Wikipedia:WikiProject Shopping Centers

WikiProject Dead malls is a project to better organize information in articles related to dead and declining shopping malls. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title

WikiProject on Dead malls

Scope

WikiProject Dead malls exists to better coordinate efforts to enlarge and improve Wikipedia's coverage of defunct and declining shopping malls. Specifically, it deals with all articles relating to dead malls, including List of defunct shopping malls and List of distressed shopping malls.

How you can help

To build the community:

• Join this project by adding your name to the list below.
• Add this page to your watchlist, and keep up with what needs doing.

To identify and improve anti-war pages:

• Locate pages that need attention, then add them to the list below.
• Have a go at editing a page from the list below.
• To provide guidelines for writing about dead malls.

Join in the discussion!

Participants

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Structure

Articles about individual malls, especially defunct ones, should take a look primarily at the mall's history. Most reasonable people would not build a retail center like a shopping mall intending for it to fail. Thus the guiding question on these kinds of articles is, "What brought this facility to the state it is in today?"

A few points worth including when writing or refining an article on a defunct shopping mall if sources can be found:

• Planning - What was there before? Why did the design take on the attributes it did?)
• Construction - How long did it take to build? Any problems?
• Opening - What was the grand opening like?
• Ownership - Who owned it? Were there any changes in ownership?
• Stores - What stores were in the mall when it opened? What about later years? What were some of the last stores to leave the mall?
• Renovations - Was the mall ever renovated? When? How many times was it renovated? What was changed? Does a source state why the mall was renovated?
• Decline - What factors caused stores to leave the mall? Was it a single event, or a series of events? Was the cause local (e.g. crime in the area, better shopping elsewhere in the town), or outside the local area (e.g. corporate decisions to close stores, especially when an anchor store is closed).
• Closure - When did the mall close (if applicable)? What caused the plug to finally be pulled on this mall? Which stores were the last to leave? Did any stores remain open after the mall itself closed?
• Disposition - What happened to the mall following its closure? Was it demolished? What replaced it? Does it remain standing and abandoned? Was the mall converted for other non-retail uses?

Ideally, such information should be listed in chronological order.

Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

Pages covered by this project

Articles covered by this project are sorted and rated according to quality. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead malls/Ratings for more information about the rating next to the article titles.

Information pages

Article	Status
Dead mall	Needs rating
List of defunct shopping malls	Needs rating
List of distressed shopping malls	Needs rating
List of shopping malls converted to outdoor format	Needs rating

Defunct shopping malls

Article	Status
Apache Plaza (St. Anthony, Minnesota)	Needs rating
Avondale Mall (Belvedere Park, Georgia)	Needs rating
Big Town Mall (Mesquite, Texas)	Needs rating
Cinderella City Mall (Englewood, Colorado)	Needs rating
Cobb Center Mall (Smyrna, Georgia)	Needs rating
Columbus Square Mall (Columbus, Georgia)	Needs rating
Crossroads Mall (Clearwater, Florida)	Needs rating
Dixie Square Mall (Harvey, Illinois)	Needs rating
Eastwood Mall (Birmingham, Alabama)	Needs rating
Greengate Mall (Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania)	Needs rating
Kyova Mall (Cannonsburg, Kentucky)	Needs rating
Lakehurst Mall (Waukegan, Illinois)	Needs rating
Landover Mall (Landover, Maryland)	Needs rating
Mall of Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee)	Needs rating
Methuen Mall (Methuen, Massachusetts)	Needs rating
Newport Mall (Newport, Rhode Island)	Needs rating
Old Chicago (Bolingbrook, Illinois)	Needs rating
Regency Mall (Augusta, Georgia)	Needs rating
Riverbend Mall (Rome, Georgia)	Needs rating
Salem Mall (Trotwood, Ohio)	Needs rating
South Square Mall (Durham, North Carolina)	Needs rating
Tampa Bay Center (Tampa, Florida)	Needs rating

Distressed shopping malls

Article	Status
Bandana Square (Saint Paul, Minnesota)	Needs rating
Century Plaza (Birmingham, Alabama)	Needs rating
ChrisTown Mall (Phoenix, Arizona)	Needs rating
Columbus City Center (Columbus, Ohio)	Needs rating
Dutch Square Mall (Columbia, South Carolina)	Needs rating
Eastgate Mall (Chattanooga, Tennessee)	Needs rating
Eastland Mall (Charlotte, North Carolina)	Needs rating
East Town Mall (Green Bay, Wisconsin)	Needs rating
Gateway Mall (Bismarck, North Dakota)	Needs rating
Hudson Valley Mall (Kingston, New York)	Needs rating
Karcher Mall (Nampa, Idaho)	Needs rating
MacDade Mall (Holmes, Pennsylvania)	Needs rating
Martinsburg Mall (Martinsburg, West Virginia)	Needs rating
Metrocenter Mall (Phoenix, Arizona)	Needs rating
Midtown Plaza (Rochester, New York)	Needs rating
Miracle City Mall (Titusville, Florida)	Needs rating
Myrtle Square Mall (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina)	Needs rating
New Harbour Mall (Fall River, Massachusetts)	Needs rating
Northgate Mall (Tullahoma, Tennessee)	Needs rating
Old Capitol Mall (Iowa City, Iowa)	Needs rating
Orange Plaza (Middletown, New York)	Needs rating
Parkway Center Mall (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)	Needs rating
Port Plaza Mall (Green Bay, Wisconsin)	Needs rating
Regency Mall (Augusta, Georgia)	Needs rating
Santa Monica Place (Santa Monica, California)	Needs rating
Savannah Mall (Savannah, Georgia)	Needs rating
Shannon Mall (Union City, Georgia)	Needs rating
South Dekalb Mall (Panthersville, Georgia)	Needs rating
Southglenn Mall (Centennial, Colorado)	Needs rating
St. Anthony Main (Minneapolis, Minnesota)	Needs rating
St. Louis Centre (St. Louis, Missouri)	Needs rating
Summit Place Mall (Waterford Township, Michigan)	Needs rating
Tanglewood Mall (Roanoke, Virginia)	Needs rating
The Mall at Sierra Vista (Sierra Vista)	Needs rating
Universal Mall (Warren, Michigan)	Needs rating
University Mall (Denver, Colorado)	Needs rating
Waynesboro Outlet Village (Waynesboro, Virginia)	Needs rating
Western Hills Mall (Birmingham, Alabama)	Needs rating
Wonderland Mall (Livonia, Michigan)	Needs rating
Youth Futures Valley Fair Mall (Appleton, Wisconsin)	Needs rating

Categories

• Category:Defunct shopping malls
• Category:Defunct shopping malls in the United States

Tasks

1. Rate these articles based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead malls/Ratings.

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Templates

Infoboxes

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Stub templates

• e.g. {{Dead malls-stub}}
• {{Dead malls-stub}}
  • and the associated stub category Category:Dead malls stubs

Other templates

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New Wikipedia articles related to Dead malls

Please feel free to list your new Dead malls-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Wikipedia surveys

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

Votes for deletion

• Votes for deletion (Article deletion):
• Votes for undelete (Article undeletion}:
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Dead malls-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Dead malls.

Archives

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