>One recent report I read said the next wave of bankruptcies would include large numbers of shopping malls because of all the closed stores.

I was in one of the smaller malls around here yesterday (Plymouth Meeting, in case anyone cares). This mall has been undergoing a lot of renovation and expansion recently, with 3 new free-standing restaurants in the parking lot, and a Dave & Buster's in the mall itself. They're still new stuff going one, but boy, were there a lot of empty stores. The _dollar store_ was gone.

Tamar