The malls are primarily those that are not high- or low-end.
Earlier this year, D.J. Busch, senior analyst at Green Street Advisers, told The New York Times: "It is very much a haves and have-nots situation."
"Middle-level stores in middle-level malls are going to be extinct because they don't make sense," Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail-consulting and investment-banking firm, said last year.
The White Flint Mall in Bethesda, Maryland, opened in 1977.
This is the deserted Carousel Mall in San Bernardino, California.
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Surprisingly, it's still around, but according to DeadMalls.com, it just has "a few mom and pop type shops and some local businesses that are fighting a losing battle."
