The American shopping mall once represented the height of suburban culture and consumer paradise. These climate-controlled temples of retail drew families every weekend, teenagers after school, and ...

Shopping malls, fixtures of the American suburb, may face the same fate drive-in-movie theaters did, decades ago. The wobbly economy has transformed jam-packed parking lots into empty acres of ...

America is in the grip of a housing shortage, with a staggering 4.5 million homes needed to meet demand. Meanwhile, sprawling malls across the country are facing a bleak future, with nearly 34 million ...

Black massage chairs beside a plant in an empty mall, with two levels of closed stores in the background - melissamn/Shutterstock When the Southdale Center opened in Edina, Minnesota, in 1956, it ...

Singing River Mall in Gautier sat virtually empty for many years, a sad reminder of the slow death suffered by many malls across America. A group of people in the public and private sectors decided ...