Nonprofit groups come in to raise funds. You can't get that on the Internet. It's a meeting place. Some things haven't changed. About 75 percent to 80 percent of shoppers are women.
Older people walk the mall in the morning and younger people shop after school and in the evenings.
She and Butler-Bobo said they want to work with downtown as much as possible to promote their mutual goals. The demise of downtowns is sometimes blamed on malls, but that's not the case, she said. It's not something we've caused. It's just a fact of life. It's a different society.