Francis Scot key mall in Frederick Maryland is on the upswing. My wife just leased a space to start some kid play thing, and was talking to the manager. Most profitable mall in the owners portfolio of 10 or so malls.
The Sears is currently being turned into a Dicks world of sports. Turning into a service/ entertainment focused mall.
I feel like we may live in the same city!
I went to that mall the other week after recently moving back to town and was pleasantly surprised to see it bustling again!
This is the way. When our local mall lost all of its anchors, a Whole Foods moved in, the dining options went to the next (and then the next!) level, and now you can’t park anywhere near it and it’s packed almost every day.
Cherry Creek, Flatirons Crossing, and Park Meadows are all doing fine in the Denver metro area. The cheaper/lower brow malls, not so much. Colorado Mills always has rotating sketchy tenants.
Same! You can stroll down the luxury hall and end up at the turtles and ducks. You can see a movie. You can have pancakes at Breadwinner’s. You can see Warhol or Suvero. I absolutely love NorthPark 💕
Went to Galleria Dallas recently and I didn’t go through the whole mall, but there was a number of vacancies which is kind of surprising.
Stonebriar is doing good as well, especially with having to compete with Legacy West.
A lot of the smaller malls in my area are dead or dying, but the King of Prussia Mall is still going strong. Willow Grove is also in pretty good shape, and then the Christiana mall about an hour south in Delaware is also thriving.
I worked in Lake County for many years but haven’t been to Gurnee Mills in maybe 10 years. I know they built a Portillo’s in an outlet (which was a big deal) but I’m never in that area any more.
The only mall surviving in Cincinnati is Kenwood. It is in a high-income area and has high income stores (Apple, Nordstrom, Macy's, and such). All of our other malls have either died (Forest Fair, & Tricounty) or are in the process of dying (Florence & Eastgate). The town center style malls are thriving here.
Northpark Mall in Dallas is amazing. It's a time capsule, but because the architect who designed it in the 60s did such a good job it never needed to be updated. It's not just a mall, it's half mall, half art museum and it has some amazing interior landscaping.
I worked at Altamonte Mall for 4 years shortly after Sanford was built, they all predicted the demise of Altamonte due to the newer build a short distance away.
Fast forward to now and Sanford mall is a ghost town and can’t even afford to have the AC on! Altamonte being so old is still holding on!
it feels like it’s doing even better than a few years ago, there’s great new stores every time i go. during christmas i felt like i was in an old christmas movie bc i had never seen a mall so packed in real life lol
Majority of the malls in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex are THRIVING. My childhood mall, Stonebriar, is bustling every day of the week; Galleria Dallas is getting one of the nation's first Netflix Houses, NorthPark is popular as ever, Grapevine Mills is one of Simon's most popular malls... yeah, everything's great.
Oof really? Collin creek-gone, Valley
view- gone, vista ridge- dead, willow bend- dead. Ridgmar-dead, Hulen- dead. Considering what DFW had at its height wouldn’t say the majority are thriving.
And Sugarloaf Mills! There’s also Lenox Square Mall, obviously, Perimeter Mall, Cumberland Mall, and the Avalon in Alpharetta, even though that’s a neighborhood/work location/mall.
Yeah, while a bunch of Atlanta malls are dead (Gwinnett Place) or half-dead (Northlake) or even trying to keep up (North Point), these are definitely the ones that are thriving and lasting.
Northlake was my local mall growing up. Went there a couple of years back. How it is still open is a mystery, they should put it out of its misery at this point.
In the SF Bay Area I would say that about 3 malls are thriving, but many others are doing well. The ones that are thriving are:
Valley Fair/Santana Row in San Jose/Santa Clara: lots of high-end stores, unique grocery stores like Eataly, tons of actually good restaurants, and the Santana Row outdoor/urban style mall with more popular restaurants/bars across the street.
Stonestown in San Francisco: pivot to more everyday type stores like Whole Foods, Target, etc while still having a good mix of middle and high-end stores. Lots of great food options ranging from fast casual chains to many diverse Asian restaurants in the food court that are popular with the local community.
Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto: very high-end outdoor mall that has big stores like Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, and Anthropologie that fit the local community very well. Also has popular restaurants that draw people in and it’s on the Stanford University campus which gives it an additional customer base.
I used to live very close to Stonestown. Glad to read that it's still thriving, which is far more than I can say for the Westfield Mall in downtown SF.
Outside of Detroit we have The Somerset Collection and Great Lakes Crossing.
We was in Australia two years ago, and the malls are thriving at virtually every turn! Especially in Queensland.
Oakland Mall is on the rebound, the current owner is very involved. Southland Center in Taylor is an amazing surprise, active and around 70% occupied with anchors. Fairlane is barely holding on.
I'm from Minnesota, so Mall Of America is a given; not just for the Nickelodeon-themed amusement park, but it's also close to an airport and serves as a destination for travelers waiting for a flight, or getting off a flight.
Other malls that seem to be doing rather well, at least in my opinion, would be Ridgedale in Minnetonka and Rosedale in Roseville, MN. I think in Rosedale's case, it's location.
Really wish we could either get more shopping in Nicollet or some non boutique stores in North Loop. Feel like all the people moving downtown would utilize
Rosedale invested a LOT of money modernizing and is filling the outer parking lot with restaurants, banks, dentists and I believe there is a residential building in the works as well. It is always lively.
Here in Gainesville, FL we have The Oaks Mall which is still doing relatively well. It has all its anchors intact, Belk, JCPenney, two Dillard’s (one originally a Macy’s), and the third is an eye clinic operated by UF Health, but the place used to be Sears. I was just there the other day and it had decent activity inside. But just last year during Black Friday it was packed
Crossgates Mall in Albany seems to be doing pretty well. They've leaned in hard to entertainment. There's like five sit-down restaurants, two sets of escape rooms, a big movie theater and an arcade with bowling and go karts and shit in addition to the games. They've also got Dunkin, Starbucks, and several boba tea places. Retail is a mix of kawaii stuff, classic mall stores like Old Navy and the Gap, traditional anchors like Macy's and JC Penney and stuff that's unique in the region like Primark. It honestly still has a vibe, though. I go and I wonder why there are so many people and businesses in a dead mall.
The Millcreek Mall in Erie Pa, Does great because alot of canadians drive down here to shop and avoid sales tax on clothes.
Beachwood Place in Cleveland is always packed when I stop there for the Lego Store.
Lynnhaven in Virginia Beach is as busy as it was when I would hang out there in the late-90s/early-2000s. At least it was when I went there a couple years ago. I miss the old food court tho.
For sure the Del Amo Fashion Center in LA. It has always been busy, but with the new renovations and additions of new upscale and modern stores, the place is genuinely thriving. Of course it was always considered one of the busiest malls in America and I’m glad it’s not slowing down.
Suburbs of Los Angeles haven’t been bit by the mall bug as bad as other places in the US. The Oaks mall in Thousand Oaks is always packed. Same with lots of malls in Orange County and San Diego. Especially the ones near the beaches like Fashion Island in Newport Beach.
Walden Galleria in Buffalo Ny is doing great.
What sets them apart is they have entertainment to bring people to the mall. They have a great food court. They have activities going on all the time.
They keep the entertainment fresh by changing out the places they have every so often. I could name a dozen places that have been in the mall over the years.
Lots of malls around the Greater Seattle Area are flourishing. Another good example is Bell Square, which still offers that "classic mall experience™".
Baybrook Mall down in Friendswood, Texas is still thriving.
Also pretty much kept up in a very busy and high end area too. Few years ago they got an open air area where there's more shops and eateries outside including a Dave and Buster's and Star Cinema Grill next to one another.
Baybrook has been busy for years, and the recent additions in the area definitely help. That Great Wolf Lodge opening nearby in Webster won’t hurt either.
Columbus Ohio: Polaris Fashion Place doing well. Some vacancies but very high traffic. Easton Towne Center is an open air mall and is busy. One dead mall: Westgate, was recently demolished. Owners of other dead mall, Eastland Mall, are being fined daily due to code violations. I suspect it will be torn down within next five years. Mall at Tuttle Crossing—in very affluent area of town—is dying a slow sad death.
Cielo Vista Mall here in El Paso, TX is doing just fine, anchored by 2 Dillard’s stores, JCPenney, Macy’s, and Sears, the mall also has really trendy stores and very strong options in the food court (they had McDonald’s up until this year).Though it’s mostly thriving due to people crossing the border from Mexico, it’s also a VERY old looking mall just by looking at the exterior, it needs a remodel, but one thing that keeps the mall looking lively is the fountain in the Dillard’s (Women’s store) court area right as you walk in (Simon somehow didn’t remove the fountain like they did to other malls they own).
Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg IL I'm sure is a good example for many who may be from the Chicago Area here.
The former Sears area looks empty but the rest of the mall is doing pretty well.
Most of the heavy hitter malls in Chicagoland seem to be doing quite well. Woodfield, Oak Brook, Old Orchard, Gurnee Mills, etc. The ones that seem to really struggle are those smaller ones like the one that closed in St Charles a year or so ago.
Brandon Town Center is and has always been thriving - they need to tear down the old Sears and build something fun there. The site has soooo much potential
Last weekend I was at the Eastridge Mall in San Jose. Granted, it was a hot Saturday afternoon, but it was pretty lively. Lots of families and teenagers.
What was especially surprising was that it didn’t look like a particularly high-end mall with an Apple Store or Nordstroms, and it’s in East SJ which is not one of the city’s more upscale areas.
Nearby here we have one that’s sort of going downhill but not it’s worse, some stores closing and some coming in.
A little farther we have Opry Mills in Nashville TN, doing extremely well from what I see, very packed every time I’m there
Kenwood Mall just outside of Cincinnati is thriving. They have an Apple Store and it’s pretty high end.
Florence Mall in Kentucky is doing well enough. Lost Sears, but it’s one of those malls that’s being reborn with smaller mom and pop shops. Love that place.
Inland center mall in San Bernardino, Tyler Galleria in riverside, Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario Mills in Ontario. These are all in the Inland Empire region of SoCal.
The holyoke mall in Holyoke, MA seems to be doing well. They have a round one, a hibachi place, a great Chinese fusion place, a target, J.C. Penney, a Best Buy, macys and many other little stores. It’s always pretty busy whenever I go there.
I’m in Delaware and the Christiana mall is in good shape, with a couple vacancies but still at around 85% occupancy and crowded parking lots and another 20 unit outdoor center next door. Fun fact: Charles Barkley’s daughter is named after the mall.
Garden state plaza- Paramus, NJ
American Dream-East Rutherford, NJ
Palisades mall- Nyack, NY
Shoppes at Riverside- Hackensack, NJ
All within 45 min drive or so and all thriving! Paramus Park Mall is slowly dying but they are surviving with the Stew Leonard’s grocery store.
On the point of this, I think malls got overbuilt in the 70's and 80's. They were essentially money trees for consumer goods so they put up dozens in metro areas. As populations moved and other options emerged, the mall saturation become unsustainable.
But there's still a role for malls. Just fewer malls that focus on offerings/experiences you can't get elsewhere.
I live in Northeast Wisconsin - the fox river mall is packed to the brim every single weekend. Shoppers come from all over because it's the premier shopping destination around here. There is also a mall in Green Bay which is a bigger city but it's a smaller mall. It's still super busy on a lot of days. I think both are gonna be safe for awhile.
I go to the Chicago suburbs a lot for shopping because they have so many brands and stores you can't get up here. The malls i frequent are always crowds of people too (Westfield Old Orchard and Oakbrook Center).
I live near a couple malls in northwest suburbs of Chicago. High population and relatively affluent areas. IKEA and Whole Foods nearby one of them, so there’s a consistent stream of customers in the area.
I drove out to Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL for the first time last week and was surprise at how many quality stores it has and the amount of people of all ages out shopping
Towne East Square mall in Wichita, KS. I’ve only lived here a few years so idk if it went through a slow period like so many malls do. But it now has a Round 1, Scheels, Miniso…it’s always full of people and definitely thriving.
On the other hand, the Towne West Square mall across town, which I’ve [posted here](https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/comments/soyexn/took_some_film_photos_of_towne_west_square_mall/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) before, is a ghost town. Constantly has its power turned off due to unpaid bills.
I'm in Northern Utah and visit malls a lot. Most of the malls that are still open are doing just fine. City Creek, Station Park, and Fashion Place are close to 100% occupancy. University Mall is doing great with almost no real anchors. Valley Fair and South Town are both doing just fine after adding some non-conventional anchors to fill dead anchor spots (though I doubt Valley Fair is getting high rent payments). Gateway transitioned half the mall to office space and the half that's open seems to be thriving with mostly restaurants. Trolley Square looks better than it has in the last 10 years as well. Provo Towne Center was looking really bad a few years ago but they have added a bunch of non-traditional mall stores and it seems to be doing okay at least, it's an odd mall. Layton Hills feels like it's starting to fall off a bit but there are still good crowds there.
On the other side of the spectrum, the Cache Valley Mall finally completely died and was closed. The Newgate Mall is definitely on the decline as well. I think Newgate is probably the mall that is in the most danger of becoming a dead mall in the next 5 years. They would do good to finally get someone to buy that old Sears space. It gets pretty busy for how many closed stores there are.
Westfield Mall in Clearwater FL is still limping on, though there is one pathway with a blank wall that clearly used to be a line of shops that had been walled off.
I haven’t been in a while but Arundel Mills seems to be doing alright. I used to work there in the early 2000’s and it was always busy. I guess the casino is helping to keep it afloat. Not thriving but surviving
Concord Mills mall in Concord North Carolina. Its two anchor stores are Best Buy and a Bass pro so it’s got some reliability on those fronts And it’s right outside a major travel hub.
San Antonio TX. North Star mall is still BUMPING. I only go there when I need to feed my Lego addiction in person. Every time I go I legit see young folks just hanging out. It reminds me of hanging out at the mall circa 1995.
In the Toronto area, there are at least five big malls that I would categorize as thriving: Yorkdale, Square One, the Eaton Centre, Sherway Gardens and the Scarborough Town Centre. Maybe you could put Fairview Mall in there as well. Nordstrom's exit from Canada was a bit of a setback for the three Toronto malls that had stores, but two of them have already lined up new anchors and I'm sure the third will find some use for the space as well.
I think in every Toronto suburb, the dominant mall could be categorized as doing just fine, your Bramalea City Centres and Oakville Places etc. Some of the second-tier malls are a bit worse off, but genuine dead or obviously dying malls are fairly rare. There's a couple malls that have or will be killed off not because they were dead but because they are going to be redeveloped due to the value of their land.
I live close to The Parks Mall at Arlington. (Arlington, TX) It is doing okay. They had to add a curfew for the teenagers because they kept shooting at each other.
There doesn't seem to be many vacancies and any there always seem to be transitioning to another store.
The Westfield Valley Faire mall in Santa Clara (near San Jose), California, is doing well.
Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco is packed and busy all the time.
Arrowhead mall in Peoria/Glendale AZ and Scottsdale Fashion Square! It’s 115 degrees outside, there should be more indoor malls to walk in! Ridiculous!
I was just at the circle centre mall in Indianapolis. It was dying. It had many closed stores. No anchor. The restaurants on the ground floor outside were doing ok because of street traffic. But the only ‘brand’ stores they had were lids and bath and body works. Oddly. I didn’t see a GNC in there
Southridge mall (Greendale, WI) and Mayfair Mall (Wauwatosa, WI). Both are usually pretty busy with lots of people, especially weekends and the holidays.
in houston area….. the galleria, first colony mall, baybrook mall, katy mills, the woodlands mall, & memorial city mall all seem to always be pretty busy
Brea Mall in California. (Westfield)
They’ve demolished the old Sears anchor and are adding 380 housing units including affordable options, new retail and dining, one acre of green space.
There’s already a Nordstrom, Apple store, Tesla store with a very busy supercharger station (20 spaces).
Macys and JCP will probably be the next to go
I’ve been going there for 40 years. It’s as busy as it’s ever been. I don’t get out there much anymore. I live closer to Lakeline and that mall is just a sad shell.
Florida Panhandle malls seem to be doing well thanks to tourist seasons sticking around longer since Covid. I work for Pier Park and we’re packed every day. Destin has Destin Commons and Silver Sands in San Destin are always busy as well. Thankfully things seem to be doing well! We did lose the Panama City Mall due to Hurricane Michael. Not sure if they’re ever going to break ground for a new development.
I'm not in USA, but one of the key differences I can see is size/population and having an actual activity area. One mall near me has both a movie theatre and a skating rink. I know I personally have wandered around waiting for my movie to start and went into stores. Mall in another city is honestly huge for this area, and people will travel from other nearby cities to go to it. It also has stores that are more "exclusive" like Torrid or LuLuLemon.
My local mall is tiny and has been dying for over a decade. They shut down a department store and turned it into a gym. They are building a Costco (bulk superstore) on the same lot, which will definitely get traffic, but I don't know if that will translate into the actual mall.
Grew up near Westfield Old Orchard. Amazing how a 60+ year old mall is doing so well. It’s been remodeled and reinvented several times and is adding even more stores. Always crowded particularly when the weather is nice.
There’s what I consider to be a “rich person’s mall” near me. I think the anchors are Macy’s, Nordstrom, and Sak’s Fifth Avenue. I rarely have occasion to go there (I’m neither rich nor pretty), but it always seems to be crowded.
Edit: I just looked up the stores in this mall and there’s one called “moose knuckles”. WTF?
There’s also another mall that’s quite big, but it’s designed as one big oval, so it’s a good place to get some exercise, if nothing else.
In St Louis, the St. Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights and West County Center in Des Peres are both doing well. They both have Nordstrom and Macy's and neither ever had Sears. Galleria also has a huge Dillard's and West County has JC Penney.
I have a mall near me that is anchored by a Costco and seems to be doing fine. There are some empty store fronts, true, but they’ve done up a big outdoor area, there’s always traffic in and out of the place, and they just built a big building of apartment/condos nearby. In terms of health of the mall, I would classify it as somebody in their late 40s who could probably stand to lay off the chocolate and cheese, and maybe go for a few more walks, but it’s definitely hanging in there.
Columbia mall, Arundel mills mall, Tyson’s, and Crystal city mall all seem packed every time I go which is fucking rare.
They have great anchor stores,
Tysons is a fancy mall right in the heart of an affluent area of NoVA, Crystal city has the convenience of a metro stop and across the heyday from the Pentagon. The mall has decent anchor stores and fancy hotels near. Columbia has anchor stores, and restaurants, I hate Anne arundel mall but it has the anchors, restaurants, and a popular cinema.
Grand Rapids, MI:
* Woodland Mall — All three anchor spots are filled (Penney’s, Macy’s, and a Von Maur that demolished and rebuilt a Sears). Outlot movie theater reopened under new management after five years. High end stores: Apple, The North Face, etc. Old money is two miles to the north and west. They’re doing fine.
* Centerpoint Mall — De-malled 10 years ago to become a strip of big box stores and specialty retailers, although a few indoor hallways still exist if you know how to get to them.
* Rivertown Crossings — In serious decline. Two of six anchors unfillled; Round1 started work on one of them and then pulled out. Parking deck went so long without repairs it is now unsafe and has closed. Stores and interior hallways close most nights at 7 PM, except as needed to provide access to the movie theater. Surrounding area has plenty of big box stores and doesn’t necessarily need a mall. Nearby demographics are a lot of starter homes.
(Would welcome a reply from anyone who’s been to the malls in nearby Holland and Muskegon… last time I was in either was two years ago and they were nearly dead then.)
Mayfair outside of Milwaukee seems to be doing well, since Northridge was such a cluster; it's been on the demolition chopping block for four years now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northridge_Mall_(Wisconsin)
The Jordan Creek Mall just outside of Des Moines is still a major hub and they’re still adding more shopping to the surrounding area (Jordan Creek Town Center it’s called)
Columbia Mall of Columbia, MD has been alive and thriving since the 1970s. During that time it has done well to keep up with changing cultural wants and needs, and it also helps Columbia is one of the wealthiest cities in the country. It’s a lovely mall with a great assortment of national and regional chains and local businesses.
Arundel Mills of Hanover, MD has been going strong since 1999, responsible for the deaths and decline of many malls within a 20 mile radius of it. Despite being an outlet mall it attracts a wide demographic of people, and the area itself has been growing for many years.
I don’t think malls will ever go extinct despite popular belief. There will always be a desire and need for brick-and-mortar. Some things just need to be shopped for in person. Ironically, the decline of the American shopping mall has made stronger malls even stronger regranting them the destination status.
Tyson’s Corner Center.. Pentagon City.. Springfield Mall.. Fair Oaks Mall. These are in the Northern VA/DC area. Potomac Mills Mall is even doing ok it’s just kinda boring but it’s always packed and not too many empty storefronts. I actually don’t think there’s any at all.
Cleveland:
High end Beachwood Place - has Saks and Nordstrom for anchors.
Legacy Village and Crocker Park: “outdoorsy” malls that are on the higher end as well,on the east and west sides respectively, are doing quite well. They have good walkability, restaurants, farmer markers in summer, and other events. They are like little mazes and have hotels around them so out-of-town visitors are attracted. Good walkability.
Can’t forget the “middle end” malls: Strongsville Mall and Great Northern are going strong. Large “traditional” malls though Strongsville is the more modern one for sure.
Towne West Square in Wichita, Kansas is on life support. Mostly empty, and the power is shut off for about a day or so almost every month. Even the water has been shut off a couple times.
It's sister mall on the other side of town, Towne East Square, is in the midst of a Renaissance. Several spaces had been turned into a Round 1, the old Sears was gutted and turned into a Scheels (and they are about to throw a big party for the stores first anniversary), and many international chains have set up shop just in the last year or so. Just a few years ago, it was looking pretty bleak (though not as bad as West).
In northeast Ohio, Great Northern Mall is doing well, the old Sears anchor spot nothwithstanding.
I don’t consider Crocker Park or Legacy Village to be in the same category since they were built up after the year 2000. They’re doing well, too.
On the flip side, my local Chapel Hill Mall died but was instantly turned into a business park, as in, the very next day. Can’t say the same for Rolling Acres or Randall Park, though they eventually got converted to Amazon locations, places I actually visit for contractor work purposes.
There’s a mall in my area called Cielo Vista Mall. It’s still a Simon mall. It gets new chain stores frequently (think Apple, Sephora, Lush). It’s located in El Paso, Texas and is close to the border. A lot of people from Mexico come to the US to shop and resell back in Mexico due to higher prices for the same products if bought in Mexico.
Everytime you go it’s busy and full. It’s nice to see and it’s a good mall.
The Mall at UTC Sarasota, Florida is growing business-wise. Recently there had been slow development to build more luxury apartments and attractions for this year. I have seen a Tesla dealership done a grand opening last month being built right next to the mall and a Mote Marine laboratory aquarium coming soon being scheduled for early 2025 opening so far.
As far as the mall is concerned, there had been some large brand stores being gone due to cutting costs decision but that did not stop the mall and those empty spaces were replaced eventually.
Mall St. Matthews and Oxmoor in Louisville seem to be doing ok. Owned by the same person and near each other. Oxmoor has always been the more hoity-toity one of the two, but at least compared to the other mall in Louisville (Jefferson), they're both going strong.
I need to get out to J-mall someday and see if I can get some dead mall footage... It'd be a nice one last thing to do for the mall I grew up with
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Yeah I feel like bringing in those “experience” places like Top Golf and Round 1 is something that can save a sinking ship.
Francis Scot key mall in Frederick Maryland is on the upswing. My wife just leased a space to start some kid play thing, and was talking to the manager. Most profitable mall in the owners portfolio of 10 or so malls. The Sears is currently being turned into a Dicks world of sports. Turning into a service/ entertainment focused mall.
Can’t wait to see how that turns out.
I feel like we may live in the same city! I went to that mall the other week after recently moving back to town and was pleasantly surprised to see it bustling again!
This is the way. When our local mall lost all of its anchors, a Whole Foods moved in, the dining options went to the next (and then the next!) level, and now you can’t park anywhere near it and it’s packed almost every day.
My mind immediately went to Oxmoor even before checking your profile.
oxmoor?
Oxmoor Center yeah?
High end malls in high end areas and touristy malls in high volume tourist areas are doing well.
Bellevue Square on the east side of the Seattle Bay Area is a great example of this.
Westfield Southcenter and the Outlet Collection in Auburn are doing very well as well.
Yup. High end malls on the Las Vegas strip are very busy.
dolphin mall in miami. my fav
Cherry Creek, Flatirons Crossing, and Park Meadows are all doing fine in the Denver metro area. The cheaper/lower brow malls, not so much. Colorado Mills always has rotating sketchy tenants.
South Coast Plaza in California and it’s very upscale.
I love that mall
The South Coast Boutique is having a fire sale?
North Park in Dallas is doing fantastic. Going there is one of my favorite things to do.
Same! You can stroll down the luxury hall and end up at the turtles and ducks. You can see a movie. You can have pancakes at Breadwinner’s. You can see Warhol or Suvero. I absolutely love NorthPark 💕
Went to Galleria Dallas recently and I didn’t go through the whole mall, but there was a number of vacancies which is kind of surprising. Stonebriar is doing good as well, especially with having to compete with Legacy West.
Yes, Galleria is suffering, but Stonebriar mall in Frisco is jampacked every weekend, and stays busy during the week
Tyson's in VA, busier than ever
Agreed - and Pentagon/Fashion center, that food court alone still gets an insane amount of tourist bus traffic
Ever since you can walk around with cocktails, my SILs and I do our girls' lunches there lol!
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Isn’t Cherry Creek like the Beverly Hills or Tribeca of Denver?
Ya pretty much
Flatirons too. They are ungoing some changes, I think, on the periphery? But the core mall seems quite alive still.
Both premium outlets seem to be doing well too
Colorado mills is also doing well enough
Gah I love the Cherry Creek mall
A lot of the smaller malls in my area are dead or dying, but the King of Prussia Mall is still going strong. Willow Grove is also in pretty good shape, and then the Christiana mall about an hour south in Delaware is also thriving.
Definitely yes to Christiana. Tax-free shopping is always popular.
Yep, we always head down there when it’s time for a new iPhone. Definitely worth the drive.
I think King of Prussia is better now than it was in the 90s. The food especially.
Woodfield - in the suburbs of Chicago - lost a few big anchors but seems to still be “the place” for shoppers.
Oak Brook in the west is doing pretty well. Lots of high end stuff, and it’s outdoors too.
Yup, I go to oakbrook a lot and you can barely find a parking spot!
I live in the area and was there a few weeks ago. It feels like going back in time to see a mall super busy with plenty of open stores.
Old Orchard (Skokie) is thriving too!
Has anyone been to Gurnee Mills? Last time I've been seemed to be doing alright, admittedly it is a bit far from Chicago.
I worked in Lake County for many years but haven’t been to Gurnee Mills in maybe 10 years. I know they built a Portillo’s in an outlet (which was a big deal) but I’m never in that area any more.
Old Orchard seems to be doing okay too. Just north of Chicago in Skokie.
Pittsburgh has Ross Park Mall in the North Hills and South Hills Village in, well, the South Hills. Both are higher end malls, and do well.
Same with Robinson Mall
The only mall surviving in Cincinnati is Kenwood. It is in a high-income area and has high income stores (Apple, Nordstrom, Macy's, and such). All of our other malls have either died (Forest Fair, & Tricounty) or are in the process of dying (Florence & Eastgate). The town center style malls are thriving here.
Northpark Mall in Dallas is amazing. It's a time capsule, but because the architect who designed it in the 60s did such a good job it never needed to be updated. It's not just a mall, it's half mall, half art museum and it has some amazing interior landscaping.
I haven't been to Northpark in two or three years, but now I'm curious to go down there. I want to go to Eataly
Scottsdale Fashion Square & Chandler Fashion Center (AZ).
And Arrowhead Mall. It’s always packed.
Altamonte Mall and Florida Mall around Orlando are still always busy and packed with people.
I worked at Altamonte Mall for 4 years shortly after Sanford was built, they all predicted the demise of Altamonte due to the newer build a short distance away. Fast forward to now and Sanford mall is a ghost town and can’t even afford to have the AC on! Altamonte being so old is still holding on!
Westfarms Mall in Farmington CT still very much alive and well.
Buckland Hills in Manchester seems to be doing ok too whenever I go in there.
Yeah it seems to be hanging in there.
it feels like it’s doing even better than a few years ago, there’s great new stores every time i go. during christmas i felt like i was in an old christmas movie bc i had never seen a mall so packed in real life lol
Florida Mall and Mall of Millenia in Orlando are still busy.
Mall of Millenia is *awesome*, no cap.
i’ve wanted to go there for years
Absolutely, and even the Altamonte Mall is doing okay.
Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas is always busy when we are there.
Majority of the malls in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex are THRIVING. My childhood mall, Stonebriar, is bustling every day of the week; Galleria Dallas is getting one of the nation's first Netflix Houses, NorthPark is popular as ever, Grapevine Mills is one of Simon's most popular malls... yeah, everything's great.
Oof really? Collin creek-gone, Valley view- gone, vista ridge- dead, willow bend- dead. Ridgmar-dead, Hulen- dead. Considering what DFW had at its height wouldn’t say the majority are thriving.
Washington Square Mall in Beaverton, OR is still going strong.
I'm literally there almost every week and it is always busy!
Clackamas Town Center and Vancouver Mall are busy when I go, too. Feels like a time warp.
That Mall of Georgia
And Sugarloaf Mills! There’s also Lenox Square Mall, obviously, Perimeter Mall, Cumberland Mall, and the Avalon in Alpharetta, even though that’s a neighborhood/work location/mall. Yeah, while a bunch of Atlanta malls are dead (Gwinnett Place) or half-dead (Northlake) or even trying to keep up (North Point), these are definitely the ones that are thriving and lasting.
Northlake was my local mall growing up. Went there a couple of years back. How it is still open is a mystery, they should put it out of its misery at this point.
In the SF Bay Area I would say that about 3 malls are thriving, but many others are doing well. The ones that are thriving are: Valley Fair/Santana Row in San Jose/Santa Clara: lots of high-end stores, unique grocery stores like Eataly, tons of actually good restaurants, and the Santana Row outdoor/urban style mall with more popular restaurants/bars across the street. Stonestown in San Francisco: pivot to more everyday type stores like Whole Foods, Target, etc while still having a good mix of middle and high-end stores. Lots of great food options ranging from fast casual chains to many diverse Asian restaurants in the food court that are popular with the local community. Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto: very high-end outdoor mall that has big stores like Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, and Anthropologie that fit the local community very well. Also has popular restaurants that draw people in and it’s on the Stanford University campus which gives it an additional customer base.
I used to live very close to Stonestown. Glad to read that it's still thriving, which is far more than I can say for the Westfield Mall in downtown SF.
Outside of Detroit we have The Somerset Collection and Great Lakes Crossing. We was in Australia two years ago, and the malls are thriving at virtually every turn! Especially in Queensland.
Somerset is always lively and packed
We’ve had friends from other parts of the world visit us, and I’ve taken them there, and they’ve fallen in love with the joint!
Oakland Mall is on the rebound, the current owner is very involved. Southland Center in Taylor is an amazing surprise, active and around 70% occupied with anchors. Fairlane is barely holding on.
Oak Park mall in overland park kansas is doing pretty good. It has some nice locally owned stores too
Saw someone on r/kansascity say they brought a friend from out of town there and the friend was shocked it was so alive lol
The Natick Mall in MA is always super busy. It helps that it’s a super nice place.
I'm from Minnesota, so Mall Of America is a given; not just for the Nickelodeon-themed amusement park, but it's also close to an airport and serves as a destination for travelers waiting for a flight, or getting off a flight. Other malls that seem to be doing rather well, at least in my opinion, would be Ridgedale in Minnetonka and Rosedale in Roseville, MN. I think in Rosedale's case, it's location.
Also in MN and I agree with all these.
Really wish we could either get more shopping in Nicollet or some non boutique stores in North Loop. Feel like all the people moving downtown would utilize
Rosedale invested a LOT of money modernizing and is filling the outer parking lot with restaurants, banks, dentists and I believe there is a residential building in the works as well. It is always lively.
Rosedale also has a major bus stop. I’ve only been a couple times but Eden Prairie mall still seems very lively. I think Scheels was a nice boost.
Petition to start Successful Mall Sunday on this sub where we post pics of thriving malls
Here in Gainesville, FL we have The Oaks Mall which is still doing relatively well. It has all its anchors intact, Belk, JCPenney, two Dillard’s (one originally a Macy’s), and the third is an eye clinic operated by UF Health, but the place used to be Sears. I was just there the other day and it had decent activity inside. But just last year during Black Friday it was packed
good ol oaks mall! but rip to Boston Market😭
Barton Creek is doing pretty well. Highland closed bh but was renovated into a city college campus (ACC)
Barton Creek mall is always bustling!
King of Prussia is thriving
Also Christiana Mall, mainly due to tax-free shopping.
Pretty much every mall in San Diego County is thriving
Twelve oaks mall in Novi MI is still very busy and has a full functioning food court still as well!
Crossgates Mall in Albany seems to be doing pretty well. They've leaned in hard to entertainment. There's like five sit-down restaurants, two sets of escape rooms, a big movie theater and an arcade with bowling and go karts and shit in addition to the games. They've also got Dunkin, Starbucks, and several boba tea places. Retail is a mix of kawaii stuff, classic mall stores like Old Navy and the Gap, traditional anchors like Macy's and JC Penney and stuff that's unique in the region like Primark. It honestly still has a vibe, though. I go and I wonder why there are so many people and businesses in a dead mall.
The Millcreek Mall in Erie Pa, Does great because alot of canadians drive down here to shop and avoid sales tax on clothes. Beachwood Place in Cleveland is always packed when I stop there for the Lego Store.
From Connecticut. Danbury and West Farms seem to be doing just fine. Always busy, always packed and has great stores.
Lynnhaven in Virginia Beach is as busy as it was when I would hang out there in the late-90s/early-2000s. At least it was when I went there a couple years ago. I miss the old food court tho.
Lakeside Mall in Metairie, LA, is insanely busy, no matter the day or time.
For sure the Del Amo Fashion Center in LA. It has always been busy, but with the new renovations and additions of new upscale and modern stores, the place is genuinely thriving. Of course it was always considered one of the busiest malls in America and I’m glad it’s not slowing down.
Capital City Mall in Camp Hill PA is doing well. Maybe just one or two empty stores but it’s doing great. Last time I went it was packed
Suburbs of Los Angeles haven’t been bit by the mall bug as bad as other places in the US. The Oaks mall in Thousand Oaks is always packed. Same with lots of malls in Orange County and San Diego. Especially the ones near the beaches like Fashion Island in Newport Beach.
Just visited a mall out by San Diego. Huge, 3 floors, no vacant stores and full of all ages of people. Felt like I was back in the 90’s
Walden Galleria in Buffalo Ny is doing great. What sets them apart is they have entertainment to bring people to the mall. They have a great food court. They have activities going on all the time. They keep the entertainment fresh by changing out the places they have every so often. I could name a dozen places that have been in the mall over the years.
I LOVED this mall when I was a kid. I moved away in 2008 and haven’t been there since so I’m glad to hear it’s still doing great.
Alderwood Mall in Lynwood WA, still a popular shopping destination for the greater Seattle area.
Lots of malls around the Greater Seattle Area are flourishing. Another good example is Bell Square, which still offers that "classic mall experience™".
Baybrook Mall down in Friendswood, Texas is still thriving. Also pretty much kept up in a very busy and high end area too. Few years ago they got an open air area where there's more shops and eateries outside including a Dave and Buster's and Star Cinema Grill next to one another.
Baybrook has been busy for years, and the recent additions in the area definitely help. That Great Wolf Lodge opening nearby in Webster won’t hurt either.
Willowbrook here in NJ seems to be doing well.
Yep, Short Hills also. They’re getting an Eataly soon, very excited.
Willowbrook was my surprise of last summer. Really good, better then Rockaway.
In Atlanta, Lenox, Phipps and Perimeter.
Southpark Mall in Charlotte, NC is going like gangbusters. It’s a unicorn.
I'm in LA and all the Westfields here are thriving.
Columbus Ohio: Polaris Fashion Place doing well. Some vacancies but very high traffic. Easton Towne Center is an open air mall and is busy. One dead mall: Westgate, was recently demolished. Owners of other dead mall, Eastland Mall, are being fined daily due to code violations. I suspect it will be torn down within next five years. Mall at Tuttle Crossing—in very affluent area of town—is dying a slow sad death.
Cielo Vista Mall here in El Paso, TX is doing just fine, anchored by 2 Dillard’s stores, JCPenney, Macy’s, and Sears, the mall also has really trendy stores and very strong options in the food court (they had McDonald’s up until this year).Though it’s mostly thriving due to people crossing the border from Mexico, it’s also a VERY old looking mall just by looking at the exterior, it needs a remodel, but one thing that keeps the mall looking lively is the fountain in the Dillard’s (Women’s store) court area right as you walk in (Simon somehow didn’t remove the fountain like they did to other malls they own).
Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, NY
Crabtree valley mall in Raleigh, NC. Still on and poppin
The Mall of America does alright, it’s about 15 minutes from me
Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg IL I'm sure is a good example for many who may be from the Chicago Area here. The former Sears area looks empty but the rest of the mall is doing pretty well.
Most of the heavy hitter malls in Chicagoland seem to be doing quite well. Woodfield, Oak Brook, Old Orchard, Gurnee Mills, etc. The ones that seem to really struggle are those smaller ones like the one that closed in St Charles a year or so ago.
White Marsh, Towson Town, and believe it or not Eastpoint Mall are doing fine. Tysons corner and most Nova malls.
I was at Montgomery yesterday and they seem to be doing fine.
Brandon Town Center is and has always been thriving - they need to tear down the old Sears and build something fun there. The site has soooo much potential
Last weekend I was at the Eastridge Mall in San Jose. Granted, it was a hot Saturday afternoon, but it was pretty lively. Lots of families and teenagers. What was especially surprising was that it didn’t look like a particularly high-end mall with an Apple Store or Nordstroms, and it’s in East SJ which is not one of the city’s more upscale areas.
Nearby here we have one that’s sort of going downhill but not it’s worse, some stores closing and some coming in. A little farther we have Opry Mills in Nashville TN, doing extremely well from what I see, very packed every time I’m there
Grapevine Mills, Texas
Grapevine, Galleria Dallas, Northpark are all doing great. Irving and Vista Ridge, however...
Kenwood Mall just outside of Cincinnati is thriving. They have an Apple Store and it’s pretty high end. Florence Mall in Kentucky is doing well enough. Lost Sears, but it’s one of those malls that’s being reborn with smaller mom and pop shops. Love that place.
UTC Mall in Sarasota is vibrant and has a steady flow of visitors.
Inland center mall in San Bernardino, Tyler Galleria in riverside, Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario Mills in Ontario. These are all in the Inland Empire region of SoCal.
Canada but most of the malls in Metro Vancouver are doing very well. Metrotown, Coquitlam Town Centre, Guildford Town Centre, Park Royal, and others.
The holyoke mall in Holyoke, MA seems to be doing well. They have a round one, a hibachi place, a great Chinese fusion place, a target, J.C. Penney, a Best Buy, macys and many other little stores. It’s always pretty busy whenever I go there.
I’m in Delaware and the Christiana mall is in good shape, with a couple vacancies but still at around 85% occupancy and crowded parking lots and another 20 unit outdoor center next door. Fun fact: Charles Barkley’s daughter is named after the mall.
Garden state plaza- Paramus, NJ American Dream-East Rutherford, NJ Palisades mall- Nyack, NY Shoppes at Riverside- Hackensack, NJ All within 45 min drive or so and all thriving! Paramus Park Mall is slowly dying but they are surviving with the Stew Leonard’s grocery store.
Adding Short Hills and Willlowbrook to this list too!
On the point of this, I think malls got overbuilt in the 70's and 80's. They were essentially money trees for consumer goods so they put up dozens in metro areas. As populations moved and other options emerged, the mall saturation become unsustainable. But there's still a role for malls. Just fewer malls that focus on offerings/experiences you can't get elsewhere.
I live in Northeast Wisconsin - the fox river mall is packed to the brim every single weekend. Shoppers come from all over because it's the premier shopping destination around here. There is also a mall in Green Bay which is a bigger city but it's a smaller mall. It's still super busy on a lot of days. I think both are gonna be safe for awhile. I go to the Chicago suburbs a lot for shopping because they have so many brands and stores you can't get up here. The malls i frequent are always crowds of people too (Westfield Old Orchard and Oakbrook Center).
Burlington Mall in Massachusetts is doing very well!!
I live near a couple malls in northwest suburbs of Chicago. High population and relatively affluent areas. IKEA and Whole Foods nearby one of them, so there’s a consistent stream of customers in the area.
I drove out to Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL for the first time last week and was surprise at how many quality stores it has and the amount of people of all ages out shopping
Towne East Square mall in Wichita, KS. I’ve only lived here a few years so idk if it went through a slow period like so many malls do. But it now has a Round 1, Scheels, Miniso…it’s always full of people and definitely thriving. On the other hand, the Towne West Square mall across town, which I’ve [posted here](https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/comments/soyexn/took_some_film_photos_of_towne_west_square_mall/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) before, is a ghost town. Constantly has its power turned off due to unpaid bills.
I'm in Northern Utah and visit malls a lot. Most of the malls that are still open are doing just fine. City Creek, Station Park, and Fashion Place are close to 100% occupancy. University Mall is doing great with almost no real anchors. Valley Fair and South Town are both doing just fine after adding some non-conventional anchors to fill dead anchor spots (though I doubt Valley Fair is getting high rent payments). Gateway transitioned half the mall to office space and the half that's open seems to be thriving with mostly restaurants. Trolley Square looks better than it has in the last 10 years as well. Provo Towne Center was looking really bad a few years ago but they have added a bunch of non-traditional mall stores and it seems to be doing okay at least, it's an odd mall. Layton Hills feels like it's starting to fall off a bit but there are still good crowds there. On the other side of the spectrum, the Cache Valley Mall finally completely died and was closed. The Newgate Mall is definitely on the decline as well. I think Newgate is probably the mall that is in the most danger of becoming a dead mall in the next 5 years. They would do good to finally get someone to buy that old Sears space. It gets pretty busy for how many closed stores there are.
Melbourne Square Mall, Melbourne, Florida. Greenwood Park Mall, Greenwood, Indiana
Park City Mall in Lancaster PA seems to be doing well so far.
Westfield Mall in Clearwater FL is still limping on, though there is one pathway with a blank wall that clearly used to be a line of shops that had been walled off.
Queensgate Lower Hutt and North City Porirua in Wellington. They are the only two actual malls in the Wellington area (500,000).
The Maine Mall in S.Portland Maine is doing well! No empty storefronts at all that I have seen! Food court was absolutely packed last time.
I haven’t been in a while but Arundel Mills seems to be doing alright. I used to work there in the early 2000’s and it was always busy. I guess the casino is helping to keep it afloat. Not thriving but surviving
West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee is doing just fine. Parking lots are still mostly packed during the weekends.
Hadn’t been there in years but went a few months back and was surprised how packed it was, especially with Turkey Creek’s expansion.
Just went to Rockingham park mall in Salem NH today and it seemed to be doing pretty well!
Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville, Iowa is still just fine, probably thanks to an ice rink. Also at least one in Des Moines.
Concord Mills mall in Concord North Carolina. Its two anchor stores are Best Buy and a Bass pro so it’s got some reliability on those fronts And it’s right outside a major travel hub.
San Antonio TX. North Star mall is still BUMPING. I only go there when I need to feed my Lego addiction in person. Every time I go I legit see young folks just hanging out. It reminds me of hanging out at the mall circa 1995.
In the Toronto area, there are at least five big malls that I would categorize as thriving: Yorkdale, Square One, the Eaton Centre, Sherway Gardens and the Scarborough Town Centre. Maybe you could put Fairview Mall in there as well. Nordstrom's exit from Canada was a bit of a setback for the three Toronto malls that had stores, but two of them have already lined up new anchors and I'm sure the third will find some use for the space as well. I think in every Toronto suburb, the dominant mall could be categorized as doing just fine, your Bramalea City Centres and Oakville Places etc. Some of the second-tier malls are a bit worse off, but genuine dead or obviously dying malls are fairly rare. There's a couple malls that have or will be killed off not because they were dead but because they are going to be redeveloped due to the value of their land.
The plaza in national city ca is doing great! They just added a round one arcade and it's amazing
I live close to The Parks Mall at Arlington. (Arlington, TX) It is doing okay. They had to add a curfew for the teenagers because they kept shooting at each other. There doesn't seem to be many vacancies and any there always seem to be transitioning to another store.
The Westfield Valley Faire mall in Santa Clara (near San Jose), California, is doing well. Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco is packed and busy all the time.
Arrowhead mall in Peoria/Glendale AZ and Scottsdale Fashion Square! It’s 115 degrees outside, there should be more indoor malls to walk in! Ridiculous!
Believe it or not American Dream is shaping up to be a good mall
Our local mall, Promenade Temecula is still doing well
The Mall of America has cars in the parking lot all the time!
I was just at the circle centre mall in Indianapolis. It was dying. It had many closed stores. No anchor. The restaurants on the ground floor outside were doing ok because of street traffic. But the only ‘brand’ stores they had were lids and bath and body works. Oddly. I didn’t see a GNC in there
Southridge mall (Greendale, WI) and Mayfair Mall (Wauwatosa, WI). Both are usually pretty busy with lots of people, especially weekends and the holidays.
in houston area….. the galleria, first colony mall, baybrook mall, katy mills, the woodlands mall, & memorial city mall all seem to always be pretty busy
Brea Mall in California. (Westfield) They’ve demolished the old Sears anchor and are adding 380 housing units including affordable options, new retail and dining, one acre of green space. There’s already a Nordstrom, Apple store, Tesla store with a very busy supercharger station (20 spaces). Macys and JCP will probably be the next to go
The dream of the 90s mall is alive in Barton Creek Square Mall in Austin, TX.
I’ve been going there for 40 years. It’s as busy as it’s ever been. I don’t get out there much anymore. I live closer to Lakeline and that mall is just a sad shell.
I try to go to Barton Creek Square Mall once a month or so. It’s just so fun to go get my Auntie Anne’s and feel a vibrant mall in this day and age!
Nearly all the malls in the greater Toronto area are as busy and successful as they've ever been. They never slowed down.
i live in Gwinnett county GA- mall of GA, Lenox mall, and Sugarloaf mills are doing good.
Florida Panhandle malls seem to be doing well thanks to tourist seasons sticking around longer since Covid. I work for Pier Park and we’re packed every day. Destin has Destin Commons and Silver Sands in San Destin are always busy as well. Thankfully things seem to be doing well! We did lose the Panama City Mall due to Hurricane Michael. Not sure if they’re ever going to break ground for a new development.
I'm not in USA, but one of the key differences I can see is size/population and having an actual activity area. One mall near me has both a movie theatre and a skating rink. I know I personally have wandered around waiting for my movie to start and went into stores. Mall in another city is honestly huge for this area, and people will travel from other nearby cities to go to it. It also has stores that are more "exclusive" like Torrid or LuLuLemon. My local mall is tiny and has been dying for over a decade. They shut down a department store and turned it into a gym. They are building a Costco (bulk superstore) on the same lot, which will definitely get traffic, but I don't know if that will translate into the actual mall.
Westchester Mall. Had very high-end stores, and you're only a few blocks from downtown.
North Shore mall in Peabody, MA is always busy
Grew up near Westfield Old Orchard. Amazing how a 60+ year old mall is doing so well. It’s been remodeled and reinvented several times and is adding even more stores. Always crowded particularly when the weather is nice.
There’s what I consider to be a “rich person’s mall” near me. I think the anchors are Macy’s, Nordstrom, and Sak’s Fifth Avenue. I rarely have occasion to go there (I’m neither rich nor pretty), but it always seems to be crowded. Edit: I just looked up the stores in this mall and there’s one called “moose knuckles”. WTF? There’s also another mall that’s quite big, but it’s designed as one big oval, so it’s a good place to get some exercise, if nothing else.
The Grove in LA and Fashion Island in Newport Beach
In St Louis, the St. Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights and West County Center in Des Peres are both doing well. They both have Nordstrom and Macy's and neither ever had Sears. Galleria also has a huge Dillard's and West County has JC Penney.
I have a mall near me that is anchored by a Costco and seems to be doing fine. There are some empty store fronts, true, but they’ve done up a big outdoor area, there’s always traffic in and out of the place, and they just built a big building of apartment/condos nearby. In terms of health of the mall, I would classify it as somebody in their late 40s who could probably stand to lay off the chocolate and cheese, and maybe go for a few more walks, but it’s definitely hanging in there.
Columbia mall, Arundel mills mall, Tyson’s, and Crystal city mall all seem packed every time I go which is fucking rare. They have great anchor stores, Tysons is a fancy mall right in the heart of an affluent area of NoVA, Crystal city has the convenience of a metro stop and across the heyday from the Pentagon. The mall has decent anchor stores and fancy hotels near. Columbia has anchor stores, and restaurants, I hate Anne arundel mall but it has the anchors, restaurants, and a popular cinema.
Grand Rapids, MI: * Woodland Mall — All three anchor spots are filled (Penney’s, Macy’s, and a Von Maur that demolished and rebuilt a Sears). Outlot movie theater reopened under new management after five years. High end stores: Apple, The North Face, etc. Old money is two miles to the north and west. They’re doing fine. * Centerpoint Mall — De-malled 10 years ago to become a strip of big box stores and specialty retailers, although a few indoor hallways still exist if you know how to get to them. * Rivertown Crossings — In serious decline. Two of six anchors unfillled; Round1 started work on one of them and then pulled out. Parking deck went so long without repairs it is now unsafe and has closed. Stores and interior hallways close most nights at 7 PM, except as needed to provide access to the movie theater. Surrounding area has plenty of big box stores and doesn’t necessarily need a mall. Nearby demographics are a lot of starter homes. (Would welcome a reply from anyone who’s been to the malls in nearby Holland and Muskegon… last time I was in either was two years ago and they were nearly dead then.)
Kenwood Mall in Ohio, just outside of Cincy. It’s ALWAYS packed and busy. It’s actually really nice to see.
Mayfair outside of Milwaukee seems to be doing well, since Northridge was such a cluster; it's been on the demolition chopping block for four years now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northridge_Mall_(Wisconsin)
Dimond Mall in Anchorage, AK. Always had a movie theater and added a Dave and Buster's (only one in the state) pre-pandemic.
Most malls over here in NJ are thriving, though we have one glamorous death in the Monmouth Mall. I think they started demolishing it recently.
The Jordan Creek Mall just outside of Des Moines is still a major hub and they’re still adding more shopping to the surrounding area (Jordan Creek Town Center it’s called)
Columbia Mall of Columbia, MD has been alive and thriving since the 1970s. During that time it has done well to keep up with changing cultural wants and needs, and it also helps Columbia is one of the wealthiest cities in the country. It’s a lovely mall with a great assortment of national and regional chains and local businesses. Arundel Mills of Hanover, MD has been going strong since 1999, responsible for the deaths and decline of many malls within a 20 mile radius of it. Despite being an outlet mall it attracts a wide demographic of people, and the area itself has been growing for many years. I don’t think malls will ever go extinct despite popular belief. There will always be a desire and need for brick-and-mortar. Some things just need to be shopped for in person. Ironically, the decline of the American shopping mall has made stronger malls even stronger regranting them the destination status.
Tyson’s Corner Center.. Pentagon City.. Springfield Mall.. Fair Oaks Mall. These are in the Northern VA/DC area. Potomac Mills Mall is even doing ok it’s just kinda boring but it’s always packed and not too many empty storefronts. I actually don’t think there’s any at all.
Beachwood Place, Legacy Village, and Strongsville Mall are rolling on.
Cleveland: High end Beachwood Place - has Saks and Nordstrom for anchors. Legacy Village and Crocker Park: “outdoorsy” malls that are on the higher end as well,on the east and west sides respectively, are doing quite well. They have good walkability, restaurants, farmer markers in summer, and other events. They are like little mazes and have hotels around them so out-of-town visitors are attracted. Good walkability. Can’t forget the “middle end” malls: Strongsville Mall and Great Northern are going strong. Large “traditional” malls though Strongsville is the more modern one for sure.
Towne West Square in Wichita, Kansas is on life support. Mostly empty, and the power is shut off for about a day or so almost every month. Even the water has been shut off a couple times. It's sister mall on the other side of town, Towne East Square, is in the midst of a Renaissance. Several spaces had been turned into a Round 1, the old Sears was gutted and turned into a Scheels (and they are about to throw a big party for the stores first anniversary), and many international chains have set up shop just in the last year or so. Just a few years ago, it was looking pretty bleak (though not as bad as West).
In northeast Ohio, Great Northern Mall is doing well, the old Sears anchor spot nothwithstanding. I don’t consider Crocker Park or Legacy Village to be in the same category since they were built up after the year 2000. They’re doing well, too. On the flip side, my local Chapel Hill Mall died but was instantly turned into a business park, as in, the very next day. Can’t say the same for Rolling Acres or Randall Park, though they eventually got converted to Amazon locations, places I actually visit for contractor work purposes.
There’s a mall in my area called Cielo Vista Mall. It’s still a Simon mall. It gets new chain stores frequently (think Apple, Sephora, Lush). It’s located in El Paso, Texas and is close to the border. A lot of people from Mexico come to the US to shop and resell back in Mexico due to higher prices for the same products if bought in Mexico. Everytime you go it’s busy and full. It’s nice to see and it’s a good mall.
The Mall at UTC Sarasota, Florida is growing business-wise. Recently there had been slow development to build more luxury apartments and attractions for this year. I have seen a Tesla dealership done a grand opening last month being built right next to the mall and a Mote Marine laboratory aquarium coming soon being scheduled for early 2025 opening so far. As far as the mall is concerned, there had been some large brand stores being gone due to cutting costs decision but that did not stop the mall and those empty spaces were replaced eventually.
Mall St. Matthews and Oxmoor in Louisville seem to be doing ok. Owned by the same person and near each other. Oxmoor has always been the more hoity-toity one of the two, but at least compared to the other mall in Louisville (Jefferson), they're both going strong. I need to get out to J-mall someday and see if I can get some dead mall footage... It'd be a nice one last thing to do for the mall I grew up with
Penn Square Mall and Quail Springs Mall in Oklahoma City. Their anchor stores are still open. Round 1 recently opened at Quail Springs Mall.