Why Metro Detroit´s Malls DIED

Metro Detroit’s malls used to be everything: packed parking lots, Orange Julius, KB Toys, Friday nights at the food court. Today, many of them sit empty, half-dead, or completely demolished. In this video, we look at the rise and fall of Metro Detroit’s shopping malls: how the region helped invent the modern mall, what killed so many of them, and how the few survivors are reinventing themselves. What really killed the American mall? And is it truly dead… or just evolving?