DEAD MALL - Bay City Town Center - Bay City, MI

hey guys i'm in bangor township michigan at the bay city town center they opened in 1991 the original anchors were target which opened in 1990 a little bit before the mall sears hc prang co later yonkers a later expansion added jc penney in 1992. driving around the mall i swore that the penneys was open no it's closed closed in 2020. they did not take their signage down uh the current anchors are hobby lobby dunham sports marshalls ollie's planet fitness and bay city 10 gdx cinema so i'm not really sure what to uh expect i feel like it's going to be not the deadest mall you've ever seen not the most lively mall you've ever seen it's going to be one of those kind of in between malls you know you can kind of tell because when they put like PetSmart and stuff on the outside um Ollie's stuff like that you could sort of tell that they're like they're trying to keep it going but it's not like what it was kind of place yeah so let's go walk around and see if we can find this is going to be the main entrance to the mall I believe which is a little bit weird why it says the Bay City 10 right there like I don't really don't know why i don't know sometimes the malls put they don't put their name right on the entrance nice smells like fresh pop fresh popcorn Tootsie Tarts hopefully there's no Paul Blart Mall Cops uh have you guys seen that movie that's a really good movie is this drywall oh it's dead in here looks like they drywalled off uh wow the little stuff that they put up i like that look at the neons up there. Skittle machine. Disgusting. Ooh, look at this. Those huge ducks. I've never seen, I've never seen big ducks like this. I think they walled off all that right there. Yeah. Spencer's. This place actually, um, it's starting to look cooler as you walk through it. It's pretty dead. I hear a fountain in the distance. I wonder what that was. That's so cool. look at the lights in there oh even cooler look at this art i like the fox that one's really cool my awards go to uh which one do i give the best i want to give it the fox gets number one prize number two prize is this one the michigan one number three prize is actually that one's really good too i kind of i'm gonna give number three that one number four this one and number five you guys know if this is a 1991 decoration hat store was that JCP penny can anyone tell me Bay City Michigan i love Michigan um coming up to Michigan is always like so much fun like especially northern like especially when you get past like upwards you know you start getting more towards like Traverse it's just it's just different see in Ohio we're uh we're more we're more boring like Traverse City is so beautiful um the water's crystal clear the trees are big it's just so much more pretty and i think the people here are nicer as well Marshalls did the new town mall in New Philly do that i think they might have done that same thing yeah this mall's definitely definitely dead but i don't see it going anywhere because they okay so there's a cheerleader camp in there or whatever sports um i don't see them going anywhere because you know they're they're a small town that's using a lot of these spaces up for their community I just don't see it going anywhere let me know if you know anything else and this I don't know what this was it kind of looks like a Sears whoa lunch antique shop it looks like local shop something like that not open Oh Saginaw River Marine Historical society so it's like a kind of like a museum shop looks looks like a food court but uh i see no food i hear banging in there must be something going on in there let me know what storefront that was i don't know what they're doing in there okay coming outside i actually figured out that this is what i said was serious this had to be the target see that had to be they had to be target right I don't know the Sears wasn't red so that had to be right and that's gonna complete my look at the Bay City Town Center in Bangor or the lady that we were the lady heard us talking about the location and she was walking into the PetSmart when I was about to walk into the mall and what she said was she goes Bay City I said I thought it was Bangor or Bangor and she goes no it's Bay City Bangor's a town inside of uh I don't know Wikipedia says it's Bangor uh township the lady locally said it was Bay City I really don't know you know I really don't know um so it's it's one of the two um but anyways oh what is this hallway oh this must be the restrooms hey we actually hold that thought the video's not over yet we gotta do a restroom review this restroom is it's nice I'll give it an A and with that being said I'll see you guys on the next video