On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 01:39:38 -0400, micky
wrote:

I hate it that malls are being
torn down, along with the AC that made shopping in them so comfortable.

Unfortunately the only people going there tended to be old farts who
just wanted to walk in the AC and never really bought anything.
Malls are starving to death along with the "Anchor" stores that kept
the lights on for the boutiques.
One of our smaller malls became federal government office space and a
large one 329,000 sq/ft was taken over by the school board. The other
few are really struggling with no big anchor stores of note.

The new trend is outside "malls" with separate stores scattered around
a well landscaped piece of property with parking closer to the stores.
There is no enclosed mall.
I don't get it but nobody asked me.