Tracking the Rise and Fall of the American middle class with shopping malls

I’ve read that Landmark Mall in Alexandria, VA started as an outdoor shopping center, and was then enclosed as an indoor shopping mall, and… now it’ll be an outdoor shopping center again. (I also just read it’s where some part of WW '84 was filmed.)

Closer to where I live, the same thing is set to happen with Beltway Plaza, which is weird because it’s one of the rare malls that’s doing well:

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