This morning I took my mother to the mall so she could get help from a phone store. We don't have a good mall (shopping trends aside the management seemed to be doing what it could to kill it for a long time) but it was at least less depressing than the last time I was there. Don't get me wrong, it's still mostly empty, but the mall walkers are back so there are other people there.
I'm still upset by what they did to the best restaurant they had. Kicked them out right after they finished a contractually required renovation because a new "anchor" store wanted most of the square footage. The big store didn't last nearly as long as that restaurant had been there and the place that replaced them in the now smaller space wasn't anywhere near as good. (The owners opened up a non-mall location and did fine with that, but it's too far away for me to go there for lunch.)
