“We Are Extremely Over-Retailed” Picturing The Death Of America’s Malls
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/05/2015
Starting in the mid-1990s, “the mall genie was out of the bottle,” says one mall analyst, “and it was never going to come back.” While about 80% of the country’s 1,200 malls are considered healthy (vacancy rates of 10% or less), that compares with 94% in 2006; and more than 30 million square feet of malls are more than 40% empty, a threshold that signals the beginning of what one one analyst called “the death spiral.” As The NY Times reports, like beached whales, dead malls draw fascination as well as dismay, “nobody ever thinks a mall is going to up and die,” but as the following images show – dead or dying they are.
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