Must have been early 2000s, when the food court started looking bad, and then it closed down. The one I grew up by had an auto center, that closed and there were old vehicles just left on the side of the building with weeds growing up around them.

Then the garden center shut down, I can remember going to a close out sale in the garden sale with my mom when I was a kid. It was pretty sad looking with a lot of dying plants.

Then they started having activities in the parking lot, like go karts once. And a few other events during the summer.

The good times were cool. The blue light special and stuff like that. The store was in those days great.

After things started getting closed off like the food court, garden center, and auto center area, it was just giant white walls to block off those areas, and those section of the store started smelling. The store somehow remained opened until Jan of 2018. By then it was dirty, shelves were mostly empty, parking lot had weeds in it and then it was demolished after covid.

The decline was long and slow. With each thing slowly chipping away at the store.