Canton Centre (Mellett) Mall: The Little Mall That Couldn’t

“Why am I still here.”- Canton Centre Intro and Mall Information: Canton Centre Mall formerly known as Mellett Mall, opened in 1965 as an open-air shopping center. The Mall’s history goes far back beyond 1965 though, way back to the year 1926. The name Mellett was in honor of a Canton newspaper journalist named Donald […]

Westland Mall: Abandoned Wasteland

“I was once one of three directional malls in Columbus. Though I was sent off to mall heaven, my corpse will remain in light.”- Westland Mall Backstory: Last weekend I decided to venture home to Cincinnati to visit my family and take a little day trip down to yeehaw Tennessee, but on my way I […]

SouthPark Mall Review (Strongsville, OH)

“Wait a minute, Cleveland. Are you telling me you built a shopping mall… on the site of what was going to be the Browns new stadium?!”- Marty McFly The quote above is actually true. This land was purchased originally by Cleveland Browns’ former owner Art Modell in the ’80s with a secret plan to build […]