Woodland Mall — Local services in Bowling Green

1 star for the mall, 5 stars to management to somehow keeping the place open!

Went there today to watch a movie with the kids, and then we walked around for a little bit afterwards. EB is of course a wasteland. I didn't see a soul in Sears besides the two employees - feel sorry for the owner because I think they just made a bunch of leasehold improvements right before EB closed, and it's got to be tough competing against Home Depot offering a much more thorough product line with a far superior digital presence in a much better location. Most other stores were closed or had very little business - on a rainy Saturday!

One restaurant open at 12:30 on Saturday with one customer there. Kids saw the playroom and wanted to go in, but realized that everything was for smaller kids. Looks like someone raided a garage sale's Little Tikes toys.

Surprisingly, Dunham Sports completely closed off their entrance from the mall! I guess they don't expect much for traffic from shoppers in the mall! Maybe they had issues with shoplifting or something.

Parking lot continues to fall apart. There's one part where there's a gaping hole (cone near it so you don't drive into it) that a person could probably fall into, right next to a drainage culvert. It's a lawsuit waiting to happen except there's probably no money to go after!

We live 5 minutes away and can't remember the last time we came to the mall for anything besides the theater. My prediction is that, in 5 years, Cinemark builds a new theater either near the university or on the south end and they tear the mall down and...

There's nothing really left here at this mall for me other than the movie theater these days. The theater still offers cheaper tickets than anywhere else I know in the area and remains the only reason I visit this mall anymore.

The Elder Beerman location is poorly kept up and most of the merchandise feels dated and overpriced. I'm pretty sure the layout, decor, and the company in general haven't been updated since I first went there as a child in the early 90s. I used to come to the mall for shoes - but even the shoe store has fled. Other than that, there's the militia-run gun shop, the Broken Chains Church, some dance/fitness studios, and a sporting goods store which offers limited selection and sizing, rendering it pretty useless to me. The food court used to be decent, but it seems lately every time I go, at least half the shops in the food court are closed for the day. All of this is made worse by the "events" they frequently host which range from gun shows to petting zoos, which mostly make the shopping experience unpleasant.

The whole place is unsettling, and visiting on a weekday leaves you feeling like all the shop attendants are watching you everywhere you go. So I consistently opt to drive the 1/2 hour to Toledo or Findlay instead of visiting this mall. When I was in to see a movie a week or so ago, there was some sort of gun show going on and was approached and harassed by so many of the vendors that I don't think I'll be going even to the theater if I have to walk through that sort of...

So my brother went to some science camp and we got to stay in a Bowling Green hotel. It was fun, just me and my mother playing games, watching TV, just relaxing. We decided to go drive around and eat, we then found a mall. There were no cars, thousands of cracks on the parking spots, and within the cracks and on the walls of the mall, vegetation grew. Me and my mother got out of the car and started to walk towards the mall. The glass entrance was covered in dirt and had a few cracks in it, on our right was an old shop full of wooden objects. For some reason some jackass was playing Caretaker music on the speakers, which in turn, made us want to go into the mall. We started in the main area and all was dark, the lights were off/broken, overgrown trees blocked the ceiling window, and the only thing illuminating light a was single Starbucks with Caretaker music still playing We started to walk through the mall. Almost all stores were closed and the few that were open, no one was inside. I'll never forget walking in total darkness, while Caretaker music played and seeing an empty gym full of purple exercise bikes. We then found a movie theater. A wooden frame covered the perimeter of the movie theatre and a wooden ticket box was in the middle of two very dark rooms. It was so freaking cool, it was like really being in the backrooms! No people, run downed mall, and 1930...