Forest Fair Village is an abandoned enclosed shopping mall in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is situated on the border between Forest Park and Fairfield, at the junction of Interstate 275 and Winton Road. The mall, built in phases between 1988 and 1989 as Forest Fair Mall, has become noted for its troubled history; despite being the second-biggest mall in the state and bringing many new retailers to the market, it lost three anchor stores and its original owner LJ Hooker to bankruptcy less than a year after opening. The mall underwent renovations throughout the mid 1990s, attracting new stores such as Kohl's, Burlington Coat Factory, and Bass Pro Shops. Mills Corporation renamed the property to Cincinnati Mills in 2002 and renovated the mall once more in August 2004. Following the sale of Mills's portfolio to Simon Property Group, the mall was sold several times afterward, while continuing to lose many of its key tenants. After having been renamed to Cincinnati Mall and again to Forest Fair Village in the 2010s, the property received significant media attention as an example of a dead mall. It also received a number of proposals for renovation, none of which were realized. Following years of tenancy decline, it closed to the public on December 2, 2022.
Mall entrance to Bass Pro Shops, whose store was originally Parisian.
The mall's central court in 2013, as seen from the upper level of the Bass Pro Shops wing.
Shot of the center court of Forest Fair Village.
Nautical-themed food court, May 2018.
A dead mall, also known as a ghost mall, zombie mall or abandoned mall, is a shopping mall with low consumer traffic level or is deteriorating in some manner.
Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 2019, the same year it was closed; it was once the world's third-largest shopping mall
A "dead" wing of the Shanghai Summit Shopping City in Shanghai, China in 2007
The City View Center is a dead plaza in Garfield Heights, Ohio
Between early 2013 and November 2017, the Bargate Centre in Southampton, England, was empty.