The Death Of Malls

The Mall is headed for extinction. What will take its place?

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July 7, 2003, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

After turning our backs on Main Street and fleeing to the suburbs, Americans are looking for a sense of place. We're fixing up houses in the older parts of town and spending more of our free time in newly-revived downtowns...smaller neighborhood malls -- many of which are carbon copies of each other -- [are] struggling to keep retailers from packing up and following the crowds to downtown districts or mega malls.'

Thanks to Scott Reale

FULL STORY: Malls: Death of an American icon

Friday, July 4, 2003 in CNN

Community / Economic Development New York

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