Tyrone Square Mall will officially turn 50 in October. And while it’s not a ghost town, exactly, the amount of retail shops, as well as the number of circulating customers, has dwindled significantly from the 1970s and ‘80s, when shopping was a nearly everyday activity, and “hanging out” at the mall was a rite of passage for St. Petersburg teens.
Although malls nationwide are rebounding in the short term from steep declines in traffic due to the pandemic, the rise on online shopping has meant significantly less traffic in multi-store, enclosed malls.
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