Landover Mall was in thug central, filled with black feral urban youth. Most of the “shoppers” were, or acted like they wanted to be perceived as, violent criminals. In gun-controlled Maryland, it was a particularly unsafe place to be.
It no longer exists.
And that thug element is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about.
Nobody wants to say that feral youth scare off legitimate shoppers. Instead activists blame mall management for inadequate security or inadequate repair and maintenance of the mall. They complain that they don’t have high end department stores. But they don’t address certain problems which cause the customer base to fade away. We are so politically correct that we have to dance around certain topics when discussing problems with malls.