Crossroads Mall

This mall is waiting for someone to simply pull the plug and put it out of its misery. They have what appeared to be an entire vacant second floor an most of the first floor was vacant as well. It really is a sad sight to see.

Worst mall in Omaha. Just a real death-​hole. Don’t bother. Awful, dirty, dead. I don’t know what else to say, really, it’s just plain terrible. A waste of space.

Wow, it’s hard to believe this mall is still standing. What was once a bustling mall in the city’s center, Crossroads is now a cavernous ghost town that connects a Barnes & Noble to a Target. Sure, there might be a spattering of oddball stores that come and go as the years pass, but very few destination retailers remain.
Can we bring in the wrecking ball already?

Don’t wander in here if you are looking for a traditional mall. Once anchored by two popular department stores, a victim of changing management and economic times, this mall is now a ghost of its former self. Still, the parking lot along Dodge Street is filled with cars. Why? Target, Barnes and Noble, a limping Sears, and a new ½ of ½ Name Brand Clothing Store which occupies the former Old Navy bay. Three stars because the aforementioned businesses refuse to abandon Midtown, and those of us who live here need somewhere to shop!
If you are a treasure hunter, visit the ½ of ½ Name Brand Clothing store and peruse racks and racks of men’s, women’s and children’s clothing buyouts from department stores all over the country. There are famous name brands not available at other Omaha stores. Some are seconds or returns, but the prices are amazing.
As we wait for the «new» Crossroads, we hope for shopping that meets the needs of the neighborhood and the larger community.

it easy shopping but something they don’t have much sale equal oak view,

Walking into this mall felt like I was in some zombie post-​apocalyptic movie. The place is utterly deserted. Over half the stores are closed or vacant. But hey I got a great parking spot. To bad I was the only there.

Sears, Target, Barnes & Noble, & not one, but two Starbucks! What more could you want?

When I went to this mall I liked the layout. It is a bit small, but nice. half the stores were not open or empty. So I imagine the economy hit this mall pretty hard. I came here because there is a decent barber shop at the front of the mall. It seems to get most of the business at the mall. Westroads would be a better choice if you wanted to go shopping. They do have some stores open, I just can not remember which ones. Oh well.

I needed to go to Target and thought it would be good to come to this location so I can browse around in the mall… My goodness, it was a dead mall… majority of the stores are closed and the ones that are still opened are dead… just depressing…

If you need a deserted mall to film a Post-​Apocalyptic-​Zombie movie, then this is the mall for you!

Crossroads is the type of mall where stores go to die. The only things worth stopping by at Crossroads are the Target and the Barnes & Noble. To go to either one of these, you don’t actually need to step foot in the mall. That’s actually a good thing, since there is nothing of value in the mall itself.
The mall’s outward appearance is hideous. There are two white dome looking things with what appear to be nipples. These actually makeup the ceiling over the food court. From the outside, it looks like a pair of tatas… I’m just sayin’…
Crossroads has definitely seen better days. I don’t know how it could possibly get any worse at this point!

There are only two reasons for me to go to Crossroads Mall nowadays: Barnes & Noble and Target. Even about 10 years ago, my only reason to go to this mall was because I worked at the B&N. There are no stores that interest me here — and Westroads isn’t that far away.
I heard recently they put this building up for auction and not even the current lease-​holders wanted to bid on it. Hopefully they’ll get rid of it and start over because this is prime real estate, in my opinion. Although, I’m not sure how that would work out since Target just recently moved in (I wonder who’s decision that was, btw). Because as a result, now we have an empty Target Store on Saddle Creek, and a new Target in a dying mall… That seems like a lose-​lose to me.

Pros: Lots of room to do something great with
Cons: This mall is dying quickly
A few years ago, when I was bored while doing homework in college, I surfed the net and found something interesting called
, which is a website that talks about malls that are dead or in the process of dying. For Omaha, the infamous Southroads Mall in Bellevue was mentioned. That mall started dying around 1992, when the Oakview Mall opened, taking the growing Southwest population of Omaha with it. If that didn’t kill it, the John F. Kennedy Freeway did. Fort Crook Road was once the main drag to get onto Highway 75, but now people could stay on the Interstate, bypassing Fort Crook Road and hit Highway 75 that way. It killed many of the businesses, especially Southroads, which transformed from a shopping mall into more of a business complex with TD Ameritrade’s Call Center anchoring the center for many years before leaving. Now there’s a gym, some businesses and lots of empty space.
Crossroads Mall, the first major mall to ever open in Omaha and at one time actually considered the inspiration for many modern day malls around the country, is going down the same road as Southroads. It’s death is happening for a few reasons:
1. The over saturation of malls in Omaha. At one time there were five major indoor malls in the Omaha metro area: Westroads, Oak View, Southroads, Crossroads and Mall of the Bluffs. Southroads bit the dust, dropping the number down to four. Three is probably the right number for the size of the population of the city.
2. The changing demographics of the city. During the 1980s and 1990s, many people from the central part of Omaha moved out West to build bigger homes, send their kids to brand new schools and have wide open spaces to live in. A poorer demographic moved in place, bringing new shopping patterns with them and unfortunately, more crime. This turned many people off from going to the mall and drove out some of the higher class retailers (Younkers, Dillards, etc.)
3. Westroads Mall. It’s only 32 blocks away from Crossroads, has a better selection of stores, is cleaner, has a better selection of food choices, is safer, has a movie theater. Overall it’s just a much better mall than Crossroads. Also, Regency, one of the more expensive shopping centers, is right next to Westroads as well.
4. The development of outdoor malls or «lifestyle centers» such as One Pacific Place, Village Pointe, Shadow Lake Town Center, etc. This further saturated the shopping options one has in Omaha.
Overall, the mall suffered through these things and now remains a shallow shadow of itself. Only one eatery remains open in the food court (New York Chicken), most national chains are gone, with only a few nail salons and novelty stores remaining. Sears, Barnes and Noble and Target are the only three anchors left. Me thinks they will stay open while the rest of the mall is bulldozed and converted into either a «Big Box» center or office complex.
The mall made headlines recently for being up from sale. My hope is someone buys it and turns it into something other than an eyesore. The mall is right at the middle of 72^nd street, so it has a great location. If the right owner turns it into something good, it could help liven up an area that desperately needs it.

I almost didn’t review this mall, because, well… everyone else had put it so well that I wasn’t really sure I could do better.
More than half of the shops are closed, and the food court has had the same ‘coming soon’ signs for 5 years… so ‘soon’ is apparently a relative term. The only reason to go there would be to visit the shiny new Target (I bet those execs are kicking themselves in the ass right now) or Barnes and Noble, but the cheaper, cleaner, with better selection Border’s is right across the street; so you probably wouldn’t.
The real reason for this review was so I could rate it one star and hope to drag down the average even more.

When I was a little girl, this was my favorite mall because my mom used to take us down to the croissant shop in the basement for yummy chocolate croissants and other goodies
The croissant shop closed before I was 10, and the mall itself is dying a protracted but steady death. Except for a trip or two each to Dillards, Target, and Barnes and Noble, I haven’t been in there for years. There’s virtually nothing left worth going for.

At some point in your life, you will of necessity come to a crossroads. The fortunate among us may be so lucky as to experience this only once. Not everyone is so lucky, thus many people get to experience the unmitigated horror of encountering numerous crossroads in their journey through life. Robert Frost said of his crossroads, «I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.» Of course, the same could be said by anyone who has ever been mugged in a dark alley. The point being, it is the very nature of a crossroads that there be no single, obviously superior choice.
Instead, those contemplating their fate must stand for a time and gaze into the void, not knowing what lies ahead regardless of what choice is made. Some, paralyzed by fear, stand at that crossroads forever, never realizing that, by not deciding, they have in fact decided. Others push immediately forward, oblivious of cost or consequence. Some of these people occasionally get elected President. The vast middle majority of people stand for a time at that decision gate, fooling themselves into believing that, with sufficient thought and analysis, they can divine what the «right» or «best» choice is. Those who have encountered crossroads before realize, with a wince of pain, that this sort of thinking is akin to waking up in a foreign, jet-​black room, and believing that you can figure out where the light switch is without getting out of bed. The only thing to be done is to make a choice, stumble forward, and be prepared to deal with what comes afterward.
The Crossroads Mall, however, poses a problem of an entirely different nature: how to fulfill your basic shopping needs in a foreign city without going nuts and stabbing a bunch of Cornhuskers. The paltry selection and bland uniformity of the stores will bring you to the brink of raving insanity. The attempt to find basic sustenance will test the mettle and resolve of any decent human. Plus, there’s a Sears.
Avoiding life’s crossroads is an impossible task: they are thrust upon us whether we seek them or not. Avoiding the Crossroads Mall is much easier, and highly recommended.

Want to see a Mall die a slow and miserable death? Head on over to Crossroads. Some people blame it on the fact that Britney Spears made a movie with the same name, but the problems run deeper than that. The food court has only 2 establishments left: a truly mediocre Chinese place and a Chicken joint that I’m pretty sure is a front for organized crime, since I’ve never actually seen anyone eat there. The best store that hasn’t closed down is one of those places that sells knives and swords as well as t-​shirts and blankets with unicorns and wolves on them. If not having customers were a business, business would be booming here. Unfortunately for Crossroads, that’s the opposite of a business.