Riyadh's Dead Malls: The Shopping Centers Saudi Arabia Abandoned
Автор: Riyadh Mirage
Загружено: 2026-01-07
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The escalator still runs. Up and down, carrying no one.
In Riyadh, shopping malls were never just shopping malls. They were living rooms. Meeting places. The only public spaces where families could gather, where women could move freely, where a city starved of entertainment could find something resembling life.
For decades, Riyadh's malls were packed. Thursday evenings brought crowds so thick you could barely move. Food courts required hour-long waits. Parking lots overflowed. The malls were the heartbeat of the city.
Then the heartbeat stopped.
This documentary explores the ghost malls of Saudi Arabia's capital. The corridors that once pulsed with thousands now echo with emptiness. The fountains have run dry. The stores have shuttered. The escalators keep moving, carrying memories instead of shoppers.
What killed Riyadh's malls? Competition from bigger, newer developments. The rise of online shopping. Social changes that gave people alternatives they never had before. And a city that builds so fast it consumes its own past before that past has time to age.
The ghost malls of Riyadh are not just failed businesses.
They are monuments to a way of life that existed and ended.
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