Here's what could happen to America's hundreds of dead malls

Skye Gould/Business Insider seattlepi.com As one of the first post-war suburban shopping centers in the US, the Northgate Mall in northern Seattle defines classic mall architecture. Its architect,John GrahamJr., pioneered the dumbbell, big-box shape for malls, in which two rows of stores face each other and two department stores anchor each end. Graham also gave the Northgate Malla grocery store (which later became a food court) and a huge parking lot. In the decades that followed, malls around ...