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Tagged Northridge Mall

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (December 24, 2025 – January 6, 2026)

Matt Wild
January 8, 2026
broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

Here’s when Milwaukee will release its “Vision Report” for former Northridge Mall site, and that’s it

Matt Wild
December 15, 2025
Thursday, December 18 at 10 a.m. Okay, okay, here's a little more info from a press release: The site of the former Northridge Mall, now known as Granville Station, represents the largest development site i...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (September 10-23, 2025)

Matt Wild
September 24, 2025
broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

Northridge Mall demolition continues; former JCPenney razed this week

Matt Wild
January 30, 2025
Last summer we took a tour of the long-empty, super-trashed, and soon-to-be-demolished Northridge Mall. It was the last time folks could (legally) take a look inside the once-mighty mall before it started to (l...

See inside super trashed Northridge Mall before it’s torn down

Matt Wild
July 1, 2024
Milwaukee's once great Northridge Mall closed in 2003. For the next 15 years or so, Northridge stood as a mostly intact ghost mall. In the past five or six years, however, thanks to near-constant break-ins, van...

Winning bid marks important step in demolition of former Northridge Mall

Press Release
June 24, 2024
Winning bid marks important step in demolition of former Northridge Mall MILWAUKEE - Earlier today, the City of Milwaukee opened public bids for the asbestos abatement and demolition of the former Northridge M...

City seeking someone to demolish rest of former Northridge Mall by fall 2025

Matt Wild
May 1, 2024
Last month, roughly five years after raze orders were first issued, and roughly 21 years after it closed, Northridge Mall began to fall. FINALLY. City contractor HM Brandt, Inc. began knocking down the exter...

Stuff We Missed: The end of sneaking into Northridge Mall?

Matt Wild
April 21, 2023
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • Northridge Mall has been closed since 2003—that's 20 years!—but the still-st...

Watch Thrasher skateboarders “rip the remains” of Northridge Mall

Matt Wild
February 21, 2023
Milwaukee's once-mighty Northridge Mall has been closed and abandoned since 2003. Well, calling it "abandoned" may not be entirely accurate. You see, the undead ghost mall has been a favorite spot for pesky van...

City attorney: Northridge unsecured, unsafe. Countless YouTube videos shot inside Northridge: Yep.

Matt Wild
August 26, 2022
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • Milwaukee's once-mighty, now-infamous Northridge Mall has been closed since ...

Watch Milwaukee YouTuber Tommy G sneak/break into, mess around in abandoned Northridge Mall

Matt Wild
August 11, 2022
Milwaukee Record does not condone sneaking/breaking into, messing around in, and/or dropping trou in abandoned malls. Milwaukee YouTuber Tommy G recently made news (and picked up plenty of subscribers) with ...

“We’ve Got It!” 10 videos from the ’80s heyday of Northridge Mall

Matt Wild
March 12, 2019
UPDATE (4/11/19): Well, it looks like they might knock the whole thing down. Maybe. In the ever-expanding world of dead Milwaukee malls, Northridge Mall reigns supreme. The 800,000 square-foot behemoth has s...

Take another eerie trip through the abandoned Northridge Mall

Matt Wild
August 17, 2018
What is it about dead malls that fascinates us so? More specifically: What is it about Northridge Mall that fascinates us so? Hardly a month seems to go by without another group of "urban explorers" puttering a...

Some dude “rescued” hundreds of old photos from Northridge Mall and they’re amazing

Matt Wild
July 10, 2018
What is it about dead malls that fascinates us so? More specifically: What is it about Northridge Mall that fascinates us so? Hardly a month seems to go by without another group of "urban explorers" puttering a...
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