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solutions for redesigning suburbs is thrilled frankly every time we see a dead mall it s yay another opportunity to get it right said ms dunham jones a professor of architecture at georgia institute of technology in atlanta ms dunham jones sees in the faltering suburban mall an answer to a pressing question how can aging suburbanites remain in their neighborhoods as a vast majority of them prefer to do with june williamson an associate professor of architecture at city college of new york ms dunham jones makes a compelling case that shopping malls are ripe for retrofitting in ways that make life a lot easier for an aging population read the full article here http newoldage blogs nytimes com 2011 01 21 new lives for dead suburban malls partner rss emc rss posted by jack thomas at 1 56 pm 2 comments thursday january 13 2011 what went wrong at borders so what happened to borders an early innovator in controlling inventory there was expert staff at its ann arbor headquarters and store managers who believed in the value of book selling at its peak borders superstores had all the attributes of good book selling extensive selections browsing space coffee bars and outreach programs to surrounding communities in 1998 borders shares hit an all time high of 41 75 read the full article here http www theatlantic com business archive 2011 01 what went wrong at borders 69310 posted by brian florence at 10 55 am 5 comments friday january 07 2011 retail sales reports released results for 2010 are in according to reports released this week the 2010 holiday retail season was a slight improvement here are a couple of articles with different perspectives national revenue figures detail strong holiday sales period http www argusleader com article 20110107 business 110107029 1003 best holiday for retail sales in 4 years http www newsday com business best holiday for retail sales in 4 years 1 2591730 posted by brian florence at 8 46 pm 0 comments monday december 27 2010 retail sales jump more than 5 for holidays reports say retail sales jump more than 5 for holidays reports say release of pent up demand sends retail sales soaring for holidays this is good news for retailers but not for all of them january 6th is when the individual chains will release their sales figures http www chicagotribune com business ct biz 1228 holiday spending 20101227 0 374794 story posted by brian florence at 10 15 pm 0 comments friday august 20 2010 reviving america s dead malls http www mainstreet com article small business franchises what do dead mall page 1 we installed a curtain in our food court and used it to create an events center poole says that small step proved to be very effective it s become a vibrant place where people can hold weddings and other events posted by anita at 12 04 am 1 comments tuesday july 06 2010 warm east coast weather prompts mall visits in a rush of nostalgia residences of the northeastern mid atlantic and new england areas flocked to local area malls in search of the hallowed air conditioned hallways of america s most sought after shopping and social meccas now if only this were true did you go to the mall today can we assume that the intensity of the air conditioning is directly proportional to the amount of foot traffic and business being transacted in a mall find a dead mall and go in today i bet it s a sauna in there brian florence posted by brian florence at 3 51 pm 0 comments wednesday february 17 2010 retail real estate closer to becoming monopoly this has direct relevance to dead malls simon is preparing to acquire general growth properties simon is already the largest mall owner in the united states there will be many redundant mall locations if this takeover is approved and many more closings http online wsj com article sb10001424052748704804204575069081644845898 html mod wsj_markets_middletopnews posted by brian florence at 7 03 pm 2 comments friday february 12 2010 the retail shift interesting article on a once bustling commercial strip in the albany ny area that has since become desolate due to the shifting of retail to other locations nearby and the dwindling economy in general businesses are abandoning formerly thriving commercial strips by chris churchill staff writer first published in print sunday february 7 2010 east greenbush a once vital shopping area is in decline pocked with empty storefronts and laid low by the migration of shoppers to newer and shinier destinations a capital region downtown no the area s older commercial highways you know these roads they flow from cities such as albany like arteries and in the 1950s and 1960s they pulled retail life from urban centers becoming shopping destinations of their own now just a few decades later some of these roads are past their prime they ve been bypassed by progress what they once did to the old downtowns is now being done to them read more http www timesunion com aspstories story asp storyid 897954 newsdate 2 8 2010 bccode mbta ixzz0fndaalzp posted by jack thomas at 8 05 pm 1 comments friday january 29 2010 requiem for the mall it is the ideal location for a post modern horror this shopping mall with no shoppers in the days before christmas it starts directly with the entrance a vast deserted parking lot an entrance above the red neon lights only on one side burns inside empty corridors the canned voice of julie andrews echoes through the deserted room the only sign that something is alive her favorite things snowflakes on eyelashes should be included in this dreary mausoleum apparently a christmas shopper evoking like the lighted christmas tree which is sadly behind a locked iron gate and the chair for santa claus empty unfortunately the fat boy smiling in nowhere in sight two boys on skate boards through the cracks passages along the closed shops desolate dark spaces in a covered street middle of the mall is a lonely bubble gum machine everybody is a winner the mechanical voice calls ever again luring child merlin but there are no children spooky huh cries the boy with a huge mess of the trash clean up imaginary shoppers i nod it is certainly creepy my mate thinks differently he is in his element brian florence 32 is one of the founders of the website deadmalls com ghost malls are brians hobby as an amateur archaeologist he digs into a consumer culture gone that was an arby s he points to a closed fast food restaurant he recognizes it to the decoration and a dusty sign with the prices of chicken sandwiches not eaten here the whole food court is closed more here http translate google com translate js y prev _t hl en ie utf 8 layout 1 eotf 1 u http www vn nl wad mediabank pagina requiem voor de mall htm sl nl tl en original dutch link here http www vn nl wad mediabank pagina requiem voor de mall htm posted by brian florence at 11 49 pm 2 comments thursday december 31 2009 how the aughts killed america s malls and newspapers with one stone deadmalls com is celebrating a decade of recording the death rattles of american shopping malls chronicling the nasty and brutish lives of malls throughout the fifty states with pictures and anecdotes the site launched in 2000 and celebrates its first ten years next month it seems a remarkably appropriate tenure http www mediaite com online how the aughts killed americas malls and newspapers with one stone posted by brian florence at 5 05 am 0 comments thursday november 26 2009 black friday another black friday is upon us how many malls do you know have shuttered since black friday 2008 posted by anita at 9 03 pm 1 comments sunday november 22 2009 jcpenney s big book catalog coming to an end photo courtesy of ebay and sylelist as the latest news reports have stated this year s jcpenney big book catalog will be the last one ending a 36 year old tradition the company cites increasing costs of production and mailing of the massive catalogs and a dwindling consumer base in contrast to the ever increasing online shopping choices according to the article at stylelist at the catalog s peak it had between 900 and 1 500 pages and in 1979 surpassed 1 billion in sales jcpenney s soon to be gone catalog joins other retailer catalogs of the past such as sears which discontinued their catalog in 1993 the company plans on focusing on smaller scale catalogs and it s online offerings posted by jack thomas at 6 15 pm 0 comments tuesday september 29 2009 destruction of the temple of consumption untergang der konsumtempel a german article about us shopping malls the link has already been translated through google translation be sure to check out the photos very interesting especially the jesus shopping center posted by anita at 9 10 am 2 comments monday september 21 2009 no identity tons of competition how can festival bay mall survive article about festival bay mall in orlando conceived in the go go days of the 1990s festival bay mall was envisioned as a thriving entertainment destination but the mall has struggled since it opened in 2003 and tenants say things have spiraled downward in recent months posted by anita at 12 24 pm 4 comments sunday september 13 2009 memphis takes first step in retrofitting shopping areas abandoned strip centers malls can be reborn says architecture professor ellen dunham jones posted by anita at 3 14 pm 0 comments thursday august 20 2009 malls r us an in depth review and personal reflection on malls and our lives and a very nice honorable mention deadmalls com is not the name of a romero style horror film although i suppose it could be but a website started by peter blackbird and brian florence who upon discovering the number of abandoned malls in the u s set out to document these fading monuments of american civilization check it out here http thetyee ca artsandculture 2009 08 21 mallsrus posted by brian florence at 11 37 pm 0 comments wednesday august 12 2009 deadmalls com tracking closings and developments a quick mention for us by the people at worldchanging who tries to solve the planet s problems also notice this post from the site of an image essay on the future of malls posted by anita at 10 09 am 0 comments thursday july 30 2009 roger ebert reviews malls r us some good promotion for the documentary project that deadmalls com appears in roger ebert famous movie reviewer takes a look at malls r us his review is available here http rogerebert suntimes com apps pbcs dll article aid 20090729 reviews 907299995 1 rss posted by brian florence at 2 44 pm 0 comments wednesday july 22 2009 fading hojo s chain seeks new knight in shining armor alas a reporter dares to peer into the fate of howard johnson s 2009 last we heard lamancha group purchased the rights to the recipies with promises of resurrecting the once great landmark of hungry americans but to no avail http www milforddailynews com opinion x1767085240 chesto fading hojos chain seeks new knight in shining armor posted by brian florence at 1 01 pm 1 comments tuesday june 30 2009 america s most endangered malls with the fall of birmingham s century plaza u s news and world report s rick newman examines the rest of the country s malls to determine who s likely to fall next in an article entitled america s most endangered malls appearing on yahoo business within the article to contrast the list is a list of the most profitable malls as well labels dead malls economy malls recession shopping society posted by brian florence at 11 25 am 1 comments wednesday june 03 2009 birmingham s century plaza wrapping up business after 4 decades photo birmingham news birmingham s century plaza mall a once thriving retail hub that hemorrhaged shoppers and stores as the metro area s population shifted to the suburbs closed its doors for good on sunday i found a beautiful panorama shot of the mall on flickr posted by anita at 2 11 am 4 comments sunday may 31 2009 op chart the fall of the mall interactive graphic nytimes com this new york times chart shows the depth of drop in sales from the first quarter of 2009 posted by anita at 11 09 pm 0 comments saturday may 23 2009 report questions southridge mall s future kcci des moines article that references the wall street journal article about dead malls mentions that their mall southridge mall is considered a dead mall includes video of the mall there was also an article very similar to the southridge mall the towne mall in middletown ohio posted by anita at 11 07 pm 0 comments recession turns malls into ghost towns by kris hudson and vanessa o connell malls those ubiquitous shopping meccas that sprang up in the 1950s are dwindling in number with many struggling properties reduced to largely vacant shells read this very in depth article that summarizes the mall as it relates to the economic conditions today that are effectively crippling it as a profitable business model although these days what industry is not hurting from the downward economy i worked with reporter vanessa o connell to help her gather information for this article see it here http online wsj com article sb124294047987244803 html posted by brian florence at 10 02 am 4 comments wednesday may 20 2009 nothing sweet about etobicoke s honeydale mall picture andrew pakula a blogger s pictures and comments about honeydale mall in canada posted by anita at 9 33 pm 0 comments monday may 11 2009 smart solutions for a retail apocalypse posted on monday may 11th by jebediah reed from the infrastructurist at www infrastructurist com malls are being mauled in case you ve been paying closer attention to wall street or the housing market rest assured that america s once bustling shopping meccas are doing just as poorly last month general growth properties the country s second largest mall owner declared bankruptcy anchor chains are dropping like flies from circuit city to filene s basement the trend has even reached the level of irony as liquidation resellers are being liquidated the practical implication of all this is that local malls are going dark all the time across the country with the carnage being documented at sites like deadmalls com it s fair to assume to that these vacant structures are now done forever at least as old school malls but rather than let them become gaping holes in the fabric of our communities it s time embrace the national project of finding ways to reimagine them as vital forward looking developments this is exactly what ellen dunham jones and june williamson have done in their book retrofitting suburbia recently we spoke with dunham jones the director of the architecture program at georgia tech about how repairing the legacy of this failed american institution read the findings of jebedia reed s interview with book co author ellen dunham jones at the infrastructurist america under construction posted by brian florence at 8 00 pm 0 comments saturday may 09 2009 what happened to lincoln mall i spoke with reporter guy tridgell about lincoln mall and the shift of the mall culture in general and what leads to the demise of the mall or the conse...