White Marsh Mall — Attraction in White Marsh

I have been coming to this mall since it was built. As my children were growing up we came here often. I found it to be a friendly atmosphere at the mall. Around every holiday the mall was always decorated so beautifully! Even the parking lots were decorated! The mall was a lively, beautiful, friendly place to be and everybody went there! Of course, then they built the Avenue and, to me, it seemed like a decline in the number of people at the mall. After my grandsons were born I brought them to the mall and we had good times. However as times changed, the mall changed too. After the Avenue was built, they put up another strip mall right down the street from the mall. I would think that probably affected attendance at the mall as well. White Marsh Mall is still a beautiful mall. A lot of the stores have changed and the activity is not overcrowding like it used to be. That could be a nice feature, because you're not caught up in the crowds while you're trying to shop. I know this mall is always kept clean and I know that the employees at the mall, plus most of the people that shop there, are friendly. This is a very welcoming and friendly area, however the visitors and/or those that travel from other areas nearby try to be something that they're not! I think malls all over have the same problem though. I feel confident that the people who oversee this mall are trying to do things to make people feel more secure and safe! When I need to go to one of the stores there, I usually enter from an outside entrance and I stay in that store. I tend not to go into the mall area anymore, since I've gotten older and have problems moving around now. I'm a very anxious person, which probably affects how I feel in crowded areas, so I would recommend that if you want to try out this mall, that you do just that! You may may have a very different opinion! I sure hope that is the result! I gave a 4-star rating but it might be that I am comparing it to what it was in the past. You may...

Out of hand teens and young adults. Ages ranging from 14 to 25 some inner city some home grown but in the weekends and at the afternoons/ nights there is alot of potential trouble. They have both Baltimore County Police some State Police and lots of security guards only the security guards I'm not able to protect themselves from some of these out of hand individuals! It's sad that the mall does not allow or won't train pay for quality security officers to help protect its client tell and the stores that are inside of it. These security staff are armed with a radio and a CPR mask possibly. I feel sorry for them because some of these youth treat them like garbage as well as defy the orders of the officers that are giving them. It puts the security officers in between a rock and a hard place. The mall should have trained security officers with Italian pepper spray handcuffs and possibly a firearm for not only protecting themselves but the other decent human beings that are in the mall property trying to have either a good afternoon with their family and or shopping. It looks like the ball was smart enough to cancel the carnival this year. That does two things one that keeps you from being ripped off by the carnival because last year when I went the Carnival prices were outrageously high for tickets to ride and the amount of tickets you need to ride a ride was high as well as having to pay an entry fee as well. Complete ripoff!! Glad they cancelled it...

White Marsh Mall is pretty much the baseline of the Baltimore area's remaining malls in terms of overall quality. It's a notch below Columbia and Annapolis, a notch above Security Square and Marley Station, but certainly not nearly as bargain basement as Mondawmin or Eastpoint nor as upscale as Towson Town Center or Hunt Valley's outdoor Lifestyle Center. Located shortly off I-95 in the Northeastern suburbs, it serves a vast, diverse middle-class community with its main pros being located close to an IKEA along with a major bus terminal, with a decent selection of businesses nearby to support some lunchtime workers. I used to go to this mall a lot as a kid in the early 1990s when my paternal grandparents were still alive, and enjoyed especially the carousel and the Burger King which is now nestled into an abandoned corner of the mall's Pic-Nic food court which is nearly half vacant. The Sears still stands vacant as well and could use a major tenant to anchor up that end of the mall. But Dave and Busters will please the young and young and heart , Macy's is still Macy's (and was the first branch I ever visited in my life, but the mall once had a Hecht's too which is now where the current Macy's is and Dave & Busters occupies where the original Macy's (Bamberger's originally) was. While I don't think this mall will go the way of Owings Mills or Golden Ring, it definitely has some work to do, and improving upon its perimeter like...