I've noticed that many malls that are trying to stay open are going third-world: Mexican. One of the oldest malls in Ft Worth was a popular open air design with covered walkways and four or five major anchor stores. As the neighborhood declined due to, or in tandem with, the influx of illegal aliens, the mall switched hands several times and was converted into an indoor mall to match all the other cookie-cutter malls. Perhaps it was because the open air concept exposed more businesses to crime through easy concealment an access, but that just goes to prove the increase in crime in the area coincided with the illegal population.
Now, the mall is nothing but a Mexican flea market - a complete pig sty. All of the anchor stores have long ago fled. They even fly Mexican flags over the structure, as kind of a gesture of conquest, I guess. Conquest, but destruction, like their own country.
Just about the same thing is happening to the Fox Valley Mall in Aurora/Naperville, Illinois.....once a higher-end sparkling suburban mall with great stores. Now filling up with in-your-face ghetto trash and flea-market "stores".
Leni