Comments on: Security Square Mall; Baltimore, Maryland

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:27:08 +0000

Reading many of your comments has taken me on a trip down memory lane! I remember the movie theater, steakhouse, Victoria’s Secret, The Gap, The Limited, and many more retail stores.

The mall has really changed over the years, and not for the better. I was in the mall over the Christmas holiday and noticed 3 vacant stores! The mall consists mostly of sneaker and mom-and-pop stores. Even though I travel to White Marsh Mall and the Mall at Columbia to my major shopping, I will pop into Security Square Mall to visit Macy’s and Bath & Bodyworks. Oh, and let’s not forget The Great Cookie… home of the best snickerdoodles money can buy!

But seriously, the deterioration of this mall is hurting area businesses along the Rolling Road corridor. At one time, Security Square Mall used to be synonomous with “quality”. Unfortunately, the mall is now a level or two lower than Mondawmin Mall in the minds of many.

By: Tony S

Tony S — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:46:25 +0000

@Kathy,

The restaurant was called the York Steakhouse. It was a cafeteria-styled place. My high school girlfriend and I used to go there all the time in the ’80s.

By: Jonah Norason (Pseudo3D)

Jonah Norason (Pseudo3D) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:43:15 +0000

@comenter,

According to Caldor’s original posting, it seems like its the other way around. The white people seem to stay away because the minorities don’t like them.

By: comenter

comenter — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:57:33 +0000

Wow…people make it sound like white people don’t go here because they don’t want to be around minorities. Perhaps whites and people of many other races don’t go here because of the risk of being a crime victim, and the random shootings that have occurred over the years INSIDE THE MALL. This is the same reason I don’t go to Arundel Mills anymore, which is mostly white. They have an out-of-control crime problem that makes its scary to shop there. Enough with the racism already….geez.

By: Breanna Foster

Breanna Foster — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:25:05 +0000

Hey my name is Breanna but people call me Bre i went to Myrtle Beach in 16th – 20th of August 2009. I meet this boy named Philip he lives in Baltimore, MD he is light skin and 15 with 4 tattoo’s, i have the biggest crush on him and i want to tell him but i don’t think i will ever see him again. My one and only wish is to see him one more time i want to move to Baltimore because it is a beautiful place and i want to see him but Philip if your reading this just please look for me on myspace (Bre Foster) or Tagged (Bre Foster) or even face book or Yahoo (Brebaby546@yahoo.com). You are so sexy and i want to talk to you again i hope you remember me.(at the pool i asked you how many tatto’s you have and yall was throwing me up in the water…remember)

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:00 +0000

I live near this place and I don’t do too much shopping there mostly because of the looks I get when I am there (I’m usually one of 10 white people in the mall at one time) but I do leave satisfied with my purchases. The Old Navy there is rather good and has decent sales. I don’t shop at too many other retailers there mostly being that clothes from “yo’ sistah’s closet” type stores isn’t my thing. When Grand Mart was there I really liked it but they closed down and Seoul Plaza is pretty much a ghost town now. One time I went to the upper level (only one side of the ecscalators work and i couldn’t find an elevator to save my life!) and it was soo damn creepy there! The food court area is very pretty and clean but they only have one food place that might be open. It is really a shame, I really enjoy shopping at asian stores and even the HMart on 40 seems to be suffering a little (their cosmetics section is totally gone!). If they just brought in a more diverse selection of stores and got Seoul Plaza up and running again, the mall would get better again.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:47:16 +0000

I used to work in the Woodlawn area. I would occasionally go to Security mall for lunch. It was never crowded and there was plenty of parking.
While other stores were mobbed during the Christmas season, you guessed it. Not Security Mall.

The stores they offer, i.e., Sears, Macy and Burlington are good. However, they need a ‘Book store’ and a place that offers ‘good coffee’.

They had an independent coffee shop but it was terrible. It was overpriced and the coffee was mediocre.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:28:00 +0000

Security is a terrible mall. Not because of the crowd, but because of the awful store selection. Even Mondawmin Mall has a Forever 21! I believe if they add more popular stores such as Forever 21, Wet Seal, American Eagle etc etc, they would get more foot traffic!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:24:21 +0000

Hello! I remember that there used to be a restaurant within a department store at Security. I want to say it was Hecht’s? It was there in the late 80’s. It is very unusual but everytime I pass the mall from 70, I get the smell of beef vegetable soup from my memory. I would love to know the name of that restaurant within the dept store or am I mistaken where it was outside of the store and call York Steaks? Too young to remember! Thank you!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:02:09 +0000

I just discovered this article yesterday and found it very interesting. Was sorry to hear duing the author’s visit that racial remarks were made toward her by a group of young women. We are very diverse here and respect everyones race, creed , color or belief.

Thanks for you article and hope your future visits will be enjoyable.