Most malls were doomed prior to the Amazon landslide. The malls allowing groups of younger inner city youth to start gathering then basically stealing and rampaging through their facilities started the decline.
Every mall that ended up with public transportation having routes from cities to their doors started their death spiral.
There was a mall 30 minutes or so from me that had a problem with “teens” committing violent crimes. The event that was the final nail in the coffin was when there was a giant brawl at the movie theater attached to it. No sane person wanted to go there after that.
The media whitewashes and brainwashes by repeatedly stating that it wasn’t close to a highway, so people stopped going.
Uh, huh.