Vacant for nearly a year, the White Flint Mall is falling apart. Take a video tour of the inside.
The White Flint Mall used to be one of the region’s luxurious shopping centers, but all but a single store closed last year. This drone video explores the mall’s now-decaying remains.
The video is by Mike Purks. It gives viewers a full tour, from the mall’s overgrown outside and empty parking lots to its dust-covered elevator shafts and crumbling roofs.
Malls are closing all across the country, with consumers preferring to shop online and spend their leisure time in walkable, mixed-use areas rather than inside of enclosed retail environments. Though a Lord & Taylor store is still open there, the White Flint Mall is a symbol of how this is happening in our region.
The mall is slated for an ambitious redevelopment in the coming years, and it could serve as a blueprint for similar buildings facing the same changes.