page_title: Dead mall
hierarchical_section_title: Dead mall
caption_attribution_description: English: Century III Mall interior Taken from JCPenney
context_page_description: A dead mall, is a shopping mall with a high vacancy rate or a low consumer traffic level, or that is deteriorating in some manner.
  Many malls in North America are considered "dead" when they have no surviving anchor store or successor that could attract people to the mall.
  Without the pedestrian traffic that department stores previously generated, sales volumes decline for almost all stores and rental revenues from those stores can no longer sustain the costly maintenance of the malls. Without good pedestrian access, smaller stores inside malls are difficult to reach.
context_section_description: A dead mall, (also known as a ghost mall, zombie mall, or abandoned mall) is a shopping mall with a high vacancy rate or a low consumer traffic level, or that is deteriorating in some manner.
  Many malls in North America are considered "dead" (for the purposes of leasing) when they have no surviving anchor store or successor that could attract people to the mall.
  Without the pedestrian traffic that department stores previously generated, sales volumes decline for almost all stores and rental revenues from those stores can no longer sustain the costly maintenance of the malls. Without good pedestrian access, smaller stores inside malls are difficult to reach.
caption: Century III Mall in 2019, West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States near Pittsburgh
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