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Dead Malls

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"A dead mall is a shopping mall with a high vacancy rate or a low consumer traffic level, or that is deteriorating in some manner."

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50+ photos of this St. Louis area mall, taken a few days before its closure.

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[–] verity_kindle 1 points 2 months ago

Fascinating concept for a community. My town was dominated by a huge mall, knocked down most of the downtown stores to build it in the early 1970s. They say some of the original downtown was "bad looking/looked like a slum" and that building a mall benefitted everyone. It's mostly empty now, has been for decades. I heard rumors, years ago, that "they" are going to remove most of the roof and turn it into an office park, with the mall storefronts turned into office space.