Malls [[a bad idea from the start) are finally starting to fall out of fashion. A "mall" is exactly what downtown doesn't need: We don't want to re-create the suburbs downtown. While we do need the stores, they should be free-standing and interwoven into the existing fabric of the city. Malls are BORING and all look the same, and now they're even populated by the very same stores,from Vermont to California to North Dakota to Mississippi.