Comments on: Fremont Mall; Fremont, Nebraska

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:22:40 +0000

I agree with (the Janitor from scrubs),
Crossroads is dying.
They still have a few shoe stores, Sears, Victoria Secret, a Nail shop, Like 3 kinda big urban clothes stores, claires, some mom and pop stores and the target that janitor talked about but thats pretty much it.
all of the the food court is dead,
and even Old Navy and lady foot locker within the last 2 months packed up and left.
It really sucks cause I don’t want to travel all the way to westroads and oakview.
And talking about westroads reminds me of the murders that sadly happened the other year in von maur (God help the love ones of the victims). Sadly that scared alot of people away from shopping in that mall. so now alot of people now go to Oak view which is not a good mall the layout is all wrong! and don’t even talk about mall of the bluffs…
gotta go….
hope crossroads isn’t history..

By: jody

jody — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:02:28 +0000

The mall needs to close down. Whats the point going to the mall when theres stuff on the internet to buy alot cheaper. I shop at tj max since they have all the name brand stuff that old people and the younger people will like

By: The Janitor (from scrubs)

The Janitor (from scrubs) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:54:22 +0000

I bet people don’t go to that mall anymore because they can just go to the malls in west omaha like oakview or westroads, or village point.

But you should do one on crossroads mall in omaha. I went there so many times when I was little with my parents. I have fond memories of that mall. Now the mall is slowly dying away. Stores have left and many places are vacant. The food court has no more restaurants, except for an Imperial Palace and some low key ny chicken place. The entire upstairs north wing has no stores there & is deserted. A target was put in where a Younkers was, but that didn’t boost the mall, and now the Dillards went so I dont know what will happen. The stores are all discount cheap stores and there isn’t much traffic there. Now people go to westroads mall.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:59:21 +0000

That mall’s JCPenney is really retro. It has all of the 60’s style carpet and wall treatments. Tempo was a mid-sized retail chain that spanned across the entire midwest. A nearby town Columbus had one in the 30 Center Mall from 1964-1981. It was later replaced by Pamida. Beatrice, NE also had a Tempo in its Indian Creek Mall.

By: Nathan Bush

Nathan Bush — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:09:25 +0000

This mall reminds me very much of the South Park Mall in Spencer, Iowa. Approximately 200 miles away from Fremont, this mall in a small regional town of twelve thousand, with the nearest city with 50,000 people is at least 100 miles away, this town’s mall is fairly decent, with a number of stores to keep shoppers satisfied. Anchored with Dunham’s Discount Sports and JCPenney (ShopKo was the other anchor until it closed in the early 2000s), and remodeled in 2007, it makes for a somewhat decent shopping experience…

I got my tour of this mall on my Flickr photostream if you wanna check it out…here it is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21241102@N00/sets/72157613460233507/

Hope you enjoy it and I appreciate your comments!! And any info on the mall would be great, also. Thank you!

By: JP

JP — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:03:43 +0000

For what it’s worth….found another 60s-era Penney’s sign on Google Street View…it’s at a downtown store in Great Bend, Kansas:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Great+Bend,+KS&sll=36.727173,-97.065217&sspn=0.008479,0.019312&ie=UTF8&ll=38.36656,-98.762927&spn=0.016588,0.038624&z=15&layer=c&cbll=38.366575,-98.762792&panoid=1bSJ7OWIIYMYvRGT5DlvZQ&cbp=12,324.6679516001955,,0,-1.0570925857413862

There are newer signs on the other sides of the building.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:25:07 +0000

As a lifelong Fremont resident, it is interesting to see all of the comments here. It seems to me that business has been picking up at the Fremont mall the last few years. I don’t think that Nebraska sports will be pulling out of the mall soon, they are headquartered in Fremont.

I’d also like to add that part of the original movie theater used to be a bar. Tom Tom lounge, I believe. It’s been gone since before I could drink, but I definitely remember it being there.

A lot of the reason some of the stores left is because the rent was being charged the same as an Omaha mall, and the business doesn’t warrant that amount.

Used to be a nice bookstore that I enjoyed, and the Gladrags store just relocated to the other side of the hall and reopened as Schweisers. That location was a Bugle Boy store for awhile.

Gordmans has been there for as long as I remember (used to be called Half Price Store, the whole chain changed names), Radio Shack, The Buckle (used to be called Brass Buckle), and Maurices, too. Claire’s, Bath and Body, and GNC have been there for quite awhile…at least 10 years I would say.

Not a terrible mall, but would have a lot more if Fremont were the same size but farther from Omaha.

Thanks for listening

By: GLS

GLS — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:15:40 +0000

Randomly found this website..interesting. I am a current Fremont NE resident. I have never heard so many nice things said about our Mall. I would imagine that the reason that the signs have not changed is because J.C Penny’s probably doesnt know that this store is still open:) I rarely see any customers in there and have heard it is on the chopping block every year.
Part of the reason some of the smaller stores left is because of the outrageous rent the Mall requires. You could build a new building with the amount they charge. (Walgreens) actually did build a new building. As soon as the Nebraska Sports (sporting goods) decides to leave, or goes out of business,…the mall will be closed. The movie theater cant keep the mall running by iteself.
Neat photos though.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:06:09 +0000

I can add my perspective from having worked for the mall management in he summer of 1977 (after 2 years at local Midland Lutheran College). I can affirm Scott’s posting that at that time the mall was owned by Melvin Simon, since that is who issued my paychecks. That is an indication of how busy the mall was. It was a bustling place then. Busy all day long. It is good to see how nice the interior looks. When I worked there, the floor of the mall was painted concrete. I was quite familiar with that floor because the last 1 1/2 month of that summer I worked nights cleaning the mall, which included mopping and buffing that floor.
I can affirm the sparse parking lot because I was in Fremont for a day or so last summer and saw what the photos showed.
My brother has lived in Omaha for 30 years and he has told me that the first thing that hurt the mall’s business was the opening of a WalMart about 2 miles east on Highway 30 near where the new 2 lane bypass was built. Unfortunately most of the in-line tenants between the anchors moved the the strip center with the WalMart, leading to the sleepy state it is in. I think the mall has never quite recovered because that 2 lane bypass highway is now improved to 4 lane interstate standards and all of the many retail centers of West Omaha are only 30 minutes away.
Part of what kept the mall busy 30 years ago was the business from all of the small town within 20 miles of Fremont. I think most of those people now jump on that interstate-like bypass and are in West Omaha instead.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:41:41 +0000

There is a Schweser’s store in my hometown of Atchison, Kansas, two hours south of Omaha. It resides in a former Stage store location. I’ve never visited Fremont Mall but many years ago wasn’t it owned by Melvin Simon & Associates, now Simon Property Group? Also – does anyone remember when The Buckle was called “Brass Buckle?”