Today’s mall has probably changed a lot from the shopping center where you bought your school clothes back in the day. Sure, you can still shop there and maybe catch a movie, but you might also try ...

“You can throw a rock and hit a mall that’s half empty these days,” said Andrew Brezina, principal at CRTKL. Over the past 40 years, malls have been on a slow, steady decline to irrelevancy. Back in ...

Southdale Center in Edina, Minn., America’s first enclosed mall, in the 1950s. Shopping centers may have been pedestrian-friendly in their way, but they were nevertheless islands in a sea of parking. ...