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Amazon to Convert Another Dead Mall Into a Fulfillment Center

Online Retailer Leads Change That Kills Malls, Buys the Corpses for Last-Mile Delivery
The interior of the closed Macy's department store at Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio. (CoStar)
The interior of the closed Macy's department store at Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio. (CoStar)
CoStar News
July 23, 2019 | 9:07 P.M.

Online retailer Amazon has spent the past two decades luring shoppers out of stores and onto the internet, leading a retail transformation that has left dead malls in its wake. Now the Seattle-based company is buying more of those empty shopping centers, converting them into warehouses for processing deliveries to consumer doorsteps.

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