I hadn't been to 12 Oaks Mall in while and was surprised to see so many vacancies. While I would guess the occupancy is still around 85%, and late PM of a beautiful spring day Wednesday is not a hot time, both the lack of shoppers and the number of vacant stores left an undeniable aroma of gauntness--giving me, ever so slightly, a whiff of the early fading days of Northland. The online shopping world is taking its bite of one of the mightiest metro Detroit malls.

Looking toward Nordstroms, vacancies above and below.
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And finally there is troubled Sears which I found to be a ghost town walking through it to and from my parking spot.
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