Oakdale Mall - Raw & Real Retail

This is our walkthrough of the Oakdale Mall in Johnson City, NY from June 27, 2019. This is a fairly run of the mill mall in the Binghamton, NY area. It has suffered along with most other malls these days a pretty bad case of anchoritis, with three of the five anchor spots sitting vacant. On either end you had a fair bit of deadness surrounding the empty anchors but in the center the mall is quite lively and pretty full. All in all, I really didn't feel one way or another towards this mall. It is struggling for sure, but not dying. If the owners can't find uses for the empty anchors soon, though, this may change.

** Despite Dan Bell doing a video on this place, this is NOT a dead mall. I don't care what he says.

Songs used in this video (in order):

Nick Ingman - Heartbeat
Syd Dale - Sidewalks Of The City
Raskovich - Vedo Nero!
Steve Gray - Wonder Groove
Steve Gray - Reach Out

There is very little information to be had online about this mall. The one thing I found was a link on labelscar that is a 404 now. The wayback machine did come to the rescue, though, and here is a portion of that 2005 Daily Star article.

https://web.archive.org/web/200603032...

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I'd like to say a few words about being an ambassador to your local malls. We have been taking the time to visit all the malls within a reasonable driving distance to check up on them and see how they are doing. Also filming an updated video every year or so, regardless of the lack of many changes, just so there is a video record of the health over time. We think this is an important thing to keep tabs on, especially in these wildly turbulent times. The current health emergency has accelerated the impending Retail Apocalypse we've all been talking about these last several years. This was already a big problem, but the shutdowns and restrictions have made the issue 5x worse and likely hastened the death of the enclosed shopping mall.

I know we've all been on pins and needles wondering how bad the fallout is going to be from all of this.

There really is no way to know exactly unless we ALL go and do our small part to make it known how it turns out. I implore you, if you have the means to pick an area you would like to be an ambassador for, and go document your local malls. Whatever your medium, it doesn't matter, any and all documentation is necessary and vital in this day and age. Whether it be on Social Media, Flickr, Youtube, any platform gets it out there and preserves it for posterity. We can't paint this picture unless we all grab a brush...


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