Thank you so much for posting this video. I'm 33 now and grew up going to this mall pretty much every weekend. And if there was ever a song to put to those pictures that would be it. It gave me chills to hear that music while looking at those pictures. So many memories good and bad. I sure hope when we die we get to visit old places because i would damn sure be hanging out in this mall again. RIP Bannister Mall.
Do you know what kind of elevators were at this mall? I am guessing Westinghouse because Westinghouse elevators were really popular in the early 80's.
im 20 now but i remember my mom taking me and a bunch of my little cousins to bannister when the robotic dinosaurs were there...man this takes me back to memory lane :.(
Mall owners were bullies though, telling store how long they had to stay open, increasing rent beyond reasonable, too greedy and now lots of empty and abandoned space. Paper shuffling short term thinking commercial real estate thinking. Many mall owners were their own worst enemies, but that happens a lot in many different industries, the hard lessons eventually crop up. Good posting/video, thanks!
Malls had a huge impact on the old main street shops. They were good for part time jobs, places to hang out for all ages, not just kids. They seemed like the answer in the 1970s to the 1990s. Seemed like direct store entry strip malls were becoming popular, but they are not doing so well. Many new ones have long term empty slots Now online shopping has hurt many of these, but you don't get the employment opportunities that brick and mortar retail stores give. Too lean and selective for jobs
This was such a beautiful mall. It held the dubious destintion as being Americas largest mall when built. (for a short time) Unfortunately, Developers built it in a "not so great" part of Kansas City. I recall news snippets from the early 90's about a string of parking lot muggings and other crimes that brought the mall to its knees, Also, there was the "ethnic demograph" that took its toll as well. No one wants to visit a mall that is populated with thugs and gangsta wannabes loitering about.
that made me so mad that they tore down Bannister, they didn't even try to save it. It was a good mall. What really made me mad was that they decided not to build the soccer stadium there.
We had a beautiful mall in our area called Eastland Mall. It was built in the early 1970s, It had three levels and a huge ice skating rink in the middle of the bottom level, But in the 1990s, The ghetto moved into the area, crime and prostiution started. They closed the ice skating rink. All the anchor stores moved out, and all that was left were stores for Blacks and Mexicans, They completely shut the mall in 2010, But they still want to reopen and turn it into a Mexican shopping center
Too bad as it was a beautiful mall! I love the architecture and enterior especially! I wish that they could keep these malls up with the original design like the 1970's and 1960's to appreciate the design. I would buy sucha mall as the classic design is wonderful! Maybe make it into condminiums to doctor offices & lawyer offices. It is really too bad as it is beautiful out side as well as the inside is classic design of the past!
I used to go to this mall all the time, (having attended high schjool in the early 80's) and the entire Hickman Mills area was doing quite well. Just North of the mall was a Toys R Us, Wards, Best Buy, a few strip mall type shops and a Super Hypermart, (think Wal-Mart on steroids) 95% of all of that is gone or out of business. I think Burlington Coat Factory is the only thing thriving in that area now. I miss that mall becuase it had everything in it. You could spend the whole day there.
This is what happens when section 8 lets lowlife black people infest a decent neighborhood. This used to be a thriving area of suburban commerce. There was another large lucrative strip mall across the street. now the whole area looks like a bombed out war zone and you would be taking your life into your hands to walk outside at night
its sad to see nice malls close down.it seems like the 70's were hoping with malls being built.cuz alot near me were built in the early 70's a few years before i was born.some are closed now.those plants r beautiful i hope someone can take them home or transfer to another building or office and care for them.it would be a shame for them to die:(
I was on my way to visiting family around spring of 05. Being from Michigan I had only heard of this mall. We decided to stop by and I kid you not there were about a dozen cars in the parking lot and I think they were all emplyees. This was in the middle of the afternoon. We decided to walk through the mall but were turned away soon after when we were approached by 3 or 4 homeless people asking for money. One of them got really upset when we told him no. Its no surprise this closed.
So how does one get into a dead mall after it completely dies? That mall looked cool. I know those that live near that mall wishes it didn't die. I was upset when a fave mall died called Harundale Mall in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
It was a delight to watch this tour of the Bannister Mall prior to demolition. I was able to tape such a tour at the Lansing Civic center. Two Video Suggestions: 1: snack bar oddity AND 2: weird drive in moment
@MissMaddy881 It wasn't in a bad area when it originated. It was the environment of the people who surrounded the mall. Kansas City could've easily saved this mall by opening that South Branch of the KCPD down the street sooner. It was a lovely mall, I have millions of memories and there were none greater than going shopping on the weekends and seeing that big Bannister Mall sign in yellow letters. It was beautiful. So sad when I came back for its final days, but it will always live on in spirit
@indyfan22k other more popular malls with flocking crowds to those malls destroyed this one i would say. also crime and corruption in the Bannister area was bad, so it lead to big losses in businesses. Currently there is nothing built there, there were plans for a soccer stadium but that was postponed i also hear there are plans now for a complex that will contain commercial and residential occupants all in one structure. Sort of like loft apartments above the commercial/retail offices.
@Archmetal06 I gotta agree with MissMaddy, that looked like it was a very pretty mall.
Anyway, here's an update from Wikipedia.
In December 2009, the Kansas City Wizards, who had previously planned to build a new stadium on the site, finalized plans to build their stadium in Kansas instead. Lane4 Property Group, Inc. stated that they will continue development of the Bannister Mall site, but as a retail and office project.[4]
HOW could they possibly destroy such a beautiful work of art as these malls???! Everytime I see a mall destroyed that retains such retro design or see these new (redone) malls with white and silver and everything is white or cream.. it drives me crazy! Why can't we retain some of the 70s designs.. with orange, brown and red like we used to remember?? This decade has no design trademarks to remember. These malls need to be saved!
@sitka77 People have complained since the beginning of malls that there are too many and that they killed the beautiful "down towns" of most cities. Malls are just places of business and business changes (or dies). It's the cycle of, well, business.
I lived in KC in the late 80's. I remember going to Banister. One thing I do not miss about KC or St. Louis is the racism. I have lived in Arkansas for 20 years now and you hardly ever hear such blatant racist remarks. Can't say all things are equal down here between all people, but I can say that the upper Midwest is shockingly racist. Maybe that is why the Northern States are continually losing population and jobs while the Southern States are prospering.
@scottieray that's interesting. KC is very diverse now. The only area which would be Johnson County, the people of Johnson County have median or above incomes , stuck up and white. Some probably moved from the Missouri side which has more black to the kansas side for that reason. I do believe that. It does not necessarily make them racist though. They probably just feel more comfortable being around people of their own race. I'm sure blacks feel the same way.
@Archmetal06 I was born and raised in Missouri and still have a lot of family in Sikeston, Cape Girardeau, and St. Louis. Still, compared to living down South, there are some very racist parts of Missouri. I moved to Joplin a few years back after almost decade of living down South and was shocked to hear "nigger" used so often. You just don't here it down here much believe it or not. Just some of the comments on here brought back memories of how some people don't want to live with others.
@Archmetal06 Agreed and another reason why their may be more concentrated in Johnson County may be because many of the Whites probably just got tired of being harassed, robbed and beaten as well. They are funny that way sometimes.
@Archmetal06 I don't care if they are purple with blue polka dots, but we all know what happens with the "white flight" and what happens afterward. The thug and gang element, who loiter around the malls and don't spend money, is what scares away the money and kills the malls; and I'm sorry, but the color of one's skin is a poor excuse to dictate one's behavior, no matter what the color is or the said behavior.
Yes, I realize there is a deeper problem here to solve, but personally, I'm sick and tired of having to watch society "devolve" to where we have to go back to shopping in unenclosed malls, subject to the whims of the weather, to discourage this loitering of the thugs and the gangs. I'm also tired of no one having the guts to stand up and mention the elephant in the room!
@scottieray Yea, I know what you mean... I myself were on the receiving end of racist comments and intimidation and I got off light. Whites by the hundred's through the years were shoved, called names, while more were beaten and shot at while visiting Bannister Mall. Many reports of white old ladies being knocked down and their purses taken by young Black kids. Yes, you're right. a White at Bannister mall in the mid to late 90's were the main prey. The stories would fill pages on here.
@scottieray This used to be a thriving area of suburban commerce. There was another large lucrative strip mall across the street. now the whole area looks like a bombed out war zone and you would be taking your life into your hands to walk outside at night. guess what changed
@scottieray Northern states (well some) are losing population because of job migration and they are more expensive to live in. It has nothing to do with Racism. Actually I felt that the South was way more racist than the North after living there for many years. You live in Arkansas, a prime example. I now live in the midwest now and don't see the shockingly racist label you cast upon it.
so this mall was torn down to build a soccer stadium...yeeeeaaaahhhhh! let it all be for the sake of the most beautiful and passionate sport in the world! as in the rest of the world soccer should be the number 1 sport in the U.S.
@GODsoccersk8football that was the original plan but the soccer complex was postponed and plans were to build the complex elsewhere. So tearing down this mall was a complete waste.
@Archmetal06 So I've read. I really don't understand why they didn't try to atleast push a big name store like a Best Buy, Bed Bath and Beyond, Ross or hell even a Old Navy in as anchor stores as a last gasp instead just leveling it for nothing. We had a incident here in Houston, Texas has that same feel to it. Astroworld was leveled back in 2005 and still remains a large vacant lot with absolutely no plan/future for it. Hopefully that doesn't happen to the former Bannister Mall site.
@W0lfB0y1981 from what i hear there were plans to build a soccer stadium on the former Bannister mall site but plans were postponed. They chose a different plot of land instead. So a waste of money on destruction and a waste on the investment of the property it is.
@W0lfB0y1981 lol, man i remember going to astro world, i was shocked when i found out they tore it down, do u know why they even tore it down. i remember going there, and it seemed packed all the time.
@13svincent Yeah, Astroworld was leveled due in part to Six Flag's being so deep in the red at the time. From what I read they wanted to level the area and sell the property for somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 million. The deal fell through was eventually sold for a fraction of the price (I think about 125 million). With Bannister Mall I don't understand why they didn't convert it into a office building or call centers like they have done here in San Antonio O_o
@W0lfB0y1981 you know im starting to think, that all the child hood things we all love, are becoming a thing of the past. like u hardly see arcades anymore, or slot car shops and also privately owned go cart track, unless u go to a big commecialized fun center.
@13svincent you have no idea man.. I'm glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's where we had some of the coolest places including these malls to hangout and socialize. I miss the good old days. Shit, alot of the fun stuff here in San Antonio are gone. Malibu Grand Prix was leveled, all the arcades are closed except for one, a amazing fun center closed and turned into a church and they are letting the place fall apart. I even miss Discovery Zone & Chuck E Cheese in its heyday lol
@W0lfB0y1981 lol thats funny, bc i live in austin texas. you know what even the bowlign alleys have gone to shit. and foreget about Skating rings anymore, b/c i know none in austin anymore. the arcade that was at the mall i used to hangout is now apart of the movie theater, they built new show rooms there.
yes right where this Negros go they make business stop ,economy ruined ,they r ill they bring poverty to the community where they go how can i stop them thet r entring our country from Nigeria , please help i am from india
Too bad, such beautiful architecture of the past should be preserved. I love the styles of these old malls of the past! Go visit the Galleria Mall in Houston, Texas as you will be totally amazed with the designs inside!
This is very sad to watch. What a beautiful mall! The wood accents are very nice. You don't see malls like this built anymore. I live in Canada and most of the malls here were built in the mid 80's but have been completely renovated, so all the charm that existed with the late 70's and the 80's architecture has been lost. If I had the money, I'd have a huge shopping mall built with the architecture and decor seen in the mall in this video. I need to visit the USA again to visit these malls.
Oh my god is there really a need to keep dropping N-bombs over a mall that is gone.Oh and so you know, white people have channles on TV is called everything else
To the idiots who say blacks destroyed the mall. Think about it you racist pieces of shits, Oak Park mall, Independence Center are the reasons malls like Bannister, Blue Ridge fail. These malls were designed a lot better and had more space at a lower cost including areas were the tax rate was cheap (at the time). During the construction of Indep. Center - Blue Ridge suffered. During the construction Oak Park, Bannister Suffered. Get a clue you closet internet racist.
My name is Jerry and I worked security at the bannister mall in the mid 80's after retiring from the KC police department. I was there and saw the trouble the blacks caused the mall. It got so bad with the blacks hanging out we hired extra security. The blacks (niggers) destroyed the mall. We personally escorted folks all day and night to their car in fear of the pack of blacks always standing around. Too bad they didn't have jobs and enjoyed tormenting others.
Only black folks use the word "racist". Hell you folks have your own TV channel, BET. What would happen if the white folks started "WET" White Entertainment Television? Again you black folks would scream "racist". It never ends with you folks. In city development and management leaders are aware..... "where blacks go nothing grows". Go eat some fried chicken......
@kcgrandpa5 yea and you are obviously the one making racist remarks here.... get the fuck off this page you old imbred racist redneck piece of shit. People like you need to be shot. Folks.....folks....folks.....folks..... fucking redneck trailor trash.
@kcgrandpa5 What a great point about BET. If there was a White Entertainment Television there would be an UPROAR from not only the black community but from every immigrant, every ethnicity, even some misguided white people. Never thought about it like that till you posted this. WET. Funny!!
The city dangled The Bass Pro Shop in front of us like a bunch of starving dogs. The had/have no intention of revitalizing this area. It's all about money.
Whats up with the Black people in Topeka, Kansas? According to the news there were 10 shootings last weekend..... All Black folks according to my Topeka source.
@jakesdoc first of all jakescock, you need to get out of that trailor of yours and stop fucking your sister, and maybe buy a hooker or something, also get an education, and reading cereal boxes doesnt count, get out in the real world and open up your mind, and then maybe you wont have so much racism built up in you in , and you have no one else to blame other than pieces of redneck white trailor trash like your self for the destruction of this mall.
@jakesdoc Tell, me about. Some nigs moved in across the hall in my aptartment. They leave trash everywhere, on my rug. Cops have been out numerous times. They are always home, obviously on welfare and do drugs. Fuckin niggers. I a moving out this August. me=white flight!
Whats incredilble to me also is right next to Bannister was a Best Buy, I think a Toys R Us, and Hyper-Mart(huge Wal-Mart) they are all gone as well. Last time I was in the area the only thing still open was a McDonalds.
The news, people in general, do everything they can not to offend people. The reason Bannister shut down was due to all the blacks. The scared the whites outta their. Same with Blue Ridge and Indian Springs. It's may be just a matter of time before they open some club around Power&Light playing that tribal jigga-boo shit and Power and Light becomes a gangland.
That statement sounds a bit racist. True that the mall was vandalized and gangs hung around the area and just the over all corruption and loss of business took over the mall. Not all just black. Really i believe the dilemma had to do with people moving farther south and west into Kansas and gave up on the east side of town. Power and Light sucks anyway.... i could care less if that place fails it's nothing but a shopping mall of bars and is just overcrowded with middle aged drunks.
@Archmetal06 The power and light people are trying all they can to stop blacks from ruining their money making machine.
No shit, I cant even drink a beer down there because I choose to wear a longer sized t-shirt...
But I understand where they are coming from...Blacks are simply overall bad for business.I think blacks are just fine, most of them need to learn to have a little class is all. If there were a such thing as a 'classless society', it would definately be driven by black people.
@Dmann816 that's not true at all man. I was down at the Flying Saucer Bar not long ago, they have really nice staff working there. Also there was this really nice Jamaican man that sat down next to me and a friend , we got along really well my friend bought him a couple of drinks too. This was during the day. It was just a really nice atmosphere and we had a great time talking about different things. There is no need at all to stereotype and say "blacks are bad for business"
@Archmetal06 Right, come to Atlanta and test that theory. Blacks as a whole are a violent degenerate race that destroy everything they touch. Name one area where blacks come into that flourishes, you wont find one.
You have put it mildly and still managed to offend someone.You are absolutly right though,nigs ruined this part of town.I grew up in Ruskin just to the south of here and we packed up our shit in 93 and moved because of shootings,car chases etc.. related to the "Africanization" of Ruskin Heights.
How true. Indian Springs was overrun by the niggers in the early 80's. Quit going there out of fear. Then they got hold of Bannister. Too bad, Bannister was a great place.
Luckily, I have literally scoured the Web for info and have found pretty much all there is to find. (Except a newscast of the demolition, but I will never be able to find/buy that.) I made a tribute to it on my old channel, LaddyDongdegs.
The Indian Springs Mall was the first enclosed shopping mall in KC. It is still standing,but is slated for demolition. The Mission Mall is now gone, the deal for redevelopment fell through and is a vacant lot, like the Bannister Mall. The new Merriam Ks mall is mostly vacant. New strip malls behind the Merriam Town Center Mall are vacant. Johnson Co. Ks has so many malls and shopping districts, I don't see how they all stay in business.
@maynardcat i thought Ward Parkway was the first enclosed mall in Kansas City. It opened up in 1959. Since 2000 the mall has gone down in business due to the demolition of half of the mall... pretty stupid. Bannister mall.... i never really did shop at. Metcalf South has been "dead" for many years but just recently there are junky purse and jewerly stores taged as a wholesale gift mart... and those stores are not open to the public stupid again.. Oak Park and Indep Center are booming
I stand corrected on that, the Indian Springs was the first mall in K.C.Ks, but it was the largest in the KC area in 1971 when it opened. The Blue Ridge Mall, The Bannister Mall, and Indian Springs all started having cheap junkie stores in their decline. I never understood the closing of the Mission Mall, I didn't think it was too bad. I never was a mall person, I always liked shopping in cities with real downtowns with charm and character, especially ones with streetcars, how fun that is.
idk i just looked on this thing.. and this guy had a documentary about bannister mall and it said when it opened it was the biggest mall in the u.s. at that time.. idk if it was try.. just throwin that out there to get a opinion on it. and a nuclear war plant??? i think i could hav had better use for it.
@93camaroZ28hp315 what?? that does not sound right... i believe Mall of America was built before this mall and is also still the biggest in the country.
I remember goin there when i was a kid.. i remember the toys r us right down the road.. but since i heard the mall was closing i wanted to turn it into a huge paintball facility.. i think that would be a fun idea... just kinda wish it would still be there.. there was some amazing stores and resturaunts there.... darn it would have been fun...
Maybe its just because I went to all these malls as a kid but they seem much more exciting as far as the design and the interiors seem fancier than Oak Park and Independence are now. I used to just love it when Independence had the ramps and the York Steak House.
@Dmann816 i heard since the wizards stadium is being relocated to KCK that the old bannister mall site is being planned out for a nuclear facility to be built there.
I think that deal fell through, and it is now going to be located in Texas. Since the Wizards are going to the Legends, I don't believe there are any plans now for the Bannister Mall site. The Legends is rapidly expanding, in a clean open area, and is centrally located for easy access from Johnson co., and north of the river. It would be difficult for the Bannister Mall location to compete with the new location of the Legends
Still have one mall here, the other one a a crappy strip mall shit hate that stuff. Why becuae it rains all the fucking time in washington state no one wants to be outside shopping here they want to be inside. At least we have three rivers mall where i live and its still going ok .
What an excellently-made video this is. Perfect music track for the subject, the whole mood fits perfectly, then at the end the vocal track ends and there's just that sad music as the shots of the demolition come on. This is art.
@townhall05446 if you liked this... check out the video called "At Least They Tried" it is what influenced me to make this video. It's about another mall, Rolling Acres mall in Ohio. The same song is played as the second song.
We had a dead mall in my hometown of Bristol, CT. It was practically dead from the get-go. One of the main developers of the mall went bankrupt when they were still building it. It opened in 1969 enjoyed success for the few years and spent most of my lifetime dying. They finally ripped it down in 08. Now we're stuck with a 17 acre fenced off parking lot. They hired a company out of Long Island to redevelop the property, but truthfully if it doesn't say All for a Dollar Bristol won't support it.
It was the newest mall in KC and closed after only 27 years. It was not crime and thugs that closed the mall, it was the opening of the WalMart Hypermart and the other discount type stores across the way in Benjamin Plaza.
When the Walmart Hypermart and Burlington Coat factory opened, Sears and Penneys knew their days would be numbered because those places took business away from them.
The crime element was overblown. Other malls in KC have the same problem but they are still open.
What a joke. If your point is valid then why the hell is hypermart gone? Id like to see the statistics of walmart stores that have actually shut down.
There is no doubt in my mind that the reason all of these places shut down is becuase of black crime.
In the life of a Mall, 30 years is a long time. Developers are much like music stars, they have hits, home runs and even turkies. A few cigar smoking bigwigs throw a crapshoot, your location, their mall, your money, their casual concern for anything besides the almighty buck. We've been milked, stripped of our coins, our hopes, our faith in the American dream. Nothing is real. Oh, and will the last person out of an America that "once was", please turn out the fucking energy saving light?...
this happened to the mall buy my house when i was a kid the mall had lots of stores and after high school the stores closed and there are going to close the mall.
Looks like late 1970s-early 1980s architecture. Sort of resembles what Deptford Mall (NJ) looked like when I was younger. That mall has gone thru numerous remodelings.
Thank you so much for posting this video. I'm 33 now and grew up going to this mall pretty much every weekend. And if there was ever a song to put to those pictures that would be it. It gave me chills to hear that music while looking at those pictures. So many memories good and bad. I sure hope when we die we get to visit old places because i would damn sure be hanging out in this mall again. RIP Bannister Mall.
Jadika1979 22 hours ago
Do you know what kind of elevators were at this mall? I am guessing Westinghouse because Westinghouse elevators were really popular in the early 80's.
jw1999jw 1 week ago
if i could walk the halls of bannister mall one last time. All my childhood memories were there.....i wish i could relive those moments again
sup1990able 2 weeks ago
im 20 now but i remember my mom taking me and a bunch of my little cousins to bannister when the robotic dinosaurs were there...man this takes me back to memory lane :.(
sup1990able 2 weeks ago
Mall owners were bullies though, telling store how long they had to stay open, increasing rent beyond reasonable, too greedy and now lots of empty and abandoned space. Paper shuffling short term thinking commercial real estate thinking. Many mall owners were their own worst enemies, but that happens a lot in many different industries, the hard lessons eventually crop up. Good posting/video, thanks!
luv2boral1 1 month ago
Malls had a huge impact on the old main street shops. They were good for part time jobs, places to hang out for all ages, not just kids. They seemed like the answer in the 1970s to the 1990s. Seemed like direct store entry strip malls were becoming popular, but they are not doing so well. Many new ones have long term empty slots Now online shopping has hurt many of these, but you don't get the employment opportunities that brick and mortar retail stores give. Too lean and selective for jobs
luv2boral1 1 month ago
This was such a beautiful mall. It held the dubious destintion as being Americas largest mall when built. (for a short time) Unfortunately, Developers built it in a "not so great" part of Kansas City. I recall news snippets from the early 90's about a string of parking lot muggings and other crimes that brought the mall to its knees, Also, there was the "ethnic demograph" that took its toll as well. No one wants to visit a mall that is populated with thugs and gangsta wannabes loitering about.
troymontague 1 month ago
soccer is gay
awesome1353 1 month ago
that made me so mad that they tore down Bannister, they didn't even try to save it. It was a good mall. What really made me mad was that they decided not to build the soccer stadium there.
UJusWannaBMe 1 month ago
To bad after 20yrs I wonder if that is the youngest mall. I love the wood work.
KeithCindyPanama 1 month ago
This song was sooo sad it made me cry.
sethbower11 2 months ago
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sethbower11 2 months ago
It was a great place.
Then the late 80s came and an urban element that kills everything.
BadassDZ 2 months ago
We had a beautiful mall in our area called Eastland Mall. It was built in the early 1970s, It had three levels and a huge ice skating rink in the middle of the bottom level, But in the 1990s, The ghetto moved into the area, crime and prostiution started. They closed the ice skating rink. All the anchor stores moved out, and all that was left were stores for Blacks and Mexicans, They completely shut the mall in 2010, But they still want to reopen and turn it into a Mexican shopping center
Sheri451 2 months ago
Too bad as it was a beautiful mall! I love the architecture and enterior especially! I wish that they could keep these malls up with the original design like the 1970's and 1960's to appreciate the design. I would buy sucha mall as the classic design is wonderful! Maybe make it into condminiums to doctor offices & lawyer offices. It is really too bad as it is beautiful out side as well as the inside is classic design of the past!
patsaxon 2 months ago
Any of you miss going to that mall?
Hanssen69 2 months ago in playlist Malls (Dead or Operational) and videos of Malls
I used to go to this mall all the time, (having attended high schjool in the early 80's) and the entire Hickman Mills area was doing quite well. Just North of the mall was a Toys R Us, Wards, Best Buy, a few strip mall type shops and a Super Hypermart, (think Wal-Mart on steroids) 95% of all of that is gone or out of business. I think Burlington Coat Factory is the only thing thriving in that area now. I miss that mall becuase it had everything in it. You could spend the whole day there.
KCJazzKeys 3 months ago
... also, great video, by the way.
mrboholt 3 months ago 2
How's the parking?
KernelSandersCheckin 3 months ago
buh-bye
EconCat88 4 months ago
This is what happens when section 8 lets lowlife black people infest a decent neighborhood. This used to be a thriving area of suburban commerce. There was another large lucrative strip mall across the street. now the whole area looks like a bombed out war zone and you would be taking your life into your hands to walk outside at night
niselat 4 months ago
@niselat
Maybe a prison should be built on the site, so they can continue going in and out of the place.
EconCat88 4 months ago
@EconCat88 Great idea! Make it look like a shopping center and, when they go into to steal and rob, just don't let them out
niselat 4 months ago
its sad to see nice malls close down.it seems like the 70's were hoping with malls being built.cuz alot near me were built in the early 70's a few years before i was born.some are closed now.those plants r beautiful i hope someone can take them home or transfer to another building or office and care for them.it would be a shame for them to die:(
SnowWhiteDove7 4 months ago
@ 3:31 Auntie annies storefront?
lemanz23 4 months ago
@lemanz23 it could've been.
MissMaddy881 3 months ago
@MissMaddy881 hurpty derp
FatherPatOphelia 2 months ago
I remember going to FUN FACTORY ARCADE upstairs next to the food court. Back in the 80's that place was the shit.
CameFrombeyond 5 months ago
I'm sentimental, so I pretty much still believe in indoor malls.
RobRobertTheMusicMan 6 months ago
I was on my way to visiting family around spring of 05. Being from Michigan I had only heard of this mall. We decided to stop by and I kid you not there were about a dozen cars in the parking lot and I think they were all emplyees. This was in the middle of the afternoon. We decided to walk through the mall but were turned away soon after when we were approached by 3 or 4 homeless people asking for money. One of them got really upset when we told him no. Its no surprise this closed.
GPVlog 6 months ago
My favorite theater was Bannister. I saw Karate Kid, Pee Wees Big Adventure and Drop Dead Fred there.
gordokc77 7 months ago
most of these closed malls have some weird names though.
SpeakMyMind500 7 months ago
So how does one get into a dead mall after it completely dies? That mall looked cool. I know those that live near that mall wishes it didn't die. I was upset when a fave mall died called Harundale Mall in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
Hanssen69 7 months ago
Poor plants!!
DecaturCentaur 8 months ago
I worked there in the late 80's. It was a wild place. Lot of fights and some shootings.
kampdog 8 months ago
very touching. Thanks for the u.l.
sirlordwhitman 9 months ago
Wow! I still have a shirt that I bought there!
mewhor 9 months ago
It was a delight to watch this tour of the Bannister Mall prior to demolition. I was able to tape such a tour at the Lansing Civic center. Two Video Suggestions: 1: snack bar oddity AND 2: weird drive in moment
RQVOutdoorMoovies 9 months ago
what a nice mall! too bad it was in a bad location.
MissMaddy881 1 year ago 5
@MissMaddy881 It wasn't in a bad area when it originated. It was the environment of the people who surrounded the mall. Kansas City could've easily saved this mall by opening that South Branch of the KCPD down the street sooner. It was a lovely mall, I have millions of memories and there were none greater than going shopping on the weekends and seeing that big Bannister Mall sign in yellow letters. It was beautiful. So sad when I came back for its final days, but it will always live on in spirit
djkeevee 7 months ago
@djkeevee i totally agree with you. even though i never knew this mall like you did, it's sad to see it gone.
MissMaddy881 7 months ago
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another example as to why niggers should be shipped back to africa
nutweave 1 year ago
i f-ing hate walmart a walmart din't deserve this land it meant somthing to lots of people.
joedawg112 1 year ago
What killed it ? and what's built on it now?
indyfan22k 1 year ago
@indyfan22k other more popular malls with flocking crowds to those malls destroyed this one i would say. also crime and corruption in the Bannister area was bad, so it lead to big losses in businesses. Currently there is nothing built there, there were plans for a soccer stadium but that was postponed i also hear there are plans now for a complex that will contain commercial and residential occupants all in one structure. Sort of like loft apartments above the commercial/retail offices.
Archmetal06 1 year ago 3
@Archmetal06 That land is being used for a new MLS soccer stadium for Sporting Kansas City (formerly known as the Kansas City Wizards).
rays130226 1 year ago
@indyfan22k nothingg but dirt. the soccer stadium went to kansas
MrAkron72 10 months ago
@indyfan22k the neighborhood became black and crime ridden. nothing
niselat 4 months ago
it sure was a big ugly mall. too bad it's gone.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 it looked like a nice mall to me. the mall where i'm from is doing great. where was the movie theater located?
MissMaddy881 1 year ago
@MissMaddy881 it was somewhere in the mall.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 I gotta agree with MissMaddy, that looked like it was a very pretty mall.
Anyway, here's an update from Wikipedia.
In December 2009, the Kansas City Wizards, who had previously planned to build a new stadium on the site, finalized plans to build their stadium in Kansas instead. Lane4 Property Group, Inc. stated that they will continue development of the Bannister Mall site, but as a retail and office project.[4]
YukoAsho 1 year ago
HOW could they possibly destroy such a beautiful work of art as these malls???! Everytime I see a mall destroyed that retains such retro design or see these new (redone) malls with white and silver and everything is white or cream.. it drives me crazy! Why can't we retain some of the 70s designs.. with orange, brown and red like we used to remember?? This decade has no design trademarks to remember. These malls need to be saved!
sitka77 1 year ago 10
@sitka77 Could do without the brown...
Clay3613 4 months ago
@sitka77 People have complained since the beginning of malls that there are too many and that they killed the beautiful "down towns" of most cities. Malls are just places of business and business changes (or dies). It's the cycle of, well, business.
tsbrownie 2 months ago
I lived in KC in the late 80's. I remember going to Banister. One thing I do not miss about KC or St. Louis is the racism. I have lived in Arkansas for 20 years now and you hardly ever hear such blatant racist remarks. Can't say all things are equal down here between all people, but I can say that the upper Midwest is shockingly racist. Maybe that is why the Northern States are continually losing population and jobs while the Southern States are prospering.
scottieray 1 year ago
@scottieray that's interesting. KC is very diverse now. The only area which would be Johnson County, the people of Johnson County have median or above incomes , stuck up and white. Some probably moved from the Missouri side which has more black to the kansas side for that reason. I do believe that. It does not necessarily make them racist though. They probably just feel more comfortable being around people of their own race. I'm sure blacks feel the same way.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 I was born and raised in Missouri and still have a lot of family in Sikeston, Cape Girardeau, and St. Louis. Still, compared to living down South, there are some very racist parts of Missouri. I moved to Joplin a few years back after almost decade of living down South and was shocked to hear "nigger" used so often. You just don't here it down here much believe it or not. Just some of the comments on here brought back memories of how some people don't want to live with others.
scottieray 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 Agreed and another reason why their may be more concentrated in Johnson County may be because many of the Whites probably just got tired of being harassed, robbed and beaten as well. They are funny that way sometimes.
pepjrp 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 I don't care if they are purple with blue polka dots, but we all know what happens with the "white flight" and what happens afterward. The thug and gang element, who loiter around the malls and don't spend money, is what scares away the money and kills the malls; and I'm sorry, but the color of one's skin is a poor excuse to dictate one's behavior, no matter what the color is or the said behavior.
mrboholt 3 months ago 4
Yes, I realize there is a deeper problem here to solve, but personally, I'm sick and tired of having to watch society "devolve" to where we have to go back to shopping in unenclosed malls, subject to the whims of the weather, to discourage this loitering of the thugs and the gangs. I'm also tired of no one having the guts to stand up and mention the elephant in the room!
mrboholt 3 months ago 6
@scottieray Yea, I know what you mean... I myself were on the receiving end of racist comments and intimidation and I got off light. Whites by the hundred's through the years were shoved, called names, while more were beaten and shot at while visiting Bannister Mall. Many reports of white old ladies being knocked down and their purses taken by young Black kids. Yes, you're right. a White at Bannister mall in the mid to late 90's were the main prey. The stories would fill pages on here.
pepjrp 1 year ago 2
@scottieray This used to be a thriving area of suburban commerce. There was another large lucrative strip mall across the street. now the whole area looks like a bombed out war zone and you would be taking your life into your hands to walk outside at night. guess what changed
niselat 4 months ago
@scottieray WTF? The North losing jobs? I think its the South with all its natural disasters and crushing poverty that's suffering...
Clay3613 4 months ago
@scottieray Northern states (well some) are losing population because of job migration and they are more expensive to live in. It has nothing to do with Racism. Actually I felt that the South was way more racist than the North after living there for many years. You live in Arkansas, a prime example. I now live in the midwest now and don't see the shockingly racist label you cast upon it.
msellne 2 months ago
omg kc sucks
joedawg112 1 year ago
What is the name of this song? It is so eerie! Fits so well!
ihatetaft 1 year ago
@ihatetaft "At Least We Tried" by Moby.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
:( sad
Ibeatnintendo 1 year ago
so this mall was torn down to build a soccer stadium...yeeeeaaaahhhhh! let it all be for the sake of the most beautiful and passionate sport in the world! as in the rest of the world soccer should be the number 1 sport in the U.S.
GODsoccersk8football 1 year ago
@GODsoccersk8football that was the original plan but the soccer complex was postponed and plans were to build the complex elsewhere. So tearing down this mall was a complete waste.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 So I've read. I really don't understand why they didn't try to atleast push a big name store like a Best Buy, Bed Bath and Beyond, Ross or hell even a Old Navy in as anchor stores as a last gasp instead just leveling it for nothing. We had a incident here in Houston, Texas has that same feel to it. Astroworld was leveled back in 2005 and still remains a large vacant lot with absolutely no plan/future for it. Hopefully that doesn't happen to the former Bannister Mall site.
W0lfB0y1981 1 year ago
@W0lfB0y1981 from what i hear there were plans to build a soccer stadium on the former Bannister mall site but plans were postponed. They chose a different plot of land instead. So a waste of money on destruction and a waste on the investment of the property it is.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@W0lfB0y1981 lol, man i remember going to astro world, i was shocked when i found out they tore it down, do u know why they even tore it down. i remember going there, and it seemed packed all the time.
13svincent 1 year ago
@13svincent Yeah, Astroworld was leveled due in part to Six Flag's being so deep in the red at the time. From what I read they wanted to level the area and sell the property for somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 million. The deal fell through was eventually sold for a fraction of the price (I think about 125 million). With Bannister Mall I don't understand why they didn't convert it into a office building or call centers like they have done here in San Antonio O_o
W0lfB0y1981 11 months ago
@W0lfB0y1981 you know im starting to think, that all the child hood things we all love, are becoming a thing of the past. like u hardly see arcades anymore, or slot car shops and also privately owned go cart track, unless u go to a big commecialized fun center.
13svincent 10 months ago
@13svincent you have no idea man.. I'm glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's where we had some of the coolest places including these malls to hangout and socialize. I miss the good old days. Shit, alot of the fun stuff here in San Antonio are gone. Malibu Grand Prix was leveled, all the arcades are closed except for one, a amazing fun center closed and turned into a church and they are letting the place fall apart. I even miss Discovery Zone & Chuck E Cheese in its heyday lol
W0lfB0y1981 10 months ago
@W0lfB0y1981 lol thats funny, bc i live in austin texas. you know what even the bowlign alleys have gone to shit. and foreget about Skating rings anymore, b/c i know none in austin anymore. the arcade that was at the mall i used to hangout is now apart of the movie theater, they built new show rooms there.
13svincent 9 months ago
@GODsoccersk8football
sandvich
Ambzelia89 1 year ago
@GODsoccersk8football The soccer stadium would probably end up like this too
Numbersinmyname 1 year ago
yes right where this Negros go they make business stop ,economy ruined ,they r ill they bring poverty to the community where they go how can i stop them thet r entring our country from Nigeria , please help i am from india
karan56011160 1 year ago
Well, buck up kiddos. You got a nice flat piece of ground now. Who got hoodwinked now?
blufx1963 1 year ago
Too bad, such beautiful architecture of the past should be preserved. I love the styles of these old malls of the past! Go visit the Galleria Mall in Houston, Texas as you will be totally amazed with the designs inside!
patsaxon 1 year ago
KC Is The Town!
Badluck816 1 year ago
Why are indoor malls antiquated?
They offer one-stop shopping in a climate-controlled environment. What more could you ask for?
eyeswideopen82 1 year ago
This is very sad to watch. What a beautiful mall! The wood accents are very nice. You don't see malls like this built anymore. I live in Canada and most of the malls here were built in the mid 80's but have been completely renovated, so all the charm that existed with the late 70's and the 80's architecture has been lost. If I had the money, I'd have a huge shopping mall built with the architecture and decor seen in the mall in this video. I need to visit the USA again to visit these malls.
revokdaryl1 1 year ago
There more "dead malls" coming soon!
tradewinds77 1 year ago
@tradewinds77 Name them please.I read an article online that coz of the sucky economy,100 malls in this country may close this year.
HattieLovesCattie 1 year ago
should have torn the KC chiefs with the mall they suck toooo
rando714 1 year ago
i wish there were more videos like this on youtube... i've probably seen them all.
PeterOnoLennon 1 year ago
People! Stop with the African-American insults. What you say could have just as easily been done by whites.
HarvestmanMan 1 year ago
Oh my god is there really a need to keep dropping N-bombs over a mall that is gone.Oh and so you know, white people have channles on TV is called everything else
c48wk4u 1 year ago
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barbershop22 1 year ago
To the idiots who say blacks destroyed the mall. Think about it you racist pieces of shits, Oak Park mall, Independence Center are the reasons malls like Bannister, Blue Ridge fail. These malls were designed a lot better and had more space at a lower cost including areas were the tax rate was cheap (at the time). During the construction of Indep. Center - Blue Ridge suffered. During the construction Oak Park, Bannister Suffered. Get a clue you closet internet racist.
PhillipRansburg 1 year ago
@PhillipRansburg
My name is Jerry and I worked security at the bannister mall in the mid 80's after retiring from the KC police department. I was there and saw the trouble the blacks caused the mall. It got so bad with the blacks hanging out we hired extra security. The blacks (niggers) destroyed the mall. We personally escorted folks all day and night to their car in fear of the pack of blacks always standing around. Too bad they didn't have jobs and enjoyed tormenting others.
kcgrandpa5 1 year ago
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@PhillipRansburg
Only black folks use the word "racist". Hell you folks have your own TV channel, BET. What would happen if the white folks started "WET" White Entertainment Television? Again you black folks would scream "racist". It never ends with you folks. In city development and management leaders are aware..... "where blacks go nothing grows". Go eat some fried chicken......
kcgrandpa5 1 year ago 8
@kcgrandpa5 yea and you are obviously the one making racist remarks here.... get the fuck off this page you old imbred racist redneck piece of shit. People like you need to be shot. Folks.....folks....folks.....folks..... fucking redneck trailor trash.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@kcgrandpa5 What a great point about BET. If there was a White Entertainment Television there would be an UPROAR from not only the black community but from every immigrant, every ethnicity, even some misguided white people. Never thought about it like that till you posted this. WET. Funny!!
Sodiumreactor 1 year ago
The city dangled The Bass Pro Shop in front of us like a bunch of starving dogs. The had/have no intention of revitalizing this area. It's all about money.
kramnrublaw 1 year ago
Bannister was cool in the 80's until the black folks started hanging out. Then it want to crap.
barbershop22 1 year ago
@barbershop22 And you my friend without prejudice and with frank; are a fucking idiot...
PhillipRansburg 1 year ago
@PhillipRansburg
Whats up with the Black people in Topeka, Kansas? According to the news there were 10 shootings last weekend..... All Black folks according to my Topeka source.
kcgrandpa5 1 year ago
@barbershop22 And you my friend without prejudice and with frank; are a fucking idiot...
PhillipRansburg 1 year ago
Thank you for putting these photos up..Memories
tremyap 1 year ago
@jakesdoc first of all jakescock, you need to get out of that trailor of yours and stop fucking your sister, and maybe buy a hooker or something, also get an education, and reading cereal boxes doesnt count, get out in the real world and open up your mind, and then maybe you wont have so much racism built up in you in , and you have no one else to blame other than pieces of redneck white trailor trash like your self for the destruction of this mall.
thineleachbath 1 year ago
@thineleachbath Ironic that you mention "getting an education" in a run-on sentence.
MrThisIsMeToo 1 year ago
@jakesdoc Tell, me about. Some nigs moved in across the hall in my aptartment. They leave trash everywhere, on my rug. Cops have been out numerous times. They are always home, obviously on welfare and do drugs. Fuckin niggers. I a moving out this August. me=white flight!
jrunberg 1 year ago
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PhillipRansburg 1 year ago
GOOD NEWS: Bannister is now an office type business
anderalex129 1 year ago
bannister mall is NOT a soccer complex. it is a smaller mall which is redesigned at the SAME location.Oh BTW metro north mall in KC is flooded
anderalex129 1 year ago
they turned it into a sorts place now....but i never went there but i really wanted to but i am still a Metro North fan
11whoapeace 1 year ago
well too bad... cause it's all torn down and gone now.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
Whats incredilble to me also is right next to Bannister was a Best Buy, I think a Toys R Us, and Hyper-Mart(huge Wal-Mart) they are all gone as well. Last time I was in the area the only thing still open was a McDonalds.
jrunberg 2 years ago
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The news, people in general, do everything they can not to offend people. The reason Bannister shut down was due to all the blacks. The scared the whites outta their. Same with Blue Ridge and Indian Springs. It's may be just a matter of time before they open some club around Power&Light playing that tribal jigga-boo shit and Power and Light becomes a gangland.
jrunberg 2 years ago 7
That statement sounds a bit racist. True that the mall was vandalized and gangs hung around the area and just the over all corruption and loss of business took over the mall. Not all just black. Really i believe the dilemma had to do with people moving farther south and west into Kansas and gave up on the east side of town. Power and Light sucks anyway.... i could care less if that place fails it's nothing but a shopping mall of bars and is just overcrowded with middle aged drunks.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 The power and light people are trying all they can to stop blacks from ruining their money making machine.
No shit, I cant even drink a beer down there because I choose to wear a longer sized t-shirt...
But I understand where they are coming from...Blacks are simply overall bad for business.I think blacks are just fine, most of them need to learn to have a little class is all. If there were a such thing as a 'classless society', it would definately be driven by black people.
Dmann816 1 year ago
@Dmann816 that's not true at all man. I was down at the Flying Saucer Bar not long ago, they have really nice staff working there. Also there was this really nice Jamaican man that sat down next to me and a friend , we got along really well my friend bought him a couple of drinks too. This was during the day. It was just a really nice atmosphere and we had a great time talking about different things. There is no need at all to stereotype and say "blacks are bad for business"
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 Right, come to Atlanta and test that theory. Blacks as a whole are a violent degenerate race that destroy everything they touch. Name one area where blacks come into that flourishes, you wont find one.
sicko6688 1 year ago
@Archmetal06 does nebraska have emos in it?
gotthkid2 1 year ago
@gotthkid2 i would think so, yes.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
@gotthkid2
i hate emos...
Ambzelia89 1 year ago
@Ambzelia89 i wasent even talking to you? chill out
gotthkid2 1 year ago
@gotthkid2
DONT TAZE MEH
Ambzelia89 1 year ago
@Ambzelia89 i dont have time to taze beaner mexican bitches :D blacks are way better
gotthkid2 1 year ago
@gotthkid2 such an ignorant racist comment. Needless to say this page already has many of them. That was uncalled for.
Archmetal06 1 year ago
You have put it mildly and still managed to offend someone.You are absolutly right though,nigs ruined this part of town.I grew up in Ruskin just to the south of here and we packed up our shit in 93 and moved because of shootings,car chases etc.. related to the "Africanization" of Ruskin Heights.
spinvilchy 1 year ago
@jrunberg Sad, but so true. Where the blacks go, nothing grows.
614Spider 1 year ago
@jrunberg
How true. Indian Springs was overrun by the niggers in the early 80's. Quit going there out of fear. Then they got hold of Bannister. Too bad, Bannister was a great place.
kcgrandpa5 1 year ago
This mall looks good compared to the old Beechmont Mall in Cincinnati.
HarvestmanMan 2 years ago
@HarvestmanMan well this mall no longer exists.
Archmetal06 2 years ago
Neither does Beechmont Mall. Demolished in 2003.
Luckily, I have literally scoured the Web for info and have found pretty much all there is to find. (Except a newscast of the demolition, but I will never be able to find/buy that.) I made a tribute to it on my old channel, LaddyDongdegs.
HarvestmanMan 2 years ago
All this mess dont make sense...
I just wish I could take my boy to a mall and let him experience it for himself.
I believe the bannister mall would still be around if it were placed in a proper location.
S.E. KC is a disaster area.
I'd hate to own a home there...
Dmann816 2 years ago
The Indian Springs Mall was the first enclosed shopping mall in KC. It is still standing,but is slated for demolition. The Mission Mall is now gone, the deal for redevelopment fell through and is a vacant lot, like the Bannister Mall. The new Merriam Ks mall is mostly vacant. New strip malls behind the Merriam Town Center Mall are vacant. Johnson Co. Ks has so many malls and shopping districts, I don't see how they all stay in business.
maynardcat 2 years ago
@maynardcat i thought Ward Parkway was the first enclosed mall in Kansas City. It opened up in 1959. Since 2000 the mall has gone down in business due to the demolition of half of the mall... pretty stupid. Bannister mall.... i never really did shop at. Metcalf South has been "dead" for many years but just recently there are junky purse and jewerly stores taged as a wholesale gift mart... and those stores are not open to the public stupid again.. Oak Park and Indep Center are booming
Archmetal06 2 years ago
I stand corrected on that, the Indian Springs was the first mall in K.C.Ks, but it was the largest in the KC area in 1971 when it opened. The Blue Ridge Mall, The Bannister Mall, and Indian Springs all started having cheap junkie stores in their decline. I never understood the closing of the Mission Mall, I didn't think it was too bad. I never was a mall person, I always liked shopping in cities with real downtowns with charm and character, especially ones with streetcars, how fun that is.
maynardcat 2 years ago
idk i just looked on this thing.. and this guy had a documentary about bannister mall and it said when it opened it was the biggest mall in the u.s. at that time.. idk if it was try.. just throwin that out there to get a opinion on it. and a nuclear war plant??? i think i could hav had better use for it.
93camaroZ28hp315 2 years ago
and also another interesting fact is that mall was the biggest mall built in the united states when it opened.
93camaroZ28hp315 2 years ago
@93camaroZ28hp315 what?? that does not sound right... i believe Mall of America was built before this mall and is also still the biggest in the country.
Archmetal06 2 years ago
I remember goin there when i was a kid.. i remember the toys r us right down the road.. but since i heard the mall was closing i wanted to turn it into a huge paintball facility.. i think that would be a fun idea... just kinda wish it would still be there.. there was some amazing stores and resturaunts there.... darn it would have been fun...
93camaroZ28hp315 2 years ago
Maybe its just because I went to all these malls as a kid but they seem much more exciting as far as the design and the interiors seem fancier than Oak Park and Independence are now. I used to just love it when Independence had the ramps and the York Steak House.
kdw75 2 years ago
A good recording , but an even funnier outcome.
The Wizards campain know what kind of area this is.
Hell,they picked KCK for Christs sake over this crap-ass part of town...
Dmann816 2 years ago
@Dmann816 i heard since the wizards stadium is being relocated to KCK that the old bannister mall site is being planned out for a nuclear facility to be built there.
Archmetal06 2 years ago
@Archmetal06 I think that is a great proposal.
Dmann816 2 years ago
I think that deal fell through, and it is now going to be located in Texas. Since the Wizards are going to the Legends, I don't believe there are any plans now for the Bannister Mall site. The Legends is rapidly expanding, in a clean open area, and is centrally located for easy access from Johnson co., and north of the river. It would be difficult for the Bannister Mall location to compete with the new location of the Legends
maynardcat 2 years ago
Still have one mall here, the other one a a crappy strip mall shit hate that stuff. Why becuae it rains all the fucking time in washington state no one wants to be outside shopping here they want to be inside. At least we have three rivers mall where i live and its still going ok .
dunn98632 2 years ago
What an excellently-made video this is. Perfect music track for the subject, the whole mood fits perfectly, then at the end the vocal track ends and there's just that sad music as the shots of the demolition come on. This is art.
townhall05446 2 years ago
@townhall05446 if you liked this... check out the video called "At Least They Tried" it is what influenced me to make this video. It's about another mall, Rolling Acres mall in Ohio. The same song is played as the second song.
Archmetal06 2 years ago
3:06 is a great shot with direction.
Oddball313 2 years ago
We had a dead mall in my hometown of Bristol, CT. It was practically dead from the get-go. One of the main developers of the mall went bankrupt when they were still building it. It opened in 1969 enjoyed success for the few years and spent most of my lifetime dying. They finally ripped it down in 08. Now we're stuck with a 17 acre fenced off parking lot. They hired a company out of Long Island to redevelop the property, but truthfully if it doesn't say All for a Dollar Bristol won't support it.
marcynkeesfnct 2 years ago
It was the newest mall in KC and closed after only 27 years. It was not crime and thugs that closed the mall, it was the opening of the WalMart Hypermart and the other discount type stores across the way in Benjamin Plaza.
When the Walmart Hypermart and Burlington Coat factory opened, Sears and Penneys knew their days would be numbered because those places took business away from them.
The crime element was overblown. Other malls in KC have the same problem but they are still open.
jpbkc 2 years ago
What a joke. If your point is valid then why the hell is hypermart gone? Id like to see the statistics of walmart stores that have actually shut down.
There is no doubt in my mind that the reason all of these places shut down is becuase of black crime.
I grew up in Ruskin,so I know.
Racist blah blah blah,I can hear it now.
Im the reallah here...
Dmann816 2 years ago
Poor Management and Crime from minorties helped fuel the decline of this mall, it is now tore down and gone !
JetRanger0007 2 years ago
@JetRanger0007 that's true. I never shopped at this mall that much.
Archmetal06 2 years ago
In the life of a Mall, 30 years is a long time. Developers are much like music stars, they have hits, home runs and even turkies. A few cigar smoking bigwigs throw a crapshoot, your location, their mall, your money, their casual concern for anything besides the almighty buck. We've been milked, stripped of our coins, our hopes, our faith in the American dream. Nothing is real. Oh, and will the last person out of an America that "once was", please turn out the fucking energy saving light?...
LongIslandEddie 2 years ago
i love how retro this place was..like going back in time ..I would of loved to go there so sad
sarahncam 2 years ago
If they do a sequel to Mallrats, maybe they could shoot it at a dead mall this time around : )
Melville10 2 years ago
won't be this one... this one is demolished.
Archmetal06 2 years ago
yea, it got pretty nasty
Archmetal06 2 years ago
this happened to the mall buy my house when i was a kid the mall had lots of stores and after high school the stores closed and there are going to close the mall.
gaggedrob 2 years ago
that's sad.
Archmetal06 2 years ago
LOL Deptford Mall NJ LOL That's 5 min from my house!
Fonzi79 2 years ago
Deptford Mall is like Cherry Hill Mall 2.0 in that it has gone upscale over the years.
Melville10 2 years ago
@Melville10 dude i know i shop there, your from new jersey?
ayorice 2 years ago
I am from South NJ.
Melville10 2 years ago
What stands where the mall was?
Melville10 2 years ago
nothing. plans for a wizards soccer complex was postponed.
Archmetal06 2 years ago
Looks like late 1970s-early 1980s architecture. Sort of resembles what Deptford Mall (NJ) looked like when I was younger. That mall has gone thru numerous remodelings.
Melville10 2 years ago