Comments on: Rolling Acres Mall; Akron, Ohio

By: Jackson Harris

Jackson Harris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:17:32 +0000

I still dont know why the building is still there. No plans have been made yet, its just sitting there like a rock! but Sears and JCPenney are still there.

I heard that JCPenney Outlet is doin a hell of a buisness right now, sears isnt doin too bad.

plans need to be made for this place, i heard a recreational center was supposed to be put in, but i think that dropped.

If i bought the place, i would use it as an arena for sports events. I would even put in a ice hockey rink in the old target store. LOL

Put in batting cages, BIG SCREEN TV’S!, locker rooms for the hockey rink, recreation center ad much more. But It would be hard cleaning that big place and stuff like that. The memberships would be high!!

Im serious. To keep that building in shape the prices would be quite high!

By: Jackson Harris

Jackson Harris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:11:16 +0000

@JACK,

JCPenny Outlet and Sears are still there, but Macy’s closed

By: Prange Way

Prange Way — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:39:01 +0000

Yes, of course it’s safe!

By: L.

L. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:54:34 +0000

I just got an interview at the sears in Rolling Acres Mall. Do you think it is legitimately safe to work there??

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:34:30 +0000

For dinner this evening, I stopped in to Eli’s Big Star Pizza. (Now in Copley near the circle) Mary is right: His menu is everything he had in both restaurants in the mall plus a lot more. He’s added quite a few Lebanese selections as well. I’ll have to try some of those next time, since I had to have the pizza today.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:32:57 +0000

Hi all,Well Eli finally got his pizza place open in Copley.He said his menu will be triple what he had at Rolling Acres Mall.I wished him luck and will be going out to see him.

By: dragonmere

dragonmere — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:20:37 +0000

I am so glad I ‘obtained’ several pieces of the mall. I have a floor tile from around the fountain, a letter from the marquis of the cinema, one of the large “rules” posters, a blank “rolling acres” poster, and (though I have misplaced it at the current moment,) a piece of the aluminum criss-cross ceiling. I will cherish these relics until the day I die.

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:54:21 +0000

@JP, I know what you mean! My local Waldenbooks that first opened in my tween years(and opened as far back as the rest of the mall did) disappeared last fall, as part of the nationwide round of store closures. It was the location at Lincolnwood Towne Center, which opened in 1992, and this mall has been owned by Simon for its entire life(and since the mall’s completion in IIRC, ‘92).

It was slightly surprising to me it lasted as long as it did, due to the fact there’s a regular Borders just over a mile south of there for years. The Chicago area is now down to 2 Waldenbooks as a result of the closures last fall(one being a converted Borders Express at Chicago Ridge Mall, and a unconverted Waldenbooks at the downtown Ogilvie Metra station/terminal). If infrequent Waldenbooks store closures here and there(and probably b/c of expiring mall leases) continue to occur, I would(sadly) not be surprised.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:07:07 +0000

I suppose this is off-topic, but the Waldenbooks at Great Northern will be gone forever in 6 days. I was there today (10-20).

It was operating from at least as far back as 1993. I remember being in school and shopping there back then.

Kind of a shock to see it on the way out. The rest of Great Northern appears to be doing fine, but this is another loss of a childhood hangout.

By: Ralph Gantz

Ralph Gantz — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:58:45 +0000

My question is do they still have Mall security and the food mall?