Steeplegate Mall - Concord, NH | a dead mall shuttered at age 33 - Phase VI Finale | ExLog 115

I'm a year older, Marna is completely unhinged, malls are closing everywhere, eggs are expensive, and taxes suck...but I have all of you lovely subscribers who watch my content, and I appreciate you all for it. If you aren't subbed, you can make it my birthday present, it's free. Also...stay tuned to www.salvatoreamadeo.com/ for MERCH UPDATES! Mall leaf bookmarks are nearly ready to ship, and I'm going to start 3D printing Mall Dioramas :)

Born and raised in New Hampshire. I grew up about 25 minutes Northwest of Concord, and now I live in Concord. The mall was the lifeblood of the region. Most towns around Concord have fewer than 5,000 residents and there isn’t much to do, so going to Concord was a huge part of your childhood. The Steeplegate was an important part of my childhood and it really sucks to see it like this.

Wow you found a payphone in the wild haven't seen one in years

Damn smart alecs on the slopes!

I actually got to walk around Steeplegate's interior in the last few days before it closed. Was a spooky experience; all the remaining tenants were already gone, and it was just me and a thoroughly disinterested security guard back in the former food court. It's been almost a year, and nothing seems to have been done with the property. The city government is pissed, as it's a prime commercial building sitting empty, and Namdar basically refuses to communicate with them. The exterior tenants are all still going, although at this point I don't think they're long for this world. Namdar's pattern seems to be to buy a mall, slowly kill it, then demolish it and sell the land it was sitting on; I'm really hoping the city steps in to prevent that. There was talk of turning the building into mixed residential-commercial space, which would be cool!

I live local to the Steeplegate Mall. JC Penney, Talbots, The Zoo gym, and an indoor trampoline park is all that is open now. The mall is closed to any inside access. These businesses remain because they have exterior door access. Not sure what the owners have in store for the mall going forward.

Hahaha the gentleman at 3:57 describing the snow surfers.....we have a lot of these smart alecks now a days. 😂 "its going to be more hassles" and "we would like to say we dont want them at all". 😂

Many christmas shopping ventures as a kid with my mom in this mall. I still remember how they used to decorate it with a giant wreath hanging below the center glass sky tower, and fancy decor throughout while playing holiday music with the soft lighting proving a warm/inviting glow in the late evening. Sad to know those memories won't be passed down to my own kids.

I work nearby & drive by this mall everyday....the area nearby is thriving even though the mall is dead....08-18-23

I absolutely love how you put these videos together! The history, narration and other vintage ads etc. Really well done! ❤😊

nice video as always, that snowboard CBC report was legit hilarious

Another splendid reflection of a well conceived facility which met its demise before its due. As always, appreciated your weaving in local cultural themes as in this case, the skiers vs. snowboarders conflict which I hope has since achieved a détente which seems to be the case here in Colorado.

I’ve lived a few towns away from Concord all my life, it’s been sad to see this mall degrade so much over the years. It used to be so lively, but not anymore.

Ha, I can't believe lift operators refused to let snowboarders on the lifts. Different times indeed.

I’m a Concord native and have a lot of ties to this mall. My mother was pregnant with me working at the Regis Salon, we got my first dog Blue at the pet store that used to be there, I had my first kiss outside JCPennies on a picnic table, I walked my first and only runway when Maurice’s opened, I remember getting my first cell phone case at one of the kiosks, I remember when Limited Too closed and because my mom and I were frequent shoppers we managed to get one of the big leather chairs from the store… I always thought as a teenager I’d be working there for sure, but alas, the mall died down just as I was entering high school 😢 I miss that place. I can still hear the sounds of my heels clicking against the tile and can imagine looking up at the skylights to check the weather outside.

Oh my gosh! I live about 30 minutes from there! Now I want to check it out. New subscriber, hooked.

No shortage of dystopian movie sets.

I spent my teens growing up in NH, and I spent so much time at that mall! It feels like a bit of my youth had disappeared

I worked in the mall during the pandemic in the abandoned Old Navy for the state. The main area is abandoned with the excecption of a Verizon store. The surrounding area has a successful gym, a trampoline park, and a small play theater. I wish they would turn the inside into a distribution center or something. They did that with an old BJ's in Hooksett.

With the news that Walmart is closing a number of stores, mostly in urban areas, times are a changing. In my travels, I've seen shuttered Walmart Super Centers and even a Lowe's. I don't visit malls anymore like I did before Covid. For some reason Covid changed my shopping habits for good. I have to admit I use online shopping now, except grocery shopping., And trips to Home Depot. I do love watching your mall videos a lot, and look forward to each and every on, although they make me sad.