Shopping Malls

Not even the Christmas season is expected to turn things around for struggling retailers, which are dropping like leaves and littering vacancies in shopping centers across the country.

With sales down at local malls and retail centers and projected at record lows for the holiday season as households curtail spending, restaurants that rely on retail traffic are preparing for losses.

Fewer and fewer malls are being built in the U.S., and as they fade from the American landscape, retailers feel the pain.

Shopping malls are rarely architectural gems. Architects, especially big-name architects, typically try to stay away from designing them. But now architects are rethinking how malls should be, and looking to examples of the distant past for guidance.

Harundale Mall, one of the first enclosed malls built in the country, is now a strip mall. This article contains an examination of its somber decline and the direction in which Harundale--and other malls--may be headed next.

Large shopping centers across the country have grown in quantity and size for years, but developers say that overbuilding may now be a problem.

A Houston bedroom community decides against allowing childcare centers to mix with other businesses in strip centers.