Dead Malls

Greg Schaal is a Twin Cities photographer who documents local "dead malls"

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News & Politics

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• Greg Schaal
• Jim du Bois
• malls
• dead malls
• apache 6 plaza
• Oakdale Mall
• har mar mall
• terrace theater
• brookdale
• crossroads
• twin cities
• southdale
• roseville

[78rosabosa]

beetreet

[luv2boral1]

I am not a big mall fan, but great photos of a dying trend that had been so prevelant. I am sure when built they displaced small shops and main street businesses, but now they go away and away go those early youth jobs, part-time parent (full time too) jobs, warm places elderly could go get coffee and walk around, hang outs for all ages. Now with so much internet purchasing, job opportunites shrink and some of the basic dealing with public without asking if you want fries with that shake.

[PubliusAfricanus]

I dread the day my mall starts dying. Makes me appreciate my parents' fondness for bygone drive-ins.

[nomehuevis]

The pics are very good!

[stevemtc1]

@patsaxon you hit the nail on the head The rent was too high I knew a Company who revived a mall The first thing they did was raise the rent and the rest was history

[patsaxon]

Too bad that they are left empty, but the main problem is that the rent was always way too high for the retailer and after many years later, the owners did not take good care of their malls. I am into classic modern contemporary architecture as I hate to see such malls built in the 1960s and 1970's torned down. Such malls should be reserve and renovated to the original architecture of the past.

[scottieman2]

Torn down at any moment, but the sad thing is that they leave them up as is and it's sadder to see them there empty and decaying.

[scottieman2]

Crossroads, isn't that the mall they used in Dawn of the Dead remake?

[loveunderlaw]

@watershed44 Thank the assholes in "charge" of things...

[vkoo32]

I loved the 1980's retail landscape of the TWin Cities. Now everything has gone corporate, and generic.