One of the final two businesses operating alongside the shuttered Berkshire Mall, Regal Cinemas, is packing up this month. For this photo album, we circled what was once Berkshire County's most vital retail center for a look at how things stand, as another winter takes its toll on the property.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
No, the mall is not becoming an Airbnb, but a key holder hangs near one locked entrance.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
From dust to dust, at the Berkshire Mall.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
The view many drivers get of the Berkshire Mall as they drive toward Target, the only business still operating, on its own property.
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A loading dock no more.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
A door near a former Sears entrance.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Actually, no other door is in use.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Only staff of the mall itself still goes inside, for the most part.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
One of the mall's few architectural flourishes remains intact.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
The mall's logo sought to echo shapes of the surrounding hills in Lanesborough.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
This little puzzle, crafted by "Melissa and Doug," sits outside one barricaded entrance to the Berkshire Mall, with some of the little movable vehicles still attached.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Slowly, vegetation is coming back to the mall's hard surfaces.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
A former entrance on the mall's west side.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
One former anchor store space got a new sign after the tenant departed.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
A once-helpful sign now shares information that's news to no one.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
At closed malls around the U.S., properties are no longer dressing for success.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Do people even still call them handbills and circulars?
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Part of the former Sears space at the Berkshire Mall.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Only Target, operating on its own property, remains open at the Berkshire Mall.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Near the entrance to The Garden, a former restaurant.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
On the west side of the mall, close to the back end of Target.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
In a hurry to leave?
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
This emergency exit at the Regal Cinemas is now the launch pad above an enormous trash container, as the company pulls out of its mall location.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
This container has been placed outside the Regal Cinemas, apparently as part of its exit strategy.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
One of the entrances that greeted Berkshire Mall shoppers arriving from the access road linking routes 7 and 8.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
One more winter tests the Berkshire Mall, decades after it opened in 1988.
- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
This tower and structure sit alongside an access road on the mall's west side. A leak in the tank that had been releasing 1 to 2 gallons of water per minute, according to an official with Berkshire Engineering, had been repaired.
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- LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
This tower and structure sit alongside an access road on the mall's west side. A leak in the tank that had been releasing 1 to 2 gallons of water per minute, according to an official with Berkshire Engineering, had been repaired.
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