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New life possible for Northeast Ohio mall which was once the world's biggest
South African developer hopes the mall will be model for dead mall reuse
by WKSU's KEVIN NIEDERMIER


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Village of North Randall Mayor David Smith (L) and developer Neill Bernstein hope the abandoned Randall Park Mall will become a template for Bernstein's vision to revive dead malls as money making multi-use facilities.
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 A South African developer hopes an abandoned Northeast Ohio shopping mall will be the model for dead shopping mall re-development across the country.   WKSU’s Kevin Niedermier reports that the concept is not to bring back retail…but to turn old malls into multi-use facilities that drive economic futures.

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In the 1970s, several stores had two locations in the mall due to its size: one on the upper level, one on the lower.
The front of the original General Cinema, circa 1988.  It closed in 1993, and was eventually succeeded by the Magic Johnson Cinema in 1999.
A view from the inside of the General Cinema (1988), looking out to the mall.  The steep steps led from the tiny front entrance up and into a separate wing housing the theater and concession stand.
Urban explorers took this photo in 2007 from the roof of the abandoned hotel (once a Days Inn) adjacent to Magic Johnson Cinemas.
Ariel view of the former Days Inn.  In the 1990s, there was talk of transforming it into a yoga center, but the title to the property has been embroiled in legal red tape for 2 decades.
The mall in the mid-2000s.  About a dozen shops remained until 2008, when closure was first announced.
Church In the Mall opened in the mid-2000s and was considered a revolutionary concept at the time.  They hung on until the mall was sealed shut in 2009.
The abandoned Randall Park Mall.
 
 

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