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?