 By November 2001, a buyer was sought by Bankers Trust.In September 2002, the Whichard family of North Carolina purchased Rolling Acres for $2.75 million.A 2002 news article in "The Akron Beacon Journal" described the mall and the area around it as having "faltered since the early 1990s" due to perceptions of high crime and lack of renovations to the mall, compared to the renovations that Chapel Hill Mall and Summit Mall had both received in the 1990s.