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The Death Of Malls

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Scott Reale
7 July 2003 - 2:00pm

The Mall is headed for extinction. What will take its place?

After turning our backs on Main Street and fleeing to the suburbs, Americans are looking for a sense of place. We're fixing up houses in the older parts of town and spending more of our free time in newly-revived downtowns...smaller neighborhood malls -- many of which are carbon copies of each other -- [are] struggling to keep retailers from packing up and following the crowds to downtown districts or mega malls.'

Full Story: Malls: Death of an American icon
Source: CNN, July 4, 2003
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There's no transit to take and there's nothing to walk to. It couldn't be more obvious to planners how big a piece of the picture this is -- development patterns predicated on profligate energy consumption.
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