In September 2010, when General Growth Properties LLC decided to shutter the near-empty Redlands Mall and hand it off to a subsidiary, the company’s then-vice president assured residents that the long ...

Despite an increase in home construction in recent years, the U.S. has a chronic shortage of homes available. In fact, according to data compiled by Zillow, there was a growing shortage of 4.5 million ...

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It seems like every day there’s a new article online about a ghost mall somewhere; a former shopping mecca decimated by changing consumer habits and demographics and left to decay into something that ...