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Originally Posted by badrunner
I don't know about all that. There are still malls in places like Thousand Oaks, Temecula and Mission Viejo. Dallas has a bunch of huge malls too. They were just overbuilt in the 90s in places that couldn't support that level of retail, and then e-commerce finished them off, but in thriving suburbs around the country they are still going strong. It's true that the indoor variety has fallen out of favor in fair-weather locales. Open-air or semi open-air malls like the Grove, Westfield Century City and Irvine Spectrum seem to be the most popular around here.
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Successful malls tend to be higher end and rebranded themselves as more destinations while the traditional run-of-the-mill mall anchored by a Sears and Monkey Wards are all but dead or dying.