Decided to visit the mall right by my house that I spent most of my weekends at as a kid. I came here hoping to see this Rube Goldberg/ball maze machine that I always loved. It’s long gone. Truthfully, everything I remember about this mall has disappeared. Despite still being open, the only store left actually inside the mall is an arcade. Other than that it’s just eerily empty hallways.
Tag: dead malls
The Twilight of the Indoor Mall
“That’s the Dillard’s dead zone. Nothing can survive over there.”There are bits of this that sound mall-o-dramatic to me, but overall this piece explains how mall death works really well.
Victor Gruen, whom the piece mentions, designed Northland here in Detroit.
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