Posted 8:55 AM by Gene

We are suspicious when Zeitgeist pontificates (to say the least), and we'd guess that because it says the shopping mall is "dead" means anything but. Yes in the screaming abandonment of our cities due to race too many were built, and the weaker ones are closing, but we'd guess the stronger ones are adopting tricks to adjust to the changing environment -- like adding movie houses or other amusements, or going open-air. There are too many of them to ever give up their stranglehold on the pocketbook. And it's hard to imagine people ever coming back to downtowns, especially when retailers themselves are having increasing trouble not looking like clones.