Exploring the Cincinnati Mills Mall - Abandoned Yet Still Open

in this episode we're exploring the cincinnati mills mall it opened in 1988 as the second largest mall in the state has had trouble since the very beginning less than a year after opening the original owner went bankrupt and the mall lost three anchor stores throughout the 90s renovations were made and attracted new stores in the mid-2000s the mall was sold several more times and currently has fewer than five tenants upon arrival we were convinced by the exterior appearance and lack of open stores aside from the two open anchors that the mall was shuttered and abandoned until our surprise someone came out of the front door somehow this mall is still open despite having no real functioning stores leaving it in some weird middle ground between being open for business and abandoned join us as we take a look inside a portion of this video is sponsored by nordvpn take control of your internet experience and get 68 off a two-year plan plus an additional four months for free at nordvpn.com proper people why is this place open there's no stores in the mall open besides like anchors and those aren't even the entrances to the mall are closed for the anchors this fire alarm is going off in bouncy house world here's a directory there's a bunch of just blanked out names on there for stores the anchors want nothing to do with this place they just walled themselves off from the rest of the mall well close their entrances yeah this store has the fire alarms going off or at least just the strobes this is the bouncy house area should we go upstairs yeah cause segway guy was downstairs last we saw him yeah i mean let's see him with the segway mall cop because he's going to tell us as long as we stay in the opposite floor can't say way upstairs yeah we've got to take the elevator and then we have time to go downstairs how old do you think those candies in there are probably not safety years old looks like coals didn't even use the escalator is filthy too these haven't been on no cold didn't even use this upstairs entrance upon entering we noticed there was small security doing rounds while there weren't any signs saying no video allowed based on some previous experience we had we assumed they wouldn't allow us to record if they noticed so we avoided them the best we could just boarded up windows to stores it's so weird you got some people just exercising in here doing some law walking did you just have trash up here did you hear that beep yeah the elevator yeah probably the segway could be we should go downstairs get ready to act casual did you go that way he went that way around the corner i watched him go let's go downstairs because we'll know yeah we'll just always stay on the opposite floor of him he can't stay right downstairs so we'll hear the beep i don't know if this place is actually out of business or what but their smoke detectors are going off i thought she was talking to me check out the roof up there you got your thrills and your chills i thought she was talking to me but she's just talking to herself just in zombies i mean malt walkers thrills and chills that awning up there's all ripped there's trash up there too here's the main atrium gotta avoid segway man it's a waterfall i went with pigs with wings yeah the decor here's kind of strange fountain's all dried up he's going down the elevator just go upstairs he went that way with a food court food court there's people exercising the only store on this list babies are us and that's out of business now too you can see the um siding up there is actually torn off a little bit the exterior of the building and it does look like there's water damage on the interior ceiling as well i want to know how they're paying for electricity and for security there's just a hole in the ceiling and you can see the water damage on the wood floor leaks they can't maintain it why don't they just shut it down like it makes no sense they have to be losing money every day well yeah there's no reason to have this open a pretty big mall too three wings two floors what like four anchor stores maybe more including the movie theater maybe more this area closed ten screen cinema that is not a small one that's a decent size they still got the neon on one of these movie posters down here look at this fish that thing is kind of scary they're all deflating yeah that fish is looking real sad this is so surreal see all the water damage on the wall this is almost better than if it was abandoned yeah because now it's just in this really weird state where you're just like what is something something different yeah still a neon tube here blue it's an alarm look at all this water damage oh my gosh water just dripped right in front of me based on how stripped the lobby looks i bet the theaters are pretty empty too probably been closed for a couple this is what all malls will look like after coronavirus wipes out yeah 90 of the us population post-apocalyptic yeah i know it's like barn deemed over here i got all these animals man i want some auntie anne's we've seen like three abandoned auntie anne's in the past week going into abandoned malls i want some real auntie anne's now there's graffiti all over the kids playground it's all over the playground all those planks have stuff written on them this place is so apocalyptic the movie theater was just called the screens by the time it closed affordable family entertainment so it's probably like one of those theaters that showed the movies that already left the main theaters yeah probably for discounted prices this whole section is walled off barely resembles storefronts anymore this is the most plain boring section of this mall yeah it might have been like the same as this side on that side but for whatever reason they walled it off probably because stores closed forever ago the other security guard is hanging out right at the food court so i don't know if we're gonna be able to film that we can wait to see if he leaves such a beautiful this is so funny like we're literally evading security just to film like with cameras yeah yeah it's pretty chilly in here too they don't have proper racing the air just seems stagnant yeah it definitely feels like stagnant hair it's not blowing but he's probably still standing by the food courts dan bell literally has spy glasses that he films his public information but it is he said it he said it now yeah for exactly this reason this is probably as close as gonna be able to get to the food court because security is literally directly below us this arcade isn't open right now but it looks like it's not out of business clearly but that's the one tenant that's actually in the wall those pinball machines were not lit the first time they walked by them yeah so they're definitely getting ready to open they're the one actual tenant inside the mall maybe that bouncy house place but that place is looking rough i hear him the futile efforts that malls always make to spruce up the place are so funny it's dark over here there's like an electrical buzzing sound over here these lights are shorting out or something where are the lights so dim over here with that that buzzing sound yeah this place is a trip man there's so many wonderful options in this direction there's so many random spots where like you can tell water was dripping under here under the paint let's just go try to film the field part i don't know if we say kick us out we got everything pretty much yeah except the food court and the food courts are really cool yeah i think it's cool it's got the signs and everything and the storefront's still there i feel like we can't leave here without not having that now so we gotta gotta get filmed gotta try i'd i'd walk up there if they're still down there even with their cameras but tell us to leave but we'll have a shot of it i'm just gonna go all right let's go oh no we're hearing the uh arcade is over that's who we're hearing they might not be down here yeah they're not down here i don't know where they went i don't know this food court is pretty cool it's fishing themed maybe not fishing just a general nautical theme you gotta have food court small japanese food every single one it's a necessity brian check out this sign a chili place pizza mexican ice cream subway oh all right this year kohl's announced that this location would relocate in 2021 leaving bass pro shops the arcade and the bounce house center as the only stores left it's amazing that this mall is still open to the public despite the lack of any real open businesses in 2017 the mall was put up for sale but there hasn't been much interest in redevelopment currently the mall is in a strange middle ground between being opened and abandoned and has been this way for years but with yet another anchor store closing its future is uncertain thanks to nordvpn for sponsoring this portion of today's video nordvpn is an easy to use and affordable vpn service with thousands of servers in 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Channel: The Proper People

Views: 645,902

Rating: 4.9330468 out of 5

Keywords: abandoned, urban, exploration, urbex, exploring, haunted, proper, people, theproperpeople, abandoned mall, mall, dan bell, dead mall, dead malls, vaporwave, mallsoft, aesthetic, usa, america, travel, documentary, retail, apocalypse, starcourt mall, starcourt, creepy, decay, security, caught, cincinnati, cincinnati mills mall, ohio, Forest Fair Village, Forest Fair Mall

Id: 3sPQcSBMVFc

Length: 19min 50sec (1190 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 28 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/BroadwayCatDad]

This video made me appreciate the REAL dead mall videos that actually take the time to research the place and are able to give some background on where they are exploring.

[u/mostlyjoe]

I love new Mills walk thoughs.

[u/Maklarr4000]

I rather wish they would have gotten a closer look at some of the stores, especially with the nice cameras they've got. Oh well.

[u/confusedmoon2002]

I've never been to this mall, but having spent many of my teenage years at another Mills property (St. Louis) I recognized the interior instantly. Super fun and unique design. Sad to see that many of these properties never found real success.

[u/lxtar_]

I want to go there so bad, but I don’t see it happening.

[u/jennykathrine13]

Love these guys. This mall is so colorful. You know when it was bumpin it was fun and lots of memories were made. Now just old people come in to walk and it’s falling apart :/