Comments on: Eastland Mall; Charlotte, North Carolina

By: qC

qC — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:26:13 +0000

ummm ok stop being dumb maybe people wanna skate because we dont have SNOW all year round! like yah peoples

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:45:51 +0000

So the Eastland Mall link no longer directs to the Eastland Mall Charlotte website, but to the Columbus, Ohio one.

By: Reyna

Reyna — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:37:11 +0000

That mall has been in decline a long time ago, beginning with demographic changes in East Charlotte. Nobody dared to say that there were a rash of serial murders in East Charlotte back in the early 1990s. That area was turning working class to low income back then.

One of the serial killer’s victims was urged by her mother to buy a gun because the neighborhood where she worked was getting dangerous. Hence, seeds of the destruction of Eastland Mall were sown in the early 1990s. Eventually that killer was arrested, confessed to killing 10 women during the two-year period, and was sentenced to death in January 1997.

From 1994 onwards, Eastland mall’s reputation was tarnished for good. Gangs, problem people, and criminals were taking over, slowly during the 90s but increasingly in this millenium.

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:06:34 +0000

Deadmalls.com has posted this mall is closing in March

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:38:50 +0000

When I was little, my teenage brother would beg Mom to drive almost an hour for his back-to-school shopping because Eastland was the place for cool clothes. When I was in college (Late 80s) I worked at JCPenney in Eastland and it was still very vibrant, but SouthPark was by then becoming the more upscale and fashionable mall. Now it’s just scary, but it’s not only the mall but all the strips around it. That whole side of town needs reinvestment. The talk of using government funds to build upscale housing on the mall site, thinking that will somehow stimulate the surroundings, scares me though – anybody driven through Citiside lately? Bet you didn’t get out and walk.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:20:53 +0000

My wife and I were trying to kill some time before our flight out of Charlotte. She punched “malls” into our rental’s GPS and randomly chose this mall as the one we’d go to. The mall was in disrepair and clearly dying economically. We took a walk through the mall and I can safely say that there was nothing I would buy.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:40:40 +0000

I find it laughable that the stores on the website refer to the rink as a “soccer rink”. Too little, too late.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:20:11 +0000

I went to Eastland last weekend. Most of those stores in the pictures are gone- the Foot Fettish (sic) closed, as did the Radio Shack and others.

By: Becky

Becky — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:51:13 +0000

I’m in agreement with Blair. I, too, was a student at UNC-Charlote in the late ’70’s. The eastside was the happening place to be in Charlotte. I’ll never forget Christmas shopping at Eastland back then and how crowded the parking lot would be. I even worked at Ivey’s (before Dillards) in the mid-’80’s. It was still pretty nice at that time but, looking back, it was slowly going down. How things change in this city:(

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:04:47 +0000

Sorry, I hadn’t seen Grocerying’s post about the Sears closing- Grocerying is correct.

The ice rink is gone too.