Sacramento (A Wonderful Downtown) // A Dead Mall Story

From earlier, happier days of the K St. Mall, through the prosperous era of the Downtown Plaza, into the present day decay and abandonment of the Plaza by Westfield Corporation.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Dead
• Malls
• 1940s
• 1950s
• Westfield
• Urban
• Blight
• Macy's
• Weinstock's
• Montgomery
• Ward
• Shopping
• Sacramento
• Corporate
• Corruption
• Downtown
• Plaza
• DeadMalls
• HardRockCafe
• Hale's
• Crest
• Theatre
• Woolworth's
• Recession

[CIApunisher916]

Place is dead.

[store275]

Trippy video.

Westfield has deep pockets for cities like Roseville, CA but they use these downtown dumps for tax ride offs.

Shame on them !!!!

[watershed44]

At 8:35 you see a sign that mentions Westfield leasing retail space..

The sign says:

Oppurtunity

Awaits

A weird coincidence or also the letters A and O (Alpha and Omega) The beginning and the End.

[wacher8]

To many nigger's and homeless people down there now,not so much the homeless it the nigger's that are the problem.

[iheroist]

.....city leaders need to get their heads out of their asses and start looking at other options to invigorate the local economy instead of their obsession in building a goddamn arena. Sacramento is a failure and will always be a city of broken dreams. How many redevelopment plans for downtown have fizzled the past ten years?? I stopped counting.

[iheroist]

....Westfield invests in cities like Roseville because people there have cash to spend. If downtown's economy was thriving, you bet Westfield would take in interest in the Plaza instead of letting it decay and using it as a tax rideoff. Sacramento has been and will always be a city of broken dreams. I cant even begin to count how many redevelopment plans have failed over the past 10 years. Instead of obsessing over building a goddamn arena, city leaders need to get their priorities in order.

[iheroist]

Sacramento has had a long history in trying to revitalize it's downtown. Sacramento, along with the other Central Valley cities, have terrible economies with a large population of lower middle class residents, residents at or below the poverty line, as well as an enormous population of homeless and mentally ill people roaming the streets in and around downtown. Corporations are not willing to invest in the city because it lacks what they're looking for. Furthermore..........

[MrSupwitit]

that mall is empty u can get away with burnin up in the 2nd story empty shops

[YukoAsho]

So basically Westfield buys a thriving mall and has no clue how to run it, effectively running everyone out?

[SpokaneGirl85]

Wow, how did this mall die? It looked so peaceful and then it vanished.

[david916sac]

i dont really like this mall anyways out door mall i mean how well did you think that was gonna go its raining go to the mall get rained on WTF ......Arden Mall FTW

[eyeh8nbc]

I went to the remodeled Downtown Plaza's first day of business in 1993. I mainly didn't go there a lot due to NO FREE PARKING! The movie theater there is very poorly-run- I've never seen a perfect presentation there, and I gave up on it a long time ago. (A free promo screening of a movie there was the WORST cinematic experience of my life, and coming from me that's saying a lot!)