A local suburban mall has gone VERY down-hill, and may close soon. The decline started when bus service to a black area started enabling them to come to the mall. When a mall clientele gets above 20% black, white folks start staying away. When a mall clientele gets ANY significant number of "inner-city" blacks, whites start staying away.
In my area I guess we’re reaching a “post-mall” era; some are still doing well, but our newest one (next to Giants Stadium in the meadowlands - you’ll see it in the upcoming Super Bowl) was finished a few years ago (complete with an indoor ski slope) and NEVER OPENED.
Malls that were overrun by minorities aren’t even on the radar anymore for most people. On top of that, large stores like Wal-Mart and Target (which are basically a mall within a store), and online resources like Amazon, have made the shopping mall obsolete (as shopping malls themselves did to downtown shopping centers decades ago).
Getting mugged/shot at a mall is just the latest in a string of unpleasant things about malls.
Whites stay away, but the blacks soon follow where the whites went. At some point even the elitists won’t be safe.