Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
I doubt there would be a new mall, with the glut of retail space downtown and throughout the region.

I also wouldn't take urban redevelopment rumors from a hockey coach too seriously. "Mall" could simply mean retail space.

Taubman proposed a downtown mall back in the 70's and 80's, with Hudson's as one of two prospective anchors. They never found a second anchor, so the project wasn't built.

Nowadays downtown malls just aren't built. Pretty much no traditional malls have been in any downtown in any American city in recent years.
They built a mall across from the inner harbor [[which was a sort of mall/marketplace hybrid) in Baltimore back in the earl 1990s. That may have been one of the last ones. No idea how the mall is doing now, but the touristy inner harbor buildings are now mostly vacant.

I think traditional malls in general are becoming relics and it would make no sense to build one in Detroit.