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Adrian Mall (CONDEMNED) - Raw & Real Retail

This is our walkthrough of the Adrian Mall in Adrian, MI from December 26, 2019. This is very dead, tiny mall just north of the Ohio border. There are 2 anchor stores, but neither of them is accessible from the mall concourse. Dunham's Sports dropped their gates and Hobby Lobby is exclusively outward-facing. Inside, it is a very depressing place, with a hand-drawn "Food Court Coming" scrawled across a wall in the empty food court to greet you as you enter. Sodium vapour lights are abundant and obviously ancient, providing a sickly greenish-yellow glow when attempting to film or photograph inside. There seems to be three open inlines left, the usual holdouts of Bath & Body Works and GNC, as well as a local furniture place. Songs used in this video (in order): Klaus Schulze - Bayreuth Return Steve Gray - Wonder Groove Steve Gray - Reach Out Rather than a poorly cited article from Wikipedia, here is a very nice piece by Dan Cherry, Daily Telegram Staff Writer (edited slightly for brevity): https://www.lenconnect.com/news/20190... It goes without saying that the Adrian Mall is not what it was in the 1970s and 1980s. Those of us who grew up during the first few decades of the mall’s life remember the mall being “the” place to go especially on the weekends. Crowds bumped shoulders strolling the corridors, going from store to store: JC Penney, Sears, Woolworth, Harvest House Coffee Shop, Musicland, Waldenbooks, Radio Shack, Micheal Roberts clothing store, the food court. And the central court area with the looming, abstract green-patina fountain, which would be shut off in the winter and where Santa would meet with area children; the indoor car shows. The Adrian Mall at 1357 S. Main St. was built in 1969 by the M.H Hausman Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, advertised as an “enclosed, air conditioned” design. By 1970, it was the latest and greatest economic point of shopping in Adrian, second to downtown. It featured three anchor stores: JC Penney on the north side, Sears on the south side and Woolworth in the center. The mall featured a total retail floor area of approximately 373,000 square feet and more than 50 store sites. In 1980, there were 51 store sites available and only four vacant shop spaces, according to Charles Lindquist’s book, “Adrian: The City That Worked.” However, a decade later, shops began to vacate the mall. Some cited the economy, others said the rent was too high. The first round of stores closed at the Adrian Mall starting in the early 1990s. Uhlman’s shut its doors in 1991. Woolworth shuttered its location in the mall in 1993. Micheal Roberts, one of the original tenants of the mall when it opened in 1969, closed in 1996. In between, smaller stores began to slip out the door, reducing the normal crowds at the mall to the occasional, purposeful shopper or the “mall walker.” Sears’ demise was announced in December 2011. In its place, Hobby Lobby renovated part of the footprint of Sears and moved from its South Main Street location to the mall in the summer of 2013. That year, the mall underwent a $2.5 million partial renovation that converted part of the former Sears store to the new Hobby Lobby. In 2014, the mall went up for sale at an undisclosed price. Equity Group Investments of Chicago, which owned the Adrian Mall, announced the sale. A Texas firm bought the Adrian Mall and announced plans to bring in more anchor stores. In the end, two anchor stores did come to the property, but they were independent transfers of already existing stores in Adrian — Hobby Lobby and Dunham’s. Dunham’s moved into the Adrian Mall in 2016, isolating the north part of the interior mall property at the center court. The several years surrounding the moving of Dunham’s to the mall saw a shift in occupants. JC Penney closed in April 2015. Radio Shack also shut down that year, although Buffalo Wild Wings opened a restaurant on the south side of Hobby Lobby later in 2015. In 2016, Garfield’s restaurant closed and was replaced by S&B’s, which shut down mere months later in early 2017. The end of stores in the mall continued the following year. Claire’s closed in March 2018, as did Elder-Beerman, which came to the mall in 1986 through a $5 million expansion investment on the property. Where the mall has struggled, the smaller “strip malls” in Adrian and adjacent Adrian Township have thrived. In the end, business and economies have ebb and flow — some thrive and weather the storms, and other times, the economic storms are too much and there are casualties. Will the construction and opening of the Hampton Inn at the end of the year on the mall property help jump-start an influx of new tenants in the all-too-many empty shops in the mall? Only time will tell. Business developers, and the general public, are the writers of that next chapter of local history.