Northfield Square Mall

This mall has turned into a dead zone. There is practically no stores left or at least no good stores left inside this mall. It’s pretty much abandoned. They have a lot of stores inside the mall that are stores you’ve never heard of before & purely junk is sold inside them. I wouldn’t recommend going to this mall. It’s unfortunate, because this mall used to be pretty popular when I was younger.

Seeing the condition of malls today breaks my heart. This mall is no exception. Unless they find a way to breathe new life into it, it won’t last much longer. At least they have Great Steak & Potato.

For any other remotely-​populated area, I’d give this 2 stars. Seeing as community development in Kankabourboley is pretty sucky though, we’ll give it a 3-​star rating.
Positives: There actually ARE a lot of okay places in here. I’m not going to say the place is *sufficiently* equipped with shops, but if I ever needed to go clothes shopping, I’d probably come here. Maybe I’m just impressed by the fact they have an Express, I don’t know.
Negatives: Stores are leaving, because they are realizing how much of a fail this mall is. I don’t know why the mall is failing, because the teenage angst in this area is probably one of the highest in the area… can’t go anywhere without running into a mob of North Face’d white kids enjoying their daddy’s money. Throw in Olivet students on top of that, and this mall should be hopping. If anything negative is to be said about this point, it might just be terrible management and marketing of the mall in general. (Not that I mind much — I’d rather have no people than a bustling mall, personally.)
Unfortunately, the clientele reflects the cruminess of the mall. It’s about a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ toss up of whether or not you’ll see a mall cop chasing around some loser kid that doesn’t have anything better to do with life than shoplift or just be a general nuisance.
All in all, if you’re dying for a mall to power-​walk through with all of your granny friends, Northfield is here for you. But probably not for long.

A pretty dhitty and depressing place. As a kid in the 90s, it was awesome, but I’ve by one all the cool stores closed. By the mid-​2000s the place was the shithole it is today. There are some good stores, but they will more than likely close. I’m pretty sure the department store anchors are what keep the place open. If things don’t change there quickly, this place will be an abandoned building within the next few years. If you’re looking for good food though, check out the Great Steak and Potato Co. in the food court.

This mall has declined to just about nothing since it’s opening in October of 1990. They fountains have been replaced with potted plants and the stores have slowly closed their doors.
The anchors of the store are Carson’s, JC Penny, Sears, and Movies 10. Pretty much the only reason I step foot in the mall is to go to Bath and Body Works and Victoria’s Secret. Sometimes the Buckle.
If you’re looking to waste time or do some major shopping, head up to Orland or over to Merrillville.

Sad. Carson’s always has good sales. Besides that this mall sucks.

This mall is terrible, but I give it two stars because it still has a few decent stores left, but they seem to drop like flies. I love love love malls and I live close to this one but I can hardly spend more than an hour there before I’m completely bored out of my mind. Needs a lot of work.

You know the mall is bad when stores are constantly looking to get out of it.
And segway mall cops… seriously?
There’s really nothing special about the mall. Stores come and go like seasons. The only thing I like in the mall is Sborro’s pizza.

It’s kinda like an old woman who you can tell was quite extraordinary back in the day, but, like this mall, she has let herself go. That’s the best way to describe it.
There are still a few decent stores but not enough for anyone to actually travel to. If you’re in the area, you’d be better off going out to the Kohl’s or Target shopping complexes which have all the stores that left the mall after they got sick of dealing with the Simon corporation. And no, that’s not a joke. The stores all moved out leaving a deserted mall with only about half of its occupancy filled.
These are the stores that you’ve actually heard of that are still in the mall– 2 Carson’s stores, JcPenney, Bath and Body Works, Victoria’s Secret, GameStop (skip this one, the one by Kohls has a better selection. or so my video-​gaming nerd boyfriend tells me), Express, The Buckle, and Maurices remaining. There are a few chain stores I failed to mention but nothing too noteworthy.
If you are looking for the true mall experience, the closest mall I’d recommend would be Orland Mall.