The East Coast built its cathedrals of retail beside the highway, and then stopped going. Sixty-five of them, from the ones still trading to the ones with grass in the parking lot.
Not every mall on this road is dying. A few found a second life as the last department store standing for forty miles — and the parking lot fills every Saturday.
The lucky ones became something else — an airport terminal, a medical campus, a distribution shed for the company that emptied them. The rest are still waiting for a buyer.
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