The World’s Largest Mall Has a Less Than 1% Occupancy Rate

Welcome to the New South China Mall, better known as the world’s largest “dead mall.” It was built in 2005 on farm land by a billionaire who made his fortune in the instant noodle industry. Did his luck extend to commercial retail? Not so much. The mall has remained 99% vacant of commerce since the…

Uncovering the Ghost of an Iconic Department Store, the “Bloomingdales” of Paris

For ten years, one of the world’s most iconic and historic department stores sat empty along the banks of the Seine in Paris; an imposing ghostly shell of former retail splendour, a giant sleeping elephant in the room occupying prime real estate in the heart of the city. When I heard that renovation works were…

Discovering Dead Malls & Motels on Youtube

I‘m always looking for snackable video content that I can watch while I eat lunch at my desk, and I’ve just found something to keep me going for many meals of sweet solitude ahead. I’d like to think I haven’t been living under a rock, especially when it comes to things on the internet, but how did I…

Lost Facades of the 1970s Anti-Walmart

Does anyone remember the American retail chain BEST Products? The last store disappeared in 1997 after forty years in business selling cheap home furnishings, consumer electronics, jewellery, housewares, toys from their catalog showrooms. Their retail concept might not have worked so well, but their architecture in the 1970s and early 80s made shopping trips to the strip…

Welcome to the Saddest 1980s Mall in America

Think of the funnest place where you hung out as a teenager, when you were first allowed to go out with your friends on your own and pick up the latest chart-topping single. Now imagine it looking as sad and empty as this. Meg Stefanac from Pittsburgh, a former high school newspaper and yearbook photographer from the class…

The World’s Largest Mall Has a Less Than 1% Occupancy Rate

Uncovering the Ghost of an Iconic Department Store, the “Bloomingdales” of Paris

Discovering Dead Malls & Motels on Youtube

Lost Facades of the 1970s Anti-Walmart

Welcome to the Saddest 1980s Mall in America

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