Struggling CT malls look for new uses — office/medical space, apartments — to fill empty storefronts

Walking through some Connecticut malls today can be a depressing experience: vacant storefronts, shuttered anchor stores, rundown exteriors and empty parking lots abound.

The shift to e-commerce, accelerated and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has turned some of these once bustling centers of commerce into shadows of their former selves.

But can these one-time seemingly invincible retail titans be brought back to life, even in the face of the growing popularity of Amazon and other online commerce sites?

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