The dozen or so mall riots by “teens” will surely bring people back.
The two DC-area malls mentioned in the article, White Flint and Landover, failed because of a change in demographics. White Flint is now too close to illegal sanctuary towns and surrounded by crowded roads, and Landover, where the Redskins play, used to be isolated with interstate access but is now surrounded by Sec 8 housing.
Groups of “teens”, and not just the “amish” teens, are why people with spending money stopped going to the malls.
Who wants to put up with that when they don’t have to.
There have been other changes as well, but the death of “the mall” is largely due to badly behaving and criminal “teens”.