People keep calling malls 'dead' when they're just quiet

Honestly, I see this all the time in photos here. Someone posts a shot of a mall with like 5 stores open and 20 people inside and calls it a dead mall. Tbh, that's just a quiet weekday. A real dead mall is like the old Sunrise Center in Dover, where the last anchor left 3 years ago and the food court is just empty chairs. I went last month and counted exactly two open businesses, a nail salon and a phone repair kiosk. The difference matters because calling everything 'dead' makes the truly fascinating abandoned ones less special. How do you all decide when a mall has actually crossed that line?

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the_joseph3d ago

Isn't this just labeling everything as extreme now?

oliver2423d ago

The term "extreme" has lost all meaning in political talk. It gets slapped on any policy someone just disagrees with, from zoning changes to budget tweaks. That kind of overuse just makes real problems harder to spot.