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Square footage of the shuttered San Francisco Centre, once the city’s largest mall and a thriving retail hub anchored by Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The square footage of San Francisco’s largest mall, which closed earlier this year and now stands as a glaring hole in the city’s AI-fueled renaissance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

But perhaps, after a record 250 days confined inside a grey steel warship, the normality of a trip to the mall might have been just what they needed.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Newhall used to be the heart of the town, but when Valencia was developed in the 1970s, major businesses left Newhall for Valencia and its mall, according to Worden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

She was parked at the new strip mall up the road “nursing a macchiato” from the fancy coffee shop and “trying to process” my reasoning to see if I’d been “justified.”

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

During 15 visits to Ukraine over the past year, Tokushige was struck by the fact that production was decentralized across offices, apartments and shopping malls, with part-time workers assembling smaller drones using soldering irons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Foot Locker, which opened its first store in 1974, expanded as shopping malls opened across the U.S. through the 1980s.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Here in this alt-world Albuquerque, 2D creatures coexist with mundane strip malls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

“The younger generation goes to malls that have a ton of ‘street food’… The plus is that there is air conditioning.”

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

Amid the gas stations, strip malls, fast-food joints, and the tangle of roads and highways, open space in Clarkston was hard to find.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John