North Hanover Mall

Stopped in on a random trip since we were in the area. It’s obvious this mall is suffering and has seen better days. For a Friday night it was eerily empty and we only saw a total of maybe 20 people there. Way too many empty store fronts but it looks like the anchor stores are still in business (JC Penny, Burlington, and Dicks Sporting Goods) There are a few specialty stores such as GameStop, FYE and BAM but we had pretty horrible service in all of them. It’s like the employees know the mall is on its last legs and just stopped caring.
The service in BAM was especially bad. There was one customer ahead of us in the checkout line who had a lengthy question and two cashiers just looked bored by her. After 10 minutes in line without being acknowledged or looked at we gave up and left the 2 books we were going to buy behind. Does it take two cashiers to answer one customer’s question? Other stores weren’t much better.
At least there’s a soda machine and a pretty clean restroom. Other than that I’d go to the Walmart or Target down the street if you’re looking to do some shopping.

This mall is dying. Today I counted 15 closed stores. This used to be a busy place, but now there is almost no reason to go due to everyone leaving

Growing up we would make day trips to Hanover mall and to visit my grandparents who lived near by. It was a great place to eat and shop. That is not the case any longer. The mall has been steadily declining in my opinion. The only reason I even go to the mall is for the Sephora inside the Jcpenny and the occasional visit to Jerry and Sal’s if I don’t have them deliver. Unless it holiday season the mall is usually pretty empty so find a parking spot is a breeze.
If you are looking for a mall with decent selection of stores drive a little further then this place.

Please let me insist about the sheer awesome tackiness of this mall. Empty storefronts, a pizza joint and two pretzel places, and the mother of all awesome things.
An arcade.
An EPIC arcade. Like, I will drive myself from Baltimore up here to play here all the time. I’ 10 000 000% serious. It’s an awesome arcade with retro games, new games, pinball machines, an Atari, a Sega, and they have a Tron machine. A TRON. ATCADE. GAME.
Bless this place.

Hahaha «mall» is the operative word for this place. I refer to it as the «Dirt Mall». Its only redeeming quality is you feel like you’ve dropped 10 hits of acid and are having some sort of weird flash back into the days of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. You will never, ever see acid washed jeans and home permed hair sported in such an unironic way anywhere else this side of the Mississippi.
While this mall is lacking in variety of shops and stores, what it does have plenty of is sad, middle class, rural, white farmers-​come-​gangsters donning the lastest in cubic zirconia 2 carat earrings and gold plated bling from the state fair. I only gave this «mall» a star because they have a kiosk that sells hot dogs wrapped in soft pretzles. I can’t hate on the pretzel dog.