Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is what many of America's malls look like today: empty, eerie, dead. And while the pandemic has most people avoiding indoor gathering spaces ...

Chicago's Lincoln Mall, pictured here, shut its doors in January 2015. Source: Business Insider It had originally opened in 1973. Source: Chicago Tribune The 700,000-square-foot mall had the ...

Business Insider just gave early warning that the trend ... Many more retailers have shuttered mall stores on the Q.T. In its analysis of 950 malls, of the top 25 national retail tenants that ...

"The department store industry has suffered in recent decades," said retail historian Vicki Howard, who authored the book "From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department ...

Source: The New York Times These dying malls are not upscale or low scale — they fall right in between. "Middle-level malls are disappearing," Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz ...