Parmatown Mall & Plaza

This place has really gone downhill. I remember as a kid this was the place to go. For the time it was modern, trendy and a nice experience. Over the years other locations popped up and it did not keep up to date. I would say the outer plaza is what people go to now. I did work at both the Higbee’s and Kaufmans stores and it was very busy then.

Looks like Sears on a great day!
Parmatown Mall had it all, from Disney Store to McDonald’s…but both left for greener pastures. No one cares about malls anymore, I feel that Wal-​Mart has hindered the place (damn you, Wal-​Mart)!
The Shoppes of Parma better have life in it… then have someone work with City View Center!

Mall is useless to me without Lids and Macy’s. Hope the renovations they are doing bring it back to life. Penny’s is the only store I go to there now. Food Court is a ghost town.

The area has gone down hill. The mall is a ghost town right now. And there are not many stores left. Hopefully. When the construction is done in 2015 I can re-​review parmatown mall and give them 5 stars! I’m excited to see what the new mall is going to offer!

In its heyday P-​Town mall was the go-​to place for west side, and sadly they rennovated and expanded shortly before the strongsville mall was built. As i see it, PTown was a much better mall than today’s Strongsville Mall. Most of S-​Ville has Parma connections, and frankly they ruined that mall by putting in the behemoth movie franchise and ruining the parking. The P-​Town mall had a movie theater and a warmth to it. Strongsville, is cold, austere, few holiday décor, same old Santa set up in the main court, and frankly too many teens and crummy selections. They even lost their bookstore (Borders) and the lot is vacant for well over a year now. I go to Fairlawn, near Summitt Mall on Rt 18, cheaper sales tax and every, I mean every store and outlet in a one mile area: Home Goods, TJ, Pier One, World Bizzare, JcP, you name it they got… much, less congested traffic as well, Strongsville is a big back up all the time. Loved P-​Town, miss it, hope they make it something nice, maybe a Gym-​Sports Complex like a Life-​Time Fitness might be good and some other specialty stuff. Keep the faith Parma, you’re all right.

The picture above describes exactly the experience you get at Parma Town Mall.
I haven’t been to Parma Town Mall in like 15 years. I had to go up there in a bind because I ran out ofe-​juice from my electric cig. Don’t hate.
This place is a museum of all that is dead in 90’s culture frozen in time in one of northeast Ohio’s most dismal and beaten down areas — Parma.
When I walked in near the «food court» I pretty much heard absolute silence. It’s like the mall from the Tim + Eric movie. There was a table of about 8 elderly people all huddled around having some sort of meeting, a pair of Indian chicks having lunch and a downtrodden old short lady sweeping the perfectly clean floor that did not need sweeping. Amazing.
As I was walking around my footsteps were louder than anything else. No music, no crowd ambiance, nothing. Every store was empty, with employees staring blankly into the void that is employment at this mall. It was phenomenal. The Spencer’s Gifts neon grid sign from the 90’s was still up. I haven’t seen one of those in a decade at least.
I haven’t realy seen anything like it before — there is no reason for this place to exist. Who is running it? how is there any money to keep it going? A cell phone kiosk guy tried to desperately get my attention but I was headed for the 21^st Century Smoke stand right behind him.
I got my e-​liquid and walked around a bit more. The department stores were totally silent, the employees frozen. They didn’t bother to ask if I was looking for anything or if I needed help because they know how hopeless and destroyed the mall is. All of the food court places to eat had employees that were either not at the counter or standing there looking dead. Someone was handing out samples? Why?! Why lose any more money? I can’t imagine how cold they must have been. They were probably from 1998.
I recommend going alone, on a Monday or Tuesday around 1 p.m. for maximum spirit shattering, hope decimating wonder. This isn’t really good for shopping, but it’s definitely amazing for a mortifying experience in dead culture not yet bulldozed.