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Why does nobody mention the anchor stores are always the first to die
I was walking through the Lincoln Mall in Rhode Island last month and it hit me. Everyone talks about the food court or the carousel being sad, but the real story is how the Sears and JC Penney wings go dark years before anything else. Those big boxes get emptied out first because the chains collapse, and then the whole mall just bleeds out from there. Has anyone else noticed this pattern at your local dead mall?
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kevin_roberts4114d ago
Does the mall management just let those big empty shells sit there for years because of some lease obligation, or are they hoping a new tenant magically shows up? I saw the same thing at the Providence Place Mall here, the old Sears wing was like a tomb for two full years before they finally knocked it down. You'd think they'd try to break up that space into smaller stores or something, but no, it's just concrete pillars and a weird echo.
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the_sarah14d ago
It's like the retail version of that empty storefront in every downtown that somehow stays vacant for a decade.
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