When the Mall of America first opened in August of 1992, it was called “The Mall That Ate Minnesota,” by the New York Times. The “78-acre full-sensory smorgasbord of consumerism,” as Neal ...

Sporadic mall traffic is one major challenge. Both Eden Prairie Center and the Mall of America had similar concepts in the past, but they closed several years ago because not enough people used them.

The groom who said “I do” to a woman he had just met in a well-publicized wedding at the Mall of America nearly 20 years ago has died of colon cancer. David Weinlick was 48.