that's funny, but really the mall killer today is the Internet.  OTOH, the downtown real estate is seeing a resurgence.  Used to be malls killed downtowns, but then downtowns adapted to find their own niches.  Now it is internet retail is killing malls but not downtowns - at least not here on the BC coast where downtown rents are skyrocketing and retail scrambling to get in on the economic boom times.