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What killed the mall:
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It was an experiment on the 3rd place (read up on it) and it failed at that.
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Big box retailers wanted big, huge, gigantic stores. So they left malls to open them.
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Being surrounded by parking structures doesn’t look appealing.
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High rent for mall space.
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Amazon.
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*Other entertainment options are much better now with streaming tv, video games, etc.
To actually understand you’d have to have been following politics pre 9/11, which would make you probably 16 at the time. That means 39 right now. That’s a lot of adults you’re ruling out.
If you want to say understand society pre and post 9/11, then you’re probably talking 12 at the time, so 35 right now. Still a lot of adults you’re ruling out.