White flight is the main reason the Mall of Memphis is gone. When much of its core clientele of middle- to upper-class whites moved out of Memphis east to Bartlett, Cordova, Germantown, and Collierville, the mall's owners built the Wolfchase Galleria which opened in 1997. Unlike the older Southland Mall in Whitehaven (a south Memphis neighborhood) the Mall of Memphis was too large to adapt to the changing neighborhood. God bless.
The Hickory Ridge Mall is open, now owned by a church. It has a fraction of the business it once did for the same reason the Mall of Memphis closed. God bless.
Sad that they tore it down. I've seen picture of it online. It looked like a very nice mall. I would have loved to go ice skating there. The DJ in the background is very annoying.
Holy shit, that's insane, haven't been back to Memphis in years....Man I'm glad to be in Middle Tennessee where things are Booming, not just in "rich" neighborhoods!
I do miss that mall. I remember walking through the dirt before they built it, and about right after they tore it down, I came back to visit (I live in North VA now) I worked the food court('Round the Corner) had a lot of good memories there. MOM (Mall of Memphis) you will never be forgotten. Hey, take more footage shots of Memphis and post them, Really miss the area. Mem/Ark Bridge would be nice, my old neighborhood too, Mendenhall and Knight Arnold, Wooddale High School. oh the memories.
Better malls were built in areas where the wealthier lived (Wolfchase, Oak Court) and the Mall of Memphis became a place where there was minority crime every week. The place was not maintained well and became a very, very scary place. I actually don't understand how Hickory Ridge Mall is still opened. I went there in 2006 and there are bars all over the entrance to the movie theater that closed many years ago, and the food court smells like the bathroom.
White flight is the main reason the Mall of Memphis is gone. When much of its core clientele of middle- to upper-class whites moved out of Memphis east to Bartlett, Cordova, Germantown, and Collierville, the mall's owners built the Wolfchase Galleria which opened in 1997. Unlike the older Southland Mall in Whitehaven (a south Memphis neighborhood) the Mall of Memphis was too large to adapt to the changing neighborhood. God bless.
cbalducc 1 year ago
Hickory ridge mall is not still opened. The ghetto dwellers closed it and why do you think the Mall of Memphis became know as the mall of murders?
t38j19jb 2 years ago
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cbalducc 1 year ago
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The Hickory Ridge Mall is open, now owned by a church. It has a fraction of the business it once did for the same reason the Mall of Memphis closed. God bless.
cbalducc 1 year ago
Sad that they tore it down. I've seen picture of it online. It looked like a very nice mall. I would have loved to go ice skating there. The DJ in the background is very annoying.
ihatetaft 3 years ago
Mane I miss the Mall of Memphis! That whole part of Southeast Memphis is a deadzone.
greatrey 3 years ago
i know may Mamaw shopped at the mall of Memphis. Memphis really brings back alot of memories of her.
josephlarrivee 3 years ago
did you really
josephlarrivee 3 years ago
I used to work at The Mall of Memphis ... down the street from my old high school ... man, the memories. I miss that place! :(
JayFingers 3 years ago
konke ese es el mall :O
punkpachas 3 years ago
Holy shit, that's insane, haven't been back to Memphis in years....Man I'm glad to be in Middle Tennessee where things are Booming, not just in "rich" neighborhoods!
danbrown30 4 years ago
my buddies dad operated one of the trackhoes that demolished the mall.
lewsscroos 4 years ago
I do miss that mall. I remember walking through the dirt before they built it, and about right after they tore it down, I came back to visit (I live in North VA now) I worked the food court('Round the Corner) had a lot of good memories there. MOM (Mall of Memphis) you will never be forgotten. Hey, take more footage shots of Memphis and post them, Really miss the area. Mem/Ark Bridge would be nice, my old neighborhood too, Mendenhall and Knight Arnold, Wooddale High School. oh the memories.
galaxian00 4 years ago
Better malls were built in areas where the wealthier lived (Wolfchase, Oak Court) and the Mall of Memphis became a place where there was minority crime every week. The place was not maintained well and became a very, very scary place. I actually don't understand how Hickory Ridge Mall is still opened. I went there in 2006 and there are bars all over the entrance to the movie theater that closed many years ago, and the food court smells like the bathroom.
gtavideos 4 years ago
I love america! Memphis is great!
Toby48624 5 years ago