Anyone else have dying malls?

the mall closest to me is still kinda active but i fear the day it becomes a dead mall. the feeling dead malls give off is so cool but at the same time rlly sad. i get that everyone orders stuff online now but idk theres just something so much more fun about a mall xP

I live in the very edge of a metropolis, so i don't know how it is further out, but 4 me they're the same as always, full of people, no empty lots, ect. Closest thing was like in 2020, there was one that was practically empty and there was a weird room with a bunch of chairs. it rlly gave off apocalyptic vibes :v Sorry to hear that tho, Malls r a cool hang out place (only if u have money ( ˃̣̣̥△˂̣̣̥ ) ) so it's sad to see people get more and more isolated :c

Had a lot of dying malls when i lived in Georgia but now that I'm in Washington most of the malls are doing fine. only seen 1 dying mall so far in the entire state and i go to lots of malls on weekends. kind of a hobby for me, even if i don't plan to get anything.

The mall closest to me is still doing pretty well and still has a good amount of people coming in every time I go there, with every store space currently being open.

However, there's a mall about 30 minutes or so down the freeway (1 hour if you take the city bus there) that's become a ghost town. That mall was doing much better just a decade ago than it is now.

I noticed the decline starting to happen around 2019, though even 5 years ago, that mall was still doing a lot better than it currently is in the year 2024. I fear for the future of that mall with the current retail apocalypse that's been going on since the 2010s and have captured a few photos and videos of that mall so far, especially for if/when the retail apocalypse finally sends that mall into its grave. 

10 years ago, there were working water fountains near the glass elevators. Nowadays, they've shut off those fountains and I hardly even see anyone else waiting for the elevators whenever I've visited in recent years. 10 years ago, there used to be a good amount of people dining in the upstairs food court. Nowadays, I'd be shocked to see anybody sitting at any of those tables. 10 years ago, there was a candy store near the food court and I'd see a lot of people walking around the mall. Nowadays, the candy store is gone, and too are all the people who used to shop there, plus there are now quite a few store vacancies, many of which have remained vacant for years at this point, signage and all removed and their windows remaining completely blacked out to this very day.

Hell, I even remember when that mall hosted events for children/families on certain days of the month. Nowadays, I'd be absolutely shocked if they still host annual Easter Bunny and Santa Claus photoshoots.

It's sad to see a place I grew up visiting every so often fall so hard, to where they're hanging on by a thread. The only stores in that mall that currently seem to still be keeping it alive are the 2 remaining anchor stores, the AMC theater, and the Red Robin restaurant (as a little side note, the restaurant right across from it closed last year). If any of those stores were to go, so would the rest of the mall, unfortunately. The other remaining stores are just the ones that you'll only find inside of malls (Claire's, Hot Topic, Spencer's, etc) and some local businesses, though I don't think any of those stores could really save the mall from closing down unlike the others that were previously mentioned, however. :(