Visiting what’s left of Phoenix’s last great shopping mall

Midday Friday, Metrocenter is a ghost town. / Phoenix New Times

By Robert Plea | Phoenix New Times

An old friend of Ann Newman’s emailed her last week. He’d heard that Metrocenter was a ghost town, that it might be torn down soon.

“Remember all the time we spent there?” Ann’s friend wrote. “Remember the picture I took of you there, standing outside in the rain one day in 1979?”

Ann didn’t remember being photographed in a downpour, but she certainly remembered all the hours she’d spent at what was then the biggest shopping mall in the Southwest.

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