Rebirth of a Mall
(Warning: Incredibly long post ahead) Hello friends and welcome back to another adventure with PlazaACME! This week, we're taking a break from my normal photos to cover what I'd consider the most exciting news from the mall world in several years! As you may remember from what I had Flickr, Philadelphia's struggling Gallery at Market East mall began closing down in 2015. PREIT's original plan was to gut it out and turn it into an outlet mall, but those plans fell through midway through the project- instead, they chose to reopen it as a regular mall. This came as some surprise, since from what I've read only one enclosed mall had opened in the United States in the past 5 years, versus a few dozen malls closing completely. I don't know whether or not this counts as a new mall, but considering that the interior was effectively demolished and rebuilt, I'm leaning towards yes. I believe only three tenants (Cinnabon, Philly Pretzel Factory, and Century 21) are