The Surprising Scale of America’s Dead Mall Problem Behind the empty food courts and shuttered storefronts, there’s a quiet ...

Mostly vacant or entirely shuttered shopping centers have become known as “dead malls” or “ghost malls.” These shells have ...

America is in the grip of a housing shortage, with a staggering 4.5 million homes needed to meet demand. Meanwhile, sprawling malls across the country are facing a bleak future, with nearly 34 million ...

Last month, the National Retail Federation forecast 2014 holiday sales to increase a healthy 4.1 percent, higher than last year’s actual 3.1 percent seasonal increase. While retailers might be pleased ...

Despite an increase in home construction in recent years, the U.S. has a chronic shortage of homes available. In fact, according to data compiled by Zillow, there was a growing shortage of 4.5 million ...

It wasn’t long ago that shopping malls were the epicenter of America’s towns, with teenagers flocking to hang out at the same place where their mothers could purchase a new blouse. But modern ...

Amazon, which has done as much as any company to bring about the demise of shopping malls in the United States, has now come full circle by buying up struggling malls and turning them into ...

Shopping malls, fixtures of the American suburb, may face the same fate drive-in-movie theaters did, decades ago. The wobbly economy has transformed jam-packed parking lots into empty acres of ...