Death of Rolling Acres Mall and Chapel Hill Mall, Akron Ohio

With Rolling Acres Mall and Chapel Hill Mall in Akron, OH there are two major problems which has led to the dying of these two malls. Without considering the ability to shop online because Rolling Acres died long before that became a thing. The problems were: safety and crime. In their beginnings both Rolling Acres and Chapel Hill Malls were packed most of the time especially Fridays and Saturdays. Most of the shoppers were women and the stores were mainly geared towards them. Rolling Acres started dying as more and more teenagers and young adults congregated at the main entrance. And though there was mall security they could not keep up with the continued harassment, robbery and outright violence at the Mall. The Mayor at the time did little to stop this problem and left the Mall owners to survive on their own. As time went on robbery became something mall security were encouraged to NOT stop due to possible lawsuits. Thus women became afraid to go there and shops started to close left and right due to crime and no business. This left Chapel Hill Mall and Summit Mall open for the customers. As time went on Chapel Hill suffered the same circumstances Rolling Acres did along with the online market helping to take away customers. The writing was on the wall as once again the past Mayor and current Mayor did nothing to stop the issues with the criminals. But that is Akron for you, a town run by very weak Mayors for the past 30+ years. Now Summit Mall is still open and seems to be thriving as I drive by it regularly on the weekends. Though technically Summit Mall is on the edge of Akron in Fairlawn, OH and it may be that the local police patrol the mall which I have seen in the past. Akron technically no longer has a mall and rightfully so based on the government. Now Akron does have some 'strip' malls but most of them are deteriorated. One mall that also seems to be crazy busy is Belden Village Mall and the area around it, which is in Canton, OH and has about 1/3 the population of Akron. I remember when Rolling Acres was built, I used to go there with my mother on Fridays after grocery shopping. Rolling Acres was just packed with people, and every now and then we'd go to Chapel Hill which too was just packed with people. It is a shame these are gone...Rolling Acres has been demolished except for the old Sears building which now belongs to a trucking company. And Amazon recently built one of their distribution centers right there just south of where the old JCPenney building was located. One of the very few things Akron has ever done right is by getting Amazon to come to Akron. I just thought I'd share some factual knowledge so viewers understand the true demise of these once great malls. The last time I went to Chapel Hill Mall was with my daughter who was 16 or 17 at the time to buy a Halloween costume, and we ate at Sbarro, the mall was technically dead then and that was 4 or 5 years ago. Keep in mind 'I' was there in both malls in their BEST days! I know the videos I watched here on YouTube did the best they could with the information they had available and they were accurate to a degree, BUT I was there and lived it from the '70's up until they closed.

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