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You've probably seen or heard about malls closing, but this doesn't necessarily mean the end of malls entirely, and online shopping isn't quite the enemy that you might expect.

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Music is Wallpaper Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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The “mall formula” idea inspired by this: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publicatio...

Game is Civilization 5 (go buy it)

Clip of IRL person talking is an Apple executive from the September 2017 Apple Special Event.

Anchor store source (among many others): http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-t...

Future of malls source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevende...
Tom Simmons, who oversees the mid-Atlantic shopping center division of Kimco, another real estate giant, is more blunt. “There are B and C malls in tertiary markets that are dinosaurs and will likely die,” he said, but “A malls are doing well.”

Internet sales up (not meant to be exact, only show a trend)
http://pewaukeeeconomics.blogspot.com...

Map is United States of America with States - Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com *Image edited

Living inside mall article: [You Can Now Live Inside America’s First Shopping Mall for $550 a Month - Westminster Arcade Rhode Island](http://www.countryliving.com/real-est...)

Other sources:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevende...
https://www.fixr.com/costs/build-shop...
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publicatio...
https://www.ten-x.com/company/blog/fo...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/why-t...
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/...
http://www.businessinsider.com/so-wha...
https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/5/...
http://www.margaretriverbusiness.com/...
http://www.investopedia.com/financial...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/b...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/05/the-r...