Southland Mall struggles despite forthcoming developments
Shoppers stroll through Southland Mall's concourse in 2015. Southland Mall’s largest vacancies, anchors that once held some of America’s dying department stores, could become a source of new life for the mall. (Daily Memphian file)
On its grand opening date in 1966, Southland Mall created a three-hour traffic jam on U.S. 51 (now called Elvis Presley Boulevard). Now, on a recent afternoon, no more than two dozen cars speckled its parking lot.
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Daja E. Henry is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Howard University and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and currently is a general assignment reporter.
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