A dead mall, also known as a ghost mall, zombie mall or abandoned mall, is a shopping mall with low consumer traffic level or is deteriorating in some manner.
Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 2019, the same year it was closed; it was once the world's third-largest shopping mall
A "dead" wing of the Shanghai Summit Shopping City in Shanghai, China in 2007
The City View Center is a dead plaza in Garfield Heights, Ohio
Between early 2013 and November 2017, the Bargate Centre in Southampton, England, was empty.
A shopping mall is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term mall originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, it began to be used as a generic term for the large enclosed shopping centers that were becoming increasingly commonplace. In the United Kingdom and other countries, shopping malls may be called shopping centers.
The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest mall in the United States
The interior of Garden State Plaza megamall in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, the borough with the world's highest concentration of shopping malls
The interior structure of Mall of Tripla in Helsinki, Finland
The Burlington Arcade in London, with shop fronts inside (pictured), opened in 1819