Ghost Malls “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” —Wendell Berry When demolition crews arrived at Greengate Mall in May 2003, it marked the end of a decade-long financial collapse that had left the shopping mall in a state of obsolescence. Shuttered two years earlier, the vacant mall—a community fixture in and around the town of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, for nearly 40 years—was being razed to make way for a Walmart Supercenter. News of...| Shopping Mall
The Wonderfall at Palm Beach Mall For a fleeting moment in postwar America, shopping malls were more than retail emporiums—they were fantasy worlds where people sought to escape the pressures of daily life. Not always with consumerism in mind either, but with the desire to commune in an architectural wonderland, to experience an environment unlike any other. At Palm Beach Mall in West Palm Beach, Florida, which opened in 1967, the “Wonderfall” (pictured just beyond the bridge) embodied ...| Shopping Mall