Letter of Recommendation: Dead Malls - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-dead-malls.html
When I was young, I took malls for granted. They seemed as much a part of the nation’s infrastructure as highways and sewer systems. Where else could you have your ears pierced with a glorified staple gun, challenge strangers to Street Fighter matches in dim arcades, consume untold quantities of Orange Julius and brood over low-rise jeans in department-store fitting rooms? My home, Iowa City, had two of them, each thriving; I would have been shocked to hear that in a few decades, the very concept of a mall would find itself in existential peril.
But it was all the way back in 2000 that the website deadmalls.com began documenting moribund shopping centers throughout the United States, and the crisis in retail has only intensified since. Credit Suisse estimates that by 2022, one in four of the nation’s remaining malls will have closed. Some will be repurposed — as housing, satellite college campuses, medical centers, megachurches. Others will simply fall into glorious ruin.
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