close, took all valuables in with us and trued to be in and out in 20-30 minutes tops.

Last time I went there was about 2015-2017 or so. It was functional but extremely run down with few name brand stores but one department store was still there where I bought a watch. I passed by the otherday and I was shocked at how run down it was. Sad.

Now, that you showed us the dead mall. Show us the Galleria.

The glass area that stinks like sewage was Foley’s which was bought out by Macy’s. The fitness connection was Sears. I worked my senior year of high school, 1979-1980 at Greenspoint sears. The apartments surrounding it were thrown together and poorly made. That contributed to its decline in my opinion. The area surrounding it got bad due to the shabby apartments that were bringing in people who were let’s say questionable. The people who could afford to live some place nicer did.

I have 2 dead malls in my head. The downside of considering mixed use renovations is both of these malls are now in crappy neighborhoods. One expanded the surrounding parking lot space with a rink of stores and restaurants, and converted part of the mall building into office space. The other mall is being demolished since, I guess it didn’t appeal to anyone to renovate it for anything. I don’t get the push to build expensive apartments. An area I moved away from in ‘21 was building apartments like crazy, but how is a 1 bedroom for $1800 a big plus? Doesn’t really address any housing issues. Just more overpriced “luxury” laminate floored sardine cans.

In San Antonio, Rackspace converted a failed mall into a giant data center and their corporate HQ so it's definitely been something that's been going on for a while. And I'll echo the others...props for having the cajones to go out there (especially the abandoned side) and thankfully you did it during the day at least. I have no idea if you carry...but I, for one, wouldn't be out there without a sidearm.

The problem is that the malls are all REIT owned. If real people owned them, they'd give super low rates to a grocery store, crossfit, orange theory, a couple of bar/restaurants, medical offices, and then start converting places to apartments. There is money to be made on these malls, but it's based on reducing pricing on leases for businesses and eliminating driving.

Fun video. I still remember when it was a fun mall to go to. Greenspoint failed a long time ago. The Woodlands mall being built in mid 90s made it a very unattractive place to go.

Thorough video, Travis. Malls and their parking lots have gotten very dangerous in Houston. Remember what happened in memorial Mall the other day, at 10am in the morning? Be careful, Travis.

Back after they redid the movie theater, it still had chuncks of the original movie theater layout behind it. I knew someone who worked there at the time and we got to explore back there. It was kinda like a catacomb. Too bad that was way before most of us had good camera smartphones.

I used to love this place when I was little. Thirsty’s was bomb 🥲

I remember that mall when I was a kid, another one that is like something out of a scary movie is northwest mall off 290

So sad. I remember when Greenspoint was not even built, when there was just a sign that said "Coming Soon - Greenspoint Mall." It started declining in the early 1980's when they routed bus lines out there and built cheap apartments. The whole area changed overnight to a high crime/bad schools dump. They should probably convert it to a police station or prison, more appropriate for the area now.

It's been like that for a couple of decades, not any recent events. But yes, last time I was there (2002ish) there was a shooting about 10 min after I left. They still hold street carnivals in the parking lot.

How safe will that neighborhood be in several years after the new housing?

I used to live near there when I was little in the late 90's. It was interesting then too. Fights in the streets and random people trying to break into apartments. Not fun.

You cant tell me this is not by design. I live on Long Island and we are a mall capital. Most of our malls are closed and are being being sold. I'm 60 and the end game of it all scares me

We have two malls that are the best North Star Mall, Shops of La Conterra Here in San Antonio, Tx. No sign of slowing down. A steady flow of foreign nationals and really nice resorts and high end Hotels are available. Honorable mention is the River Center Mall with more than 1/2 dozen boutique and 4 star hotels nearby.

Because of it's proximity to Intercontinental Airport, 45 and the Tollway, it would be a perfect location for thriving business's like an Amazon distribution center.

Multi-housing Apt. turns into Crime infested places!

0:30 I went to this Macys during their going out of business sale. The store had beautiful faux French ceiling tiles.

Malls are mostly done, most of the tenants are trapped in their leases just waiting for them to end. Should monitor Simon and Westfield and some other big mall operators.

I went to that mall like 20 years ago....wow ...what a transformation...and it's like right near the airport....what a shame!

I was super excited to hear about the housing being built, but not if its going to be STRs for transient workers or a hotel. Malls thrived when they were centers of community!

They did not repurpose any of the mall building just the parking lot. The apartment complex is built in the parking lot.

I'm a Houstonian. I was there few time before. I took a bus there since I explored the first time.

Damn I remember standing in line, waiting to buy shoes back in 06 and even then, it was ran down

Yeah Houston has transformed in the last 30 years to a typical "big city" wasteland full of undrivable roads, rampant crime, homeless literally being put on busses by Houston authorities to go out to the suburbs due to the growing shanty towns developing under any and all overpasses in the down town area. It breaks my heart that it is becoming the cesspool that it is now.

Nowadays you don't see as many malls around as you use to back in the days before internet & i-phones.

Thank you for an awesome boots on the ground video today. Excellent work as usual. Blessings, Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸

Ah. Guns point mall. Does the carnival still set up there at least?

Bro the cinema was my childhood I used to go and watch the movies there and I still remember the paintings inside

Great video glad to see you got out of there without any. scratches or gunshots.

Remembered I used to love going to their indoor playground but was closed majority of the time and movie theater was nice , sadly it’s all gone … it’s historical

Two reasons malls took flight in the late 60s and early 70s: shoppers were tired of paying parking to downtown traffic meters and garages, and downtowns gained a reputation for being unsafe. Now shoppers are beginning to think malls are unsafe and staying away.

Good work getting out there. I am glad to see Texas city frontier the path of the inevitable.

Brave dude. Even the Houston cops won't go into many of the apartments around there unless they have 2 2-man units. There are functioning malls in the Houston area, but they are mainly the newer or more recently updated malls( note: I could be wrong - I haven't been to my home town in several months). I am also aware of other malls that have pretty much shutdown, so not looking good for retail. This is bad because these mall stores used to employ both teenagers and older adults not ready to quit working. Perhaps we need a 50% tariff on Amazon, Wayfair and other online only shopping sites.

The valley view mall in North Dallas has been closed for about 10yr at least 🎉And looks just like that. AND I AM SO TRIED OF WINNING 🥇

That theatre was actually fairly new! Opened around 2018 to 2019 if i remember correctly. But alas it failed badly and they shut it down quick

I grew up and still live about 3 miles from the mall, I remember when I was a kid in the 2000s when it was still alive and kicking. Only a few stores were closed but soon to be occupied, or so we thought. There used to be a jungle gym my cousins and I would play in. They didn’t add the movie theater until I want to say about 2014? Which is where the jungle gym used to be. That entrance with the broken windows on top used to be a Foley’s, which was a lot like Macy’s, they closed that in 2006 I believe, I vaguely remember going there and then they had an unsuccessful Macy’s, closed within 5 years it did not last. Sears closed in 2012, I believe. What I believe killed this mall is the crime, of course, it started *really* dying after Hurricane Katrina. Despite that Greenspoint was already the hood before Katrina, it got significantly worse and consumers moved over to Deerbrook (northeast Houston, Humble area), Memorial City (west Houston, Memorial City area), Willowbrook (northwest Houston and literally 10 miles away from Greenspoint) which had the LAST location with an open Sears after bankruptcy until COVID was the last nail in the coffin for that location. Willowbrook is still doing pretty well despite it also being in an area where crime is common. I think it’s because they have an Apple Store and they upgraded on the security because god forbid someone steals from Apple. Galleria (west of downtown) is THE mall to go to, that’s where you have the Gucci and Prada stores, Drake has visited numerous times, they have a 5 star hotel, it’s in a rich area that is also not devoid of crime but not as bad as Greenspoint. I believe Greenspoint was supposed to be a lot like Kirby (West of downtown) but with more affordable housing. It’s in a business area, with even a 10-story Hilton hotel right next the mall and numerous multiple-story business buildings. And it was that for a short time in the 90s and early 2000s, but competition started pulling people away and crime only increased, etc. It even had other popular but now gone stores surrounding, what is now a Goodwill used to be a Circuit City. There’s an international food store across that used to be a furniture store called Fingers and I still have a leather couch in good condition from there. Across the Beltway 8 highway, there used to be a Bennigan’s, an Irish pub/restaurant, I remember going every so often with my family. There also used to be I believe a Sears brand tire shop, now just abandoned small building in the parking lot. Anyways, sorry for going on a tangent. This used to be my childhood mall and I felt like I had to say something. I refuse to go inside because it’ll make me cry thinking about how my childhood is pretty much dead. The city pretty much doesn’t know what to do with it since they can’t afford to revamp it or demolish it. Hell, they’re still trying to figure out what to do with the Astrodome. As of today (June 2023), the apartments they’re building are almost finished. They fixed up the streets surrounding the mall, but the parking lot of the mall is VERY BADLY conditioned. Pot holes galore. But every few months, the only attraction is a carnival. I hope they continue fixing up the area.

Yes that is greenstone mall off 45. You started at the main opening of Foleys.

national average 30-year fixed mortgage APR is 7.56% 🤜 💥 😢

I work on the other side of the expressway. I’m originally from Chicago and I always wonder how this place must have been back in the day. I didn’t even know it was clean inside until this video. I just wondered why it wasn’t demolished just based on the outside.

The only mall where someone will steal the tires off your car, then steal your car with no tires, then steal your phone when you try to call the police to report your car was stolen.

This is the best pay off I’ve seen between Law Enforcement Agencies. You do not have the right connection made. I’d like to get a connection made in the D.A.’s office. Any imperfections will be found. They will have to be made perfect. Don’t confess ever. Two and two is not four.

You had your head on a swivel for this one. Gunspoint isn’t safe at all, but I do remember when it was decent.

I live in Harris County. Since the late 80's people have avoided Greenspoint Mall for ONE REASON: CRIME. The locals prey upon shoppers. There's apartment complexes for miles in Greenspoint, and plenty of unemployed criminals live there. A short trip north, The Woodlands Mall, is thriving. They have lots of security, and they don't play around with criminals. Side note: Dearbrook Mall will be the next Greenspoint Mall.

Man i use to fix Hvac on the roof and i was scared to dwarh cuz that roof (which is nuge) had so ,any soft spots. 20-30 ft drop

There are still some full malls. The Woodlands mall always has stores coming in as others go out. Seemed a little empty during 2020 covid but it is back. I too live in Houston and went to this mall and Greens Point (Guns Point) as a kid. The outlet mall in Conroe is also looking a little barren. Really in the Houston area the business parks and highway retail have taken a small to large company business hit. When I go see my sister downtown it is amazing how many vacancies there are.

Ain't no one sticking no one up at Greenspoint anymore. This ain't the 90s lol. It's abandoned and there are no stores outside the Black bookstore inside. You are much more likely to get stuck up and robbed at the Galleria, Baybrook, Memorial City, or Katy Mills mall because they are popular and people have more money who go there.

What type of people are going to rent there if it's that scarry to go to? I see this turning into a low income, drug dealer, crime ridden dump, in 5 years. I hope im wrong.

That mall has been a goner forever! That area is extremely scary! Scary during the day, stay away as soon as the sun goes down!! Wonderful….more cheap apartments to exacerbate the problems!!

It is good when people buy online. Less traffic on the streets, less gasoline spent, less time wasted. It is all good, and the old way of doing business has to end to allow the new. Nothing to see here.

I stood in line and got Jerry Mather's autograph at Greenspoint mall. You know what happened to the Greenspoint area? The City extended the city bus routes out to that area. That was the end of the neighborhood.

I used to work there in the early '80's and it was swanky 😢 plus a great food court.

Grounded boots are good ... same with boots on the ground.

This is like a Halloween horror movie 😂🎃 so brave!!

I was there in the year 2000 and even then it was still a very sketchy place to go.

old big stores that used to exist in these malls just like k marts has disappeared from the areas is gone and so many others like SEARS and Dillard's

Great video, but you can’t go alone into Hood areas… Hire a bodyguard for the day next time you do something like this. 😇🙏

As someone that literally lives right down the street from the mall, the area is not as bad as people make it seem. I mean, it’s Greenspoint, so you gotta make sure you keep your head up and mind your business, but that goes for anywhere, especially these days. Just don’t go out there at night, especially if you ain’t from the area, and you won’t have nothing to worry about.

Physical malls, when properly managed, are ideally better than going to Amazon, you have to see it, touch it, hold it before you make that choice. Test drive your purchase.

It closed last year MAY 2023 The place to be in the 80’s. I read that the mall will be demolished and replaced by apartments. Sad to see people destroying property. Just SAD

Dead malls are like archaeology of your own civilization.

Once the hud moves in that will be the end of the mall only more hud will replace it

Looks to be well maintained and popular