Showing posts with label Nashville TN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nashville TN. Show all posts

Friday, December 31, 2010

Remembering Bellevue Center Mall: Nashville, TN

It will be awhile before I cover anything in Nashville, but for right now I thought I would highlight a sad chapter in the Nashville area's retail history with Bellevue Center Mall.  Bellevue Center opened in 1990 hoping to bring a new upscale suburban mall to the western edge of the city, but apparently the mall faltered due to lack of growth in the region combined with the explosion of mall competition across the city: most notably the expansion of Mall at Green Hills.  It was a sad chapter with the mall only lasting a mere 18 years once carrying Castner-Knott and Dillard's with room for more.  Closing on May 31, 2008 for re-development that has so far been stalled, these awesome videos give a glimpse of this reasonable attractive, but cursed mall.


Welcome to the mall!! Actually, we take that back...go to Sears or get out.


It reminds me of a country song that goes "The lights are on, but nobody's home".  Except, the lights aren't on and you ain't home.  So go home.


These brave urban explorers search the mysterious second level hoping to find clues on how this place met a bad end.


Guy rides a bike through the mall...it's that dead.  I dare him to try that at the Cool Springs Galleria.  C'mon, it will be fun!

Still can't get enough of this place?  Continue to TheDarkKnight1983's YouTube page for 5 more videos.  As a former tenant in the mall, he tells the story best.