VF Outlet Mall, Dartmouth, MA

VF Outlet Mall is another abandoned mall that I visited on the brink of closure. However unlike Berkshire Mall and The Mall at The Source. Though that both were creepy, eerie, and a little bit scary in a strange way this was on another level.

If you don’t know what VF Outlet Stores and Malls let me give you the rundown. VF is a discount or outlet chain that has stores and malls across the United States that was founded in 1899 in Reading, PA and now headquartered in Denver. They have almost every brand it feels like in their stores. To grow there options they would open malls in their former mills and no not Simon’s Mills outlet center properties. I don’t think this was in a mill but I knew this specific mall was a disaster.

This use to have many outlet brands in the actual mall like Bass, Jones New York, and Van Heusen. As you can tell this is actually a decent size of mall space that was once filled with outlet shops and maybe a food court but that isn’t for sure because there is nothing really about this mall online.

When I visited it was incredibly spooky. Much of the mall was blocked off but no barricades preventing anyone from walking around just the lights were turned off. By the time I visited only two stores remained in the entire building and only one in the mall. VF Outlet which is the mall’s anchor doesn’t actually have a mall entrance which is why there is absolutely NO foot traffic in the mall. The one store that was in here was BonWorth. They have since closed the mall entirely.

My set of photos will really show you how dead the mall is and how eerie it is.

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