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Charlotte is one of the fastest growing large cities in the nation, and the rapid population surge has brought noticeable changes to the city landscape. The resulting development boom has spawned a seemingly endless stream of new luxury apartments, hip breweries, upscale restaurants and trendy retail stores.

There is a pocket, however, just a few miles east of uptown that has remained largely untouched. This series of photo essays captures a few of these abandoned places.

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Eastland Mall, Central Avenue

Step onto the now-empty lot on Central Avenue that was once Eastland Mall, and you’ll feel like you arrived at a movie set for a post-apocalyptic film, or that you witnessed the lyrics of the Talking Heads’ song “Nothing But Flowers” come to life.

Be it the waist-high weeds defiantly sprouting through concrete cracks, the haphazard murals of amateur graffiti coating the outer walls, the eerie grocery-store-turned-charter-school that shut down after five months last year, or the old TV graveyard in the northeast corner parking lot, it’s hard to fathom that this 80-acre wasteland was once one of Charlotte’s busiest and most-beloved shopping malls.

It opened in 1975. It had an ice rink in the middle of it. If you grew up in Charlotte, you probably spent some part of your youth there, until it closed in 2010.

The city purchased the property in 2012 and has floated multiple redevelopment ideas since then, though many of those plans have fallen through.

The city recently reached a deal with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to sell 11.4 acres for a K-8 language immersion school. Some residents don’t like that plan, though. They want whatever comes next to be an economic catalyst for east Charlotte.

Until that happens, it’s just an empty lot.

Photos: Sara Kay Mooney (now); Charlotte Observer file (then)

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Jeff Postelwait's Commentary:

Posted November 20, 2006 (user submitted)

I have so many fond memories from this mall that it saddened me to watch it sink deeper and deeper into obscurity over the years.

When I was about five years old, I bought my first video game (Atari, I think) at the mall's Kay Bee Toys store. I saw 'Snow White,' the first movie I can remember seeing in a theater, at Eastland's cinema. When I was little I also got seperated from my mom at the mall -- an experience that she still remembers. I threw pennies in the fountain from the upper level and made wishes.

I remember walking with my parents through the main part of the mall and stepping only on the blue tiles that formed patterns on the floor because the white tiles were 'hot lava.' And I remember getting shaken down for quarters by an older kid at the Jolly Time arcade while I was playing the 'X-Men' video game -- and also trading Ski-Ball tickets for those little foam WWII aircraft.

I had my first job outside of foodservice at the Gadzooks! at Eastland and I was excited to get it. My first girlfriend and I had pictures taken in one of those automatic photo booths in the food court. The last movie I saw at the theater was 'Notting Hill' with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, if that tells you anything. As a teenager, my brother and I would drive through the parking lot to moon shoppers -- back then there were still shoppers to wave your butt at.

Until I read the above comments, I didn't realize how many memories I had of this mall. It's funny -- I know I went to Promenade and Woodland Hills just as often, but I have no solid memories from either of those places. Eastland had personality, and I imagine I'd still go there today if it weren't so depressing.

This will sound lame, but the place practically became a symbol of my formative years, which is why it was disconcerting to see it fall into hard times and eventual disrepair.

The last time I went there was to shop for some work clothes at the Dillard's outlet -- I didn't want to go, but my wife insisted. It was like visiting a relative who you know isn't long for this world. It was smelly, the carpets were stained and the concrete was cracked with grass growing up from the neglected parking lot and sidewalks.

On the way out, I saw a big glass wall seperating this horrible store from the rest of the mall. The huge, empty spaces where the stores used to be looked back at me sadly from behind the transparent barrier.

Kent Ahrens's Commentary:

Posted March 29, 2006 (user submitted)

Eastland Mall opened in Tulsa about the same time as the former Southland Shopping Center became Tulsa Promenade, which was 1984. It was a godsend to those in east Tulsa as there was really nowhere convenient for its residents to shop. After all, Woodland Hills Mall was at 71st and Memorial, which meant a long drive down a very busy Memorial Drive, and Promenade as well as Southroads Mall were located at 41st and Yale, which meant another long drive and no real direct route unless you could take E 41st Street straight to Yale. Those familiar with east Tulsa know that's not an easy task.

Eastland Mall really went all out in its commercials to announce its arrival. Martin Mull was the spokesman, and he went on and on about the fabric roof at the mall before finishing with, 'How do they keep it up?'

The fabric roof with its tent-like structure became a symbol of Eastland Mall that continues today.

Eastland and Promenade, which continues to thrive, were much more alike than different when they first opened, though Eastland's two anchor per wing structure made it rather unique. Both shared anchors of JC Penney, Dillards and Mervyns while the smaller Eastland Mall also had Service Merchandise as an anchor. Kay Bee Toys, Regis Hairstylists, Jolly Time video arcade, Waldenbooks and many other common mall shops had stores in both Promenade and Eastland. They were more than likely seen as too far apart to compete against one another. The food court at Eastland, which was on the lower level, consisted of mostly B-rate places when it first opened, such as a NuWay ins

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