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Dan Bell's Dead Mall Series is oddly depressing and he often gives some back story into their declines. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vN

Dan Bell's Dead Mall Series is oddly depressing and he often gives some back story into their declines. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx... A common theme appears to be either struggling footfall or the fact that what I guess are major US anchor stores (Maceys, Sears, KMart) going through tough times. Once the anchors move out, it becomes difficult to run the mall. Interestingly, in one video, the Mall was half turned into offices, and it had a thriving food hall which I thought was a great idea to keep it relevant. No other dead malls in the series appear to adapt so they become ghost towns then abandoned and later demolished. A shame really.

randomerr 9y ago
I love the series. I notice also in the series an anchors space would often be subdivided into 10' x 20' vendor areas. that way small community businesses could sell their goods for very little overhead.
grkvlt 9y ago
The Rackspace head offices were built in an abandoned Texas mall (Windsor Park Mall, now The Castle, in San Antonio [0]) which is a nice recycling of an otherwise dead space... 0. https://blog.rackspace.com/get-an-inside-look-at-the-rackspace-castle-via-google-street-view https://blog.rackspace.com/get-an-inside-look-at-the-rackspa... and https://youtu.be/J4b0UlAZcH4 https://youtu.be/J4b0UlAZcH4