The last enclosed mall opened in the US was in 2006. I'm pretty sure this is not true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall_at_University_Town_Center https://

The last enclosed mall opened in the US was in 2006. I'm pretty sure this is not true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall_at_University_Town_Center https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall_at_University_Town_Cent... That mall opened in late 2014, and it's a very large enclosed mall. The Wikipedia article refers to it being the first enclosed shopping mall to be built in "more than five years," which suggests there was at least one other built between 2006 and 2014. I don't think you're necessarily wrong, but I think the big issue may be that the US just has far too many malls, whether we're talking big enclosed ones like this or even relatively small strip malls. We've seriously overbuilt retail space, and that isn't a new thing. I grew up in Sarasota, where that new(ish) mall is, and watched several malls die completely in the '90s. My suspicion is that this new mall will make it, actually, but that other malls within a fairly large radius around it won't.