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what happens if some of the malls on the list are torn down. in the Illinois list there are two for sure that have been torn down.

Old Chicago is now a giant paved lot for a local car auction company.

the joliet mall, called "wilderness mall" is as of this day being torn down. (11-08-2005)

Demographic Change[edit]

I have boldly removed the entire second paragraph from this section for a couple of reasons.

1) The first portion of the para In the case of the Cloverleaf Mall in Chesterfield, Virginia, which had operated successfully in the 1970s and 1980s; by the 1990s, its best customers, women, began staying away from the mall, fearful of the youth who were beginning to congregate there. A former Cloverleaf manager stated "People started seeing kids with huge baggy pants and chains hanging off their belts, and people were intimidated, and they would say there were gangs". Is almost entirely copyvio from the only source listed in this section.

2) The source does not include any information on the The 1982 built Chambersburg Mall or the subsequent changes that took place there. I did leave the source and the initial sentence, as the article does provide some information on changing demographics impacting the specific mall mentioned.

3) The single mall mentioned in the sourced article doesn't quite seem notable enough to devote an entire section, too, as well.

I think we can re-add some of this information, such as the mall examples, with more sourcing, and some improved prose. I will do my best to assist in the area! Thanks! King keudo (talk) 17:29, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Abandoned Mall section needs sourcing and verification[edit]

I just deleted the factual error that Northland Village Mall in Calgary was abandoned. It was never abandoned. It is being redeveloped into residential and standalone shops (i.e. "de-malling") and some parts of it, such as the Wal-Mart and I think Gold's Gym, remain operational as of August 2023. Some media erroneously described NVM as abandoned because its renovation/partial demolition was delayed for a while to allow the TV series Last of Us to film scenes there (for which it "portrayed" an abandoned mall. The remaining names should have sources otherwise I have a concern the list could run afoul of whatever the business equivalent of WP:BLP is. 23skidoo (talk) 03:54, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]