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Closed and Dying Shopping Malls(9 images)
American shopping malls are having a hard time. This gallery shows that one small shopping mall in Towson, Maryland was closed with a virtually empty parking lot. It used to be a busy parking lot with two stores, Comp USA and Linens` Things. The other mall which is struggling is Owings Mills in the northwest suburbs of the city of Baltimore. The main problem in this mall has been keeping an...
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  • Shuttered front of two stores in Towson Mall, one of which is Linens`N Things.  The store which used to be located was CompUSA. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • The Towson Mall which was closed in October, 2008 had  two stores operating, Comp USA (no sign visible) and Liens`N Things. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • The empty parking lot in front of the closed Linens`N Things store in Towson Mall, Towson, Maryland. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • The parking lot in front of closed stores at Towson Mall By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • The parking lot in front of closed stores at Towson Mall By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • The parking lot in front of closed stores at Towson Mall By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • Owings Mills Mall was developed by James Rouse and his company, the Rouse Company in 1986. It lost Boscov`s department store at one of its anchor positions in October 2008.  This photo shows one of two emptry parking lots in front of the three closed store entrances.  The mall itself lost many stores, numbering more than 30, and the corridor leading to the old Boscov`s spot was left with only a few stores remaining open. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • In Ocober 2008, Boscov`s Owings Mills store was closed.    Either as a result  the stores nearby the old store have been severly affected, or the store closing started before Boscov`s was closed. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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