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 ...

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

Last month, the National Retail Federation forecast 2014 holiday sales to increase a healthy 4.1 percent, higher than last year’s actual 3.1 percent seasonal increase. While retailers might be pleased ...

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 ...

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 ...

In September 2010, when General Growth Properties LLC decided to shutter the near-empty Redlands Mall and hand it off to a subsidiary, the company’s then-vice president assured residents that the long ...