[LSAggie]

Oak Park Mall is still there, hanging on, but barely.

They’ve had a couple of shooting in or just outside the food court, you know the drill, somebody disrespected somebody else.

The mall where I used to shop, Bannister Mall, lasted 22 years, then it was shuttered and torn down. In its prime, it had wonderful little shops and restaurants, besides the big chain stores. Now, it is the “campus” for Cerner Corp.

Now we have big outside shopping areas, made to look like old-timey downtowns. Not the same and they’ll be gone when the tax credits run out.

[SamAdams76]

There is a website called Dead Malls that I am strangely fascinated with. Some of the malls I used to frequent are on there.

Always been a fan of super-malls and my grown children are as well. We have made special trips to places like Mall of America in Minnesota and Palisades Mall in West Nyack, NY.

I'm thinking they are all in their death throes now. We went to the Danbury Fair Mall (CT) recently and it was a ghost town. Only the Apple and Microsoft stores had any kind of traffic.

[SamAdams76]

Here is the Dead Malls page on Bannister Mall

Some of these dead malls are creepy.