My experience in North Texas is that malls aren't so much going away as they are concentrating in a small handful of locations. We lost or are losing a bunch o

My experience in North Texas is that malls aren't so much going away as they are concentrating in a small handful of locations. We lost or are losing a bunch of malls, but there are also a small handful that are thriving. Prestonwood, Valley View, and Collin Creek may be dead or dying, we still have Stonebriar, NorthPark, and the Galleria doing very well. There are fewer malls, sure, but the ones we have left are thriving. Of course, Dallas is one of the most thoroughly suburban parts of the country. Sure, there are a small handful of people moving to places like Uptown or Oak Cliff, but the northern suburbs are still booming, and almost everyone I went to college with who's still in the area either lives in a suburban apartment complex, or if they're financially successful, bought a house in the exurbs. And even if a good chunk of twentysomethings are moving to the city, there are still all the teenagers living with their parents in the suburbs. And for that matter, there are twentysomething adults who are living in the suburbs with their parents because their careers haven't taken off.