We’ve had three malls in our metro die, Bannister and Independence in Missouri, and I think Indian Creek in Wyandotte County. Two that are terminal are Mall of the Great Plains in Olathe and Metcalf South Mall just down the street from us. Sickness has set in at Ward Parkway. I know this in spite of the fact that I almost never go to malls. I think that part of the reason that they are dying are the big box stores. Another is that there are people who drop off their kids and the kids trash the place... whatever their ethnicity. The first three I mentioned - their demise was blamed on blacks but it was more than that. Metcalf has been owned by a senile old man and the world is waiting for him to die. I’m pretty sure it will be torn down then. Its almost empty.
Metcalf South is open? I lived in “Perfect Village” from 2004 to 2012 and I always thought the place was closed.