{"269871":{"#nid":"269871","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Location may explain why some malls thrive and others die says Prof. Dunham-Jones","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERetail experts say about one-third of Atlanta\u2019s roughly 17 malls are thriving, while another third is struggling.\u0026nbsp;The declining health of Atlanta\u2019s malls could pose a threat for metro Atlanta\u2019s $12 billion hospitality industry. Visitors to the area spent more than $1.7 billion in 2012, according to the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau. \u201cThe malls that are surviving here are the ones in affluent areas,\u201d said Ellen Dunham-Jones, a professor of architecture and urban design at Georgia Tech, who studies dead malls and mall redevelopment.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-01-21 15:47:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:56","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/business\/some-metro-malls-hit-their-stride-while-others-str\/ncr9B\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"641","name":"ellen dunham-jones"},{"id":"838","name":"malls"},{"id":"639","name":"retrofitting suburbia"},{"id":"168988","name":"supermalls"},{"id":"227","name":"urban design"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}