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A dead mall, [1] also known as a ghost mall or zombie mall, is a shopping mall that has low consumer traffic or is deteriorating in some manner. [2] Many malls in North America are considered "dead" when they have no surviving anchor store or successor that could attract people to the mall. Without the pedestrian traffic that department stores ...
Another factor is an over-supply of malls [24] as the growth rate of malls in North America between 1970 and 2015 was over twice the growth rate of the population. In 2004, Malcolm Gladwell wrote that investment in malls was artificially accelerated when the United States Congress introduced accelerated depreciation into the tax code in 1954. [25]
C. Cache Valley Mall; Cape Cod Factory Outlet Mall; Carousel Mall; Cary Towne Center; Cascade Mall; The Great Mall of the Great Plains; Century III Mall; Century Plaza
In the 1980s, thousands of malls dotted the country. The online-shopping boom and the pandemic have accelerated their demise. The decline of the American mall has left just 700 still standing.
A shopper carries retail bags while walking through a shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. - Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty Images
With Westfield Malls’ European owner announcing that it is looking to unload its portfolio of American malls by next year, the outlook seems grim for U.S. shopping malls amid the e-commerce boom.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. Large indoor shopping center This article is about large, usually enclosed, shopping centers anchored by traditional department stores. For an overview of all types of shopping centers, see Shopping center. For pedestrian malls, see Pedestrian zone. The Mall of America in Bloomington ...
Amazon, which has done as much as any company to bring about the demise of shopping malls in the United States, has now come full circle by buying up struggling malls and turning them into...