Midway Mall

Amazing place for the atmosphere in Elyria. The GM Ashley Daniels does a wonderful job putting together a great attentive staff and the place runs like clock work. It’s bar food but backed with incredible service, it’s a great place to grab a drink any day of the week when your in town.

We had fun at the mall today, took a browse around. It’s small, has about 5 jewelry shops, small good court, 3 childplay areas and few basic stores. It was nice. But only 1 level.

Midway Mall use to the shining jewel of 1990’s Elyria. Their has been efforts to try to revitalize the area which has gone through different management over the years. The addition of stores and restaurants surrounding the mall like a Buffalo Wild Wings and Harry Buffalo’s hasn’t done much to attract the customers. Except for Best Buy, the mall is dead. People seem a lot more incline to ride a couple of miles to Crocker Park or Great Northern, both of which has better high quality stores. The city is somewhat to blame as they have never really giving any focus into trying to save Midway during the recession of the early 2000’s. With Sears struggling financially and coming closer to bankruptcy, Best Buy may be the only store there in a year or two
The good news, because the mall is so dead it’s easy to find a parking spot.

I can’t believe all these people are giving the mall 2 stars! Keep driving. Unless you need a new wig, I guess.

This mall used to be really good. It’s gone down hill over the years. Not that many stores I’d shop at here (a side from best buy and maybe Dunham sports). The Food Court is barely there (used to have 8 – 10 places now has like 4).
Just not a whole lot of reasons to keep coming back (at least for me). If there was a closer mall for me to go to then i’d probably go there instead.

2 stars for 2 stores worth going for… Nicole Kays and Basket of Blessings. Same owner…
Otherwise, no reason to waste your time. It is sad for Elyria…

This mall was the place to be back in the early 90s but has fallen on hard times. To many vendors in small kiosks. Lots of «urban wear» shops and the food court is only %50 occupied although it does have excelent chicken teriyaki. It is trying to make a comeback and has a bestbuy and Harry Buffalo. I live nearby and when I feel the need to go to a mall I drive to South Park in Strongsville.

The food court is slowly dissolving. The mall is fairly small, actually it is small. I would suggest going to Great Northern Mall if you want more selections for «mall» shopping. All in all, the main big named stores can be found here, such as Macy’s, JCPenney and Dillards. I personally would rather go to Crocker Park for a better shopping experience and a great day trip. It’s not much further.

Midway Mall is now anchored by Best buy has a lot of athletic shoe stores, urban wear, nail salons, dollar stores, wig shops, stores that don’t exist in other malls, stores where you can see they were once a national store that packed up and left when they raised the rent, but something else moved in and did not remodel much and have a banner covering the old sign.
Sears has a gal that works in the shoe dept. She wears a banana clip with a frozen pony tail! Same lady is still there, she is very friendly and I think she is a vampire maybe a robot because she has not aged or changed
They have a puppymill type pet store by macy’s. It’s pretty sad. Don’t quote me on that, I just get that feeling from the animals they are selling.
Dillards, Gap, Limited, Express, Bakers, gone… Sears is still operating and so is JC Penneys and Macy’s American Eagle is still thriving.
Food court has a vendor in every other space! Mcdonalds left, Taco bell still is open for business woooaaah whhoo (enter sarcasm here) I do highly recommend eating at Sakio Japan.
They did add a buffalo wild wing, Nice place to watch a game or grab some beer and bar food, nothing to write home about
Parking is good because people are affraid to shop and park here. Store any bags, navigational systems, or purse in the trunk. Or do like me and Pack a gun, Last time I was here around noon a car got broken into in broad day light infront of Best Buy.

If you are driving to go shopping, drive further east to the Westfield Great Northern Mall or north to Crocker Park. You should only stop here for a couple of reasons: 1) You need to go to Best Buy, JC Penney’s or Sears or 2) You are happy with the selection of stores here. This mall is going downhill and stores are pulling out. The mall is already down an anchor department store (Dillard’s) and a junior anchor (Steve & Barry’s) due to the economy and it doesn’t look like any other stores will replace them. Macy’s is seriously lacking clothing selection at the mall too. I think Centro should give up on this mall (like Westfield did when they only had the property for 5 years before selling it to Centro).

When I first came to this mall in the nineties, I was in awe of this mall. This mall now is very middle ground and small. I don’t know if they still have the Family Bookstore, this is the only store that I still like.