You've tossed coins into fountains without thinking. But the reason why is tangled up in ancient habits most people have ...

Back when shopping malls dominated America, this popular chain was a fixture of food courts. The brand has mostly disappeared, but not completely.

The math is simple: there are not enough homes for sale in the U.S. market compared to the number of Americans who need ...

A view inside the Northland Mall in the 1980s. Matthew Bennett remembers shopping with his mother at the downtown Lazarus department store when he was a young boy. When his family moved to the suburbs ...

This once-iconic vintage chain restaurant only has one location left, but it's still worth visiting the nostalgic spot that ...

At a certain point in the 21st century, society started rolling its eyes at the traditional American shopping mall. We could no longer ignore the environmental and humanitarian consequences of our ...

“You can throw a rock and hit a mall that’s half empty these days,” said Andrew Brezina, principal at CRTKL. Over the past 40 years, malls have been on a slow, steady decline to irrelevancy. Back in ...