Check out Business Insider's latest series: Death of Suburbia
Look no further than the suburbs to see how American ideals of success are transforming.People in US suburbs are changing the way they shop, where they eat, and what they want in their homes.Join the...
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These eerie photos of deserted golf courses reveal a new normal in America
Once a community staple in suburbs across America, the golf course is now a slowly dying breed.Over 800 golf courses have shuttered across the US in the past decade, and data from the Sports &...
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Americans could be killing the McMansion for good
The McMansion became a symbol of prosperity leading up to the 2008 recession.Homebuyers today are emphasizing quality over quantity. The typical McMansion is not considered the sound investment it once...
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Millennials are forcing America's largest corporations to kill traditional...
Call it the Golden Arches Rush.In the past several years, a handful of America's largest corporations have joined an exodus from their suburban headquarters to new home bases in the city, and...
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There's a $1 trillion crisis threatening the American way of life as we know it
The network of roads and bridges that connect American suburbs to metropolitan areas are in dire need of repairs.Increased congestion and a lack of adequate maintenance are causing these structures to...
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A struggling mall in Virginia has replaced storefronts with vending machines
Hundreds of retailers are closing stores, peppering shopping malls across the country with darkened storefronts.One mall in Richmond, Virginia, has tried to get creative with some of its shuttered...
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Applebee's, TGI Fridays, and Chili's are trying to claw their way out of a...
The casual dining industry is in hot water. 2016 was the worst year for the restaurant industry since the recession, according to data from industry tracker TDn2K. The year saw a 2.4% drop in...
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Millennials are paying thousands of dollars a month for maid service and...
Every morning in the Euclid Manor, a 6,000-square-foot single-family home on the outskirts of downtown Oakland, California, the residence's 13 inhabitants trample over one another in a race for the...
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Rising gas prices are a growing threat to the American way of life
For the last few years, Americans have enjoyed friendly prices at the pump. And in many ways consumers’ lives have been shaped by these prices.People have bought bigger cars, traveled more, and spent...
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The shopping mall apocalypse is creating a $48 billion disaster on Wall Street
It's a tough time to be in the shopping mall business. Black Friday sales last year provided the latest proof of changing dynamics in the retail sector as consumers continued to move their shopping...
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An American cultural revolution is killing cookie-cutter homes — here's what...
The cookie-cutter neighborhood is an iconic American symbol of suburbia — the architecture is uniform, the lawns manicured, the colors drawn from the same palette. Facades of the houses may vary, but...
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DEATH OF THE FOOD COURT: Iconic mall chains like Cinnabon, Sbarro, and Panda...
If you grew up in suburban America, a shopping trip likely wasn't complete without a stop at the food court.From yards away, the sweet smell of cinnamon rolls beckoned the most determined of shoppers....
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Prescriptions for painkillers brought about the explosion in heroin use in...
Andi Peterson never thought twice about taking Percocet. After all, the powerful painkiller had been prescribed by a doctor."I didn't think what I was doing was that wrong. It felt more like a...
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The American dream of suburbia is evolving — here’s what it’ll be like to...
When Barb and Kevin Francella moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1990, the suburb radiated a sense of the American dream.Clusters of single-family homes boasted large driveways and green lawns....
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Crazy-high rent, record-low homeownership, and overcrowding: California has a...
Things were going well for Ira Belgrade in 2009. The Los Angeleno and his wife of more than 13 years ran a successful talent-management company, and they'd recently converted their garage into a home...
View ArticleThese haunting photos reveal what happens when a golf course becomes abandoned
Once a community staple in suburbs across America, the golf course is now a slowly dying breed. Over 800 golf courses have shuttered across the US in the past decade, and data from the Sports &...
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The death of the American mall is forcing Starbucks to make some major...
As mall traffic plummets, the future of Starbucks's tea-focused stores is in question.On Thursday, the coffee giant announced it was "evaluating strategic options" for its struggling Teavana stores...
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Eerie never-before-seen photos from inside one of Chicago's abandoned malls
Chicago's Lincoln Mall shut its doors in January 2015, joining hundreds of now defunct malls in the graveyard of American shopping centers.In the nearly two years since it closed, the mall has...
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These photos of abandoned malls and golf courses reveal a new era for the...
The American suburb has gone through some huge changes in the last few decades.Malls, once a place for suburbanites to spend their downtime, have suffered in the wake of the retail apocalypse, and many...
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Dying shopping malls are wreaking havoc on suburban America
Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, opened in 1975 to great fanfare as the premier shopping destination for the surrounding community.But customer traffic started to slow more than a decade ago, several...
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