Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands

Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by methodin on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:26PM (#24075630)

I should have qualified that KOP was the largest mall I knew of which is why I called it out. I did forget about Springfield mall which is still alive I assume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promenade_at_Granite_Run is turning into a classic shopping center which was my closest mall growing up. In Pittsburgh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_III_Mall is getting turn down, Ross Park Mall is declining and Robinson Town Center was half empty the last time I was there ~5 years ago. I can't speak to malls I didn't frequent.

Although "still open" isn't exactly saying much either on your end - how many stores are empty? Are they on the decline?

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Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by dfxm12 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:37PM (#24075726)

"Still open" was your criteria, not mine (as in when you said the other malls were "no more").

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Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the th... by methodin on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:06PM (#24076352)

Fair enough, though I would say if these stores are on a spectrum tilting towards "barely open" or "on the decline" that it doesn't provide a useful counter-argument for the overall sentiment which is that malls are and have been dying. That being said I haven't been to any of the ones you've listed in my adult life so would have no idea their status.

I will concede that there are thriving malls in existence in the same way that stores that closed in one area of the country thrive in others. Not sure what that says towards malls as a whole but imagine it would trend to being viable in only a subset of the country.

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