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Got another story- In Columbus, GA, back about 15 - 20 years ago, there were 2 malls! One on Macon called Columbus Square in the older, more ghetto part of town, another called Peachtree on Manchester in the "whiter" part of town. Peachtree was where a bunch of soldiers from Benning would go on the weekend and was a typical mall still thriving, safe nice to visit. Cols Square, I visited it like once and it had a foot locker and a bunch of black people in it.
Skip forward a few years, Columbus Square closes down. The new hangout for its former "customers" is now Peachtree. This displaces many of Peachtree's former customers as it doesn't feel as inviting or safe as it once was. Now Peachtree is on the slow decline.
The funny thing in this story is that the malls several generations back killed the Columbus downtown scene- all the cool stores were at the mall and downtown became blighted, pic closely related. But, in modern times, downtown is being revitalized as Peachtree's former clientele look for a better place to hang out and turn towards it.