This is our walkthrough of the Fairlane Village Mall just outside Pottsville, PA from September 13, 2020. This is a dying mall that sits in the shadow of two other failed malls in the area. Down the road is the Cressona Mall, which has been demalled to the point of only a small central hallway remaining. Further down the road you come across the industrial warehouse that sits on the land once known as the infamous Schuylkill Mall, now demolished. Fairlane Village Mall has already been partially demalled also, with an anchor, Dunham's Sports, dropped in the center of the mall concourse. The other side of the anchor is an empty space with a former movie theater, now closed, and a Asian restaurant that is slated to be relocating to the former Wells Fargo spot across from Boscov's and Super Shoes. The spot where Dunham's is on this side is just an unfinished wall of sheetrock, all exposed and roped off. The owner of the property announced plans back in March 2020 of a big national chain retailer that will take over that whole wing but obviously the health emergency put the brakes on those plans.


Songs used in this video (in order):

Alan Hawkshaw - Sundown
Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw - Getting It Together
David Marriott, Jr. - On the Seventh Day
Steve Gray - Wonder Groove
Steve Gray - Reach Out


Here is a link to the Wikipedia page:

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And a link to an entry on the Mall Hall of Fame blog from 2010:

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as well as an updated entry from 2018 from the same site

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Here are the plans from the developer about big changes in the future:

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I'd like to say a few words about being an ambassador to your local malls. We have been taking the time to visit all the malls within a reasonable driving distance to check up on them and see how they are doing. Also filming an updated video every year or so, regardless of the lack of many changes, just so there is a video record of the health over time. We think this is an important thing to keep tabs on, especially in these wildly turbulent times. The current health emergency has accelerated the impending Retail Apocalypse we've all been talking about these last several years. This was already a big problem, but the shutdowns and restrictions have made the issue 5x worse and likely hastened the death of the enclosed shopping mall.

I know we've all been on pins and needles wondering how bad the fallout is going to be from all of this.

There really is no way to know exactly unless we ALL go and do our small part to make it known how it turns out. I implore you, if you have the means to pick an area you would like to be an ambassador for, and go document your local malls. Whatever your medium, it doesn't matter, any and all documentation is necessary and vital in this day and age. Whether it be on Social Media, Flickr, Youtube, any platform gets it out there and preserves it for posterity. We can't paint this picture unless we all grab a brush...


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