Marquette Mall

Used to be nice. Now it’s just a few stores along the outside of the mall. Inside is completely empty.

Perhaps at one time, this mall was teeming with stores and busy shoppers. Now it is a rather desolate place, simply a few hallways with boarded over stores connecting the few struggling anchors. I personally find comfort in places nearly or totally abandoned. (Never did I claim to be the normal one!) The mall definitely has a stuck in the 1970s vibe to it, and I did enjoy the emptiness and solitude in a sort of macabre way.
Sears, Carson’s, JC Penney’s (which is slated to close later this year,) a used video game store, an appointment-​only wig shop, a Chinese buffet and hibachi grill restaurant, a gym with an exterior entrance only, and a tourism bureau outpost are the few lone survivors in this place. The main mall is no longer properly heated nor lit. It does seem to have a good draw with those who like to power walk through the vast amounts of empty space, but that’s about it.
Oh, and the Carson’s smells heavily of industrial grade disinfectant, age, and mothballs.

Plenty of space to run around and stuff. Only a few stores, so you don’t have to make a hard decision of where to go. Hibachi Grill!!!

I can’t believe someone is paying the electric bill here still. It looks as if it may have been a nice place to shop maybe in the 70’s-80’s. When we walked through I’m not sure if there were more than 5 stores left there. It was sort of depressing.

UPDATE — 4FEB16 — Mall interior has closed. :(My little one, now almost 5, cried to hear the ‘old mall’ has closed. We’ll miss you Marquette Mall. We were your biggest fan.
My 2yr old daughter & I love the ‘old mall’. Plenty of free parking, indoor space for her to run around, and the small business owners are very nice. We like the escalator at JCP’s and the kiddie rides. There’s more for us here than at the Lighthouse Outlets.

Wow! What a grave yard of a mall. This mall needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
Went to JCP to find a skirt, nothing there. I then went into the mall and saw empty stores. It is dark and outdated. I even went to Carsons and this store didn’t carry, but just one skirt. Anyway the mall is in need of rebuilding or demolishing. Off to Chicago I go.

If you are not aware of the condition of this mall and you want to come here to shop and browse then you will be sadly disappointed. The occupancy rate of this mall currently stands at about 10−15%% and it is still dropping Yes you heard me right the OCCUPANCY and not the vacancy rate is 10−15%.
The conditions were right for me to stop in here: There was a sale at JCPenny’s, we were in the area and the thought of checking out a nearly abandoned mall was morbidly intriguing to me.
If you need something from one of the anchors than check it out. It is more than a novelty than anything. The emptiness and solitude is quite odd to say the least.

the most depressing mall of all time. short of being abandon of course.

The lack of stores is leading to the deterioration of this mall. The anchor stores are the only thing keeping this place afloat.

what a sad place to be in

35 years ago, it was the cat’s meow !
Today, its an old enclosed mall, with no future life remaining.
As far, as the Lighthouse Outlet Mall, its to difficult to shop.

No offense Lighthouse Outlet Mall, but Marquette Mall is where it’s at! If you don’t love Ruby’s Gifts, you’re CRAZY!