Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. District at the Garden in West Palm Beach, Fla. is an ...

In the 1980s, shopping malls were not just places to buy clothes or grab a snack, they were the epicenter of teen life. These ...

A strange thing happened after America stopped caring about shopping malls: people started missing them more than ever. You ...

Greater portions of our lives are spent alone. As malls close, we lose places for social connection and meeting special needs ...

Most of the malls in the US opened after World War II. Many have been demolished or repurposed as stores like Macy's and ...

“You can throw a rock and hit a mall that’s half empty these days,” said Andrew Brezina, principal at CRTKL. Over the past 40 years, malls have been on a slow, steady decline to irrelevancy. Back in ...