Reidsville’s Pennrose Mall was the first enclosed shopping mall in the region and was popular when it opened. Now, it’s simply bizarre to see the shape that it’s in. In this PhotoCentral series, we’re going to take a detailed look at what the Pennrose Mall looks like now.
It’s not going to be pretty.
We’ll begin our adventure at the mall entrance where JC Penney used to be.
This isn’t a promising start.
The outside wall of the mall facing the parking lot has signs of the stores in the mall. Or were in the mall. Now these signs are tombstones. Hair Under Construction & La Ezperanza are no longer with us.
Jackson Hewitt moved out to a former bank location in the parking lot. Salty & Sweet was the final version of a Peanut Shack.
Well, darn. This mall entrance is locked. I’m betting I’m the first person over here in at least a month.
It’s the Pennrose Mall Nature Trail! No, it’s just a lot of overgrown brush.
Each mall store had an outside entrance for employees. This door could use some repair… if it mattered.
Roses is an original tenant of the mall and they’re still open. You can get a shopping cart easily because they’re piled up everywhere. And there hasn’t been an American flag on that pole in at least 5 years. The previous flag was so worn it was a bunch of cloth strips.
Pennrose Mall’s front entrances have a lobby area for… um… I don’t know why. In this lobby area, you’ll find the plant racks for when Roses sells bedding plants and mums. Roses’ Toyland is now open, and they have toys that were popular back in the 1500’s.
It’s not grass, but it’s green. Mostly. We also have a mysterious tree stump. And more stray shopping carts, of course.
We’ve just started to have fun and cry at the same time here at Reidsville’s Pennrose Mall. It gets better (or worse) in Part #2, and that’s coming soon here on SouthsideCentral.
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well i go there to shop at the Belk”s the people there are so much nicer than the one here in our Danville Belk’s store. They will come and greet u
Thank you so much. I work at the Reidsville Belk store. We appreciate all of our customers.
MY FIRST PUBLIC JOB WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS AT ROSE’S IT MAKES ME SICK EVERY TIME I GO IN THIS MALL DOESN’T THE OWNERS CARE FOR WHAT THEY HAVE HERE? A BIG LOSS FOR REIDSVILLE IF THIS PLACE CLOSES. THE HISTORY OF THE 4TH OF JULY FIRE WORKS AND SUCH, IT’S A SHAME THE CITY OF REIDSVILLE DOESN’T CARE EATHER!
If someone doesn’t get us a mall in Reidsville and Eden or somewhere in Rockingham county, people will continue to go to Greensboro or Danville to shop. I always go somewhere else because we have nothing. Belks is leaving the Eden Mall so that mall is a bust.
I’m not from here but found Rose’s rather quickly by googling, I asked a neighbor about it and she said it had been closed a few years. Well its want as you all know. I think just driving by the “mall ” she assumed no businesses were still open. I’m a frequent Rose’s shopper and like this Roses better than the one in Martinsville but the parking lot is so shady I never feel safe. I would love to see some pics of when it was new and thriving 😊
Remodel Pennrose Mall
I remember going to the Penrose mall when I was a kid. I took my kids there, I still go to roses but it’s sad. I hate these new mall complexes like Alamance Crossing in Burlington. I would love to see the mall come back.
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Who remembers getting a cherry slushy at the Peanut Shack then wasting $20 at the 3,000 sq/ft arcade playing TMNT and Street Fighter!!!
Do you remember when the mall was a driving range?
No one is going to like this but I am going to say it any way. Penrose Mall is a dog that has had its day. Tear it down and start anew. It would be sad to see it go but its even more sad to see it in tthe condition that it is in currently.I grew up going to that Mall and would rather have fond memories of a structure now gone than to see what its going through now. Broken doors leaking roof poorly maintained parking lot, poor beloved Penrose Mall.
Just a few weeks ago there was so many buckets under water leaks in the roof that I had to zig-zag around them in the mall entrance area and in the stores. The smell of mold was breathtaking. I asked the employees of Bob Adams Florest if they were not worried about the mold in the ceilings and walls. I wish all the businesses left in the mall would move to downtown Reidsville!
Not just the mall the whole county looks run down. Need new leaders!!
It’s terrible looking, but I still shop at Belk and Rose’s.
Went to Rose’s for the first time last week. Will also be the last time! The smell that hits you when entering the mall is horrific! I’m sad to hear that Belk’s is closing though. At least you could access the store without entering the mall.
Belk is not closing. The one in the Eden Mall is, not the one in Reidsville survived the latest cuts.
Belk in Reidsville did not and is not closing. Can enter on side without going in mall. They actually closed themselves off from mall due to the mall being in such ban shape
It is so sad that I have been tempted to do outside clean up myself….where is the pride in the City? The City Council should have conversations with the owner of the mall.