From Newsweek (via Planetizen):

Moribund malls have not gone unnoticed amongst industry analysts and Web sites like Deadmalls.com that feature photos of hundreds of now-abandoned sites. But what were once just worrying signs appear to have finally flat-lined. Last year was the first in half a century that a new indoor mall didn’t open somewhere in the country—a precipitous decline since the mid-1990s when they rose at a rate of 140 a year…

CMU urban designer guru David Lewis long ago predicted that finding ways to reuse and revitalize these dead malls would make inner-city redevelopment look like a walk in the park.