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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Malls R Us Doc Zone available on YouTube

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The repackaged version of Malls R Us done by Doc Zone is on YouTube and you can watch it now! Link is here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Good Morning America, how are ya? A quick stroll through downtowns, Upstate New York

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http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/05/the-song-of-spring.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+clusterfucknatio...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Malls Of A Certain Age

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Good article that discusses the history of the mall, and how it can be relevant in the future. "The enclosed mall ... is as dead as y...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

The Wealthiest Consumers driving Post-Recession Retail Recovery

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The rich are spending more money...   they make up 5% of the population, and contributed 35% to the economy 3rd quarter of 2009.   Read abou...
Friday, February 11, 2011

New Lives For "Dead" Suburban Malls

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The suburban shopping mall has fallen on hard times, and Ellen Dunham-Jones, co-author of “Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions f...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

What went wrong at Borders?

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So what happened to Borders? An early innovator in controlling inventory, there was expert staff at its Ann Arbor headquarters and store man...
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Retail Sales Reports released : Results for 2010 are in

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According to reports released this week, the 2010 holiday retail season was a slight improvement.   Here are a couple of articles with diff...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Retail sales jump more than 5% for holidays, reports say

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Retail sales jump more than 5% for holidays, reports say Release of pent-up demand sends retail sales soaring for holidays This is good news...
Friday, August 20, 2010

"Reviving America's Dead Malls"

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http://www.mainstreet.com/article/small-business/franchises/what-do-dead-mall?page=1 "We installed a curtain in our food court and used...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Warm East-coast Weather Prompts Mall Visits

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In a rush of nostalgia, residences of the northeastern Mid-Atlantic and New England areas flocked to local area malls in search of the hallo...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Retail Real Estate closer to becoming Monopoly

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This has direct relevance to Dead Malls. Simon is preparing to acquire General Growth properties. Simon is already the largest mall owner...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

The Retail Shift

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Interesting article on a once bustling commercial strip in the Albany, NY area that has since become desolate due to the shifting of retail ...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Requiem for the Mall

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It is the ideal location for a post-modern horror, this shopping mall with no shoppers in the days before Christmas. It starts directly with...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

How The Aughts Killed America’s Malls and Newspapers – With One Stone

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" DeadMalls.com is celebrating a decade of recording the death rattles of American shopping malls. Chronicling the nasty and brutish l...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Black Friday

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Another Black Friday is upon us. How many malls do you know have shuttered since Black Friday, 2008?
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

JCPenney's Big Book catalog coming to an end

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  Photo courtesy of Ebay and Sylelist As the latest news reports have stated, this year's JCPenney Big Book catalog will be the last ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

"Destruction of the temple of consumption"/"Untergang der Konsumtempel"

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A German article about US Shopping Malls . (the link has already been translated through Google Translation). Be sure to check out the photo...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

"No identity, tons of competition... how can Festival Bay Mall survive?"

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Article about Festival Bay Mall in Orlando. Conceived in the go-go days of the 1990s, Festival Bay Mall was envisioned as a thriving enter...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

"Memphis takes first step in retrofitting shopping areas"

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" Abandoned strip centers, malls can be reborn, says architecture professor Ellen Dunham-Jones "
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Malls R Us

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An in-depth review and personal reflection on malls and our lives. And, a very nice honorable mention: "Deadmalls.com is not the name...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

"Deadmalls.com: Tracking Closings and Developments"

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A quick mention for us by the people at Worldchanging who tries to solve the planet's problems. Also notice this post from the site of ...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Roger Ebert reviews "Malls R Us"

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Some good promotion for the documentary project that Deadmalls.com appears in. Roger Ebert, famous movie reviewer, takes a look at Malls R ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Fading HoJo's chain seeks new knight in shining armor

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Alas, a reporter dares to peer into the fate of Howard Johnson's 2009. Last we heard, LaMancha Group purchased the rights to the recip...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

America's Most Endangered Malls

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With the fall of Birmingham's Century Plaza, U.S. News and World Report's Rick Newman examines the rest of the country's malls t...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

"Birmingham's Century Plaza wrapping up business after 4 decades"

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( Photo © Birmingham News ) Birmingham's Century Plaza mall, a once-thriving retail hub that hemorrhaged shoppers and stores as the metr...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Op-Chart - The Fall of the Mall - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

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This New York Times chart shows the depth of drop in sales from the first quarter of 2009.
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Report Questions Southridge Mall's Future

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KCCI Des Moines article that references the Wall Street Journal article about dead malls. Mentions that their mall, Southridge Mall is con...

Recession Turns Malls Into Ghost Towns

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By  KRIS HUDSON  and  VANESSA O'CONNELL Malls, those ubiquitous shopping meccas that sprang up in the 1950s, are dwindling in number, wi...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

"Nothing Sweet about Etobicoke's Honeydale Mall"

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Picture © Andrew Pakula A blogger's pictures and comments about Honeydale Mall in Canada.
Monday, May 11, 2009

Smart Solutions For A Retail Apocalypse

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Posted on Monday May 11th by Jebediah Reed from The Infrastructurist at www.infrastructurist.com... Malls are being mauled. In case you’ve b...
Saturday, May 09, 2009

What happened to Lincoln Mall?

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I spoke with reporter Guy Tridgell about Lincoln Mall, and the shift of the mall culture in general, and what leads to the demise of the mal...
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