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Yes. I live near King of Prussia mall and it's always thriving, can't imagine it not. I know it well so I'm not intimidated or annoyed by it. It's still usually a big trip so I'm glad my more local mall is doing fairly well. No one would call it upscale but it's not a dump. One mall that was big when I was a kid just closed. It was dying for awhile so I don't think anyone was surprised.
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tons! I live in LA and there are just tons of malls. We have a lot of really nice, upscale malls that have stores from H&M on the cheaper end to designer stores like Escada on the higher end and everything in between. The mall within walking distance from my house is always packed.
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Yes because it's the only/biggest mall around.
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NJ is mall central. I can drive to like 4 malls in half an hour, maybe 10 in an hour. They have varying degrees of success but overall malls arent hurting in NJ
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There are 7 within a 20-30 minute drive. They always seem busy, so I avoid them all!
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Yep, we have two big indoor malls that always seem to be adding new stores and one is constantly expanding. We also have one outdoor mall that's got higher-end stores and is doing well.
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Yup! There are tons of thriving suburban plazas and one big mall.
My family goes to LI a lot when they're mall shopping. I think Roosevelt Field mall is their fave. Lots of NYErs go to tanger outlets too around big holidays.
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Yep Mr. Bee, Tysons and Tysons Galleris (Tysons II) are thriving. Lots of restaurants in the Galleria. They added on to Tysons many times and now the Metro stops right there, Fair Oaks in Fairfax is also thriving and quite busy. My husband said theya re remodeling Pentagon City her works near there. I've heard that Montgomery mall in Bethesda is also doing well and has be redone. I used to live in Gaithersburg about five years ago and Lakeforest mall was having issues,
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@kjpugs: Florida Mall & Millenia do so well and I never understand why lol. I get so frustrated at both but I don't mind the outlets/outdoor malls.
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@namaste: I've actually never been to the outlets!!! I end up going to the FL mall and Millenia most based on location and stores but they are annoyingly tourist central. Winter Garden is my fave except for the world's worst traffic patterns of all time.
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@Pancakes: I grew up in the DC Metro! I heard Landmark Mall was doing poorly, is that true? And I hated going to Potomac Mills or Springfield Mall.
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So so!
Within 45 min there are a ton. But closest to me there's two that were HUGELY popular in the 90s and early 2000s til they built Providence Place. One is now mediocre and taken over by high schoolers, the other is home to basically Claire's and a cinema. They made it into a strip with Target, Marshall's, etc. Providence Place has had some store closures (Pottery Barn left) but doing well.
The RI Mall is a hot mess. Warwick Mall was recently redone after the serious flooding a few years ago and really nice now!
Also have the outlets nearby which are slamming.
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I love relatively close to King of Prussia, which as others have said, is thriving. One smaller mall seems to be doing great while others have recently closed.
@MOMTOLITTLEB: I think I know what mall you are referring to.
I spent many weekends there as a teenager 10-15 years ago and it was packed all the time.
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Haha, where I live now, no. Zero malls in my county, thriving or otherwise. I think there is one about an hour north, and probably one about an hour south too, but I've never been.
Where I went to high school there was an old mall that was known only as "the dead mall" by everyone. It was completely deserted except for the movie theaters. We would go to the movies there but it was creepy!
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@avivoca: you know, I have never even been to Landmark! It's doing very poorly. I think there is a lot of empty retail space that's being rented out for random things. They keep talking about renovating it and making it an outdoor mall, but I'm not sure when/if that will actually happen.
Funny story, when I bought a new baby monitor last year, it was missing a part so I had to call Motorola and when I have the CS rep my address he said, "Oh wow! I used to live near there. Does everyone still hang out at the Ballston mall?"
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@Pancakes: I remember Ballston! We were there almost every weekend so my mom could get her hair done. We'd roam the mall while we waited. I remember thinking Landmark was so fancy with its fountains.
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All the big malls are about 20-30 mins drive from us, but we have two brand new smaller, outdoor-style malls both about 10-15 mins away from us (everything is 10-15 mins away because of our tucked-away neighborhood) and they are AWESOME. One has a Target which has greatly improved our quality of life
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Oh yes, I live near the largest mall in Texas. I try not to go too often, though, because it is always super crowded and parking is tough.
I'm from Northern VA so @Pancakes: mentioned a lot of my childhood malls
Tyson's was my fave, I was just there while visiting home! Ballston was closest to me but I really only went to the movies there. Landmark was near my high school -- I remember wandering around there with friends after school. Ahhh, feeling nostalgic, haha.
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@kjpugs: WGV is THE best! It's about 35 mins from me and the drive is so boring but when I lived close by, it was great.
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@namaste: I would be there a lot more if I was closer. Then again I would almost never go to Millenia if it wasn't so close! Just braved the BRU/Target out there. I really want buy buy baby to open at WGV! Then I have target, red mango, panera, old navy... Heaven!
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There are 5-6 within an hour of me that are always busy and 2 that are dead. The malls that are dead usually don't have a big department store like Macy's or Nordstrom.
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I live in the middle of 2 (20ish minutes from each). One is the only mall on Cape Cod so by nature it does well because, especially in winter, there is nowhere affordable to shop. The other one had a huge outdoor mall built very near to it and it has nearly died. The only reason I ever go there now is for the inflatable park inside! Once they lost H&M there was no reason for me to go.
I spent many weekends there as a teenager 10-15 years ago and it was packed all the time.
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