Ghost Malls
26 November 2003 - 8:00am
Just because a mall is dead doesn't mean it's gone.
"Dead malls - the words a once-unimaginable coupling - now speckle the national landscape, dotting communities from New York to California, Florida to Colorado. They've become so plentiful they've been given a name, grayfields; so curious they've been documented on a Web site, www.deadmalls.com; so grim and unyielding that a group of Los Angeles architects held an international competition to figure out what to do with them."
Full Story:
Left for dead
Source:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 23, 2003
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