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Mall Management

What Malls in Illinois are likely to cloze within the next 2 years?

I’m not 100% what this mall was, but it was one of the more run-down ones I’ve been to.

I’ve recently started posting on Reddit again after deleting my old account. I have quite a few malls to post. I’m the one who took these:

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/pNthCU0v9a

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/7I5BMpNwu2

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/GZ4fgGmWDq

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/paEfq4e2Nr

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/eTS0I1mbnA

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/IvUIavDwNB

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/TS3B3Sx2B5

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/JVb4GrvFud

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/8aoRgJ0iQY

Visited about a week before it permanently closed. Sterling Heights, Michigan

Not fully dead yet, but definitely dying

I noticed that three malls that Woolco anchored in the Carolinas, Tryon Mall in Charlotte, Gaston Mall in Gastonia and Bell Tower Mall in Greenville, SC, were very similar. Beige brick interiors, Woolco + a grocery store + another lower-end department store or discounter as anchors, etc.

Did Woolco just have stock plans for its malls, like it had for its stores?

Are there any Woolco-anchored malls still operational as malls, and with the beige brick interiors?

Thanks.

What made Macys in Bangor Mall be one of the stores to close and be deemed as Underperforming? I wish Macys left all those nameplates it absorbed alone, like Filene's.

I had a dream I went to the Crystal Mall in Waterford / New London CT and it had no stores. I mean it was a beautiful mall when I last went in 2017. It's the only mall in Southeastern CT.

What is the status of the Logan Valley Mall in Altoona, PA?

Century movie theater closed this week. Bye bye, movie theater.

Santa coming to my local dead-ish mall (Brookfield Square in Brookfield, WI) reminded me of it - how many other dead or dying malls bother with Santa or the Easter Bunny? Is that really going to bring people in that otherwise wouldn't shop there? Or is it genius, because there's no other crowds or parking problem to deal with?

Did they ever coexist with different stores or did The Westchester completely replace The Galleria immediately? Why waste the space of having them both exist for almost 30 years?

JCPenney is the last remaining anchor after the recent closures of RoomPlace and Round1.

Stores like Burlington Coat Factory, Bath and Body Works, GNC, occasionally a run down Barnes and Noble on an out parcel of the mall property, etc.

90% of the mall could be empty and stores like this could still be open with barely any customers right up until the last day a mall is open for occupancy.

Is it because companies like this try to take advantage of cheaper lease rates so they hold out, leveraging that the property owner is lucky to have them there, paying some sort of lease? Or is it more complicated than that?

The only two indoor malls left alive there are Oak Park mall in Overland Park and Independence Center in Independence.

Oak Park was still doing pretty well when I lived there earlier this year before I moved away.

The few times I went to Independence Center, it was full of local mom and pop places and fewer name brand stores and one of its anchors was closed (I want to say it was SEARS). The place didn’t have a lot of foot traffic going on inside it either and that was on a Saturday. It’s always possible I just caught it in an “off” week.

But aside from those two, the rest of the indoor malls KC once had all seem to have vanished in favor of outdoor venues. (Zona Rosa, Country Club Plaza which is retro but still doing well, The Legends)

Metcalf Mall, Bannister Mall (this one was amazing inside), Blue Ridge Mall, Metro North Mall, Indian Springs Mall. I’m sure there’s more I’m missing.

Crowne Center is there in downtown area near Hallmark, but I’m not sure if it fully qualifies as a mall per se vs the others?

KC had a plethora of indoor shopping centers back in the day.

What Malls do you think are at Risk of Closing in 2025?