In North American, Ireland, United Kingdom, Australian and New Zealand retail, an anchor tenant, sometimes called an anchor store, draw tenant, or key tenant, is a considerably larger tenant in a shop
Nordstrom, a former anchor store at The Florida Mall located in Orlando, Florida
Meridian Mall in Dunedin, New Zealand, with the logos of the two anchor tenants (Kmart New Zealand and Arthur Barnett) displayed on the upper walls
A dead mall, also known as a ghost mall or zombie mall, is a shopping mall that has low consumer traffic or is deteriorating in some manner.
Anchor tenant
…shoppers initially attracted to the anchor to shop at other shops in the mall. Thus, a mall which loses its last anchor is often considered to be a dead mall. Shopping centre…
Interior of the second floor of Century III Mall from JCPenney in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, taken on April 13, 2019 – nearly two months after it closed. It was the world's third-largest shopping mall at the time of its opening, and would later become the world's largest abandoned mall before its demolition.
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.