The once-popular Northway Mall in northeast Anchorage sits almost totally empty. That’s led to people dumping loads of trash, furniture, appliances and industrial waste all over the property.
People are illegally dumping garbage behind the closed Northway Mall. Photographed on Wednesday, July 5, 2023.
Heaps of household trash bags get rifled through by scavengers, scattering litter in every direction. There were old tires, water heaters, kitchen appliances, broken furniture, a cooler filled with used motor oil. A box of ‘90s movies on VHS cassettes had been picked through and smashed, the long black tendrils of tape unspooling from titles like “Notting Hill,” “The Mask” and “Harriet the Spy” oscillating slowly with each breeze.
Dorsey Roland looks inside a cooler containing used motor oil on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, that had been illegally dumped behind the closed Northway Mall. Vandals attempted to gain access to the boarded-up Northway Mall. Photographed on Wednesday, July 5, 2023.
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