Meadow Glen Mall

Get your kicks in while you can; the Ghetto Glen is officially closing its doors by February 2016. Anchor stores Marshalls and Kohls will remain; the mall space is slated to become a Wegmans. Yay!

This is the end «old friend», RIP since at the end of 2015, the MGM will be no more and become a Wegmans grocery store.

Pros: Marshall’s, Kohl’s, T-​Mobile, Famous Footwear and Footlocker, Dunkin’s, and Zaika
Cons: dim lighting, weird odors, and rude mall goers

Small mall but Good place to get good deals without spending too much money. My very favorite place to eat is the Zaki taste of india. They have good good there. I love the samosa chat. Also I like to shop at Marshalls and khols.

How long will it take to shut down Red Persimmon Nail Salon??? I love coming to this mall, It’s a great community mall, but this place must go. I have lived in Medford for over 7 years. I consider this mall –my mall.
Everytime I think this nail salon is improving I get more disappointed everytime I try to give it another chance. I went to get my nails done this weekend. The woman did a horrible — horrible job. She literally wet my feet — dried my feet — and put nail polish on my toes. Prior to paying for my pedicure, I explained to the nail tech that I was not pleased with my pedicure. I explained that I had to leave to take care of my baby. She told me «you no like — you come back I do again». In short, I came back and waited 30 minutes. About 5 minutes after being told to pick out a color I was informed by the owner I was not going to get my pedicure redone. I asked for my money back and that’s when the circus begin. I have never been in such an unprofessional place. I had the owner and her twenty something year old daughter screaming at me telling me stating they’re not going to refund my money and that my nails look fine. Then to add insult to injury, I was called old, I was called ugly, and I was called fat by this young girl. At that point I made my complaint to the mall manager.
If you are planning on going to the mall, and decide you want to get your nails done do not go here. There is a nail salon on the other side of the mall that does a much better job and has extremely — extremely professional staff. Clearly by all the other comments listed on Unilocal it doesn’t seem like things have changed.
Hopefully with new mall management we can get another professional company to take that space. Medford is an up-​and-​coming area, and this nail salon is only bringing the mall-​a mall further further in the ground. Mall Management — it’s time to get the old out and come in with the new.

This is the worst mall freaking anywhere. The Meadow Glen Mall is like a ghost town and the second you walk in a big dark cloud of depression and despair follows you until you leave. Honestly, I have never seen a more despondent working staff in my life. Even if you are into people watching, stay away! You will get too depressed. Everyone I know originally from Medford always defends this mall, but let’s be real. This mall is not what it used to be and will never be it again… it’s game over for Meadow Glen. K.O.
I have been hearing for years that they want to tear this mall down and turn it into a Walmart. Say what you will about Walmart, but at least it wouldn’t be a mall that looks like a perfect location to shoot «The Walking Dead» in.

I like this mall because I live pretty close to it and I like the buffet and food court there. However I am disappointed that they have not changed or added new stores into the mall. Otherwise, it is fine.

This Review is for the People’s Electronic store only. The place is horrible, do not go there. They take way too long to fix a broken screen (ipad mini). Initial estimate was same day and it took three weeks and many phone calls. They lost the case that it came in with. LOST. They are not returning my calls or text messages. Horrible.

Have you seen those commercials that ask where depression hurts? Well, the answer is the Meadow Glen Mall.
This mall used to be great back in the day before online shopping and some of the other shopping centers in the area, but recently it is beginning to look like a ghost town.
Every time we visit, more stores are closed and everything in the mall is falling apart. The main store here is Kohl’s, and in comparison to others in the area, it’s a joke. The food court is a shell of what it used to be and some of the small mom and pop shops have gone under.
The only real restaurant in this mall is Home Town Buffet, and to be honest this is one of the only redeeming factors.
In the end, this is a sad mall which used to be better. I hope that at some point they find a way to revive it.

Very hard to rate with Stars… This mall is a mess. I enter the mall entrance, turn right and stay on that side only… Shop «Kohl’s», and the nail salon. I always do well in this Kohl’s that has great selection, mark-​downs, lots of choices, and attracts a better class of customers than in the rest of this Mall. The food court attracts happy seniors who seem to come every day to socialize.
However, the food court is sad… Panda Express, Dunkin Donuts, unappetizing pizza shop that doesn’t seem to attract any customers, and a new Indian restaurant. Even «Friendly’s» and «McDonald’s» flew this place. Now, that’s saying something!!!
Stores to the left are strange – Not a Dollar store, a «threading» place, Asian gifts, massage, etc. This «Marshall’s (which I usually like) is unorganized, messy, and has few selections…
I hope someone rejuvenates this mall, ’cause, unlike the new Assembly Stores, it’s a closed mall, which makes MGM /​Koh’s a good place to shop in cold, snowy or super hot weather. Spending time writing this in hopes that someone takes it over…

i rarely find myself at meadow glen… not since the good old jr high years of structure and stores that you have heard of before… sometimes you just have to run to marshalls or kohls has a clearance … but low and behold the last gem of the mall is gone… where the hell is the mcdonalds… that’s it lock the doors

Ghetto glen has a very interesting mix of stores. I wouldn’t go here if you’re looking to go on a shopping spree. The clothing stores are pretty low quality but I like the Marshalls and kohls. I look it as free entertainment walking through this mall.

Seriously? I mean, seriously? This place is like the fifth ring of hell.
There’s a Marshalls, a truly pointless experience in shopping, (even as compared to other Marshalls), unless you’re looking for small picture frames or random, unexpected kitchen-​ware. And there’s a *very* small Kohls that seems to stock more JC Penny-​type items than Kohls… well, anywhere else does.
There used to be a party store that stocked exactly the same crap that every other party store has, except their staff was inefficient and mostly not so competent. Hmm… Who could have predicted they would go out of business?
This place can’t even keep a Spencer’s open. Really.
And, no, the food court is not «decent,» per another reviewer. It’s grotty.
The remainder of open stores are a revolving stage of even-​more-​awful flea-​market ugggggh.
My first interaction with this place was years ago, when I had to call the police after witnessing a huge guy punching a woman full on in the face in the parking lot. Yeah. Though I haven’t personally witnessed *much* violence since (bad parenting aside), my experience hasn’t changed, materially. Ghetto Glen, no doubt.

What a weird mix of stores. What they have in common is that they are full of bickering families and the stale smell of recycled air.
You’ll find a few deals here, but they are in between a lot of cheap merchandise.
Come for the Marshalls or Kohls, but if you venture in between these bookends, be warned!

Oh what can I say about the Ghetto Meadow Mall (or the «Ghetto Glen Mall» as many call it).
This is a sad mall now. Only because when I first moved here 15 years ago, this was a very hip and happening mall. They had many national chains inside the Mall (i.e. Old Navy, PacSun, Bath and Body Works, CVS, Spencer’s, etc) and it was THE place to shop.
BUT as better shopping centers were built, many tenants closed and moved out. (Old Navy and Bath and Body Works moved to the Gateway Center). Others, due to the tough economic times, have gone bankrupt or just closed up shop.
Today this mall is anchored by a Kohl’s (ex Bradlees) on one side, and a Marshall’s on the other. The stores inside the mall are sad. Yes there’s still Radio Shack and iParty, but besides those two, there’s only a small handful of national retailers left.
If a store front isn’t closed up, it’s then occupied by some shady fly-​by-​night store selling closeouts, or damaged merchandise, or rugs, or bad knock off shoes, or cheap clothes.
As far as food in the food court. There’s Panda Express, a Dunks, and a McDonald’s. The mall used to have a Friendly’s but that closed in the last round of Friendly’s store closure. There is an Old Country Buffet at the other end of the mall next to Marshall’s also.
I’m not sure if the Ghetto Meadow meets the criteria of a «Dead Mall» but it certainly seems like its heading in that direction. Which is funny in itself, because when this mall opened in 1979, its competition was the Assembly Square Mall (which by the late 1990s was a dead mall), AND to a lesser extent the CambridgeSide Galleria (opened in 1990). Funny how this mall took off, killed the Assembly Square Mall, and now it’s a dead mall itself (and Assembly Sq is having a revival of sorts right now).
Honestly, I am waiting for the mall owners to evict everyone, level the mall, and turn it into either a big box retail center (like Gateway Center) OR sell it to a developer who most likely would build a Station Landing type complex. It would be far better suited that what is there now.
I’m giving this mall two stars because it’s such a sad state.

I used to come here as a kid and it was pretty cool. Times have been tough for this place though.
There’s a lot of ghetto shops in here, the types of stores you’ll see on the Jersey Boardwalk if you know what I mean. The food court’s decent and there are good stores here and there but overall, this isn’t a mall I’d recommend.

IT’S THE LITTLE MALL THAT COULD.
I only stop here for the Marshalls shoe dept. and iParty. Spencer’s Gifts closed & I don’t shop at Tellos (hey that rhymes).
What a sad little mall. Keep your head up, sad little mall.

I rarely buy anything here, but I always enjoy coming. The food court is full of happy, chatting, smiling people. I have to come here sometimes with someone else, and being here puts me in a good mood.
It has a lot of character. There’s the fun/​sketchy smoke shop, the oversized discount shoe place across the mall from there, the place that sells stuff you can get in Chinatown, the really cheap book place, and the tiling place that looks like it’s falling apart and closed but isn’t. Always nice little worlds to visit for a few minutes.
It’s got a subtle, magic vibe. I was thinking recently that I’d be really sad if they closed this down.

I made my first-​ever trip to the Meadow Glen Mall the other day because I needed to pick up a few things from Gamestop. Alright, maybe I didn’t exactly NEED them, but whatever. Details. Anyway, my first impressions of the mall weren’t great. It’s a pretty bleak place — rundown and kinda grimy, with stores that I assumed went out of business in like 2003 (Spencer’s? really?). There are definitely some cool stores in there too though. There’s a little comic book shop that has tons of fun stuff to look at, including old-​school consoles (Sega Dreamcast, anyone?) and all the latest issues of the standard comics. I was also pleasantly surprised at the quality of the Marshalls as well; it’s actually a really good one! It isn’t picked-​over like the ones closer to the city. I was overwhelmed by how much cute stuff was there.
So ok, maybe the Meadow Glen Mall isn’t the classiest place in the world. But if you’ve got a lazy Sunday afternoon to fill, it’s not a bad place to visit. Plus, you can stuff yourself at Old Country Buffet after getting your shopping-​workout for the day. And really, is there anything more American?

Going to Meadow Glen Mall is what I imagine it’s like being attacked by a dementor. I walk through the doors and I don’t know if I’ll ever feel happiness again. Everything from the purple furry boots at Kohl’s to the four mile-​long line to get into Old Country Buffet seems to scream that this is a place where good taste comes to die.
This mall boasts the only Spencer Gifts I’ve seen in the last decade, a terrifying eyebrow threading kiosk in the middle of the aisle, a box that you can step into and be blasted by 78 MPH «Hurricane force winds,» and an «Oriental Arts and Crafts» store where clearly everything had to be made with the cheapest materials possible, because the cheap labor that would normally make it was too offended to put it together.
The crowning jewel of Meadow Glen Mall, though, has to be the museum-​like display set up by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (aka the Church of Scientology) called «Psychiatry: Industry of Death» which you can walk through and learn about all of the different ways psychiatry is evil. Pamphlets featured in the front window of this display include «Psychiatrists: The Men Behind Hitler,» and «Psychiatry: The Death of Creativity,» featuring a picture of Kurt Cobain, because apparently he was totally lacking in creativity.
I suppose it makes sense to put that display in Meadow Glen Mall. You have never felt so sad and vulnerable in your life as you will feel when looking through the half-​full box of 3/​$ 1 VHS tapes at Look Books Etc., and you may feel a need for some kind of escape. Perhaps at that moment, when all of those copies of the Matrix on VHS are making you feel like something is so wrong that only a long stay in a psychiatric ward will ever help you rediscover the joy you once felt from life, you will be ready for the Church of Scientology to reach you with their message of help through the purging of microscopic space aliens.